Mr. Small is a 1965 graduate of Emory University and a 1969 honor graduate of the School of Law at Mercer University. He was Executive Editor of the Mercer Law Review and received various course honors, including the law school's trial practice award.

Mr. Small represents creditors and other parties in commercial jury and non-jury litigation cases and various arbitration tribunals. He has participated as lead counsel in trials involving issues of lender liability, secured and unsecured creditor rights, construction lien law, and receivership and bankruptcy law. He has also served as Trustee and counsel for the Trustee in both Chapter 7 and Chapter 11 cases, has been legal counsel to a number of court appointed creditors' committees and has represented debtors and debtors-in-possession.

Mr. Small, one of the founders of the Atlanta Bar Association's section on Bankruptcy, has served as President and Chairman of the Board of the Southeastern Bankruptcy Law Institute and as Chairman of the sections on Bankruptcy of the Atlanta Bar Association and the State Bar of Georgia. He also served as an adjunct professor of bankruptcy law at Mercer Law School, and has extensively lectured and written on the subject of bankruptcy and commercial law.

Mr. Small has been included in The Best Lawyers in America for over ten years; and has been recognized for many years as a Georgia "Super Lawyer" by legal publisher Law & Politics. He served as a First Lieutenant in the United States Army from 1969-1971. During 1970-1971, Mr. Small was assigned to the Headquarters Unit of the 937th Combat Engineer Group in Phu Tai. South Viet Nam.