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Marc named Super Lawyer for 2017
February 27, 2017
Thomson Reuters named Marc a “Super Lawyer” for 2017. The Super Lawyer designation is given to lawyers who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement and is reserved for no more than 5% of the lawyers in the stat…
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The Power of Clorox
January 30, 2017
Bleach. Sodium hypochlorite. NaClO. One atom each of sodium, chlorine, and oxygen. One bottle of bleach is the same as the next. If you were to add one tiny oxygen atom, you’d have sodium chlorite. Subtract the oxygen atom and you’d have sodium c…
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Marc named part of the Legal Elite for 2016
December 1, 2016
Georgia Trend, a magazine covering Georgia business, politics, and economic development, named Marc to its 2016 Legal Elite list. The list was published in Georgia Trend’s December 2016 issue and highlights Georgia’s top attorneys as selected by…
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Basic facts about election contests
November 8, 2016
In 2004, we persuaded the Georgia Supreme Court to overturn a statewide election in what is believed to be the first — and still only — successful statewide election challenge in U.S. history, Mead v. Sheffield, 601 S.E.2d 99 (Ga. 2004). Thus, as…
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Stop and eat the BBQ
August 25, 2016
I recently had to travel to Pflugerville, Texas, which is near Austin, to take a video deposition to preserve a witness’s testimony for an upcoming trial. The deposition wouldn’t take long, maybe less than an hour. I wasn’t looking forward to t…
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The Mom Test
May 8, 2016
This is one of our most popular articles. We thought we’d share it again in honor of Mother’s Day … In honor of Mother’s Day, I thought I would tell you that before you sign your next contract, you should ask yourself whether my mother would…
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Marc named part of the Legal Elite for 2015
December 22, 2015
Georgia Trend, a magazine covering Georgia business, politics, and economic development, named Marc to its 2015 Legal Elite list. The list was published in Georgia Trend’s December issue and highlights Georgia’s top attorneys as selected by their…
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Planning ahead can be the difference between winning and losing
October 26, 2015
The New York Times did something very interesting last week: it published the article its reporter had written for the paper to use had Vice President Joe Biden decided to run for president. The editors published the article because they thought it h…
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Pick up the phone and make a call
July 21, 2015
If email and text messaging had been invented first, the telephone would be considered the most remarkable, fantastic invention. Think about it. With the telephone, you can pick up a small object and press a few buttons and instantly talk with someon…
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Don’t be an ostrich
July 14, 2015
We have a judgment against another lawyer because that lawyer filed a frivolous lawsuit against one of our clients. Because that lawyer is continuing to flout the legal system (there are some bad lawyers out there), we filed a motion with the court s…
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