Alison Prout
Associate Professor of Law
aprout@johnmarshall.eduEducation
B.S., University of Pennsylvania
B.A., University of Pennsylvania, magna cum laude
J.D., Harvard Law School, cum laude
Courses Taught
Criminal Pretrial Motions, Evidence
Career Highlights
Professor Alison Prout joined Atlanta’s John Marshall Law in 2025 as an Associate Professor of Law and focuses on the fields of Evidence, White Collar Crime, and the Rule of Law. Before joining AJMLS, she spent 20 years in practice in Atlanta’s legal community. She worked for more than a decade as a partner and associate at a boutique Atlanta firm where she practiced complex commercial litigation. She handled high-stakes commercial arbitrations, qui tam cases, and class actions. She left private practice to join the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia, where she became a federal prosecutor in the Criminal Division. As an Assistant United States Attorney, she investigated domestic and international criminal matters involving Title III wiretaps, prosecuted narcotics and dangerous drug conspiracies involving transnational drug cartels, successfully tried multi-million-dollar complex fraud cases before juries, served as the designated Ethics Advisor for the district, and became the Chief of the Training section, where she supervised new prosecutors in their work of federal criminal prosecutions. She also spent more than a year detailed to the District of Columbia where she prosecuted individuals who committed crimes in the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021. She has tried numerous jury trials and argued cases before the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, the Georgia Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court of Georgia. Professor Prout earned her B.A. and B.S. degrees magna cum laude from the School of Arts and Sciences and the Wharton School, respectively, of the University of Pennsylvania, where she was a Benjamin Franklin Scholar, a Joseph Wharton Scholar and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She earned her J.D. degree cum laude from Harvard Law School, where she was Executive Editor of the Harvard Negotiation Law Review, and a research assistant for Professor Lewis Kaplow.