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You buy insurance to protect your business (or you, personally) from claims—to hire a lawyer to defend you and to pay damages, if any, for claims covered by your policy. A claim arises. You notify your insurer and believe the claim will be handled. Then, you receive a letter from your insurer, indicating the insurer is investigating the claim and will hire a lawyer to defend you—but it is reserving its right to change its mind—meaning that it can decide later to stop paying the lawyer or to refuse to pay the claim. You have received a “Reservation of Rights” letter (“ROR” letter). Click Here for the full article.

Both of our litigators, Mike Reeves and Ben Byrd, have been recognized as Georgia Super Lawyers for 2017. Their primary area of practice is Business Litigation. Mike has received this recognition many times. This year marks the first time Ben Byrd has been included in the list of Super Lawyers. He was included among Georgia Rising Stars in 2014.

There is a general feeling among transactional lawyers that corporate shareholders are becoming more and more likely to assert their right to “dissent” from a corporate transaction and liquidate their shares. While it is hard to prove or disprove whether this feeling is accurate, it is nevertheless useful to understand the nature of the right to dissent and to examine some of the issues these claims present in litigation.

The Trump presidency brings with it a lot of uncertainty for a number of reasons. Among them, President Trump has his own unique ideas and intends to create his own agenda apart from that of any political party. BUT TRUMP HAS A TAX PLAN (read more)

If you are running a technology business that deals with content provided by users or other third parties—or even if your business simply has an interactive web presence that allows users to post their own comments or photos or contains links to other websites—there are important changes you need to know about to limit your liability for copyright infringement caused by your users and other third parties. Here’s what you need to know.