Recent Projects in Georgia

Although we are a very modern firm, our values remain very old-fashioned. Our law firm is dedicated to effective and affordable representation throughout Georgia and Alabama. We are a small firm which provides our clients with exceptional personal service; plus, we understand that your bottom line is very important to you! Thus, our two offices in Georgia and our use of technology allows us to build a law practice based upon experience, our knowledge, and our reputation; our clients can use our services anywhere within the State of Georgia to help grow businesses, resolve conflicts, and succeed. If you need a Georgia construction attorney or business attorney or if you are looking to file a contractor’s lien or make a payment bond claim anywhere in Georgia, please contact us.

Since 1992, we have filed more mechanic’s liens and payment bond claims than we can count. We have worked on on construction projects and commercial collections in almost every county in the State of Georgia. We have handled business issues from small to highly sophisticated. We don’t have the space to tell you everything we have done, but here are just a few of our recent projects (please note that that every case is different, and that prior results don’t guarantee future success):

Here are some of our recent projects in 2013:

within 9 months, we received 100% of the money our client was owed (including attorney’s fees and interest) by (i) filing a Georgia materialmen’s lien in Franklin County, (ii) prosecuting a lawsuit against the debtor in Cobb County, GA, (iii) after receiving judgment in favor of our client, we located a current job site for the debtor in Treutlen County, GA, and (iv) we filed a garnishment against the Treutlen County project’s general contractor in Dublin, Laurens County, GA; for more information, please our Georgia Lien Law Case Study by clicking here;
we filed a Notice of Commencement on a new construction project located in Albany, Dougherty County, Georgia;
we successfully negotiated a payment bond claim which we had filed on behalf of our client; the claim resulted from an unpaid debt on a Fort Gordon project located in Augusta (Richmond County), Georgia; we filed suit in Chatham County, Georgia but we were able to resolve all of the outstanding issues before the debtor or the surety had to file their answers to our lawsuit;
on behalf of our client, a construction material supplier, we began foreclosure proceedings against a DeKalb County, GA mechanic’s lien which we had previously filed; we are pleased to report that payment in full (including interest and attorney fees!) was collected;
we settled a lawsuit which we filed in Atlanta to enforce a payment bond claim against a surety, our client’s customer and a personal guarantee; our client, a heavy-equipment supplier received over 80% of the money they were due;
we served a defendants on an out-of-state Tribal Reservation in a matter pending in Muskogee County, Georgia;
we filed a Georgia Mechanic’s and Materialmen’s Claim of Lien in Marietta, Cobb County, Georgia on behalf of a client who supplier debris removal services on a construction site;
we received payment in full for a Materialmen’s lien which we had filed in Savannah, Georgia; after executing the proper lien waivers and releases, we cancelled our Chatham County, lien;
we sent multiples Notices of Owners (NTO) to projects located in Fulton County, Cobb County, Bibb County and Richmond County, GA;
we filed a Notice of Commencement on behalf of a general contractor starting a new project in Decatur, Georgia (DeKalb County), and we filed a second Notice of Commencement on behalf of the same general contractor in Cobb County, Georgia;
our client, a supplier on a construction project, has received almost 100% of his claim, and we were able to cancel the Claim of Lien which we had filed on their behalf in Franklin County;
we filed a Georgia Mechanic’s and Materialmen’s Claim of Lien in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia on behalf of a client who supplier debris removal services on a construction site;
we filed a payment bond claim against a surety on a school board project located in Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia;
we settled a lawsuit in favor of our client who was a construction materials supplier working on a project located in Gwinnett County, Georgia;
we filed a Georgia construction lien on behalf of an architect for unpaid services in Cobb County, Georgia;
our construction law attorneys filed a Georgia Little Miller Act payment bond claim on a project located in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia on behalf of our client who provided electrical supplies to the municipal project;
we filed a lawsuit in Fulton County, GA to collect money owed to our client who provided commercial bathroom fixtures, toilet dividers and accessorius;
we filed a lawsuit in Cobb County, GA on behalf of a plumbing company for past-due receivables owed on a an apartment complex;

