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The Law Office of Jennifer Scalia, P.C. stands as a beacon of justice in Cumming, Georgia. Founded on the principles of integrity, respect, compassion, and relentless pursuit of justice, I bring over 23 years of prosecutorial experience to the forefront of criminal defense. I specialize in defending cases of the wrongly accused, but also those who need help in getting the best possible results in their circumstances. At the heart of my practice is a commitment to upholding the rights of my clients and achieving the best possible outcomes with dignity and empathy.. I also LOVE everything Star Wars.  Some say I have gone to the "Dark Side".  From my point of view, I have joined the Rebellion!

Mitchell (Mitch) McKinney is a former Assistant District Attorney (ADA) and Assistant Solicitor General with more than seven years of prosecutorial experience in the state of Georgia. In addition to his prior experience as a prosecutor, Mr. McKinney also served for three years as Assistant County Attorney for Forsyth County, Georgia where he was also the Magistrate Court of Forsyth County, Georgia prosecutor. His current practice includes specialty in criminal defense of all persons, family law, personal injury cases, and other litigation matters. Mr. McKinney practices throughout the metro Atlanta area and across North Georgia, and is committed to respectful, yet assertive, representation on behalf of his clients.. Mitch services his clients out of his Cumming, Georgia office in the cities of Atlanta, Roswell, Alpharetta, Milton, Crabapple, Duluth, Sandy Springs, Dunwoody, and the counties of Fulton, Gwinnett, Forsyth, Hall, Dawson, Cherokee, Lumpkin, Pickens, Hall and others.

Josie A. Siemon joined The Siemon Law Firm, P.C. as a Partner in August 2006 with an extensive litigation background. Josie practices exclusively in the area of family law. She received her undergraduate degree in Criminal Justice and English from Florida International University, and her Juris Doctorate from Nova Southeastern University. While at Nova University, Josie was a member of the Moot Court Honor Society and earned Pro Bono honors for legal service in the community. Josie is an active member of the Florida State Bar, the Georgia State Bar, the Atlanta Bar Association Family Division, she is the Past President of The Forsyth County Bar Association (2007-2008), and served as Vice President (2006-2007), and the Secretary/Treasurer (2005-2006). Josie has also volunteered her time as an attorney coach for the Forsyth West High School's Mock Trial Team (2008-2009). Josie is a zealous advocate for all of her clients and when she is not practicing law, she is spending time with her husband, Sam and their two children.

I began my career in asset protection while attending Georgia State University on a Golf Scholarship. I then worked as a Police Officer at night while attending Law School during the day. I then worked as a prosecutor for a short time in Forsyth County. I opened my practice in Aug of 2003 and have been practicing in North Georgia since that time. I was also able to gain some experience as a fill in Judge for the Juvenile Court of Forsyth County.. My practice has always operated with the desire to help my clients through whatever situation they have found themselves in by standing with them to deal with the problem. I have seen the legal system from a number of unique vantage points and this always is something that I can use to the benefit of my clients.. I have lived in Georgia my whole life. I have a great wife and two wonderful kids.

Experience Matters. Attorney with Jonathan R. Brockman, P.C., Personal Injury Lawyer and member of the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum, Jon has been practicing as a Georgia attorney since 1990 with offices in Cumming, Georgia and Alpharetta, Georgia. His practice is focused exclusively on representing individuals injured or killed by the carelessness of others.. Jon started his own firm in 2001 after spending the early portion of his career representing insurance companies, trucking companies, as well as automobile accident defendants in injury cases. He learned a great deal about defending individuals and entities from injury claims. He also learned much about how insurance companies view, evaluate and defend injury claims.. Jon handles a variety of negligence cases involving car accidents, truck accidents, aggravated liability injury collisions, premises liability, slip and fall, dog bites, foreign objects in food, contaminated food, defective products, as well as job injury claims. He has sucessfully pursued these claims for his clients against individuals, employers, insurance companies, and some of the largest corporations in the United States.. Jon has had a great deal of success representing individuals injured or killed as a result of the carelessness of others. Jon is a Champion Member of the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association and is also certified as a life member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum as well as the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum. Membership in this organization if limited to attorneys who have acted as lead counsel and won million dollar or multi-million dollar settlements, verdicts or awards for clients.. Jon currently resides in Cumming with his wife and three children. Jon enjoys practicing law and spending time with his family. He is actively involved in the community from helping coach youth sports teams, mentoring new lawyers into the transition of law, as well as being involved in multiple charitable activities through his church.

