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Roberts IV, James L, JD

Roberts Tate Law Firm LLC

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Address: 114 Island Professional Park, Saint Simons Island, GA 31522

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Roberts Tate Law Firm

Divorce
Child Custody and Visitation
Laura Peel Roberts is a partner at the firm who has experience in many areas of civil litigation, including family law, torts, business and employment litigation. She has successfully represented individual, business and government clients in state and federal courts throughout the state. She has represented clients in all aspects of family law, including divorce, child custody and the drafting of prenuptial agreements. Laura was named as one of Georgia’s Legal Elite in the area of Family Law by Georgia Trend Magazine for 2012.
Premarital Agreement
Guardianship

Criminal Defense
Jason M. Tate is a former Assistant United States Attorney with considerable experience litigating an array of civil and criminal matters, including business disputes, partnership dissolutions, breach of contract actions, business torts, construction litigation, and employment matters with a specific focus on fraud, theft and embezzlement. Jason has been rated by his peers as “Preeminent”,the highest legal rating available from the leading legal rating service, Martindale Hubbell. In 2012 and 2013, Jason was also named a “Georgia Rising Star” by Super Lawyers magazine. Jason is admitted to practice law in Georgia state and superior courts, the Georgia Court of Appeals, and the Georgia Supreme Court, as well as before the United States District Courts for the Northern, Middle, and Southern Districts of Georgia and the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
Wrongful Death
Her litigation experience also includes representing clients in civil and commercial litigation such as medical malpractice, legal malpractice, workplace torts, products liability, catastrophic personal injury, and wrongful death claims.
Traffic Violations
Georgia has numerous laws in place that regulate commercial vehicle operation, but some truck drivers refuse to abide by these laws and commit traffic violations that put other motorists and pedestrians in danger. Truck drivers often drive long hours and become fatigued behind the wheel. Others speed to make delivery deadlines. Some drivers on the road are under-trained, while others may operate under the influence of alcohol or drugs. For truck companies, the cost of maintaining their fleet is often disregarded and equipment is not kept running properly in order to prevent an accident.
Fraud
Lena has more than fifteen years’ experience practicing in the areas of insurance coverage, complex civil and commercial litigation. She counsels insurers on a broad range of first and third-party exposures, including matters arising under professional liability, employment practices liability, and commercial general liability policies, as well as first-party cyber exposures such as computer network security breaches, data loss, and business interruption. Lena represents insurers in coverage litigation in state and federal courts nationwide, including claims involving extra-contractual liability and bad faith disputes. She also serves as coverage and monitoring counsel in connection with various types of professional liability and employment practices liability policies, including claims involving securities fraud, technology-based products and services, computer network security breaches, workplace torts and discrimination, and legal and medical malpractice. Additionally, Lena’s experience includes representing clients in diverse civil and commercial litigation matters, such as breach of contract, business torts, and deceptive and unfair trade practices claims, as well as appellate matters.
Theft
Embezzlement
Unfortunately internal fraud, embezzlement, and theft are common problems that businesses are forced to face. As a former federal prosecutor, Mr. Tate has extensive experience first investigating and then representing businesses to recover funds and property from employees or others who have engaged in embezzlement, theft, or fraud. With his prior prosecutorial experience, Mr. Tate also represents corporations and individuals who have been charged with crimes in state and federal court
Drug Crimes
Prior to forming Roberts Tate, Jason worked with the well respected firms of Gilbert, Harrell, Sumerford, & Martin P.C. in Brunswick, Georgia and Balch & Bingham in Atlanta, Georgia. Jason also served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia, where he worked as a member of the Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force (“OCDEFT”) investigating and prosecuting drug trafficking organizations and firearms-related offenses.
Assault
Obtained summary judgment in California federal court that assault and battery exclusion in events policy was unambiguous as a matter of law and barred coverage for a negligence action arising from a stabbing that occurred at the insured event. Certain Underwriters at Lloyd’s of London Subscribing to Policy No. EH7713140 v. WorldOne Presents, LLC, 2019 WL 4747708 (E.D. Cal. Sept. 30, 2019).
Restraining Order
At Roberts Tate, we pride ourselves on excelling in all business related matters so that when our clients call we can help. Claims of this nature often arise on an emergency basis, and we have assisted many clients in obtaining or opposing, depending on our clients’ need, temporary restraining orders, interlocutory injunctions, and preliminary injunctions.
Extortion
Jason specializes in first-party cyber exposures, including claims for social engineering, business interruption, data recovery, and cyber extortion. He also represents insurers in connection with third-party claims arising from cyber and privacy-related events, as well as professional and technology services liability matters. Jason serves as coverage and monitoring counsel in connection with claims and losses arising under various types of professional liability, employment practices liability and crime policies, including claims involving computer network security breaches, data loss, technology-based products and services, online and offline media content activities, and workplace torts and discrimination. He also investigates and analyzes first-party claims under traditional commercial crime policies and fidelity bonds.