Look at some of The Cobb Law Groups projects from 2012:

we filed a Notice of Filing of Action in Franklin County, Georgia to perfect our client’s materialman lien;
we filed Notices of Commencement for multiple clients in Lowndes County, Georgia and in DeKalb County, Georgia;
we filed a Materialmen’s Claim of Lien in Fulton County, Georgia on behalf of a woodworking and deck installation specialty subcontractor;
we filed a mechanic’s lien in Madison, Morgan County, Georgia on behalf of our client, a building supply company;
we received judgment in favor of our client, a material supplier, in a matter filed in Polk County, Georgia;
we filed a lawsuit to collect an outstanding balance in Cobb County, GA and to enforce our client (a supplier) rights on a Claim of Lien filed in Franklin County, GA;
on behalf of our client, a material subcontractor, we recievd payment in full on a materialmen’s lien which we had filed on a construction project in Carroll County, Georgia;
we filed a materialmen’s lien in Brooks County, Georgia on behalf of a client who performed electrical services on a construction project;
we negotiated and received final payment on a judgment lien issued in favor of our client in Paulding County, Georgia;
we analyzed a 2006 materialmen’s lien in Coweta County, Georgia on behalf of a homeowner and made a recommendation to assist in the removal of the lien;
we analyzed a recently filed materialmen’s lien in Cobb County, Georgia on behalf of a purchaser of a home and determined that the lien was invalid on it’s face;
we assisted a client in draft a loan modification for her house located in Franklin County, Georgia;
we filed a mechanic’s lien against a project located in Gwinnett County, Georgia on behalf of a plumbing contractor;
we filed a materialman’s claim of lien in Coweta County, GA on behalf of a client who performed work on a commercial construction project but was not paid;
we collected partial payment of a FiFa through a garnishment action filed in Gwinnett County, Georgia;
we filed a Claim of Lien on behalf of a material supplier in Carrollton, Carroll County, Georgia;
we filed a commercial collection lawsuit in the Muscogee County, Georgia on behalf of a client, a material supplier on a Georgia construction project;
we filed a mechanic’s lien in Macon, Bibb County, GA on behalf of our client which is a grading company;
we filed a materialmen’s lien in Thomas County, Georgia on behalf of a client who operated a demolition and abatement company in Georgia;
we filed a materialmen’s lien in Dougherty County, Georgia on behalf of a client who install and supplies commercial glass on construction projects;
our client was awarded the creation of a Special Lien against real estate located in Decatur, DeKalb County, Georgia;
we filed a garnishment action in Gwinnett County, GA in order to begin collection of a judgment on behalf of our client;
we filed a Notice of Commencement in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia on behalf of our client, a general contractor;
we negotiated a contract between a real estate owner, a materialmen’s lien claimant, and a lender in order to secure payment to our client the money owed for providing construction labor and materials in Kennesaw, Georgia;
the Henry County, GA State Court granted our client’s request to impose a Special Lien against the real estate where our client had provided heavy rental equipment;
we served a Notice to Owner on an owner located in Fulton County, Georgia on behalf of a client who is a general contractor;
we filed a garnishment in Gwinnett County, Georgia in order to collect against a judgment granted in favor of one of our clients;
we filed a materialman’s lien in Early County, Georgia on behalf of our client who was a general contractor on a large project;
we filed a Motion to Compel Post-Judgment Discovery in Jackson County, Georgia in a effort to obtain information about a debtor which might lead to the collection of a Georgia FiFa;
we filed a claim against a payment bond on a State of Georgia project located in Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia;
we reviewed and negotiated a Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure Agreement on behalf of our client located in Gwinnett County, Georgia;
our client received payment in full for a materialmen’s lien which we had filed on their behalf in Thomason, Upson County, Georgia;
we received payment in full on a mechanic’s lien which we filed in Rockdale County, Georgia on behalf of a Plumbing Client;
we moved the Henry County, Georgia Court for a default judgment;
we received payment in full on a payment bond claim we made on behalf of a client who is a millwork manufacturer; the project was in Upson County, Georgia;
we filed a Georgia materialmen’s lien in Bulloch County, Georgia on behalf of a material supplier;
our client received payment in full for a mechanic’s lien which we had filed on their behalf on Upson County, Georgia;
our client received full principal, interest and attorneys’ fees as a payoff of the materialmen’s lien which we had filed on their behalf in DeKalb County, GA;
a plumbing client of ours received full payment for a lien we had filed on their behalf in Rockdale County, GA;
we reviewed a Chapter 7 bankruptcy filing in the Northern District of Georgia to determine how our client should respond to a Motion to Avoid Judicial Lien;
we obtained judgment on behalf of our client in a Cherokee County, Georgia lawsuit; the judgment awarded full principal, interest, and attorneys’ fees to our client;
we filed a Notice of Filing of Action for Claim on Mechanics and Materialmen’s Lien in Douglas County, GA in order to perfect a materialmen’s lien;
we filed a lawsuit in Polk County, Georgia on behalf of our client, a material supplier on a construction project;

Here are some of our legal projects for 2011:

