What we handle

The firm represents people whose civil rights have been violated by the government: wrongful arrest, malicious prosecution, excessive force, prison and jail conditions, and First Amendment claims, brought under Section 1983 against police, sheriffs, corrections officers, and other government actors. The cases are difficult and often contested. The firm takes them on.

Section 1983 is the federal statute that lets people sue government officials who violate their constitutional rights, and most claims of this kind are brought under it. They are governed by strict statutes of limitations, and notice requirements can be shorter still when a government entity is involved, so the sooner you contact the firm, the more options you are likely to have.

Initial consultation is free. Most civil rights matters are handled on a contingency basis: you owe no attorney fee unless we recover for you. Based in Atlanta, the firm handles matters throughout Georgia, and associates with local counsel elsewhere when a case warrants it.

The firm represents people injured through the negligence or wrongful conduct of others: drivers, property owners, medical providers, and manufacturers among them. The attorneys whose names are on a case are the ones who handle it, from the first conversation through settlement or trial.

Initial consultation is free. Personal injury matters are handled on a contingency basis: you owe no attorney fee unless we recover for you.

Some harm in a care setting is not one clinician’s mistake but the institution’s: too few staff on a shift, a patient or resident left unmonitored, no working emergency protocol, someone hired or kept on who should not have been. Those are claims against the facility, and they are proved from staffing records, incident logs, policies and inspection history rather than from a single treatment decision.

A case can carry both kinds of claim at once, and which one governs changes what the law requires: a claim about clinical care is professional negligence and needs an expert affidavit in Georgia, while a claim about how the place was run is ordinary negligence. Medical neglect in a jail or prison is a different thing again, a constitutional claim under Section 1983 rather than facility negligence: see prison & jail conditions.

The firm represents patients and families in claims against physicians, hospitals, pharmacies, and other providers: misdiagnosis, surgical error, medication and anesthesia mistakes, birth injury, and failures of care in custodial and institutional settings. These cases turn on expert medical testimony about what a competent provider would have done, and they are defended hard.

Since 1997, the firm has represented businesses and individuals in commercial disputes involving contracts, construction projects, real estate, ownership disagreements, compensation owed under employment agreements, and agreements that protect confidential business information. It represents both sides of a business dispute.