KEITH E. FRYER send e-mail download v-card
Areas of Practice: Litigation
Bar Admissions: Georgia, 1980
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia
U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
Georgia Court of Appeals
Georgia Supreme Court
Education: Washington University (B.A., 1977)
University of Georgia (J.D., 1980)
Professional Associations:
North Fulton Bar Association
Atlanta Bar Association (Member, Medico-Legal Committee, 1983-1984)
American Bar Association (Member, Litigation Section)
State Bar of Georgia
Georgia Trial Lawyers Association
The Association of Trial Lawyers of America
Lawyers Club of Atlanta
Publications:
“Salt II: Executive Agreement or Treaty,” 9 Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law 26, 1979
“Understanding the Role of the Independent Medical Examiner,” 4 Calendar Call, No. 3, pg. 2, Dec., 1983
“The Motorcycle Accident Case: Voir Dire, Opening Statement and Closing Argument,” Automotive Engineering and Litigation, Volume Two, 1984
Faculty Member, Center for Continuing Legal Education, Georgia State University College of Law, 1986-1990
Personal: Born Atlanta, Georgia, February 23, 1955
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MICHAEL H. SHUSTER send e-mail download v-card 
Areas of Practice: Acquisitions
Divestitures and Mergers
Corporate Law
Covenants Not To Compete
Health Law
Estate Planning Law
Tax Controversies
Bar Admissions: Georgia, 1987
Florida, 1988
U.S. Tax Court
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia
U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
Georgia Court of Appeals
Georgia Supreme Court
Education: University of Florida (B.S. in Accounting with high honors 1984; J.D. with honors 1987).
Professional Associations:
Atlanta Bar Association
American Bar Association (Member Sections on Corporation, Banking and Business Law; Taxation)
State Bar of Georgia (Member, Sections on: Corporation and Banking Law; Taxation)
The Florida Bar
Personal: Born New York, New York, 1963
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WILLIAM R. LESTER send e-mail download v-card
Areas of Practice: Civil and Business Litigation
Domestic Relations
Personal Injury
Workers Compensation
Bar Admissions: Georgia, 1981
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia
U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
Georgia Court of Appeals
Georgia Supreme Court
Education: London Polytechnic University
Tulane University (B.A., 1978)
Emory University (J.D., 1981)
Professional Associations:
Atlanta Bar Association
DeKalb Bar Association (President, 1990-1991)
Federal Bar Association
State Bar of Georgia
Georgia Trial Lawyers Association
Lawyers Club of Atlanta
Personal: Born Norfolk, Virginia, January 8, 1956
Bill Lester has known from his earliest years that he wanted to be a lawyer and a litigator. Upon graduation from Emory Law School, he immediately commenced his practice as a courtroom lawyer, and has been a tireless advocate for his clients for almost 30 years. Bill’s skills and experience allow him to drive his clients’ cases to their most expeditious and successful results- whether by negotiation of a prompt and fair resolution, courtroom advocacy, or both. Bill’s practice is focused on civil and business litigation, domestic relations and family law, personal injury, and workers’ compensation.
Bill’s education includes an undergraduate history degree from Tulane University, in New Orleans, Louisiana, with Junior year study in London, England, and a Juris Doctor degree from Emory University School of Law, in Atlanta, Georgia. While in law school, he clerked for the late Honorable Joel J. Fryer in the Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia. Bill began his trial and litigation practice in DeKalb County, Georgia and quickly immersed himself in the community and local Bar Association, becoming a Board Member of the DeKalb Bar Association and serving in executive positions each year until becoming President in 1990-1991, at which time the Bar Association received numerous awards from the State Bar of Georgia.
Bill Lester is a member of the Federal Bar Association, the State Bar of Georgia, the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, the Lawyers Club of Atlanta, the Cobb County Bar Association, the DeKalb Bar Association and the City of Atlanta Bar Association. He is married, has two children, and remains actively involved in the metropolitan Atlanta community. His interests include travel, gardening and cooking.
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CHARLES I. POLLACK send e-mail download v-card
Areas of Practice: Commercial Transactions
Real Estate
Corporate Law
Bar Admissions: Georgia, 1987
District of Columbia, 1988
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia
U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
Georgia Court of Appeals
Georgia Supreme Court
Education: George Washington University (B.B.A., 1984); Omicron Delta Kappa
Emory University School of Law (J.D., 1987); Phi Alpha Delta (Vice Justice, 1986-1987)
Professional Associations:
State Bar of Georgia (Member, Sections on: Corporation and Banking Law; General Practice and Trial Law; Real Property Law)
District of Columbia Bar
Personal: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 11, 1962
In more than 20 years of practice, Chuck Pollack has handled a wide variety of business transactions, and provided counsel across many different practice areas, and with an undergraduate degree in Finance, Chuck has become known as a “trusted advisor” for both his legal ability and business acumen. His clients run the gamut – restaurants, financial institutions, car dealerships builders, and individuals, just to mention a few – and represent transactions involving just a few thousand dollars to hundreds of millions.
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A significant portion of Chuck’s practice is real estate, and he is able to provide counsel in virtually all factets of commercial real estate .... buying, selling, exchanging and leasing. Chuck has participated in commercial real estate transactions throughout the United States and internationally.
Leveraging his transactional and business law knowledge, in those situations when disputes do arise, Chuck brings to the table experience in commercial litigation (contract disputes, construction law, landlord/tenant, etc…), as well as alternative dispute resolution (mediation and arbitration).
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JEFFREY A. POWELL send e-mail download v-card
Areas of Practice: Civil and commercial litigation
Employment law
Bar Admissions: Georgia, 1994
Tennessee 1994
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia
U.S. District Court, Middle District of Georgia
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Tennessee
Education: University of Tennessee, Knoxville (B.S., Accounting with honors,
1991; recipient, Tennessee Society of CPA’s Scholarship)
Emory University School of Law (J.D., 1994; recipient, American
Jurisprudence Award in Constitutional Law)
Professional Associations:
American Bar Association (Litigation section)
State Bar of Georgia (Business law section, and Labor and employment law section)
Tennessee Bar Association
Publications:
“Practical Legal Ethics,” National Business Institute (1999)
