About ME
Experience Counts
Qualifications and Education
A Focus on Results
After more than thirty years successfully navigating clients through almost all aspects of residential and commercial real estate issues, I am refocusing my practice to serve as a Fulton County Special Master, and to handle complex real property disputes.
My experience includes handling all aspects of title insurance claims and clearanc
After more than thirty years successfully navigating clients through almost all aspects of residential and commercial real estate issues, I am refocusing my practice to serve as a Fulton County Special Master, and to handle complex real property disputes.
My experience includes handling all aspects of title insurance claims and clearance, quiet title and condemnation cases, deed reformations, boundary and survey disputes, encroachment and trespass cases, equitable subrogation claims, partitioning actions, establishing private ways by necessity, mortgage fraud and regulatory claims, defalcation recovery, contract disputes, real estate brokerage disputes, professional negligence claims, construction defects litigation, landlord/tenant disputes, contested foreclosure litigation, covenant enforcement, premise liability claims, and business litigation.
I have also defended large class action suits in state and federal court, successfully defended employees in trade secrets litigation, and pursued recovery in employee theft litigation.
I also have experience closing residential and commercial real estate transactions, managed an in-house title insurance group for a large firm, and managed litigation departments for large firms.
I have substantial lead counsel experience in bench and jury trials, appellate practice experience in all Georgia appellate courts, and I am a certified mediator.
A Focus on Results
Qualifications and Education
A Focus on Results
- I serve as a court-appointed Special Master for quiet title and condemnation cases involving tax sales, fraudulent conveyances, forged deeds, lost deeds, adverse possession, boundary disputes, legal description errors, recording errors, utility and transportation condemnations.
- I successfully sued a major municipality in a multi-million do
- I serve as a court-appointed Special Master for quiet title and condemnation cases involving tax sales, fraudulent conveyances, forged deeds, lost deeds, adverse possession, boundary disputes, legal description errors, recording errors, utility and transportation condemnations.
- I successfully sued a major municipality in a multi-million dollar contract dispute.
- I successfully negotiated a favorable settlement in a time sensitive quiet title suit involving a 33-acre tract of land to be developed as multi-million dollar residential subdivision.
- I have experience as lead counsel for national lending institutions in numerous contested receivership suits, and litigated commercial foreclosures.
- I have experience as lead counsel in numerous title insurance claims, coverage and recovery cases.
Qualifications and Education
Qualifications and Education
Qualifications and Education
Education
Emory University School of Law, J.D., 1986
University of Florida, B.A., 1983
Admissions
State Bar of Georgia
All Georgia Magistrate,
State and Superior Courts
Georgia Court of Appeals
Georgia Supreme Court
U.S. District Court for the Northern, Middle and Southern Districts of Georgia
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Honors
A
Education
Emory University School of Law, J.D., 1986
University of Florida, B.A., 1983
Admissions
State Bar of Georgia
All Georgia Magistrate,
State and Superior Courts
Georgia Court of Appeals
Georgia Supreme Court
U.S. District Court for the Northern, Middle and Southern Districts of Georgia
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Honors
AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
Named to Georgia Super Lawyers since 2014
Other Qualifications
Certified Mediator
Special Master, Fulton County
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