Mr. Dietrichs serves on the Litigation and the Tort and Insurance Practice Sections of the American Bar Association. He is also a member of the State Bar of Georgia, the Defense Research Institute, the International Association of Arson Investigators, the Georgia Fire Investigators Association and the Georgia Insurance Defense Lawyers Association. He handles cases throughout the Southeastern United States. He has served as the Chairman of the Ethics and Grievance Committee for the Georgia Fire Investigators Association for nearly a decade.

Mr. Dietrichs has presented numerous seminars on property insurance issues to the Georgia Bar Association, the Atlanta Bar Association, the International Association of Arson Investigators, the Georgia Fire Investigators Association, the Southeastern Claims Executive Association, the Atlanta Claims Association and the Women's Insurance Association. He is also a frequent speaker and contributor to the annual Southeastern Arson Seminar sponsored by the Georgia State Fire Marshal's Office and various seminars sponsored by the local and statewide Chapters of the Georgia Fire Investigators Association.

Mr. Dietrichs received a B.A. degree with distinction at the University of Virginia in 1978 and graduated, cum laude, in 198l, from the University of Georgia School of Law. He was an Oralist and Brief Writer for the Jessup International Law Moot Court Team and served on the staff of the Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law as Articles Editor. He has worked with Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers since 1981.