Jim Ney, the founder of a prominent Cobb County law firm who was long involved in local civic and community affairs, has died at 82, after an eight-year battle with Parkinson’s Disease. 
According to his obituary, he was living an assisted living facility in Charlotte, N.C., near his family, where he had moved from East Cobb earlier this year.
Ney was involved with Mt. Bethel Church and was active in the Cobb Library Foundation. The art gallery at the Sewell Mill Library and Cultural Center in East Cobb is named after Ney and his wife Carol, who were among those leading the ribbon-cutting festivities when the facility opened in 2018.
Survivors include Carol, his wife of 64 years, three daughters and six grandchildren.
A visitation for Ney will be from 6-8 p.m. Monday at H.M. Patterson & Son Arlington Chapel (173 Allen Road, Sandy Springs, Ga.), and a celebration of life service will be there Tuesday at 1 p.m.
A native of Atlanta, Ney graduated from Northside High School and Furman University. He earned a law degree from the University of Georgia.
In 1984, Ney co-founded Holt Ney Zatcoff and Wasserman, a law firm based in the Cumberland area that specializes in commercial real estate, health care, taxation, business litigation and eminent domain law.
He had been with Alston and Bird, a well-known Atlanta law firm, after serving as a law clerk on the Supreme Court of Georgia.
His obituary noted that he was named to the “Best Lawyers in America” every year until his retirement in 2020. “Jimmy embraced the practice of land use and commercial real estate law, zoning variances and the like. Everyone agreed, his booming voice made him an effective orator in the courtroom,” the obituary stated.
A gift in his memory can be made to Cobb Library Foundation (www.cobblibraryfoundation.org) or Furman University (http://www.furman.edu/giving/).
