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Author: Richard Robbins

Robbins Firm Scores Victory for National Homebuilder

Written by Firm | Mar 26, 2014 | Results

Robbins Firm attorneys recently cleared the way for a longtime client, a large national luxury homebuilder, to proceed with a 125-home residential development in suburban Atlanta.  The project was stalled when the former owner filed a quiet title action seeking to nullify the prior sale of the property to the […]

Tax Liens Sold On Homeless Shelter Property

Written by Firm | Oct 7, 2013 | News

The company that wants to evict a homeless shelter from Midtown is scrambling to prevent private tax-lien buyers from swooping in and foreclosing on the property before a trial next month resolves whether the company properly owns the deed. Premium Funding Solutions, which claims to own the homeless shelter site […]

Robbins Firm Recruits Two Government Lawyers

Written by Firm | Sep 23, 2013 | News

Robbins Ross Alloy Belinfante Littlefield has recruited two lawyers from state government for its growing regulatory and administrative law practice. Vincent Russo resigned as general counsel and assistant securities commissioner for the Georgia Secretary of State’s office to join the firm as counsel on Sept. 1. The litigation also recruited […]

Firm Obtains Rare Summary Judgment Victory in Arbitration

Written by Firm | Jun 29, 2013 | Results

We represented the developer of a luxury Atlanta hotel and residential condominium building.  The plaintiffs had purchased a condominium unit directly above the hotel elevators and alleged that the elevators in fact were disruptive and rendered the unit uninhabitable.  Plaintiffs filed an arbitration alleging breach of contract, negligent misrepresentation, fraud, […]

City’s iconic buildings face wrecking ball

Written by Firm | May 12, 2013 | Press

It was a hard, bleak winter for historic preservationists in Atlanta, a city already infamous for not saving the sign posts of its past. In December, the McCord Apartments, a three-story building on Seventh Street designed in the 1920s by Atlanta neo-classicist architect Neel Reid was devoured by an excavation […]

Firm Wins Appeal 5-2 on Fraud and Breach of Fiduciary Duty Claims

Written by Firm | Apr 13, 2013 | Results

We represented a company that has an online vendor management system for the state of Georgia.  Our client was sued by subcontractor for breach of contract, fraud and misrepresentation, and breach of fiduciary duty.  The Georgia Court of Appeals concluded that the breach of fiduciary duty claim should have been […]

City, Georgia Tech Foundation reach settlement in Crum & Forster suit

Written by Firm | Jan 9, 2013 | News

The almost half-decade long fight for the Crum & Forster building brought together lawyers for the Georgia Tech Foundation (GTF), private citizens who believe the City of Atlanta is bypassing its own preservation regulations, as well as outside counsels for both the City and the City’s Board of Zoning Adjustment (BZA) to Fulton County […]