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 […]
Jeff Horst is currently representing the Curtis Mayfield music entities in copyright infringement and international music law dispute
Joyce Gist Lewis led a litigation team that obtained a $3.2 million settlement against former bank officers and directors who negligently approved commercial real estate loans in violation of the bank’s loan policy and without requiring cash equity from borrowers.
Joyce Gist Lewis received a dismissal with prejudice of federal declaratory judgment action filed by insurance company seeking to deny $5 million in director and officer liability coverage.
Joyce Gist Lewis led a litigation team that obtained a $650,000 pre-suit settlement against a former real estate closing attorney for a community bank after demonstrating that the attorney facilitated same-day “flip” transactions and failed to advise his client that properties were acquired for hundreds of thousands of dollars less than the sales price represented […]
Halsey Knapp guided a professor through a graduate student’s 25 year after-the-fact re-evaluation of a friendship without any publicity or lasting harm to his reputation or his standing in the eyes of his institution. (Summer 2018).
Georgia voters, represented by Perkins Coie LLP and Adam Sparks and Halsey Knapp of Krevolin & Horst, have filed a complaint alleging that the Georgia General Assembly diluted African-American voting strength in an east Georgia Congressional district violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. The Amended Complaint is available below. Perkins Coie LLP has filed […]
