Corporate lawyers in Georgia Margaret Fernandez to Neera Bahl

Firm: The Fernandez Law Firm, P.C., A Business and Technology Law Firm

327 Dahlonega Street, Suite 602A , Cumming , Georgia 30040

Practice Areas: Business & Commercial, Civil , Corporate , Employment & Labor , Mergers & Acquisitions, Securities , Technology and Science, Business

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.

Firm: Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

2800   1100 Peachtree Street  3030 , Atlanta , Georgia 30309

Practice Areas: Corporate ,Intellectual Property ,Products Liability

Firm: Pope McGlamry P.C.

3391 Peachtree Road, NE , Atlanta , Georgia 30326

Practice Areas: Civil , Consumer Protection, Corporate , Personal Injury, Products Liability, Wrongful Death, Personal Injury

Kirk joined Pope McGlamry in 2006 and he is located in the Atlanta office. Kirk graduated from Auburn University in 1992 with a degree in Finance and accepted a commission in The United States Marine Corps the same year. He served as an infantry officer with the Second Marine Division and the Fourth Marine Division and in 2001 received his J.D. from the University of Alabama. In 2003, he was deployed with part of the Marine Corps Reserves to Wasit Province, Iraq as a part of Operation Iraqi Freedom.. Mr. Pope is currently focusing on practicing law in the areas of tort liability, personal injury, products liability, commercial litigation, consumer protection, and wrongful death.

Firm: Jones and Walden, LLC

21 Eighth Street, N.E. , Atlanta , Georgia 30309

Practice Areas: Bankruptcy, Corporate , Debtor/Creditor Rights, Entertainment & Sports , Bankruptcy & Debt

Firm: Fryer, Shuster, Lester & Pollack, P.C.

1050 Crown Pointe Parkway Suite 410 , Atlanta , Georgia 30338

Practice Areas: Corporate , Health Care & Hospitalization, Mergers & Acquisitions, Business, Business

Firm: Prieto, Margiliano, Holbert & Prieto, LLP

Two Ravinia Drive , Atlanta , Georgia 30346

Practice Areas: Civil , Construction , Corporate , Criminal Defense , Insurance , Real Estate , Workers Compensation, Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect, Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect

Michael A. Prieto founded the firm’s nursing home wrongful death practice and has developed it into one of the largest Long-Term Care plaintiffs’ practices in Georgia, recovering millions of dollars for clients in the process.. His litigation work focuses on representing patients and families against assisted living, skilled nursing, acute, sub acute and long-term care facilities. He advocates for fair compensation when wrongful acts and omissions are discovered, and through aggressive efforts tries to assure that the same thing will never happen to another innocent victim.. He has appeared on numerous television programs, including Larry King, Oprah, Paula Zahn, Today, Good Morning America, Donahue and others. He has been quoted by the Los Angeles Times and other print media.. Mr. Prieto cares deeply about his community and has organized many pro bono clinics for the elderly poor throughout the state of Georgia, preparing wills, powers of attorney, and providing general legal advice in senior centers and churches. He has, without compensation, given advice to nursing homes and assisted living facilities with the hope of improving resident care.. Mr. Prieto serves as County Administrator in Bartow County, as well as Probate Judge pro tempore. He has also served in the U.S. Army JAG Corps and is a combat veteran of wars in the Middle East. He is an active member of the American Association for Justice and the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association. He is a member of the AAJ Nursing Home Litigation Group and Chair of the GTLA Nursing Home Litigation Group.

Firm: Briskin, Cross & Sanford, LLC

1001 Cambridge Square , Alpharetta , Georgia 30009

Practice Areas: Business & Commercial, Civil , Contracts, Corporate , Personal Injury, Real Estate , Trusts, Wills, Business

Firm: Pope, McGlamry, Kilpatrick, Morrison and Norwood, LLP

3391 Peachtree Rd., N.E., , Atlanta , Georgia 30326

Practice Areas: Civil , Class Actions, Corporate , Personal Injury, Products Liability, Wrongful Death, Class Action, Class Action

