GENERAL

Parker, Hudson, Rainer & Dobbs LLP is a multi-specialty law firm, with practice areas in commercial lending & bankruptcy, corporate, health (corporate and regulatory), litigation, real estate, and tax & employee benefits law. 2006 marks the firm's 25th year as a member of Atlanta's legal community and now has over 60 attorneys serving clients from offices in Atlanta, Georgia and Tallahassee, Florida. We offer a full range of legal expertise in business matters in an environment that combines superior legal talent and work product with the advantages of excellent service, lower overhead, and efficient billing rates available through a mid-sized firm.

DIVERSITY

Contact: Armando L. Basarrate

Parker, Hudson, Rainer & Dobbs LLP commits to having a diverse workforce of highly talented professionals with a demonstrated record of excellent achievement. We believe that a diverse workforce enhances our ability to understand and solve the legal issues faced by our clients, ensures that we provide the highest quality of legal services to our clients, and enriches the working environment. Therefore, the firm resolves to recruit, develop, and retain a diverse workforce of attorneys and staff and to foster an atmosphere that values and respects our differences.

CORPORATE COUNSEL HAS NAMED PHR&D AS A "GO-TO LAW FIRM" FOR 2008

Recently, Corporate Counsel magazine surveyed the world’s leading companies asking them which law firms they are using and in what particular practice areas.  Based on the survey results, Corporate Counsel honored PHR&D as a Go-To Law Firm in the following practice areas: Securities Litigation, Commercial Litigation, and Corporate Transactions.

TECHNOLOGY

We are committed to a continuing program of upgrading our technology and communications infrastructure and capabilities in order to better serve our clients. We recognize that responsiveness is a critical component to our performance. Thus, we have designed our information network so that our attorneys can access documents, calendars, e-mails, data bases, and research tools, regardless of whether they are in the office or on the road.

MERITAS

We are particularly honored to have been selected to join Meritas, a prestigious, highly selective international association of over 165 independent full-service commercial and corporate litigation law firms located in 120 U.S. cities and throughout Canada, Central and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. Through our Meritas contacts, Parker Hudson can assist our clients' needs for legal services in every state and throughout the world. For further information about Meritas, visit the Meritas website at www.meritas.org.

RECENT PRESENTATIONS

The firm's attorneys are frequently asked to speak at seminars and participate on discussion panels. In addition, firm attorneys publish articles in a number of legal periodicals. Following is a list of the firm's attorneys' most recent speaking and panel participation engagements and publications.

Bobbi Acord:

Revised Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code seminar, February 10, 2004 -- Panel moderator for seminar and presenter on Default and Enforcement under Revised Article; and

ICLE Secured Lending Seminar, November 18, 2004 -- "Representing the Co-Lender in Multiple Lender Financings" (Presenter and Author, 2004)

Travis N. Carter:

"Orthopaedic Surgeon Employment Agreements," presented to Orthopaedic Surgeon Residents at Emory University, March 1, 2005

David G. Cleveland:

The Georgia Society of CPAs, Healthcare Conference, February 19, 2005, "Stark II Regs From A Hospital Perspective"

Ronald T. Coleman, Jr.:

ICLE seminar on "Franchising and Distribution Disputes", February, 2004 "Litigation Under General Franchise-Related Statutes," (Presenter and Author);

International Franchise Association Annual Legal Symposium, May, 2004 "Franchise Litigation Basics" (Presenter and author); and

Editor, Franchise Law Journal, a quarterly publication of the ABA Forum on Franchising

C. Edward Dobbs:

Corporate Revitalization Partners, LLC (January 22-23, 2004) "Expert Opinion Testimony" Turnaround Management Association (February 20, 2004);

"Expert Opinion Testimony" Essentials of Commercial Lending (February/March, 2004) Parker Hudson Rainer & Dobbs LLP;

ICLE Secured Lending Seminar (November 18, 2004) "Negotiating and Documenting a "Defensive" Debtor-in-Possession Financing"; and

Bankruptcy Section, Atlanta Bar Association (December 10, 2004) "2004 Commercial Law Year in Review"

David L. Fenstermacher, Jr.:

"Federal Healthcare Regulations: (1) EMTALA Basics; and, (2) Fraud and Abuse," presented on behalf of the Fundamentals of Health Care Law, Georgia ICLE Program, March 8, 2007 (Presenter and Author, 2007)

Paul L. Hudson, Jr.:

"Drafting Shareholder Agreements," presented to Practicing Law Institute Seminar entitled "Drafting Corporate Agreements 2004-2005" (Speaker and Co-Authored with Elena Kaplan, 2004)

Kenneth H. Kraft:

ICLE Seminar: Landlord and Tenant Law, December 3, 2004 "Trial Preparation for Landlords: A Practical Guide to Landlord Remedies" (Speaker)

J. Marbury Rainer:

ICLE Seminar: The Eighth Annual Corporate Litigation Seminar, November 19, 2004 "The Directors' and Officers' Reliance Defense-New Issues and Problems" (Speaker)

James S. Rankin, Jr.:

The National Business Institute in Atlanta, September 28, 2004 "Revised UCC Article 9 Secured Transactions: What Georgia Practitioners Need to Know" (Speaker) 

"Receivership Issues and Strategies - Litigation," presented on behalf of the 2007 Real Property Foreclosure, Georgia ICLE Program, April 6, 2007 (Presenter and Author)

Leo E. Reichert:

Federal Health Care Regulations, Fundamentals of Health Care Law, Institute of Continuing Education in Georgia, February, 2004; and Litigation and Compliance Update, Georgia Alliance of Community Hospitals Annual Meeting, October, 2004