Atlanta
Duane Morris LLP
Atlantic Center Plaza
1180 West Peachtree Street NW, Suite 700
Atlanta, GA 30309-3448
USA
Phone: 404.253.6900
Fax: 404.253.6901
Lawyers in Duane Morris' Atlanta office provide an array of legal services to clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to small entrepreneurial ventures. Our attorneys draw upon industry experience gained at multinational corporations and elsewhere to better understand the business challenges, in concert with the legal challenges, that our clients face.
Range of Services
Intellectual Property
Duane Morris' intellectual property (IP) lawyers recognize the importance of our clients' intellectual capital to the success of their businesses and understand how to uphold IP rights to increase opportunities for our clients to enhance market share. Our experience includes trademarks and copyrights, patents and brand protection, domestic and international. One of our senior partners in the Atlanta office was the in-house counsel of a Fortune 100 company and was responsible for the worldwide trademark portfolio of one of the world's best known brands. Members of the firm's IP practice have played pivotal roles in the development of IP law and their ranks include highly trained patent attorneys with backgrounds in biosciences, materials, chemicals, polymers, electronics and telecommunications. Duane Morris' IP litigators have substantial trial and appellate experience in disputes over patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets and licenses involving such intangible property.
Commercial Litigation
Members of the Trial Practice Group regularly handle complex commercial litigation matters in a wide array of areas, including securities, antitrust, franchise and dealerships, IP, products liability and real estate matters. Duane Morris' litigators often work closely with the firm's corporate and bankruptcy lawyers in the representation of financial institutions. Duane Morris attorneys are well versed in all phases of litigation and alternate dispute resolution, including substantial experience in handling preliminary injunction hearings, trials, appeals, arbitrations, and mediations.
Employment and Labor Law
Duane Morris lawyers advise employers of all sizes on such areas as equal employment opportunity compliance and litigation, statutory compliance and litigation defense, and employment termination, as well as a full range of labor relations services. Our lawyers emphasize policies to prevent employment problems through our problem prevention programs and services.
Business Reorganization and Financial Restructuring
Lawyers in our Business Reorganization and Financial Restructuring Practice work in tandem with each client, whether debtor, trustee, lender or other creditor, to determine the best strategy for deriving maximum value from a troubled entity while simultaneously seeking to meet each client's goals. Clients draw on the firm's extensive reorganization experience gained during its involvement in many of the largest restructurings of the past three decades and the capabilities of a national team of dozens of Duane Morris bankruptcy lawyers in jurisdictions across the United States.
Healthcare
Duane Morris' healthcare attorneys provide innovative solutions to assist healthcare providers in protecting their assets and increasing their overall profitability. Our healthcare clients benefit from the collective expertise of our national team of healthcare attorneys who provide the full range of regulatory, transactional and litigation services in every major sector of the healthcare industry. Recognized as one of the largest healthcare practice groups in the country, Duane Morris' Healthcare practice has received national recognition for its role in representing clients in developing reciprocal insurance exchanges in Pennsylvania and Florida in response to the medical malpractice insurance crises in those states.
Energy and Water & Natural Resources
The attorneys in our Energy and Water & Natural Resources Practice assist clients with advisory, regulatory and litigation matters involving water, natural resources and environmental issues, often counseling clients in their interactions with federal, state and municipal agencies. We have been involved in multibillion-dollar transactions involving nuclear power plants and other electricity generation facilities in the U.S. and around the world.
Corporate, Securities, Mergers and Acquisitions
Members of our Corporate Practice Group advise clients in connection with mergers and acquisitions, public and private offerings of equity and debt securities, corporate finance, corporate compliance and corporate governance. We have experience in negotiated acquisitions and divestitures, and defense against takeover attempts. Our lawyers regularly represent international clients in both domestic and cross-border transactions. We have experience with venture capital and private equity transactions, and work with many clients in developing and implementing creative strategies to accomplish their corporate finance and acquisition objectives. We represent clients in a range of securities offerings and regularly advise public companies on compliance with ongoing reporting obligations and other securities laws, including Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance.
International
Our International Practice Group integrates the services of attorneys from various disciplines who practice around the world, creating a global infrastructure of not only international experience, but also enhanced sensitivity to cultural differences. In the area of international trade regulation, we provide advice regarding domestic and international regulatory and commercial aspects of trade in goods and services, including product labeling and other domestic and foreign regulations that affect imports and exports.
Real Estate
Duane Morris' real estate lawyers represent a broad range of high-profile institutional and individual clients in all aspects of real estate transactions and related matters. Our Real Estate Practice Group handles real estate acquisitions and dispositions, financings, workouts and restructurings, development and leasing, land use and zoning issues.
For More Information
For more information, please contact Charles W. Whitney or any of the Atlanta lawyers referenced in the Attorney Listing.