Family Law

• Adoption

Criminal Law

• Criminal Defense
  Our appellate team brings a diverse and broad range of experiences and skill sets to support our clients and to accomplish their goals in a cost-effective way.  Members of the team include a former senior lawyer for the federal government, who briefed and argued both civil and criminal appeals for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), as well as other senior lawyers with decades of successful appellate experience.  Our appellate litigators have been recognized as leaders in their fields by
• Wrongful Death
• Fraud
  We provide relevant advice and counsel to business entities that may have been victimized by fraud, theft or other misconduct allegedly committed by employees or senior officials. In particular, we conduct sensitive inquiries on behalf of companies, boards of directors, audit committees or special committees convened to handle a problem. We have extensive experience conducting internal investigations and representing companies and individuals that are the subject of investigations, as well as handling regulatory inquiries that frequently accompany such allegations. Among our many investigations, we have addressed allegations of improper accounting practices, RICO violations, price fixing and market allocation, securities fraud, illegal takeover, portfolio mismanagement, and theft or misuse of intellectual property or trade secrets.
• Theft
• Money Laundering
  We have deep experience in conducting complex domestic and cross-border investigations on behalf of companies, boards, and committees across a variety of industries, including allegations of bribery and corruption, earnings management, money laundering, financial and accounting fraud, insider trading, tax fraud, healthcare fraud, false claims act violations, and environmental violations.

Business and Corporate Law

• Corporate Law
  MMM utilizes the deep experience of our cross-industry, interdisciplinary securities team to guide companies through the complex process of raising capital in the public and private markets. We are practical, business-focused capital markets lawyers who not only navigate the legal complexities of a deal, but also strive to understand our clients’ unique goals, maintaining a focus on achieving their branding, positioning and transactional objectives.  We also have extensive experience counseling public company clients and their boards on all aspects of corporate governance and shareholder engagement.
• Mergers and Acquisitions
  Morris, Manning & Martin is a recognized leader in the mergers and acquisitions practice area. We have represented more than 1,000 companies in their corporate transactions throughout the U.S. and abroad. We are generally recognized as the leading law firm in the Southeast in representing high-growth companies.
• Business Formation
  Counsel on complex matters for renewable energy developers, including: business formation; organization and operating structures; securing funding and regulatory authorizations for large scale wind, biomass and geothermal energy production facilities; power purchase agreements (PPAs); renewable energy credits (RECs); carbon emission reduction contracts; and transmission access.
• Business Disputes
  Morris, Manning & Martin’s Commercial Litigation Practice features a market-leading team of trial lawyers specializing in the representation of public and private companies in connection with contract disputes, business torts, corporate governance and related issues such as risk assessment and litigation avoidance. We represent leaders in diverse industry sectors, including many Fortune
• Business Transactions
  Our lawyers' experience in these areas of business transactions, statutory and regulatory guidance, and litigation extends to all components of the healthcare industry, including hospitals and healthcare systems, physician practices (both single and multispecialty), home health agencies, skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, ambulatory surgery centers, and diagnostic imaging centers. This comprehensive knowledge and experience allows us to anticipate and address concerns throughout the healthcare industry.
• Limited Liability Companies
  Morris, Manning & Martin’s Fund Formation Practice experience includes formation of real estate funds, private equity funds, timber asset funds, venture capital funds, hedge funds, funds of funds, leveraged buyout funds, mezzanine funds, emerging market funds, life settlement funds, non-U.S. mutual funds, and other alternative investments. We have formed funds under the laws of numerous jurisdictions and are experienced in particular issues associated with various structures such as limited partnerships, limited liability companies, unit trusts, international business companies, exempted companies, UCITS, SICAVs, and FCPRs. We are capable of counseling the general partners, investment advisers, brokers, administrators, and custodians of these funds.
• Construction Contracts
  We advise clients on all phases of the permitting, development, design and construction process. We assist with necessary permitting; assist with project procurement; draft and negotiate design and construction contracts and related documents; handle bid protests and procurement disputes; provide legal guidance during the construction phase; and resolve disputes during and after project completion. We represent clients involved with projects of all types ranging from residential construction to the largest commercial and industrial projects. We are LEED certified and advise on all aspects of green development and construction.
• Trade Secrets
• Intellectual Property
  Morris, Manning & Martin's Intellectual Property lawyers counsel companies and organizations in all phases of intellectual property law, including the identification and protection of their technology through the effective use of patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. We work with clients across the globe ranging in size from emerging companies to Fortune
• Unfair Competition
• Antitrust
• Small Business Law

Employment Law

• Employment Contract
  MMM provides extensive advice to companies concerning executive compensation matters, including equity-based compensation, retention and bonus arrangements, change in control agreements, and severance arrangements and plans. We work closely and efficiently with members of the MMM Employment Practice with respect to employment agreements, executive contracts, and severance and separation release agreements, and the MMM Corporate Practice with respect to equity compensation planning to ensure our clients’ needs are met.
• Employment Litigation
  On a daily basis, our lawyers help companies comply with employment laws. Our pragmatic approach, combined with our knowledge of best practices, allows us to provide creative and cost-effective solutions. We have developed solution sets to avoid common employment law pitfalls, training modules to educate managers, and checklists to help avoid liability. Our Employment lawyers understand that proactive, preventive counseling can avoid employment disputes, lawsuits, and investigations.
• Non-compete Agreement
  Our Technology Litigation Practice handles cases involving the full range of disputes that arise in the life of technology businesses including software copyright, trademark and patent infringement, licensing and development, misappropriation of trade secrets, breach of confidentiality or non-compete agreements, movement of key employees between companies, and tortious interference with business and contractual relationships. We represent clients in state and federal courts throughout the U.S., and have appeared as lead counsel in the courts of more than 30 states and U.S. territories. Since 1987, we have served Technology clients ranging from publicly traded, Fortune 500 companies to individual inventors and start-up ventures.
• Severance Agreement

