Joyce Gist Lewis received a full summary judgment in favor of metro Atlanta county on Title VII retaliation claims and Rule 12(B)(6) dismissal of Section 1983 claims.

Joyce Gist Lewis secured a $14 million settlement against the former officers of a community bank in Puerto Rico after demonstrating that the officers breached their fiduciary duties and failed to comply with representations made to regulators as a condition of being permitted to transfer mortgage servicing from the bank’s holding company to the bank.

Joyce Gist Lewis won summary judgment for her governmental entity client on claims asserted under Americans with Disabilities Act based upon a showing that the client lacked control of the adverse employment decision. The Plaintiff withdrew claims asserted under the Family Medical Leave Act following the filing of the summary judgment motion.

Joyce Gist Lewis won a full summary judgment in favor of defendant alleged to have caused permanent and catastrophic injury to plaintiff through negligent inspection and maintenance of railroad boxcar door mechanism.

Halsey Knapp and Adam Sparks returned to federal court and secured immediate relief for absentee voters seeking to cast a ballot in Georgia’s December 4, 2018 Runoff Election. The intense interest in Georgia’s 2018 General Election led to intense scrutiny of state and county election administration. That scrutiny bled into the mailing of absentee ballots […]

Life moves fast, and election litigation faster. Halsey Knapp and Adam Sparks demonstrated this truism recently in representing Stacey Abrams for Governor and the Democratic Party of Georgia in seeking an emergency federal court order preventing the unlawful rejection of absentee ballots due to immaterial defects across all Georgia counties in the 2018 General Election. […]

Halsey Knapp and Adam Sparks are defending a senior living facility developer in a business divorce from his brother-in-law who, despite failing to make capital contributions, contends under an oral agreement that he is entitled to a partial ownership interest in each senior facility project which each reside in 9 or more separate limited liability […]

Halsey Knapp and Adam Sparks obtained a complete defense award in arbitration proceeding initiated by client’s sibling based on allegations that our client, an investment advisor, violated fiduciary duties when discharging his duties as manager of a family limited partnership and trustee of related generation skipping trusts. We successfully demonstrated the entire fairness of the […]

Joyce Gist Lewis serves as outside general counsel for TOFi International, a non-profit organization with a mission to shape the future, one woman/girl of color at a time, through fiscal investments, thought leadership, and philanthropic endeavors.

In a pro bono case of first impression, Halsey Knapp and Adam Sparks joined forces with David Cross and a team of attorneys at Morrison Foerster LLP to represent Georgia voters seeking secure, accessible, verifiable elections using paper ballots capable of after-election auditing. Georgia remains one of just five states that relies exclusively on all-electronic […]