Mike began his practice in Atlanta in 1982 and had a defense practice for his first six years. In January 1989, he joined Pope, Kellogg, McGlamry, Kilpatrick & Morrison, the predecessor to Pope McGlamry. Since 1989, Mike has represented individuals and entities that have been injured, damaged or otherwise harmed by others.. Mike is and has been active representing plaintiffs in personal injury, wrongful death, products and pharmaceutical liability, class actions and mass torts actions that have resulted in verdicts or settlements approaching a billion dollars. Many of these cases were the first such cases in the nation and many involved innovative, ground-breaking legal strategies. He and his partners have long been recognized both in Georgia and nationally as a go-to firm that will take on the most challenging cases and opposition.. In the last few years, Mike has focused on mass tort litigation and has served in leadership roles in several national, high profile, injury cases.  Mike has served in leadership roles in the following:. Mike lecturers frequently at AAJ, GTLA and the State Bar of Georgia. In addition, Mike serves on several rules related committees of the Georgia Bar.. Mike and his wife Anne, have 3 beautiful and talented daughters, Caroline, Kate and Elizabeth. In his spare time, Mike remains active athletically; serves as an active member of Haygood United Methodist Church; and supports all things Wake Forest.

Firm: Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP

1230 Peachtree St NE Ste 2445 , Atlanta , Georgia 30309

Practice Areas: Civil , Corporate , Environmental , Products Liability, Toxic Substances, Litigation, Litigation

Firm: Michael L. Chapman, P.C.

4200 Northside Parkway , Atlanta , Georgia 30327

Practice Areas: Arbitration, Arbitration & Mediation, Construction , Corporate , Construction & Development, Construction & Development

Michael Lee Chapman has over thirty-five years of experience in litigation, arbitration and mediation.. A founding Director and Past Chair of the Construction Law Committee of the Atlanta Bar Association, Mike has handled legal cases involving all phases of the construction industry including airports, bridges, reinforced concrete, structural steel, residential, multi-family, high-rise construction, parking structures, swimming pools, roofing, energy co-generation facilities, excavation, glass, brick, stone work, EIFS, stucco, paving, foundations, water drainage, earth walls, retaining walls, scheduling and delays, erosion and sedimentation control, electrical, mechanical, mold, OSHA, and building code violations. Mike has negotiated complex construction contracts for an international baggage handling contractor for airport projects across the United States.. In addition, he has handled plaintiff claims for casualty losses on fire and commercial general liability insurance policies, insurance coverage disputes, business litigation, employment covenants, non-complete agreements, conflicts between partners in dissolving businesses and website development disputes. He has negotiated home buy-back agreements on two occasions for families who purchased seriously defective homes.. Mike has has provided legal counsel for a variety of real property conflicts, including commercial ground leases, title disputes and settlement of estates. He has litigated easements, zoning and building codes, housing code violations, landlord-tenant disputes, condemnation and inverse condemnation, zoning and related issues.. Mike serves as outside counsel to a major apartment developer with properties in Georgia, Florida and Texas.. He has presented seminars on construction claims, mechanics’ liens and surety bonds for the Cambridge Institute. He has extensive experience with mechanics’ lien disputes and has represented sureties, principals and obligees in a wide variety of claims on performance and payment bonds. He has served as counsel for the plaintiff on suits on guaranty agreements as well as defending parties who have been sued on general agreements of indemnity issued to surety companies. He has represented sureties in liquidation and as well as subrogation proceedings for performing sureties.. Mike has served both as an advocate and an arbitrator on numerous disputes before the American Arbitration Association and has tried many judge and jury trials to a verdict in both state and federal courts. He has resolved hundreds of cases through the use of mediation, including pre-suit mediation.. Mike has been rated AV Preeminent® by Martindale-Hubbell® Peer Review Ratings™ for over 20 years.. An Eagle Scout, Mike has served for many years as a commissioner for the Boy Scouts of America.. Mike obtained his law degree from the University of Virginia. While in law school he was a member of the National Moot Court team. He obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of Kentucky where he graduated With High Distinction in the University Honors Program and was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society.

Firm: Kitchens Kelley Gaynes, P.C.