Property Law

• Real Estate Litigation
  For over 30 years, business clients seeking expertise in commercial financing have turned to us. We have built our firm on proficiency in sophisticated commercial property transactions tied closely to complementary core practices of real estate law and litigation. Our experience and depth provide our clients with comprehensive representation on all commercial finance matters. We safely and successfully guide our clients -- from
• Construction Litigation
  Represented the owner/developer of the Atlantic Station mixed-use project in Atlanta, Georgia (the largest mixed-used Brownfield redevelopment project in the U.S.) in design and construction claims associated with the project.
• Real Estate Transactions
  As dealmakers and innovators, our Real Estate Capital Markets Practice routinely structures, negotiates, documents and closes private and public equity offerings for REITs, real estate limited partnerships, timber funds, strategic joint ventures, debt funds, tax credit funds, bond financings and UPREITs. We add a comprehensive knowledge of the real estate industry, key industry contacts and a multidisciplinary approach to the sophisticated legal and financial issues that drive complex real estate transactions. Because of the depth of our practice, we bring our clients practical knowledge of the current thinking on complex securities, tax, environmental, bankruptcy, ERISA and technology concerns that drive deals.
• Eminent Domain
  Every day we bring together a dedicated team of attorneys with a broad range of backgrounds, from transactional attorneys to attorneys specializing in energy, public finance, environmental, tax, corporate, construction, land use and eminent domain law.
• Easement
• Land Use and Zoning
  When retained by a client, MMM identifies the key issue(s) of the matter brought before us. Together, we shape and pursue a cost-effective, well-timed strategy in furtherance of our client’s ultimate business objectives. While much of our advice is based upon experience with proven methods of success, we continue to implement creative solutions in reaction to the ever-changing business and political climate which shape zoning and land use.
• Landlord-Tenant Disputes
  Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP represents landlords and property management companies of single family investment portfolios as well as multifamily and commercial property owners.  The average dispossessory filings in the practice are in excess of (300) filings per month.  Our team performs dispossessory services and evictions in a timely manner and we offer complete transparency to our clients -- a critical component of the services we offer.  We achieve this transparency by providing a web based account management platform that allows the client the ability to file, track and update the dispossessory proceeding in real time as it moves from filing to execution of the Writ of Possession.  Our attorneys handle dispossessory hearings and litigation involving landlord tenant matters across the state including matters in state and superior court as well as bankruptcy court.

Health Law

• Medical Malpractice
  We have established numerous risk retention groups in a variety of domiciles. The two most common types of insurance provided by the RRGs are medical malpractice and construction liability. All forms of commercial liability are possible.

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  Our litigators have experience in all aspects of securities claims, from federal and state shareholder class actions to investigations by the SEC, state securities regulators or one of the exchanges, claims under state law (including derivative claims) and securities industry arbitration. We provide clients with a strategic advantage by our ability to draw upon our securities experience and transactional lawyers, as well as lawyers in our Creditors’ Rights Bankruptcy, White Collar Litigation & Government Investigations, Real Estate Litigation and Tax Practices.
• Wills
• Trusts
  We regularly advise clients on issues relating to charitable gifts and planned giving, including partial interest gifts, charitable trusts, and gifts of business interests of various types. We design both complex and simple gift structures.
• Power of Attorney
• Probate

Finance Law

• Bankruptcy
  Lenders and creditor committees are counseled on available options, creative solutions and complex legal proceedings. Practice group lawyers handle a broad range of bankruptcy litigation. Actions include plan confirmation issues, asset purchases, stay litigation, fraudulent transfer litigation, preference litigation, negotiation of cash collateral orders and claim objections. In any type of representation that requires specialized knowledge in other areas of law, we draw from the expertise of affiliated Morris, Manning & Martin practice groups. With this depth of support, the Creditors’ Rights and Bankruptcy Practice provides practical, informed and efficient solutions that deliver to our clients the best available resolution.
• Foreclosure
  Our attorneys regularly assist lenders in pursuing remedies against borrowers, guarantors and other third parties whose actions may have contributed to the lender’s loss. We also represent clients in state and federal courts to collect amounts owed, whether a direct suit on notes and guaranties or a deficiency claim subsequent to a foreclosure. We also counsel and represent clients in obtaining court-appointed receivers to manage the lender’s collateral and investigate and pursue fraudulent transfer actions against obligors.
• Tax Law
  The Tax Practice at Morris, Manning & Martin develops and implements creative solutions to address the complex tax issues arising from representation of dynamic and entrepreneurial businesses. Our excellent service and skills are evidenced by the practice’s ranking in Chambers USA, a leading legal services ranking publication, since 2004.