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2024-11-22: Maximizing Success with Good Local Counsel in Metro Atlanta
2024-04-23: The Georgia Court of Appeals highlights the importance of pairing a voidable transfer claim with a breach of fiduciary duty claim in a shareholder suit.
2023-06-30: The U.S. Supreme Court Clarifies What Is — and Isn’t — a ‘Domestic Injury’ for Purposes of a Civil Rico Claim
2023-06-16: A Georgia Case Transformed by One Word Illustrates the Importance of Precision in Your Commercial Contracts
2023-05-31: Your Best Foot Forward: How a Strong Complaint Is a Necessary Initial STEP Toward Success in Your Georgia Commercial Dispute
2023-05-17: The Case of Failed Business in Buckhead and What It Says About the Law of Rental Property ‘surrender’ in Georgia
2023-04-28: When You Do (and Don’t) Have the Required ‘Meeting of the Minds’ Needed to Make an Agreement Binding Under Georgia Law
2023-04-14: How the Failure to Establish ‘demand Futility’ Derailed One Group’s Shareholder Derivative Action
2023-03-31: The Various Vital Pieces of a Viable Civil Rico Complaint
2023-03-17: The Importance of Clearly Identifying a Violated Contract Term to Support Your Breach of Contract Claim in Georgia
2023-02-28: What is a Merger? Commercial Contract Construction Question Favors a Client Who Fought Making a $4M Payment
2023-02-07: Georgia Landlord-Tenant Disputes and How Your Tenant’s Non-Compliance With the Pre-Trial Discovery Process May Indirectly Help Your Case
2023-01-31: Liquidated Damages Provisions in Commercial Contracts and the Rules Georgia Law Imposes on Them
2023-01-10: Dealing With Commercial Tenants Who Hold Over in Georgia
2022-12-30: Construction Contracts, Change Orders, and Limitation-Of-Liability Clauses in Georgia
2022-12-16: Settlement Agreements and Enforcing Your Contractual Rights Through Injunctive Relief Under Georgia Law
2022-11-30: My Georgia Commercial Contract Is Void. Can My Business Still Obtain Compensation for Services Rendered??
2022-11-17: A Subcontractor’s Failure to Submit the Proper Notice Proves Costly in $5M Georgia Construction Project Dispute
2022-10-31: Direct Causation, Derivative Causation, and Civil Rico Law
2022-10-17: How the Rules of Procedure May Hold the Key to Success in Your Georgia Contract Litigation Case
2022-09-30: For Want of a Written Demand to an Entity’s Board of Directors, a Shareholder’s Derivative Action in Georgia Goes by the Wayside
2022-09-16: What Happens to a Previous Commercial Contract in Georgia When a Subsequent Agreement Eventually Is Revealed to Be Invalid??
2022-08-31: What Happened When Parties to a Commercial Contract Included a Term That Modified a Non-Modifiable Statutory Notice Period??
2022-08-17: Patterns of Racketeering Activity, Rico Enterprises, and Obtaining a Dismissal of a Rico Claim in Georgia
2022-07-29: The Impact on Your Georgia Commercial Lease of Making (or Allowing) a Late Rent Payment, a Partial Payment, or No Payment
2022-07-15: How the Definitions You Use in Your Commercial Agreement May Hold the Key to Winning Your Breach of Contract Case in Georgia
2022-06-30: Several Ways that You Can Defeat a Federal RICO Claim (and How Georgia’s RICO Law Differs)
2022-06-16: Succeeding in a Commercial Contract Breach Case in Georgia After the Other Side Defaults
2022-05-31: When Money Alone Isn’t Enough: Obtaining Injunctive Relief in Your Georgia Contract Dispute Case
2022-05-18: Termination Clauses in Commercial Contracts, and How the Right One Can Help When the Other Side Sues for Breach of Contract in Georgia
2022-04-29: Technical Experts, Unreliable Methodologies, and Litigating a Commercial Contract Breach in Georgia
2022-04-19: What a Brewing Dispute Overseas Can Teach You About Your Commercial Contracts Here in Georgia
2022-03-31: Succeeding in a Motion for Summary Judgment When Your Borrower Has Defaulted on Its Loan
2022-03-17: What’s Needed to Establish Causation in a Rico Claim in Federal Court