Eleven Piedmont Center   900  3030 , Atlanta , Georgia 30305

Practice Areas: Arbitration,Bankruptcy,Corporate ,Landlord & Tenant,Mediation

Firm: Andersen, Tate & Carr, PC

One Sugarloaf Center , Duluth , Georgia 30097

Practice Areas: Business , Civil , Corporate , Municipal , Probate , Real Estate , Land Use & Zoning

Melody is a Partner in the Zoning, Land Use, and Government Relations group at Andersen, Tate & Carr.  Melody successfully maintains an active zoning and land use practice wherein she advocates land use positions of property owners, builders, and developers throughout the metro Atlanta area. She has negotiated numerous zoning and development actions and advises clients regarding environmental regulations and municipal ordinances. This includes representation of clients at public hearings and during court proceedings.. Melody also successfully maintains an Estate Planning & Probate practice, which focuses on preparation of estate planning documents, as well as disputes involving wills, trusts, and estates. She represents clients in all phases of fiduciary litigation, including filing pleadings, conducting discovery, and preparing for hearings and trial. She also engages in settlement discussions and negotiations with her clients in an effort to resolve their disputes prior to lengthy litigation in an attempt to preserve client resources. Melody has administered numerous complex estates and successfully prosecuted and defended will contests and fiduciary claims involving executor and trustee misconduct. Melody further assists families with contested and uncontested guardianships and conservatorships, and all phases of probate administration. In terms of transactional estate work, she represents clients of all wealth classifications with estate planning, including preparation of Last Will & Testaments, Powers of Attorney, and Healthcare Directives.. Melody received her bachelor’s degree in psychology from The University of Georgia in 1996, and then obtained her paralegal degree before joining the firm of King & Spalding as a certified paralegal. Melody then attended The Walter F. George School of Law at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, where she was selected for membership on the Mercer Law Review as well as the Mercer Moot Court Board. During law school, she was awarded several honors, including the D. Meade Field Memorial Award, the Faculty Award for Outstanding Achievement in Legal Writing, and an alumni merit scholarship.. Melody initially started her legal career as an associate with the insurance defense firm of Swift Currie. After practicing for several years in Atlanta, she returned home to Gwinnett County where she soon became a Partner with Webb, Tanner, & Powell, LLP. In January 2014, Melody joined Andersen Tate & Carr, P.C.. Melody is very active in the Gwinnett County community and serves on numerous charitable boards and organizations. She served on the State Disciplinary Board for the State Bar of Georgia for eight years, which investigates members of the State Bar of Georgia for violations of the Standards of Conduct set forth in the Georgia Rules of Professional Conduct, serving as Chair in her last year. Melody also served as Chair of Estate Planning & Probate Section for the Gwinnett County Bar Association. She is a current Board Member of the Council for Quality Growth, including Chair of the Gwinnett Advisory Board.  Melody is also an active alumni of the Leadership Gwinnett program.. Since 2018, Melody has been recognized annually as a Georgia Super Lawyer by Law & Politics Magazine, a designation reserved for only 5% of attorneys in the State of Georgia.. Melody is a life-long resident of Gwinnett County, where she resides with her husband and two children.

Firm: Weinstock and Scavo, P.C.

3405 Piedmont Road   300 , Atlanta , Georgia 30305

Practice Areas: Corporate ,Criminal Defense ,Personal Injury,Professional Malpractice,Real Estate

Firm: Brock, Clay, Calhoun and Rogers, P.C.

49 Atlanta Street , Marietta , Georgia 30060

Practice Areas: Business ,Civil ,Construction ,Corporate ,Corporate ,Insurance ,Non-Profit Corporations,Religious Institutions

Firm: Matt Thiry Law, LLC

P.O. Box 923054 , Peachtree Corners , Georgia 30010

Practice Areas: Business & Commercial, Civil , Corporate , Domestic Partnership, Labor , Personal Injury, Litigation

