Practice Areas: Mr. Carr litigates in the following areas: Complex Commercial Noncompetition Agreements Construction Law Bankruptcy Creditors' Rights Alternative Dispute Resolution Real Estate Intellectual Property

Representative Matters:

• Represented a Fortune 100 company in connection with its claims of theft of trade secrets and RICO violations. Won a multi-million dollar judgment against the Defendants.
  
  
• Represented a national television network in obtaining administrative mandamus ordering Los Angeles County Police Department and California Highway Patrol to release mobile digital transmission tapes of the Rodney King incident.
  
  
• Represented structured settlement company in litigation in which favorable judgments were obtained in four separate actions approving transfer of payment rights despite anti-assignment language in structured settlement agreements.
  
  
• Represented City of Columbus, Ohio, in defense of equal business opportunity legislation.
  
  
• Represented property co-owner in equitable partition of valuable commercial real estate.
  
  
• Represented settlement companies in fraud action and successfully recovered payments made on fraudulent claims through prejudgment garnishment proceedings.
  
  
• Represented international food conglomerate in computer software licensing and fraud dispute pending in federal court in Wisconsin.
  
  
• Represented major German automobile distributor in trademark enforcement program and lemon law defense.
  
  
• Represented worldwide office equipment corporation in national arbitration program, including drafting arbitration provisions and other portions of equipment leases.
  
  
• Defended major airline in wrongful termination action. Obtained summary judgment dismissing employee’s claims and summary judgment in favor of airline on fraud counterclaim against employee.

Education:

• Emory University School of Law, Atlanta, Georgia
  Juris Doctor, with distinction, 1988
  
  
• University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
  B.A., magna cum laude, 1985
  Major: Political Science

Memberships:

• Member of the Georgia and California State Bars
  
  
• Admitted to practice before the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth, Ninth and Eleventh Circuits, the United States District Courts for the Northern and Middle Districts of Georgia and the Central and Southern Districts of California, the Supreme Court of Georgia, the Georgia Court of Appeals, the Supreme Court of California and the California Court of Appeal

Published Decisions:

• Lanier Worldwide, Inc. v. Clouse, Civil Action No. 1:01-CV-1194, 2003 WL 22026377 (Ala. Aug. 29, 2003)
  
  
• Insurance Industry Consultants, Inc. v. Essex Inv., Inc., 249 Ga. App. 837, 549 S.E.2d 788 (2001)
  
  
• Sweatt v. International Development Corp., 242 Ga. App. 753, 531 S.E.2d 192 (2000)
  
  
• Settlement Funding, LLC v. Jamestown Life Ins. Co., 78 F. Supp. 2d 1349 (N.D. Ga. 1999)
  
  
• Emmertz v. Cherry, 271 Ga. 458, 520 S.E.2d 219 (1999)
  
  
• CareKeeper Software Development Co., Inc. v. Silver, 46 F. Supp. 2d 1366 (N.D. Ga. 1999)
  
  
• Associated General Contractors of America v. City of Columbus, 172 F.3d 411 (6th Cir. 1999)
  
  
• Law Bulletin Pub. Co. v. LRP Publications, Inc., 992 F. Supp. 1014 (N.D. Ill. 1998)