In December 2011, we received payment-in-full from a bond claim originating from a project in Chattahoochee County, Georgia;
In December 2011, we helped a client calculate the deadline for filing a claim against a payment bond on a government project located in Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia;
In December 2011, we recovered a large sum of money for a client by garnishing a debtor’s bank account in Decatur, DeKalb County, Georgia;
In December 2011, we recovered five-figures by garnishing a debtor’s current construction project in White County, Georgia;
In December 2011, our client received payment in full, and we were able to release a materialmen’s lien which we had filed in Gwinnett County, Georgia;
In December 2011, we made a claim against a payment bond on behalf of an electrical subcontractor who had not received payment for the work and materials they supplied on a public project located in Colquitt County, GA;
In November 2011, we settled a lawsuit pending in Meriwether County, Georgia; our client received a negotiated payment to resolve the conflict;
In November 2011, we filed an Affidavit of Nonpayment in Colquitt County, Georgia for our client who had signed a Final Lien Waiver but who had not received payment within the last 60 days;
In November 2011, we filed a commercial collections lawsuit in Polk County, Georgia; our client provided heavy equipment on a construction project, but was not paid;
In November 2011, we filed a lawsuit in Gwinnett County, Georgia on behalf of our client;
In November, 2011, we filed a Georgia Mechanics and Materialmen’s lien in DeKalb County, GA; our client provided general contracting services, but did not receive payment for the services which were rendered;
In November 2011, we domesticated our client’s Florida judgment in Lumpkin County, Georgia;
In November 2011, a client asked us to file three construction liens on their behalf: one in Atlanta, Fulton County, GA, another in Conyers, Rockdale County, GA, and one in Decatur, DeKalb County, Ga;
Our client recently received judgment in their favor (for the full amount they sought) in excess of $30,000 in a commercial collection (AR collection) lawsuit we were prosecuting in DeKalb County, Georgia;
In November 2011, after filing a lawsuit in Fulton County, Georgia, we were able to settle the matter by having the debtor pay the full amount due over a three-month period;
In November 2011, we filed a Notice of Commencement in Mitchell County, Georgia;
In November 2011, we filed a garnishment action in Carroll County, Georgia; our client’s debtor was working on a construction project in Carroll County so we garnished the money that the general contractor was going to pay the subcontractor (our debtor);
In November 2011, we filed a materialmen’s lien in Fulton County (Atlanta), Georgia on behalf of the plumbing contractor we represent;
In November 2011, we filed a subcontractor’s lien in Lithonia, GA which is located in DeKalb County, Georgia for our client who performed maintenance work on a large apartment complex but was not paid;
In November 2011, we filed a mechanic’s lien in Rockdale County, GA for work that our client performed in Conyers, GA;
In November 2011, we filed a supplier’s lien in Richmond County, Georgia (Augusta, GA) for millwork which they supplied on a construction project but for which they were not paid;
In October 2011, we filed a payment bond claim on behalf of our client located in Chatham County, Georgia for work performed on a Bibb County, Georgia project;
In October 2011, we filed a supplier lien against the Hyundai plant in LaGrange, Troup County, Gerogia;
In October 2011, we settled a Fulton County, Georgia lawsuit by getting the debtor to agree to voluntarily pay the full, principal debt in three installments;
In October 2011, we filed a Motion for Summary Judgment in a pending lawsuit filed in the State Court of Cherokee County, Georgia, against a debtor who refused to respond to our discovery requests;
In October 2011, we filed a Motion for Summary Judgment in a pending lawsuit filed in the State Court of Cobb County, Georgia against a debtor who refused to respond to our discovery requests;
In October 2011, we submitted a default judgment against a debtor located in Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia;
In October 2011, we submitted a construction collection case pending in Fulton County, Georgia to arbitration;
In October 2011, we prepared a mechanical contractor’s discovery responses on a matter pending in Dawson County, Georgia;
In October 2011, we prepared and filed a claim against a payment bond on a municipal project located in Douglasville, Douglas County, Georgia;
In September 2011, we began post-judgment collection against a debtor by filing a garnishment in Cumming, Forsyth County, Georgia;
In September 2011, we filed a Notice of Action of Filing Suit in Upson County, Georgia;
In April 2011, we filed a supplier’s lien on behalf of our client in Decatur County, Georgia; in September, our client received payment in full satisfaction of the lien;
In September 2011, we filed a lawsuit to collect under breach of contract and to foreclose upon a construction lien in the Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia;
In September 2011, we filed a domestication of foreign judgment in Dahlonega, Lumpkin County, Georgia; our client received a judgment in the State of Florida and now seeks recovery here in Georgia;
