Complex Commercial Litigation

“We know that it’s going to be painful, and potentially very expensive, but we really have no other choice.”

Under normal circumstances, when we hear a client’s expression such as the one above – and we agree, that is the only time we recommend that our clients go to trial to resolve commercial business disputes. Trials – especially jury trials, are often messy, almost always unpredictable, and most often expensive, which is why our commercial litigation lawyers are so well versed in pre-litigation options such as negotiations and mediations.

But if all other options are exhausted or rejected by our client or our opposing counsel’s client, we are ready, willing and more than able to accept the challenge.

The truth is that, well, in terms of work, jury trials are what our commercial litigators live for. Even though we strongly advise our clients against resolving their disputes in trials, trial techniques and innovative tools of persuasion are what Foltz Martin litigators spend hundreds of hours a year working on, practicing and perfecting.

We believe that our open acceptance of innovative and novel tools and techniques of persuasion, gives us a decided advantage over our opponents during a trial.

Our trial lawyers have extensive first chair experience in a full range of complex commercial cases in the federal and state courts throughout the United States with a primary focus in the Southeast. We’ve handled all facets of antitrust, bankruptcy, business torts, construction, contract, copyright, corporate control and corporate divorces, debtor and creditor relations, employment, intellectual property, professional malpractice, RICO, sexual harassment, trademark and trade name, trade secret, and real estate litigation, including dispossessories, lender liability matters, bankruptcies and workouts.

When our commercial litigators do go to trial on behalf of our clients, we walk into court with toolboxes packed with tools of persuasion that most of our competitors don’t possess. Most trial lawyers embrace tradition, the tried and true. And while we do not reject all traditional trial advocacy techniques, we do cast doubting eyes on the techniques that simply don’t make sense in the modern world. And we do embrace technology and use it liberally in the courtroom.

We also know that we have a tremendous advantage over our competitors when it comes to preparing our clients and witnesses for trial. That is a major part of our strategic pre-trial planning process. We make sure that our clients are so prepared and so comfortable, that they feel in complete control of their emotions during the entire process.

When it comes to Atlanta business litigation, our law trial lawyers often face lawyers from firms many times the size of our firm… and we beat them… regularly.

Atlanta business litigation is what we do more of than anything else, but our trial lawyers have tried and won cases all over our country. If you do need to go to trial, if there is no other viable option, then there are no better advocates to have beside you than Foltz Martin lawyers.

This practice group is chaired by: Halsey G. Knapp, Jr.