Family Law

• Guardianship
  Additionally, if you have a loved one who is no longer able to handle his or her finances or daily care, we can assist in obtaining guardianship over their person and conservatorship over their property.  This will allow you to handles their financial and legal transactions as well as make healthcare decisions.

Business and Corporate Law

• Corporate Law
  Most of our time spent with our corporate clients is focused on operations, compliance, transactions and the preparation of documents.  However corporate disputes – with other companies, employees, customers and suppliers, are commonplace and require specialized attention. We use the term “dispute resolution” because litigation is only one way to handle a corporate dispute.  Our attorneys are skilled at examining the facts; identifying possible solutions; considering best and worst case scenarios, and resolving conflicts for our corporate clients in a manner that serves their long term best interests.
• Mergers and Acquisitions
  The Cooper Law Firm’s merger and acquisition team is committed to delivering high quality and timely legal services to our clients.  We have extensive experience advising clients in all aspects of buying and selling businesses, including purchases and sales of equity and assets, merger transactions, recapitalizations and other corporate restructurings.  We have represented private and public buyers and sellers.  In addition to the superior quality and breadth of our technical expertise, our responsiveness and ability to coordinate multiple legal disciplines allows us to provide the service that our clients desire and deserve. We have the ability to advise on environmental, intellectual property, labor and employment, antitrust, corporate finance, litigation and real estate issues.
• Limited Liability Companies
  We counsel institutional investors, private investors, REITs, and owners on most aspects of real estate investment. In addition to advising on the outright purchase and sale of property assets, we structure multifaceted relationships between parties for the ownership or development of real estate, including joint ventures, limited liability companies and subsidiary entities.
• Intellectual Property

Employment Law

• Employment Contract
  The Cooper Law Firm, LLC advises clients on economic opportunities for products and services; prepares contracts and employment agreements; franchises and licenses your business; negotiates manufacturing and distribution contracts; handles intellectual property issues; and evaluates and advises clients on financial and general business relationships and arrangements. We also provide legal advice and prepare, negotiate and finalize the documentation necessary for a comprehensive range of other corporate, business, commercial and corporate governance matters.
• Employment Litigation
  Ms. Bond excels at assisting clients in understanding the legal issues in their matter, maximizing their success in their legal matter, and maintaining each client’s matter as a priority for the firm. Ms. Bond truly enjoys assisting clients as they face the unexpected and unprovoked situations with which they find themselves. It is satisfying for her to serve our clients in navigating the justice system during their most personal trying times. She is also very adept at providing information to small businesses in need of organization, contracts, franchising, trademarks, employment issues, and other challenges faced by entrepreneurs.

Property Law

• Real Estate Litigation
  Natalee joined The Cooper Law Firm upon graduation from Mount de Sales Academy in 2006. After acceptance to The University of Georgia in 2009, Natalee moved to Athens and became the seventh of seven Cooper siblings to graduate from UGA. She received her bachelors in Journalism and returned to The Cooper Law Firm in 2012. A versatile employee, Natalee has held a variety of positions in the Real Estate department after undergoing extensive training in real estate law. In 2014 she aligned herself with the inimitable forces of the Post-Closing department alongside her sister, Danielle Gibson. The pair has been making post-closing great again ever since.
• Real Estate Transactions
  Ms. Cooper can assist in all aspects of a real estate transaction from title abstracting to preparation of closing documents to final closing. Ms. Cooper is committed to ensuring that every client of the firm understands the real estate process and is satisfied with the service.
• Easement
• Land Use and Zoning
  · Private agreements, including covenants, conditions and restrictions, reciprocal easements, sharing of recreational amenities among related and unrelated subdivided projects, and planning, zoning and land use regulations

Health Law

• Personal Injury
  Personal Injury law, more perhaps than any other form of lawyering, requires a firm that is willing and able to listen to its clients. The causation and nature of an injury, the treatment undergone, the pain and difficulty suffered…all of these elements weave together in the story of the injured client. The role of the personal injury lawyer is not to chase ambulances, as the stereotype goes, but rather is to listen to the client, and share the client’s story with judges and juries. The personal injury lawyer must make sure that all concerned understand the nature and severity of the injuries to the client’s physical, mental and emotional state.

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  Our estate administration team efficiently manages the disposition of clients’ estates and trusts. Our trust and estate administrators address the needs of surviving family members, executors and trustees to obtain optimal results in the management and disposition of trust and estate assets. We provide advice and representation on federal and Georgia state estate, gift and income tax issues that affect estates, trusts, beneficiaries and fiduciaries.
• Wills
  Our estate planning team possesses an in-depth knowledge of the legal, tax and personal issues that often accompany planning an estate. Individuals, families and trust departments of major financial institutions depend on us to manage the complex task of estate planning. We understand all aspects of estate planning, including the transfer of closely held businesses to the next generation, asset protection, planned giving and private foundations – all with an emphasis on minimizing the impact of estate, gift and income taxes. Our deep experience in drafting complex wills and trusts ensures that our clients’ wishes are carried out.
• Trusts
  Ms. Cooper provides competent legal advice for individuals and small businesses. She has an excellent success record in general litigation, personal injury, intellectual property, commercial and residential real estate, environmental law, corporate formation and counseling, trusts and estates, mergers and acquisitions, franchise and licensing law, homeowner’s associations, and lending and structured finance. With a full staff of clerks and paralegals, Ms. Cooper is able to provide extensive legal services efficiently and thoroughly.
• Power of Attorney
  An estate plan is not complete without financial and health care powers of attorney. We assist clients with the creation and use of Powers of Attorney for financial, legal matters and health care decisions. Power of Attorney documents provide individuals with an avenue to receive assistance in making decisions regarding financial, legal and health care matters.

Finance Law

• Foreclosure
  We are familiar not only with contract, leasing and conveyancing law, but with environmental law, land use law, brokerage law, mortgage foreclosure law and the Uniform Commercial Code. Our ongoing interest in the ever changing real estate market, make us invaluable business and legal counselors to the firm’s real estate clients. With the assistance of other practice groups, the real estate team forms the essential entities, structures the deal, suggests means of financing, and uses its extensive experience to implement the desired transaction.
• Tax Law