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Charles M. Dalziel, Jr. has practiced law in the Atlanta area for 40 years. He began his career at what was then Kilpatrick & Cody from 1980-1984, was then at Savell & Williams from 1984-1987 as an associate and from 1987-2000 as a partner, and then wised up and moved his practice to Marietta, joining Brock & Clay as a shareholder beginning 2001, and continuing there through the firm’s many iterations until the firm became Gregory, Doyle, Calhoun & Rogers, LLC in 2013. Dalziel continued as a member of Gregory Doyle until December 31, 2018. He has spent 2019 conceiving, birthing and growing Dalziel Law Firm.
Virtually every kind of civil case you can think of, Dalziel has worked on. A central focus of his practice has always been covenant not to compete/trade secret cases. For years under the old restrictive covenant law Dalziel represented employees who had transitioned to new firms, mostly at the expense of the new employer. With the law change in that area, Dalziel now has an even mix of enforcement and defense cases. Key in the defense cases are counterclaims, where Dalziel’s creativity and legal knowledge are great assets. Dalziel has also defended workers’ comp claims, personal injury cases involving large trucks with big insurance limits, slips and falls, premises liability claims against landowners involving shootings, rapes and home invasions, and claims against stockbrokers and financial advisors; he has handled insurance coverage cases for four different insurance carriers as their primary Georgia coverage counsel at various times, and worked extensively defending construction defect cases; he has handled all manners of fraud claims(real estate fraud, investment fraud, insider trading, bankruptcy fraud-with four different bankruptcy debtors having their discharges denied--and commercial fraud) and many banking cases, including defense of 14 different related lender liability cases, receiving summary judgment on every single one of them. He has many defense awards in securities cases, including against leading claimant lawyer Boyd Page, and defeated Rogers & Hardin and Sutherland in two of his claimant’s cases. As a plaintiff’s lawyer, he put together a team to handle a case Judge Kell had left at Gregory Doyle, and with the outside parties at the head of the ship, obtained an $11.4 million bad faith settlement. He regularly represents employees who have been discharged, not to attack their termination, but to collect the pay they had earned before termination, which the employer hoped to deprive them of through the termination. One of those cases resulted in a $1.2 million recovery by arbitration award. Dalziel in another arbitration sat second chair, proudly, and did all the briefing in a libel and slander arbitration that resulted in a $4.2 million award, including $2.5 million in punitive damages. And Dalziel’s first result in a litigated matter was to obtain $150 million in additional revenues for Southern Bell in an appeal of a Georgia Public Service Commission rate decision.

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