Friend, Hudak & Harris, LLP


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Friend, Hudak & Harris, LLP


Three Ravinia Drive, Suite 1450 Atlanta, Georgia 30346-2117View Map

Practice Areas:

Corporate Law and Transactions, Mergers and Acquisitions, Finance and Tax, Business Litigation, Telecommunications Law and Regulation, Cable Television Law, Technology and Electronic Commerce, Intellectual Property.

Firm Profile:

Friend, Hudak & Harris, LLP is a boutique business law firm whose practice is devoted to corporate and commercial law, tax, technology and electronic commerce, telecommunications law and regulation, cable television law and commercial real estate and litigation of those matters. The Firm's clients include technology and telecommunications companies, including large corporate users, Internet and application service providers, companies engaged in electronic commerce, equipment and software suppliers, and others in a wide variety of transactions pertaining to communications and information technology, including carrier-to-user, carrier-to-carrier and interconnection agreements, systems integration and outsourcing agreements, credit agreements and secured transactions, venture capital financing, joint ventures, software license and development agreements, hosting agreements, franchise and right-of-way agreements, real estate development and finance and mergers and acquisitions. The Firm has an extensive telecommunications regulatory compliance practice, with experience before the FCC and all fifty state public service commissions. The Firm has extensive litigation experience in intellectual property (including trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets), restrictive covenants, computer law, legal professional liability (especially in connection with securities offerings) and telecommunications law before Federal and State Courts, regulatory agencies and arbitration tribunals.

Firm Size: 12

PARTNERS

William D. Friend (Partner) born Middletown, Connecticut, May 30, 1951; admitted to bar, 1976, Georgia; 1977, U.S. District Court, Northern and Middle Districts of Georgia; 2004, Wyoming. Education: University of Georgia (B.B.A., cum laude, 1971); Emory University (J.D., 1976). Member: State Bar of Georgia (Member, and Chairman, Technology Law Section, 1989-1990); American Arbitration Association (Member, Large, Complex Case Panel). Practice Areas: Commercial Law; Computer and Software Law; Corporate Law; Intellectual Property; Mergers and Acquisitions.

Norman B. "Chip" Gerry (Partner) born New York, New York, November 19, 1946; admitted to bar, 1971, Tennessee; 1973, Georgia; 1992, Arizona. Education: University of Oklahoma (B.A., 1968); Vanderbilt University (J.D., 1971). Member: State Bar of Georgia; State Bar of Arizona; Tennessee Bar Association; Federal Communications Bar Association. Practice Areas: Commercial Law; Commercial Real Estate; Corporate Law; Telecommunications Law.

Scott K. Harris (Partner) born Schenectady, New York, May 25, 1960; admitted to bar, 1986, Georgia. Education: Wake Forest University (B.A. with honors, cum laude, 1982); Emory University (J.D. with distinction, 1986). Member: State Bar of Georgia (Member, Sections on: Technology Law; Intellectual Property Law; Executive Committee, 1995-1996, Vice Chair, 1996-1997 and Chair, 1997-1998, Technology Law Section). Languages: German. Practice Areas: Commercial Law; Corporate Law; Computers and Software; Intellectual Property; Licensing; Mergers and Acquisitions.

Charles A. Hudak (Partner) born Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, December 2, 1968; admitted to bar, 1994, Georgia. Education: Duke University (A.B., 1991); Emory University (J.D., 1994). Member: State Bar of Georgia (Member, Administrative Law Section; Executive Committee, Technology Law Section, 1996-2000); Federal Communications Bar Association (Member, Sections on: State and Local Practice; Common Carrier Practice; Transactional Practice). Practice Areas: Cable TV; Telecommunications Law; Telecommunications Regulation.

Michael S. Reeves (Partner) born Atlanta, Georgia, June 6, 1949; admitted to bar, 1974, Georgia. Education: University of Georgia (B.A., 1971; J.D., 1974). Listed among the best civil litigation defense lawyers in Georgia in Atlanta Magazine and Law & Politics Magazine five consecutive years, 2004-2008. Member: American Bar Association (Member, Sections on: Business Law; Litigation; Tort and Insurance Practice); State Bar of Georgia; Atlanta Bar Association; Defense Research Institute (DRI); Georgia Defense Lawyers Association; Lawyers' Club of Atlanta. Practice Areas: Employment; Litigation: Business and Commercial; Mediation; Premises Liability; Professional Negligence; Securities.

