Our History Of Results

• OBTAINED $1.7 million verdict for owners of commercial daycare business operated on a residential property in Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) taking in Bartow Co.

• WON $1.3 million verdict for business owners in DOT taking in Coweta Co.

• DOUBLED DOT’s original offer in taking of historic farmhouse, tobacco barn, and pecan grove in Colquitt Co. outside Moultrie, Georgia.

• SETTLED $500,000 case in Walton County with local water and sewer authority in taking of private land for construction of a regional reservoir.

• NEGOTIATED $650,000 settlement for homeowner in Georgia Transmission Corporation (GTC) taking of home place land for high voltage electric transmission line in Western Coweta Co.

• OBTAINED $250,000 business loss award for operator of well-known national breakfast restaurant franchise who lost access to his site as a result of a DOT project.

• MEDIATED $250,000 business loss, due to strip taking, for operator of convenience store in Cartersville, Georgia, after DOT refused to recognize any business loss.

• SETTLED on eve of trial for 125-times GTC assessed value of taking across horse farm estate in Barrow Co.

• WON a Quiet Title action and closed an easement over client’s property in Cobb Co.

• SET ASIDE judgment as to value in housing authority’s condemnation of elderly Rome, Georgia, resident’s property.

• NEGOTIATED settlement of residential taking and relocation of elderly resident with City of Marietta as part of a parks project in the city’s Baptist Town neighborhood.

• NEGOTIATED settlement 25-times amount of original offer by Georgia Power for construction of high voltage transmission line across residential property near Social Circle, Georgia.

• BRIEFED numerous issues before the Georgia Court of Appeals and Georgia Supreme Court on topics involving bad faith and failure to follow proper statutory procedures by various condemning authorities.

• ADVISED client in strip taking for streetscapes project outside Kennesaw in Cobb Co.

• OBTAINED title to disputed area for clients in boundary dispute between two homeowners in a residential subdivision in Rome, Georgia, on the basis of prescriptive rights.

• ADVISED rural community in Coweta Co. about the implications of a natural gas pipeline planned for their community.

• ADVISED owner of historical and environmentally significant duck hunting plantation in South Georgia outside Albany about the implications of a road project designed to bisect his farm.

• ADVISED farmer outside Bonaire, Georgia regarding taking of his family’s centennial for a state road project.

• WON two indictment dismissals in a multi-count child molestation case

• SET ASIDE judgment as Sean Heldt and Heith Harkins both men have pleaded not guilty to the charges against them.

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