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Summary Judgment Win in Real Estate and Fraudulent Concealment Case

Written by Firm | May 5, 2014 | Results

We represented the primary lender for a large real estate development in Florida. Plaintiffs, who are borrowers and guarantors of a subrogated lender, sued our client for fraud, breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, conspiracy, and malicious procurement. The plaintiffs alleged that our client failed […]

Firm Persuades Court to Quash Subpoenas Targeted to Destroy Client’s Business Endeavors and Court Dismisses Bogus Guaranty Claim

Written by Firm | Apr 29, 2014 | Results

Our client, a high-profile commercial developer, was sued by a competitor on an alleged 7-figure “guaranty” that was never reduced to writing or signed.   The competitor subpoenaed 30 of our client’s banking and local government contacts – none of which had any relationship to the guaranty claim. We immediately moved […]

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 […]

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 […]

‘This is about skin tint,’ lawyer for condo owner says of lawsuit

Written by Firm | Mar 22, 2013 | News

A case unfolding in Fulton County Superior Court adds a new twist to complaints that police officers use overly tinted windows as a pretext for traffic stops that are actually based on racial or ethnic profiling. An attorney for Deon Grant, the NFL safety who helped power the New York […]