Business and Corporate Law

Corporate Law
Roberts Tate is primarily a business litigation and consulting law firm. Business litigation and consulting is a complex and diverse area of law which includes a wide variety of different issues, some of which will likely overlap with the other specialties discussed herein. Business litigation and consulting often involves contract matters, whether it be contract drafting, contract review, contract negotiation, or filing suit for the breach of a contract. Business and corporate litigation and consulting, however, can also include business torts and employment matters such as fraud, tortious interference with contract, breach of fiduciary duty, and theft of trade secrets.
Business Disputes
The attorneys at Roberts Tate have a proven track record of success. All of the attorneys at Roberts Tate graduated with honors from the University of Georgia School of Law. After graduation in 2001, Jay clerked for the Honorable Anthony A. Alaimo in United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia before going on to become a partner at Gilbert, Harrell, Sumerford, & Martin P.C. in Brunswick, Georgia. Jason, on the other hand, began his career working in the Atlanta office of a large regional law firm before being appointed as an Assistant United States Attorney with the Department of Justice assigned to the Organized Drug Enforcement Task Force (“OCEDFT”) in the Southern District of Georgia and then returning to private practice with Gilbert, Harrell, Sumerford, & Martin P.C. Laura worked at the Brunswick law firm of Brown, Readdick, Bumgartner, Carter, Strickland and Watkins, LLC for ten years practicing and successfully trying cases and securing judgments for her clients in a variety of areas including insurance defense, torts, employment law, civil rights, contract disputes and environmental litigation. Laura was named as one of Georgia’s Legal Elite in the area of Family Law by Georgia Trend Magazine for 2012. Jay was named as a Super Lawyer in 2009-2011 and 2014-2016, as was Jason in 2010 – 2015. In addition, Jay and Jason are both “AV” rated as “Preeminent”, the highest legal rating available from the leading legal rating service, Martindale Hubbell. It is by this standard that all attorneys at Roberts Tate are measured.
Business Transactions
Daniel began his legal career as an Assistant Attorney General with the Georgia Attorney General’s Office where he practiced in both the Commercial Transactions and Litigation Division and the Regulated Industries and Professions Division. During his public service, Daniel handled transactions and litigation involving the business, financial and property interests of state government, represented Georgia Boards and Commissions that issue professional licenses, and defended the constitutionality of state statutes and regulations in actions seeking declaratory and injunctive relief.
Construction Contracts
Trade Secrets
Intellectual Property
Cum laude, from the University of Georgia School of Law in 2021, where he was a member of the Moot Court Team and President of the Intellectual Property Law Society. Zach also graduated
Unfair Competition
Roberts Tate also has significant experience driving effective claims resolution for media and technology E&O claims, evaluating claims and the availability of coverage, monitoring covered claims and guiding them to successful resolution along with the insured and defense counsel, and resolving coverage disputes through litigation, mediation and negotiation as each specific claim may require. Claims often handled by Roberts Tate’s attorneys involve allegedly defective technology products or services or failed implementation, network outages made by third parties against insureds, theft or loss of trade secrets or other sensitive business information, media and advertising exposures (including allegedly improper website-related conduct), alleged wrongful advertising and marketing conduct (including deceptive and unfair trade practices, false advertising and unfair competition), and alleged state and federal statutory violations.

