PRACTICE AREAS

Any number of legal issues can come up every day for a business.  We can handle most of those areas for you.

My office offers services in the following areas.  If you're not sure if we can help you, contact us and we'll be happy to talk with you about it. If we can't help you, we'll make sure we help you find someone who can.

CORPORATE / TRANSACTIONAL
  • Contract review and negotiations, including vendor contracts, service contracts, IT contracts, licensing agreements, consulting agreements
  • Creation of standard form contracts and agreements that you can re-use (saving you money)
  • Corporate agreements (Operating agreements, shareholder agreements)
  • Corporate governance

PROPERTY
  • Lease negotiations (For both landlords and tenants)
  • Lease analysis - A review of your current lease which will include a lease abstract highlighting important provisions and dates and also an explanation of the weak parts of your lease (So you can change them when the lease is renewed)
  • Property sales and purchases
  • Zoning matters

EMPLOYMENT
  • Drafting and reviewing employee handbooks
  • Drafting and negotiation employment contracts and non-compete agreements
  • Handling employment litigation matters on behalf of the company
  • Investigating and handling employee complaints
  • Responding to EEOC charges and other government investigations

LITIGATION
  • Prepared to handle all litigation matters, up to and including trial
  • Plaintiff and defendant representation
  • Admitted to all Georgia state courts
  • Admitted to federal District Courts for the Northern and Middle Districts of Georgia
  • Admitted to Bankruptcy Courts for the Northern and Middle Districts of Georgia

COMPLIANCE 
  • Compliance audits for financial service providers
  • Policies and procedures drafting and review
  • Bank Secrecy Act compliance
  • Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and other privacy law compliance 
  • Anti-Money Laundering compliance
  • Advertising and marketing compliance and review

CREDITORS RIGHTS
  • Collection matters
  • Loan workouts
  • Foreign judgment collection
  • Bankruptcy matters on behalf of creditors including adversary proceedings, motions to lift stay, objections to discharge and other special proceedings

PRECIOUS METALS DEALING / GOLD BUYING
  • Compliance audits
  • Policy and procedure drafting
  • Customer document creation
  • Local ordinance compliance
  • AML policies
  • Scale certifications

VEHICLE SEIZURES AND FORFEITURES and MECHANIC'S LIENS
  • Handling vehicle seizures and forfeitures and mechanic's liens for secured parties
  • Compliance audits for mechanic's and body shops to ensure enforceable liens