2022-02-28: Missing Contracts and ‘naked Promises’ — Lessons From a Peculiar Case Recently Adjudicated by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals
2022-02-14: Making Sure Your Business Gets the Contract It Needs When Negotiating a Deal in Georgia
2022-01-31: A Famous Athlete’s Rico Case Outcome Holds Several Useful Lessons if You’re Defending a Rico Claim in Georgia
2022-01-18: Avoiding Mistakes That Can Take Away Your Right to Rescind Your Commercial Contract in Georgia
2021-12-30: Why Careful Drafting and Timely Enforcement Are Critical to Success When It Comes to Commercial Contracts
2021-12-16: Using Your Opponent’s Errors in the Pleading Process to Get Your Georgia Rico Case Dismissed
2021-11-30: Equitable Claims, the ‘burford’ Abstention Doctrine, and Shareholder Actions in Georgia
2021-11-16: How the Right Settlement and Release Agreement Can Give You the Legal Protection You Need Against Legal Action in Georgia
2021-10-29: What a Recent Headline-Making Civil Rico Ruling Can Teach if You’ve Been Sued for Racketeering in Georgia
2021-10-15: 11th Circuit Court of Appeals Upholds a Contract Litigation Win for a Business That Was Not Paid as Prescribed in Its Agreement
2021-09-30: What a Certificate of Authority Is and How to Pursue a Georgia Breach of Contract Action Even if Your Out-Of-State Business Doesn’t Have One
2021-09-27: The Proper Actions to Take When Someone Files a Meritless Georgia Rico Complaint Against You
2021-05-20: Waivers of Forum Selection Clauses, and How to Use Them to Litigate Your Dispute in Your Preferred Court
2021-05-08: A Georgia Intellectual Property Owner Succeeds in Collecting Unpaid Royalties and 18% Interest in License Agreement Dispute
2021-04-22: Determining What State’s Law Will Decide Your Breach of Contract Case Litigated in Georgia
2021-04-09: How Changes in Georgia Statutory Law Can Play an Important Role in Your Commercial Contract Case
2021-03-23: Making Sure You Get a ‘fair Shake’ in Your Georgia Breach of Contract or Business Tort Case
2021-03-04: Commercial Leases, Attorneys’ Fees Provisions, and Breach of Lease Cases in Georgia
2021-02-19: There Are Multiple Ways That You Can Defeat a Georgia Rico Claim Launched Against You
2021-02-04: Keeping the Georgia Contracts Case You Brought in State Court Out of the Federal Courts
2021-01-22: How Your Corporation Can Successfully Stop a Disgruntled Shareholder’s Direct Lawsuit in Georgia
2021-01-07: The Importance of Making Sure You’re Aware of All the Terms — Both Explicit and Implicit — of Your Commercial Contract in Georgia
2020-12-19: The Georgia Llc I Co-Created Is Trying to Blame Its Losses on My Leaving the Company. What Should I Do??
2020-12-05: Making Certain You Are Prepared to Deal With All of Potentially Unique Aspects of Your Breach of Contract Case in Georgia
2020-12-02: When the Law Says a Tenant Is — and Isn’t — Excused From Performing Under the Terms of a Georgia Commercial Lease
2020-11-25: Overcoming the Doctrine of Sovereign Immunity in Order to Pursue a Foreign Government for Breaching an Agreement in Georgia
2020-11-18: Ways in Which You Can Defeat a Civil Racketeering Claim Launched Against Your Business in Georgia
2020-11-18: How the ‘choice of Law’ You Make in Your Commercial Contract in Georgia Can Make All of the Difference
2020-11-11: How a Commercial Creditor in Georgia Obtained a Renewed Opportunity to Pursue a Personal Guarantor of a Farm’s Debts
2020-11-06: What a Tv Star’s Contract Dispute Can Tell Us About Oral Agreements and Their Enforceability in Georgia
2020-11-04: How an Apartment Developer Used a Forum Selection Clause to Get Its Case Moved Back to State Court in Georgia
2020-10-28: The Importance of Carefully Negotiating Every Term in Your Georgia Commercial Contract
2020-10-22: The Importance of a Keen Eye for Details When It Comes to Pursuing Your Breach of Contract Case in Georgia
2020-10-21: Immunity Allows Fulton County to Avoid Liability for Contractor’s Claim Based Upon Unwritten Change Orders
2020-10-21: What Is ‘apparent Authority’ and How Can It Help You Win Your Georgia Commercial Litigation Case??
