Cobb & Gardner LLP

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Litigation - Appeals - Mediation - Counseling - Planning
William J. Cobb and M. Ayres Gardner bring over 50 years of experience to their Metro Atlanta firm. They have successfully represented individuals and businesses in a wide variety of cases, including trials and appeals in both state and federal courts, and planning and preventive counseling. The Cobb & Gardner lawyers prefer the flexibility and freedom of a small firm environment, but have enjoyed much success against even very large firms.

Ms. Gardners practice has long included a focus on Employment Law. She has extensive experience representing individual employees including managers at the executive level, negotiating employment contracts and severance agreements, and pursuing employment claims through lawsuits and mediation. Ms. Gardner has also served as retained labor and employment counsel to a statewide, unionized non-profit corporation since 1997. In that capacity, she has on an ongoing basis provided counsel and advice, representation in collective bargaining negotiations and in other matters in various forums, and HR training for managers. In addition, Ms. Gardners experience as a court appointed Guardian ad Litem and as a Magistrate Judge handling domestic violence cases, as well as personal experience as the guardian of an incapacitated adult and as an advisor to elderly family members, has led her to include selected Family Law and Elder Law cases in her practice.

Mr. Cobb has a long track record successfully representing people and businesses, both plaintiffs and defendants, in many different kinds of disputes. Representation on appeal can be provided even if he was not involved in the case earlier. His experience includes, among other areas: Executive Severance solutions Non-compete and other restrictive employment agreements Business, commercial and contract litigation Lawsuits on behalf of and defending individuals (not in criminal cases) Home/Condo Ass'n disputes (owner's side) Professional Partnership Dissolution Residential Construction Defects Employment Discrimination, Harassment, Retaliation and Overtime claims Personal Injury Defective Computer Programming Constitutional law Scientific evidence Analysis of voluminous data Select Elder law issues.

While Cobb & Gardner, LLP has decades of litigation experience, the firm also has extensive experience in obtaining excellent outcomes for clients through negotiation, mediation, counseling and planning. Those approaches, either in conjunction with or instead of litigation, may in appropriate cases provide the best balance among often competing factors such as time, expense, hardship, uncertainty, and monetary and other relief.
Cobb & Gardner clients receive personal attention; realistic and practical case evaluation and planning; ongoing information and consultation about their cases; fair and understandable billing; and expert representation designed to reach each client's specific goals and objectives as efficiently as possible. No client is ever "just another case."