I practice Business Law, Business Litigation, and Fiduciary Litigation.  In addition, I am registered as an arbitrator and general civil mediator with the Georgia Supreme Court Commission on Dispute Resolution.. I represent businesses of all sizes, as well as business owners, families, and individuals, in various types of litigation, including disputes related to contracts, construction, business torts, real estate, probate and fiduciary matters.  I also review, negotiate and draft contracts, provide advice to existing businesses and start-ups, and assist clients in the formation of business entities.  Prior to becoming an attorney, my background included computer programming and related experience in the technology field, as well as operating small businesses.  I believe this additional experience provides me with valuable insight into the issues that my clients encounter.  With an approach that strives to understand my clients' business or situation and apply first-rate problem-solving skills, I am driven by results: achieving the best possible outcome with the least amount of disruption to my clients.. I am a member of the State Bars of Pennsylvania and Georgia.  I am admitted to practice in the Georgia Supreme Court, Georgia Court of Appeals, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, U.S. Court of Appeals (11th Circuit), Pennsylvania Supreme Court, Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court, Pennsylvania Superior Court, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, and the U.S. Supreme Court.. I have also appeared pro hac vice in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri, the Chancery Court for Knox County, Tennessee, the Chancery Court for Shelby County, Tennessee, the Tennessee Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court of Tennessee.

Firm: Stone Kalfus LLP

1360 Peachtree St NE Ste 1250 , Atlanta , Georgia 30309

Practice Areas: Corporate , Nursing Home Negligence, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation

Firm: Hall Arbery Gilligan Roberts & Shanlever LLP

3340 Peachtree Rd NE Ste 1900 , Atlanta , Georgia 30326

Practice Areas: Corporate , Labor , Occupational Safety & Health, Employment & Labor, Employment & Labor

Matt Gilligan’s law practice focuses on employment law and litigation.  He has successfully defended employers in all types of employment-related litigation, regularly counsels employers on compliance with workplace laws, and he has extensive experience defending employers in government investigations, including OSHA investigations and U.S. DOL wage and hour audits.  Before founding HAGRS LLP, Matt was a Partner at the national law firm of Alston & Bird LLP in Atlanta for nine years.  He is recognized by SuperLawyers® as a “Georgia Super Lawyer” (employment law), by Best Lawyers in America® (employment law), and by Georgia Trend Magazine’s “Legal Elite” in Georgia.  He is a frequent lecturer on employment law and related human resources topics, and he has published several articles on employment law topics in various publications.  Matt is a retired Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army (JAG Corps), having served 22 years in the U.S. Army and Reserves, in both the combat arms (Infantry) and in the Army JAG Corps, as a criminal prosecutor and litigation counsel.  He was an Army Ranger, and was Airborne- and Air Assault-qualified.  Matt is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy (West Point) (BS) (Distinguished Cadet, top 5%), the University of Georgia School of Law (JD) (Order of the Coif, Editor-in-Chief of UGA Law Review), and the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s School (LLM) (Honor Graduate).

Firm: Gorby Peters & Associates, LLC

2 Ravinia Drive , Atlanta , Georgia 30346

Practice Areas: Corporate , Intellectual Property , Medical Malpractice, Nursing Home Negligence, Personal Injury, Premises Liability, Toxic Substances, Wrongful Death, Business, Business

I'm a tar heel native, so I'm a huge fan of college basketball. My hobbies include running, pilates and bikrim yoga.

Firm: Alston and Bird LLP

One Atlantic Center   1201 West Peachtree Street , Atlanta , Georgia 30309

Practice Areas: Corporate ,Securities

Firm: Neera Bahl & Associates, LLC.

1827 Powers Ferry Road Southeast , Atlanta , Georgia 30339

Practice Areas: Corporate , Family , Immigration & Naturalization , Immigration, Immigration

Neera Bahl is an immigration attorney in Atlanta who began her Legal career in January 2005, when she joined a leading immigration office in Atlanta as an associate in 2005. Thereafter in 2007, she became a name partner in the immigration firm. In April 2009, she founded Neera Bahl & Associates for her independent practice of law as an Atlanta immigration attorney. Earlier, Ms. Bahl interned at the Jimmy Carter Center (Human Rights Division); worked as a Constituent Representative for U.S. Rep. Denise Majette (GA Dem. '04-'05), focusing on immigration issues; and served as law clerk for Fulton County Superior Court Judge Honorable Gail S. Tusan.