2020-10-14: What the Legal Rule of ‘res Judicata’ Means and How It Can Help You Win Your Georgia Commercial Litigation Action
2020-10-09: The Summary Judgment Process and How It May Help You in Your Georgia Breach of Contract Case
2020-10-07: Vicarious Liability, Direct Liability and What These Concepts Mean to Your Georgia Commercial Litigation Action
2020-09-30: How an Llc Member’s Indirect Ownership Interest in a Georgia Apartment Complex Stopped It From Obtaining an Injunction
2020-09-23: How Non-Compliance With a Procedural Rule Cost a Litigant an Opportunity to Collect Attorneys’ Fees
2020-09-22: The Importance of Making Sure All Your Business Interests Are Fully Protected Within a Detailed Georgia Commercial Contract
2020-09-16: How a Georgia Landlord Successfully Stopped a Tenant’s Attempt to Block Zoning Changes Sought by the Landlord
2020-09-09: Dotting All Your I’s and Crossing All Your T’s to Get a Successful Outcome From Your Georgia Default Judgment Case
2020-09-09: Georgia Supreme Court Clarifies an Important Limitation on Seeking to Set Aside Out-Of-State Judgments
2020-09-02: The Legal Doctrine of ‘res Judicata’ and How to Avoid Having It Derail Your Georgia Breach of Contract Case
2020-08-25: Eleventh Circuit Allows Financial Services Company to Avoid Arbitration and Pursue Insurance Agency in Federal Court
2020-08-21: What You Can Do in Georgia When Your Contract Partner Impermissibly Terminates Your Commercial Agreement Unilaterally
2020-08-18: Breach of Construction Contract in Georgia
2020-08-14: Get Your Fi Fa – the First STEP in Georgia Judgment Collections
2020-08-12: Negotiating Commercial Lease Amendments in Uncertain Times
2020-08-07: Protecting Your Rights as a Creditor in Georgia After Your Debtor Has Engaged in a Fraudulent Transfer
2020-07-21: What to Do When Your Georgia Commercial Tenant Breaches the Lease by Burning Your Building Down (or Otherwise Causing Massive Damage)
2020-07-07: The Covid-19 Pandemic, Force Majeure Clauses and Their Impact on Commercial Landlords in Georgia
2020-06-15: Seeking and Obtaining Specific Performance to Get the Benefit of Your Georgia Real Estate Contract
2020-06-08: Georgia Court of Appeals Affirms That Llcs Are Bound by Their Operating Agreements Even if They Didn’t Sign Them
2020-06-05: How Divorce Settlement Agreements May Lead to Voidable Transfers
2020-03-31: Assigning a Claim for Fraudulent Conveyance in Georgia
2020-03-24: Georgia Court of Appeals Allows a Dispute Over a Commercial Contract’s Terms and Conditions to Proceed to Trial
2020-03-17: How a Georgia Gas Station’s Bankruptcy Filing Impacted Its Breach of Contract Litigation Against Its Petroleum Supplier
2020-03-10: When an Opponent’s Alleged Deception Can (or Cannot) Entitle You to a Reversal of a Court Order in Georgia
2020-03-03: Shareholders Lose Their Class Action Because a Georgia Pharma Company’s Scheme of Hiring Stock Analysts to Tout Its Stock Didn’t Violate Any Rules or Securities Laws
2020-02-25: Contract Construction and Loan Documents in Georgia
2020-02-18: Georgia’s ‘anti-Slapp’ Statute and How It Can Affect Your Commercial Litigation Case
2020-02-11: Fraudulent Misrepresentation of Zoning in Real Estate Litigation
2020-02-04: The Legal Doctrine of ‘forum Non Conveniens’ and Its Potential Impact on Your Business Dispute in Georgia
2020-01-28: Protecting Your Rights as a Creditor Through the Use of Adversary Proceedings in Bankruptcy
2018-10-10: Procedural Errors Can Be Fatal to Your Georgia Commercial Litigation Action
2018-10-04: Georgia Supreme Court Sends Stock Buyout Dispute Involving Family-Owned Electrical Business Back to the Trial Court
2018-09-26: What Happens When the Terms of Your Georgia Entity’s Operating Agreement Are Ambiguous??
2018-09-19: What Does It Take to Evict a Commercial Tenant in Georgia??
2018-09-12: A Contractor’s Lack of Licensure Proves to Be a Big Problem in Its Breach of Contract Lawsuit
2018-09-05: Federal Courts Decide That a ‘resolution Fee’ Provision in a Commercial Contract Wasn’t a Liquidated Damages Provision and Was Enforceable
2018-08-31: Federal Courts Affirm Atlanta Arbitrator’s Decision in Dispute Between Georgia Real Estate Developer and Israeli Equity Company
2018-08-29: Achieving Success in Your Business Litigation Case, Even When Some of the Entities Are International
2018-08-24: Commercial Landlord Secures $6.2M Judgment After Federal Litigation and Appeal
2018-08-24: Negotiating, and Then Enforcing, Exclusivity Provisions in Your Georgia Commercial Lease
2018-08-22: When a Georgia Shareholder Can Receive Reimbursement for Defending Against a Breach of Fiduciary Duty Claim
2018-08-17: Using Garnishment and Other Legal Techniques to Collect Your Georgia Commercial Litigation Judgment
2018-08-15: Making Sure That the Commercial Contract You Signed in Georgia Is the Agreement You Wanted
2018-07-16: Facing Jurisdictional Issues in a Breach of Contract Case in Georgia
2018-07-12: How Procedural Errors Can Derail Your Judgment Collection Activity in Georgia
2017-12-15: Georgia Court Allows Judgment Creditor to Pursue an Llc’s Managing Member for Preferential Payment
2016-04-05: Confirmation Letters – Avoiding Potential Conflict Regarding Agreement Terms
2015-11-16: Securing Your Credit Union Pt. Ii: Keeping Internal Fraud Out
2015-11-11: Securing Your Credit Union Pt. I: Making Cybersecurity a Top Priority
2015-09-29: New Garnishment Ruling: What You Should Know
2015-06-18: Property Investors Beware: “self-Help” Evictions Are Never an Option
2015-03-17: Contract for Deed – Its Background and Purpose – Part 1 of 5

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