• Representation of SouthStar Energy Services, Georgia’s largest natural gas marketer with operations in ten states,

in all aspects of its business, including litigation and regulatory matters.

• Co-counsel in the defense of two federal class actions and three state court actions alleging contamination of municipal water supplies through the discharge of certain chemicals.
• Represented Georgia’s 38 Electrical Membership Cooperatives in contentious evidentiary proceedings before the Georgia Public Service Commission regarding rural broadband access.
• Co-counsel in the defense of class action multi-district litigation under the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
• Co-counsel in the defense of two consolidated class actions brought by financial institutions and consumers alleging damages for a data-security incident.
• Co-counsel in the defense of a class action data security breach action against a health care provider.
• Represented a major health insurance provider in defense of a bid protest over the award of the State Health Benefits contract.
• Represented a primary health insurance provider in administrative and judicial challenges to the award of a contract to provide Medicaid coverage to Georgia families.
• Part of the defense team that represented one of the country’s largest manufacturers of building products in product liability claims.
• Defended a former director in a multi-party Delaware Chancery Court derivative action seeking over $120 million for alleged breach of fiduciary duty.
• Represented two of three ownership groups in a multiweek trial over ownership of the Atlanta Hawks and Thrashers.
• Filed an amicus brief on behalf of the Municipal Association of Georgia, the Association of County Commissioners of Georgia, the Georgia Association of Water Professionals, and the Georgia Conservancy with the Special Master in an original jurisdiction proceeding in the United States Supreme Court between the states of Florida and Georgia involving equitable apportionment of water rights.
• Along with a team of attorneys, successfully represented then Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker in a suit brought by the Governor seeking to compel the Attorney General to dismiss an appeal pending in the United States Supreme Court.
• Successfully represented in-town Atlanta neighborhoods in the contentious Presidential Parkway litigation.
• Co-counsel in the successful defense of “yield spread premium” class actions against Bank of America and Chase Manhattan Mortgage Corporation.
• Co-lead counsel to the plaintiff class in the ground-breaking “prime rate” case Kleiner v. First National Bank of Atlanta.
• Represented the plaintiff class in a four-week §1983 “anti-slapp” jury trial, one of the first in the country to be tried.
• Represented a nationwide class of women and children recipients of federal supplemental food benefits and three members of Congress challenging the Reagan administration’s “impoundment” of federal funds. The D.C. District Court issued an injunction directing the release of the funds.