Workers Compensation
The State of Georgia requires employers to pay for workers compensation insurance, but it is the insurance companies who process the claims, and as with other insurance claims processing, the process can be confusing and difficult to navigate. Injured workers are often faced with claims denial, lost wages, pressure to return to work too soon, as well as other unfair treatment during the claims process.
Employment Discrimination
The attorneys at Roberts Tate, LLC have significant experience in employment related matters. This includes advising our clients on compliance with state and federal employment laws, performing workplace educational seminars and litigating employment discrimination suits when they arise.
Employment Contract
Our employment expertise also extends to the negotiation and litigation of restrictive covenants, such as non-solicitation and non-compete agreements. Our experience includes drafting employment agreements which may include restrictive covenants, reviewing and analyzing restrictive covenants in current employment agreements, advising clients about the enforceability of restrictive covenants, negotiating the release from a restrictive covenant, and when necessary, filing suit to determine the validity of a restrictive covenant. We have successfully defended numerous discrimination cases on behalf of employees. The attorneys at Roberts Tate have extensive experience litigating trade secrets cases. We have pursued employees on behalf of their former employers for the theft of trade secrets on the basis of contractual confidentiality restrictions as well as under applicable Georgia law, including the Georgia Trade Secret Practices Act and the Georgia Computer Systems Protection Act. These types of cases often involve highly technical issues concerning what is a trade secret, or can otherwise be deemed confidential or proprietary information of a company.
Employment Litigation
Non-compete Agreement
We also have significant experience in employment related matters. This includes advising our clients on compliance with state and federal employment laws, performing workplace educational seminars and litigating employment discrimination suits when they arise. Our employment expertise also extends to the negotiation and litigation of restrictive covenants, such as non-solicitation and non-compete agreements. Our experience includes drafting employment agreements which may include restrictive covenants, reviewing and analyzing restrictive covenants in current employment agreements, advising clients about the enforceability of restrictive covenants, negotiating the release from a restrictive covenant, and when necessary, filing suit to determine the validity of a restrictive covenant.

Real Estate Litigation
At Roberts Tate, we don’t just apply the law, we help make it. Over the years, the attorneys at Roberts Tate have obtained well over a billion dollars in market value reductions for clients. Sophisticated real estate litigation is a major practice area of our firm. The attorneys at Roberts Tate, LLC have developed specialized skill and expertise in litigating complex issues involving real property and property value related issues. Through this experience Roberts Tate, LLC has developed an extensive network of appraisers and consultants to aid in litigating issues concerning value. Roberts Tate is a leader in the field of property tax appeals (also known as “ad valorem tax appeals”) including timberland and agricultural, commercial, residential, resort and special use properties. We not only handle tax appeals but also will pursue refunds for prior tax years on behalf of clients.
Premises Liability
Public businesses such as shopping centers, restaurants, hotels, apartment complexes and government buildings have a duty to maintain their property. If you have been injured in a slip and fall accident caused by a poorly maintained property, you deserve to be compensated for the damages you suffer.
Construction Litigation
The attorneys at Roberts Tate have a significant amount of experience in the construction industry including: drafting and negotiating General Contracts and Subcontracts, advising our clients about state and federal bond requirements and the unique aspects of public work projects, advising our clients about the Georgia statutory lien process, filing or challenging claims of lien, bringing or defending lawsuits regarding the right of payment for work performed or the right to foreclose a claim of lien, litigating negligent construction claims, and brining or defending lawsuits over disputed extended general conditions, liquidated damages, delay damages and critical path delays. The construction industry is a unique specialty within the law that requires particular knowledge and experience. Not just any attorney is qualified to handle construction related matters. The attorneys at Roberts Tate, however, are fluent in both state and federal laws and regulations and have handled a wide variety of construction related issues. The attorneys at Roberts Tate use this knowledge and experience to advise their clients at every stage of the construction process to avoid and resolve issues before they delay the progress of the project. When litigation is necessary, the attorneys at Roberts Tate are prepared to bring or defend the action necessary to protect the rights of their clients.
Real Estate Transactions
Theresa Davis Beaton is a Partner in the firm with extensive experience in civil litigation matters. Her practice focuses on complex business and real property litigation in federal and state courts throughout Georgia. Theresa represents corporations and individuals in a variety of litigation matters at both the trial and appellate court level, including those involving breach of contract, business torts, estate and fiduciary litigation, noncompetition covenants, fraud, real estate purchase agreements, director/officer liability, defamation, trespass, nuisance, land use, complex procedural issues, and electronic discovery. She also assists clients with contract drafting and negotiation, and advises businesses on best practices and litigation prevention strategies.
Eminent Domain
Eminent Domain is the power of the government to take or condemn a property for public use, without the landowner’s consent, upon paying just compensation. The Federal and State constitutions grant the federal and state governments the right to exercise its power
Land Use and Zoning
Daniel Strowe is a Partner at the firm with extensive experience in both business litigation and transactional matters. Daniel has advised and represented clients in business disputes, breach of contract actions, real estate and land use/zoning matters. He also assists clients with planning, forming and organizing business entities, as well as, securing state and local licenses, permits and certifications including any necessary alcoholic beverage licenses and food service permits.
Property Damage
The attorneys at Roberts Tate have extensive experience with the unique challenges involved in real estate related litigation. Whether the primary issue involves property damage, ownership, contract, regulatory approval or value, we have the knowledge and experience to navigate to a successful resolution. Examples of real property disputes include boundary disputes, breach of contract, condominium and homeowners association disputes, construction contracts and related issues, eminent domain/inverse condemnation, failure to disclose, landlord/tenant disputes, land use/zoning, property damage, quiet title, real estate fraud, and suits for specific performance.