In September 2011, we filed a supplier’s lien against a residence in Decatur, DeKalb County, Georgia on behalf of our client;
In September 2011, we sent a Notice to Owner (NTO) and a Notice to Contractor on behalf of a client located in Dallas, Paulding County, Georgia;
In September 2011, we filed a subcontractor’s lien against a commercial project located in Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia on behalf of our client;
In September 2011, we collected several thousand dollars against a judgment through a post-judgment garnishment action filed in Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia;
In September 2011, we filed a lawsuit to collect under breach of contract and to foreclose upon a mechanics lien in the State Court of Bibb County (Macon), Georgia;
In September 2011, we filed a post-judgment garnishment against a debtor in the State Court of Carroll County (Carrollton), Georgia;
In September 2011, we prepared and filed a Notice of Commencement on behalf of our client in Cairo, Grady County, Georgia;
In September 2011, we prepared and filed a Notice of Commencement on behalf of our client in East Ellijay, Gilmer County, Georgia;
In September 2011, we prepared and filed a Notice of Commencement on behalf of our client in Metter, Candler County, Georgia;
In September 2011, we filed a filed a payment bond claim on behalf of a client; the payment bond claim was made on a project located in Thomaston, Georgia (Upson County);
In September 2011, we filed a Georgia Mechanics and Materialmen’s Lien on a project under construction in Upson County (Thomaston), GA;
In August, 2011, we represented a general contractor working on a project in Habersham County, Georgia; a subcontractor had filed a materialmen’s lien against the project, and we were able to assist in the negotiation and release of the subcontractor’s lien;
In August 2011, we filed a formal claim against a subcontractor’s payment bond on a project loacted in Cornelia, Habersham County, Georgia;
In August 2011, we filed a lawsuit on behalf of a heavy equipment supplier on a project located in Marietta, Cobb County, Georgia;
In August 2011, we filed a lawsuit to perfect a mechanics lien in Cumming, Forsyth County, Georgia for nonpayment of services provided by our client;
In August 2011, our client was awarded a $47,717.33 judgment against a former customer and its guaranty in the Superior Court of Harris County (Hamilton, Georgia);
In August 2011, we filed a lawsuit to perfect a mechanic’s lien in John’s Creek, Forsyth County, Georgia;
In August 2011, we prepared a proof of claim for a client who performed work on a construction job covered by a payment bond; the job was located in Marietta, Cobb County, Georgia;
In August 2011, we reviewed an Amendment to a Commercial Lease and a personal guaranty for a client whose business is located in Midway, Georgia (Forsyth County, Georgia);
In July 2011, a client picked up a joint check from the general contractor for the full amount of their mechanic’s lien which we filed in Atlanta, Fulton County, GA on their behalf;
In July 2011, we filed a construction lien on behalf of our HVAC contractor client in Holly Springs, GA (Cherokee County);
In July 2011, we recieved a debtor’s final payment on behalf of our client pursuant to a Consent Order entered in a pending matter in Lawrenceville, Gwinnett County, Georgia;
In July 2011, we successfully negotiated a ground lease for our client located in Cumming, Forsyth County, Georgia;
In July 2011, we sent out a demand for a client who performed remodeling work on a commercial property in Dalton, Whitfield County, Georgia;
In July 2001, we filed a mechanic’s lien and simultaneously made a payment bond claim on The Veranda III project in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia;
In July 2011, we located a very elusive debtor and had the Sheriff of Lavonia, Franklin County, Georgia serve him with post-judgment discovery requests;
In July 2011, we filed a materialmen’s lien on behalf of a seeding and grassing company in LaGrange, Troup County, Georgia;
In June 2011, we filed a collection lawsuit in Cumming, Forsyth County, Georgia for a client of ours who fabricated metal for use on a construction project but was not paid;
In June 2011, w e filed a lawsuit to foreclose a materialmen’s lien; the lawsuit was filed in Henry County (McDonough), Georgia in order to foreclose a supplier’s lien in DeKalb County (Decatur), Georgia;
In June 2011, we filed a lawsuit to enforce a personal guaranty of a commercial lease in Fulton County (Atlanta), Georgia; the leased real estate is located in Cumming, Georgia in Forsyth County;
In June 2011, we filed a Georgia Materialmen’s Lien in Cornelia, Habersham County, GA on behalf of a grass seed and matting supplier.;
In June 2011, we filed a second mechanic’s lien against the construction project known as the Senior Life Insurance Building Project located in Thomasville, GA (Thomas County, GA);
In May, 2011, we filed a materialmen’s lien in Lowndes County (Valdosta), Georgia on behalf of a client who supplied materials but had not received payment;
In February, 2011, we filed a construction lien in Thomasville, Thomas County, Georgia for an engineering consultant who performed work on the project but did not receive payment.