Deborah Anice Swofford is a Partner at Miles Hansford Tallant, LLC.. Ms. Swofford’s primary practice areas include family law, criminal defence, and general civil litigation. Ms. Swofford is also a certified Domestic and General Mediator.. In addition to legal practice, Ms. Swofford is actively engaged in the community. Ms. Swofford has served her community in the the following positions: the Rotary Club of Alpharetta, Board Member; Alpharetta Chamber of Commerce, Ambassador; and Leadership North Fulton Class of 2019. Ms. Swofford is also an active participant in the Atlanta Lawn and Tennis Association, United States Tennis Association, and the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Team in Training.. In 2009, Ms. Swofford Graduated from Georgia Southern University and earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree, cum laude. While attending Georgia Southern University, Ms. Swofford was engaged in campus wide leadership. As a result of her successful leadership, Ms. Swofford was recruited to participate in leadership training and consulting through the Georgia Southern INSPIRE Leadership Team. In that role, Ms. Swofford was responsible for the leadership development of college and high school students.. Following graduation from Georgia Southern, Ms. Swofford attended the Walter F. George School of Law at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia. In law school, Ms. Swofford was actively involved in the Association of Women Lawyers. Ms. Swofford was also inducted into Phi Delta Phi International Legal Honor Society. Ms. Swofford graduated in May, 2012 and was admitted to the Georgia State Bar in November, 2012.. Ms. Swofford is admitted to practice in Georgia State and Superiors Courts, the Georgia Court of Appeals, the Georgia Supreme Court, and in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. She became a certified Domestic and General Mediator in 2018.

Business Lawyer. Our Firm is focused upon business law.  We form new corporations, new LLCs, and help our Clients with incorporations and start-up businesses.. We assist Clients with all aspects of contract negotiation, and contract drafting, including real estate leases, equipment leases, and equipment financing.  We regularly draft software licensing agreements, and other technology agreements.. Dispute Resolution: Litigation, Mediation, Arbitration. Our Firm's principal, Margaret Fernandez, Esq., is a trained litigator, and has practiced in the state, superior, federal, and appeals courts of Georgia.  She has millions of dollars in awards, verdicts, and judgments. She is skilled at motions practice, discovery, courtroom, and appellate practice.  She is comfortable in litigation, arbitration, and mediation.. Ms. Fernandez has enjoyed tremendous success in securities arbitration and litigation, construction litigation, employment litigation, intellectual property litigation, shareholder litigation, and many other kinds of business and other disputes.. Ms. Fernandez regularly resolves EEOC matters in mediation for her corporate Clients.. Ms. Fernandez's personal philosophy is in litigation prevention; however, when litigation is necessary, she believes it should be quickly initiated, and strongly and aggressively prosecuted, with an attention to detail.. Ms. Fernandez is a 2005 Trial Lawyers College graduate, trained by Gerry Spence, as well as a 2015 Trojan Horse graduate, trained by Dan Ambrose and Alejandro Blanco.  Ms. Fernandez is a former federal judicial law clerk for Chief Judge Richard C. Erwin for the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, and spent a year seated beside, and writing opinions for, a senior federal judge.. Ms. Fernandez is a graduate of Harvard and Columbia Law Schools, where she was twice a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar for academic excellence, and is admitted to the bars of New York and Georgia.. Ms. Fernandez assists Clients with all aspects of business law and business litigation.. Technology Law. The Fernandez Law Firm's Client focus is on start-up technology firms.  The Firm's Clients include innovators who have developed and continue to develop new technologies in many diverse areas such as: genetic testing for dangerous diseases; software and outage management systems for electric utilities; hardware, desks, and learning systems for disabled and chronically hospitalized children; enterprise personnel software; security software for protecting children and schools from active shooters.. Many of our Clients are entrepreneurs: medical doctors; inventors; restauranteurs; business owners --- all of whom purchase, lease, license, or sell technologies, and come to us for our experience in negotiating and drafting contracts, and finding methods of financing those large purchases and leases.. Employment Law. We regularly prepare employment agreements and 1099 consulting agreements to protect our Clients.  We understand the many issues involved in employment law.. Because we have litigated many employment matters, both for the employee and the employer, we have a strong sense of what works.. Accordingly, we draft strong employment agreements.  We try to resolve matters in mediation; but if we cannot, we litigate forcefully.. We have successfully mediated many claims at the EEOC for our corporate Clients.. Contracts. The basis of any relationship is the contract, and we have negotiated and drafted thousands of contracts.  Because we litigate, we know what needs to be in a contract to protect our Clients.. The Firm's practice includes licensing and intellectual property and technology law. We regularly assists technology and other companies seeking to create, license or exploit intellectual property, including start-ups, with many aspects of their businesses in such matters as: formation, financing, re-financing, shareholders, shareholder agreements, operating agreements, contracts, and intellectual property matters; negotiating and developing substantial commercial agreements and contracts; preparing licensing and maintenance agreements for software and intellectual property licensors and licensees; drafting NDAs and Confidentiality Agreements surrounding IP and IT; litigating IT and commercial business issues in the state, superior, appeals and federal courts in Georgia; negotiating leases for equipment and real property; purchasing real estate; purchasing airplanes; assisting clients in the management of employees and contractors; and leading  in all areas of mergers and acquisitions work, from due diligence, negotiations, and closings.. The Firm's Principal. Ms. Fernandez began her career as a litigator and has won millions of dollars in  judgments, verdicts, and awards in the courts of Georgia and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.. Ms. Fernandez  has had great success with technology, commercial, contract, employment, confidentiality, trade secret, intellectual property matters, and libel and defamation in the State, Superior, and Federal Courts in Georgia as well as the Court of Appeals of Georgia.. She is a 2005 graduate of the month-long Trial Lawyers College, run by famed trial lawyer Gerry Spence in Dubois, Wyoming, as well as the Trojan Horse Method, taught by Dan Ambrose and Alejandro Blanco.. Ms. Fernandez’s litigation work includes successful board room negotiations, mediations, and arbitrations, as well as victories before FINRA and the EEOC, and she has appeared for her Clients at the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia and has successfully resolved these and other matters involving FBI, HUD, and Secret Service.  She has also successfully resolved matters before the Georgia Department of Banking and Finance, the Governor’s Office of Consumer Affairs, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.. Ms. Fernandez practices employment law, and regularly drafts and litigates restrictive covenants, and has successfully mediated many employment matters at the EEOC.  Ms. Fernandez has also successfully obtained MBE certifications for her clients with the City of Atlanta and Georgia Department of Transportation.. Ms. Fernandez has coached U-6 soccer with the United Futbol Academy and is a former director of both of the Hispanic American Center for Economic Development and the Hispanic Contractors Association of Georgia, which she also helped found.. Ms. Fernandez earned her A.B. at Harvard University, where she was an IBM Thomas J. Watson scholar each year.  She earned her Juris Doctor at Columbia University School of Law in the City of New York and was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar her second and third years of law school.  She was also the Admissions Editor of the Columbia Business Law Review.  She served as a federal judicial law clerk to the Hon. Richard C. Erwin, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina.  She is a Member of the Technology Advisory Group for the State Bar of Georgia President and, as a pro bono matter, successfully negotiated the agreement for the new website for the State Bar of Georgia. Ms. Fernandez is admitted to practice in New York and Georgia, the State and Superior Courts of Georgia, Court of Appeals of Georgia, and the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.

