Employment Law

• Employment Contract
• Severance Agreement

Property Law

• Real Estate Litigation
  Chip advises owners and buyers through a wide variety of commercial real estate matters. These matters include the purchase, financing, development, construction and sale of multi-family developments, shopping centers, office buildings, warehouses, golf courses and undeveloped land. Chip has also negotiated tenant leases for over one million square feet of space.
• Premises Liability
• Real Estate Transactions
  2 represents all types of real estate owners and developers. Working closely with your team, our commercial real estate experts will negotiate and document your real estate transaction to arrive at the optimal solutions to make your business more effective.  Further, our experience in acquiring, developing, financing, leasing and selling commercial properties enables us do meaningful due diligence on such transactions.
• Landlord-Tenant Disputes

Criminal Law

• Fraud
• Theft

Finance Law

• Tax Law
  Pat brings a unique business-oriented perspective to his corporate and tax law practice. He was a CPA with a Big Eight accounting firm; the General Counsel, CFO and head of investor relations for a public company; and he served as the Chair of the Audit Committee, and a member of the Compensation Committee, of a private technology company for over 15 years, until its sale in 2016.

Family Law

• Divorce

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning

Business and Corporate Law

• Corporate Law
  Chip’s practice offers our clients a comprehensive understanding of commercial real estate and corporate law, while specializing in federal and state telecommunications law. His goal in providing representation is to facilitate the achievement of his client’s objectives, while protecting their interests in a cost effective and efficient manner.
• Mergers and Acquisitions
  Technology-related business transactions, including the purchase and sale of technology assets and services, outsourcing arrangements, professional services agreements, EF&I transactions, content licensing and distribution, and purchase and sale of Internet domain names and technology issues in business sales, mergers and acquisitions transactions
• Business Disputes
  Friend, Hudak & Harris, LLP is an Atlanta-based business law firm, serving clients throughout the United States. Our close-knit team of legal counselors work individually and collaboratively to make our clients’ businesses run better. Together with our clients, our team provides exceptional and personalized legal services to enable our clients’ businesses to adapt, grow and succeed.
• Business Transactions
  While emphasizing practical solutions to regulatory compliance issues and intercarrier disputes, Ken’s background was firmly rooted in regulatory litigation.  Ken successfully tried cases involving complex technical and legal matters involving interconnection, unbundling, traffic exchange, colocation and other telecommunications-related issues. In addition, he negotiated numerous commercial transactions involving local and long distance telecommunications carriers, cable telephony providers and information service providers. Throughout his career, Ken appeared on behalf of the corporate and public sectors before numerous state utility commissions throughout the U.S.
• Limited Liability Companies
  Structuring, negotiating and documenting the formation of real estate investment entities, such as joint ventures, partnerships and limited liability companies
• Trade Secrets
• Intellectual Property
  Technology and intellectual property disputes, including computer hardware and software, trade secrets, copyrights, trademarks, patents and computer fraud
• Unfair Competition