Criminal Law

• Wrongful Death

Business and Corporate Law

• Corporate Law
  Fredric Chaiken's legal career has focused primarily on civil litigation. Since 1981, Mr. Chaiken has represented individual and corporate clients in a wide array of civil trial and appellate work in the State and Federal Courts in Georgia and elsewhere. Beginning in the early 1990s, Mr. Chaiken began to focus a significant amount of his active trial practice in the areas of business torts, ranging from trademark, trade dress and patent infringement, to trade secret violations, enforcement of restrictive covenants, corporate fraud, corporate governance and breach of fiduciary duties. Mr. Chaiken handles trust, estate and probate litigation, as well. He is outside general counsel for several corporations (profit and not-for-profit) and regularly serves as "local counsel" in Federal courts in Georgia for out of state corporations.
• Business Disputes
• Business Transactions
• Trade Secrets
• Intellectual Property
  Member: Atlanta and American (Member: Intellectual Property Law Committee on Unfair Competition - Trade Identity; Sections on: Litigation and Intellectual Property) Bar Associations; State Bar of Georgia (Member, Sections on: Litigation; Corporations and Banking; Intellectual Property; Member, Fee Arbitration Panel); Georgia Trial Lawyers Association; Association of Trial Lawyers of America.
• Unfair Competition

Employment Law

• Wrongful Termination
  In a case of wrongful termination due to discrimination, we were able to get our client a settlement that helped them find a supportive work environment in which to continue their career.

Health Law

• Personal Injury
  In addition to his business litigation practice, Mr. Chaiken will occasionally take on personal injury and wrongful death cases. In 2011, he was part of the trial team that won a $2,600,000.00 verdict in a wrongful death case, listed in TOP GEORGIA VERDICTS as the second largest wrongful death verdict in the State of Georgia in 2011.

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  States Mr. Chaiken: "Clients know that we put their interests first. If it is a matter of intense 'bet the company' litigation or sensitive tax or estate planning, clients count on us."
• Probate

Finance Law

• Bankruptcy
• Tax Law