Born in Queens, New York, Mr. McDonough attended Auburn University and earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree, cum laude. Following college, Mr. McDonough attended and graduated from the University of Georgia School of Law, where he had the distinction of serving as the president of the law school student body, the Student Bar Association.. Professionally, Mr. McDonough has participated in million dollar-plus litigation matters in multiple practice areas and has appeared in various counties throughout the metro-Atlanta area. Mr. McDonough is a past president of the Forsyth County Bar Association.. In addition to legal practice, Mr. McDonough is actively engaged in Forsyth County civic life. Mr. McDonough has served on the following Boards: The Forsyth County Board of Ethics (Vice-Chairman), The Forsyth County United Way (Vice-President of Community Investment), and The Rotary Club of South Forsyth (President).

Experienced L attorney serving clients in Cumming and surrounding areas.

Experienced L attorney serving clients in Cumming and surrounding areas.

Experienced L attorney serving clients in Cumming and surrounding areas.

Experienced L attorney serving clients in Cumming and surrounding areas.

Experienced L attorney serving clients in Cumming and surrounding areas.

Experienced L attorney serving clients in Cumming and surrounding areas.

Experienced L attorney serving clients in Cumming and surrounding areas.

Experienced L attorney serving clients in Cumming and surrounding areas.

Experienced L attorney serving clients in Cumming and surrounding areas.

Experienced L attorney serving clients in Cumming and surrounding areas.

Experienced L attorney serving clients in Cumming and surrounding areas.

Experienced L attorney serving clients in Cumming and surrounding areas.

Experienced L attorney serving clients in Cumming and surrounding areas.

Experienced L attorney serving clients in Cumming and surrounding areas.