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The attorneys and staff at The Chapar Firm, LLC continue the over 20 years of service to our valued clients begun by the Firm's founder, Atlanta-area attorney Albert A. Chapar, Jr. The Firm provides comprehensive representation in civil matters in or affecting the State of Georgia. The Firm emphasizes its services in corporate law, commercial transactions, complex commercial litigation, contracts, intellectual property and employment law. The Firm's attorneys each have engineering degrees and significant engineering work experience. As such, we are well-suited to providing legal services efficiently due to an emphasis on technological capabilities. To learn more regarding the areas of law that the Firm concentrates its practice and the ways we can assist you, please consult the practice area pages shown in the menu above. We offer bi-lingual assistance to Spanish and Arabic-speaking clients. |
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Welcome to ChaparLaw - Attorneys Who Mean Business
Developments
What's in a name? Sometimes, a great deal of value.
Apple Computers? Nike shoes?
Many of our clients approach the firm to assist them create legal entities to carry out what are often well-considered business plans. Those plans often involve the use of a particular name or logo t...
The Chapar Firm routinely drafts and edits employment contracts which set forth restrictions on the employee after the employment ends and has also litigated numerous cases implicating the rights of employees who, following voluntary or involuntary departures, begin to work for competitors.Under cur...
Chaparlaw Attorney Rebecca Strickland recently was a featured speaker at Emory University's School of Law. Along with two other noted women lawyers, she spoke on the subject of how attorneys are "Navigating the Economic Downturn."...
On its face, whether to include a binding arbitration clause may seem like the least important aspect of the big contract you have asked your attorney to consider. While it might not be the most important aspect of the deal, an arbitration clause at least warrants a brief discussion with couns...
Practically anyone with Internet access can post a comment on a web page. Anonymous web posting promotes the free exchange of ideas and opinions. When clients of The Chapar Firm posted true comments on line, a plaintiff filed a lawsuit and had the court issued subpoenas to the web site operator to...
During the week of March 22, 2010, Attorneys Chapar and Strickland successfully defended a firm client in the State Court of Cobb County.
The client was sued on an alleged contract, but maintained that it was not the proper party. The case involved determining who was liable on a contra...
UPDATE: Previously schedule for enforcement on June 1, 2010, the FTC has delayed enforcement of the Red Flags Rule until December 31, 2010 or until Congress clarifies the scope of the entities subject to the Rule, whichever is earlier.
In an effort to reduce the number of identify theft...
The firm represented management in a lawsuit brought by a minority shareholder. The firm secured dismissal of numerous claims though a motion to dismiss, and the entire case by a motion for summary judgment. The shareholder appealed, but the case was affirmed by the Georgia Court of Appeals in LEV...
Attorneys Chapar and Strickland recently obtained a directed verdict in a jury trial in the Northern District of Georgia for a long term client. Our client had been sued by an out of state entity that sought significant damages arising out of a business transaction. Our client maintained from th...
The firm represents a client in a breach of contract action. The Trial Court granted summary judgment to the plaintiff, finding that there was no jury question regarding the alleged contract breach. However, the Firm appealed, and urged the Georgia Court of Appeals to find that the client had a ...
Attorneys Chapar and Strickland secured the dismissal of a case filed in Georgia against a foreign corporation, due to lack of personal jurisdiction. The case was filed against a foreign sub-distributor, the Firm's client.
The plaintiff, a foreign distributor, sued the foreign sub-d...
In June 2010, the American Bar Association released a study that concluded in part as follows:
CHICAGO, June 9, 2010 - Employment discrimination lawsuits are one of the largest categoriesof civil cases filed in the federal court. Yet, widely reported class actions lawsuits brought inrecent years, l...
After Attorneys Albert A. Chapar and Rebecca E. Strickland secured victory for one of the Chapar Firm's clients in a jury trial in the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, the Firm was called upon to defend that victory upon the other party's appeal to the 11th Circuit Court ...
The Firm had an interesting experience with a case in which it successfully defended a client against a personal injury claim.
The Plaintiff sued the Firm's client for alleged personal injuries suffered when the Plaintiff allegedly slipped upon entering the Firm's client's store on a rainy day.
Th...