Michael K. Stewart (Partner) born Jacksonville, Florida, September 30, 1968; admitted to bar, 1998, Georgia. Education: Emory University (B.A., 1990); University of Georgia (J.D., magna cum laude, 1998). Member: State Bar of Georgia (Executive Committee, Technology Law Section; Secretary, Technology Law Section, 2004-2005; Vice-Chair, Technology Law Section, 2005-2006; Chair, Technology Law Section, 2006-2007; Member, Intellectual Property Section; Chair, 21st Annual Technology Law Institute, 2006); Federal Communications Bar Association. Practice Areas: Commercial Law; Computer and Software Law; Copyrights; Internet Law; Licensing; Telecommunications Law; Trademarks.

OF COUNSEL

Patrick G. Jones (Of Counsel) born Washington D.C., March 15, 1951; admitted to bar, 1979, Georgia. Education: Wake Forest University (B.B.A., 1973); Emory University School of Law (J.D., 1979). Member: State Bar of Georgia; Atlanta Bar Association (Chair, Tax Law Section, 1993-1994); American Bar Association. Practice Areas: Alternative Dispute Resolution; Business Law; Contracts; Corporate Law; Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures; Partnership Law; Taxation.

ASSOCIATES

Jon C. Martin (Associate) born St. Petersburg, Florida, 1976; admitted to bar, 2008, Georgia; registered to practice before U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Education: Georgia Institute of Technology (B.S.C.S., 1999); Georgia State University (M.B.A., 2007); Georgia State University (J.D., 2008). Member: State Bar of Georgia; American Bar Association (Member, Business Law Section; Member, Science and Technology Section); Federal Communications Bar Association. Practice Areas: Intellectual Property; Telecommunications Law.

Jason M. Daffner (Associate) born Schenectady, New York, 1976; admitted to bar, 2007, Georgia. Education: Emory University, Goizueta Business School (B.B.A., Accounting); Georgia State University College of Law (J.D., 2006). Certified Public Accountant, Georgia. Member: Atlanta Bar Association; State Bar of Georgia; Georgia Society of Certified Public Accountant; North Atlanta Tax Council (Board Member, 2007—). Practice Areas: Business and Corporate Law; Commercial Law; Contract Law; Employment Law; Federal Tax Controversies; Intellectual Property Law; International Taxation; Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures; State Tax Controversies; Tax Law; Trust and Estate Planning.

Benjamin M. Byrd (Associate) born Atlanta, Georgia, May 18, 1977; admitted to bar, 2004, Georgia and U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia; U.S. District Court, Middle and Southern Districts of Georgia; U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit. Education: University of Georgia (B.A., summa cum laude, 1999; J.D., cum laude, 2004). Member: Atlanta Bar Association; State Bar of Georgia; The Association of Trial Lawyers of America. Practice Areas: Business Litigation; Business Torts; Commercial Litigation; Legal Malpractice; Premises Liability.

SENIOR COUNSEL

Kennard B. Woods (Senior Counsel) born Wichita, Kansas, April 4, 1954; admitted to bar, 1979, Missouri; 1990, Georgia; U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia; U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit; Georgia Supreme Court; Georgia Court of Appeals. Education: University of Missouri (B.S., cum laude, 1975); St. Louis University (J.D., cum laude, 1979). Senior Attorney, MCI Telecommunications Corp., 1998-2002 and 2003-2005. Attorney, Georgia Consumers' Utility Counsel, 1996-1998. Member: State Bar of Georgia; The Missouri Bar. Languages: German. Practice Areas: Cable TV; Telecommunications Law; Telecommunications Regulation.

Mari L. Myer (Senior Counsel) born Gainesville, Florida, April 22, 1961; admitted to bar, 1986, Texas; 1988, Georgia; 1989, U.S. District Court, Northern and Middle Districts of Georgia, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth and Eleventh Circuits, Georgia Supreme Court and Georgia Court of Appeals. Education: Wellesley College (B.A., cum laude, 1983); Boston University (J.D., 1986). Member: State Bar of Georgia (Member, Sections on: General Practice and Trial Law; Intellectual Property; Technology Law; Labor and Employment; Executive and Litigation Committees, Technology Law Section); State Bar of Texas. Practice Areas: Appellate Litigation; Business Litigation; Employment Law; Intellectual Property Litigation; Restrictive Covenants.

Charles V. Gerkin, Jr. (Senior Counsel) born Topeka, Kansas, September 8, 1949; admitted to bar, 1981, Georgia. Education: Emory University (B.A., 1971); University of Georgia (J.D., summa cum laude, 1980). Member: Federal Communications Bar Association; State Bar of Georgia. [Sergeant, U.S. Army, 1974-1977]. Practice Areas: Communications Law; Telecommunications.

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