Personal Injury
Even the most cautious person can become an accident victim. At Roberts Tate, we understand how unfortunate events such as on-the-job accidents, car, motorcycle or boating accidents, slip and falls and other personal injury claims can affect your life.
Medical Malpractice
Marc represents insurers in coverage litigation in federal and state courts across the country, including litigation involving allegations of bad faith and seeking extra-contractual and statutory damages. He counsels insurers on issues related a broad array of professional liability lines of coverage, including private and public company directors and officers, technology, media, lawyers and architects and engineers lines. Marc advises clients with respect to matters arising under crime policies and fidelity bonds, including claims and losses resulting from traditional and cyber-based theft and fraud. He assists insurance carriers with developing, drafting and revising policies that provide first-party and third-party coverage for business in the technology, banking, health and media sectors. Marc serves as coverage and monitoring counsel in connection with claims and losses arising under various types of professional liability, employment practices liability and crime policies, including claims involving securities fraud, technology-based products and services, computer network security breaches, data loss, online and offline media content activities, workplace torts and discrimination and legal and medical malpractice.

Trusts and Estates

Estate Planning
James L. (“Jay”) Roberts, IV is a partner in the firm. He is a litigator and trial attorney who practices civil litigation and advises clients in risk management and corporate matters. Mr. Roberts has extensive experience in numerous types of litigation, with a particular focus on business, commercial, personal injury and complex litigation and class actions. He has served as lead counsel in numerous class actions, partnership disputes, fraud and racketeering claims. He has developed a sub-specialty in advising clients in ad valorem tax matters and has assisted clients in obtaining over a billion dollars in market value reductions. He is one of the foremost authorities on ad valorem taxation in the State and is often called upon for input in proposed legislative charges in this area. His knowledge of the effective techniques for litigating value have created a demand for his services in condemnation and other cases with complicated issues concerning property and its value. Additionally, Jay has an active practice in land use matters and related litigation. His experience also extends to toxic torts, medical malpractice, construction, fiduciary and real estate litigation at both the trial and appellate level. Jay also routinely represents injured parties in personal injury claims.
Wills
Power of Attorney

Tax Law
Litigating issues involving valuation of property for ad valorem tax purposes requires application of specialized strategies and techniques as tax assessors are required to value property uniformly, apply the definition of “fair market value” as defined by law, and determine value in compliance with specific rules and regulations required to be utilized in reaching a value. The attorneys at Roberts Tate, LLC represent numerous timber companies, developers, commercial and multi-family property owners in ad valorem tax matters throughout Georgia and beyond. Roberts Tate has been responsible for obtaining many ground-breaking legal decisions in the area of property taxation. Simply put, at Roberts Tate, we don’t just apply the law, we help make it. Our services include advising clients on application for exemptions and preferential assessment programs coupled with traditional valuation appeals designed to minimize owner’s property tax liability and add to the bottom line. In the course of their representation, the attorneys at Roberts Tate, LLC have obtained over

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