REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE Laurance’s recent representative trial and appellate experience includes:
- Serving as co-counsel representing a Big Four accounting firm and an individual defendant in a complex case involving claims of fraud, negligent misrepresentation, and Georgia RICO violations. After a four-week jury trial, the clients obtained a favorable verdict on their claims.
- Serving as co-counsel representing a national law firm in an arbitration involving a claim of breach of contract. After a week-long arbitration, the clients received a favorable verdict recovering fees owed by a former client.
- Serving as lead counsel representing a landlord in a large bankruptcy proceeding. Following two two-day trials, the clients obtained two favorable rulings from the bankruptcy court leading to a large favorable settlement.
- Serving as co-counsel representing the unsecured creditors committee in one of the largest bankruptcy cases ever filed in the Northern District of Georgia.
- Representing a Big Four accounting firm in a securities fraud case, and assisting in successfully briefing a motion to dismiss that prevailed in federal district court and that was subsequently affirmed in the Eleventh Circuit.
- Representing several Big Four accounting firms in complex cases that obtained favorable settlements in advance of trial.
PROFESSIONAL HONORS AND AWARDS
- Selected for inclusion in Georgia Super Lawyers® “Rising Stars” (2009)
PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
- Member, Litigation Section, American Bar Association
- Member, General Practice and Trial Law and Bankruptcy Sections, State Bar of Georgia
- Barrister, American Inns of Court (Bleckley Inn)
- Volunteer, Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation
- Participant, program aimed at providing representation and services to children who are truant in an effort to prevent them from sliding into delinquency
- Guardian ad Litem Volunteer, Florida Department of Children Services (2007–2008)
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
- Author, “Compelling Arbitration in an Adversary Proceeding,” Bankruptcy Litigation (Winter 2011)
- Co-author, “Good News for Experts (And Attorneys Who Use Them),” Employment Law360 (November 29, 2010)
- Co-author, “Counsel’s Role When Situations Go Bad During Financial Audits: A Few Reflections on Maintaining Positive Auditor Relations,” Partnering Perspectives (Fall 2010)
