Family Law

• Guardianship
  Parents and caregivers with young adults with profound special needs are suddenly faced with having limited ability to make health, education, placement, financial and other decisions when their children transition to adulthood at age 18. The Firm created the South Carolina Guardianship Project and recently the Georgia Guardianship Project with Atlanta Legal Aid, and attorneys represent low-income parents and caregivers in probate court to establish legal guardianship over family members who have severe special needs.

Criminal Law

• Wrongful Death
  Nelson Mullins represents clients throughout the motor vehicle industry, with teams dedicated to providing counseling and litigation services to both legacy manufacturers and distributors, as well as to newer entrants and industry start-ups. Our preeminent distributorship team assists clients in all aspects of the development and modification of dealer networks, the launch and allocation of vehicles, compliance with complex federal and state legislative and regulatory authorities, and handling litigation involving dealer appointments, terminations, relocations and all other aspects of the business relationship. Our automotive product liability and warranty litigation attorneys are regarded by many as the most respected and experienced in the industry, representing the world’s largest manufacturers in cases involving crashworthiness allegations, vehicle design challenges, recalls and warranty, catastrophic injury, and wrongful death. Our automotive group also is deeply experienced and highly qualified in class actions, serial litigation, mass torts, and other complex litigation, as well as government investigations. Our deep and diverse bench of trial lawyers has tried hundreds of cases to verdict/decision in countless venues around the country. The Nelson Mullins automotive group can provide seamless representation from counseling to litigation on virtually every aspect of an automobile’s life cycle, from pre-production, to pre-sale, to wholesale distribution and retailing, to post-sale disputes and other needs.
• Fraud
• White Collar Crimes
• Drug Crimes
  More than 20 lawyers worked to seek relief for clients under President Obama’s clemency power for prisoners facing long sentences for nonviolent drug crimes. The Firm handled 15 cases and four clients were granted clemency and released from prison. Read More…
• Murder
  State v. Tillman. Nelson defended Lt. Gov. James Tillman for the murder of the editor of The State newspaper in Columbia.
• Money Laundering

Business and Corporate Law

• Corporate Law
• Mergers and Acquisitions
  The Nelson Mullins M&A Diversity Externship Program provides 2L and 3L students from the University of Georgia School of Law with work experience in mergers and acquisitions for academic credit. Chambers USA shortlisted the program for its Diversity & Inclusion Awards in 2019, just a year after the externship's establishment.
• Trade Secrets
• Intellectual Property
  In 2010, Lahive & Cockfield, a top-ranked Boston intellectual property law firm, combined its resources with the firm, increasing the intellectual property team to more than 70 attorneys and technical specialists.
• Unfair Competition
  Jackson focuses her practice on patents, trademarks, copyrights, and unfair competition, as well as client counseling, licensing, and opinion work. She places particular emphasis on patent and trademark preparation and prosecution.
• Antitrust

Property Law

• Real Estate Litigation
  The Firm has a very strong commitment to provide pro bono service to charitable, religious, civic, community, governmental and educational organizations whose mission is to address the needs of persons of limited means. The Firm’s pro bono service to eleemosynary corporations has involved tax issues, bankruptcy, employment, mergers and acquisitions, real estate matters, contracts, government regulations, intellectual property, immigration, lobbying, litigation and several other issues. As an example, we are strong supporters of the Atlanta Pro Bono Partnership and over the years have provided legal services on approximately 225 matters to nonprofits in Atlanta.
• Premises Liability
• Eminent Domain

Immigration Law

• Business Immigration

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  We’ve built and grown our Firm in response to our clients’ needs. From a Firm of one attorney in 1897 to 1,000+ attorneys, policy advisors and professionals today, we provide advice and counsel to corporate and individual clients in a wide variety of areas, including: litigation, corporate, banking, e-discovery, economic development, securities, finance, tax, estate planning, intellectual property, governmental relations, regulatory, healthcare, environmental, real estate, labor and employment, privacy and security, and white collar crime. Nelson Mullins attorneys have handled cases in most states in the United States and have argued before many appellate courts. Nelson Mullins' clients range from...
• Wills
  Nelson Mullins has proactively created and maintained robust programs to provide simple wills and healthcare directives free of charge to first responders who put their lives on the line to serve and protect.
• Power of Attorney
  If you would like, you may designate an authorized agent to make a request under the CCPA on your behalf. We will deny requests from agents that do not submit proof of authorization from you. To verify that an authorized agent has authority to act for you, we may require a copy of a power of attorney or require that you provide the authorized agent with written permission and verify your own identity with us.
• Probate

Finance Law

• Bankruptcy
• Tax Law