Business Litigation
Representation for Georgia businesses, owners, and executives facing commercial disputes.
Business disputes can interrupt operations, restrict cash flow, damage important relationships, and consume management time.
The Law Office of Enoch P. Hicks, LLC represents clients before suit is filed, throughout litigation, and after judgment when enforcement remains necessary.
The work begins with the client’s objective. That may be payment, performance, control of an asset, protection of an ownership interest, an end to harmful conduct, or a clean separation from a failing business relationship.
A Legal Strategy Should Make Business Sense
The strongest legal argument is not always the best business decision.
Cost, timing, disruption, insurance, collectability, reputation, and ongoing commercial relationships can change the value of a particular strategy. A business may need immediate court relief. It may need a negotiated resolution that preserves cash and management attention. It may need to pursue the case through judgment because the opposing party will not respond to anything less.
Enoch works with the client to identify the result that matters and build the case around it. The client should understand what each significant step is intended to accomplish and what it is likely to cost.
Business Litigation Matters
The firm handles disputes involving contracts, ownership interests, business conduct, payment obligations, and commercial property.
Contract and Payment Disputes
- Breach of contract
- Failure to pay
- Disputes over performance or delivery
- Promissory notes and personal guarantees
- Returned checks and unpaid commercial accounts
Ownership and Governance Disputes
- Member, partner, and shareholder disputes
- Closely held business conflicts
- Control and management disputes
- Access to company information
- Breach of fiduciary duty
Business Torts and Related Claims
- Fraud
- Negligent misrepresentation
- Tortious interference
- Conversion
- Successor liability
- Voidable transfers
Commercial Real Estate and Lease Disputes
- Commercial lease interpretation
- Common-area maintenance and operating-expense charges
- Default, notice, cure, and termination issues
- Landlord and tenant obligations
- Property-related business disputes
Emergency Court Relief
- Temporary restraining orders
- Interlocutory and permanent injunctions
- Preservation of property or evidence
- Prevention of continuing business harm
- Declaratory judgment actions
Commercial Collections and Enforcement
- Pre-suit demands
- Lawsuits to recover business debts
- Judgment enforcement
- Garnishment
- Post-judgment discovery
- Asset and collectability analysis
Build the Case Before the Dispute Controls the Business
A business should not wait for a complaint to arrive before developing its position. Early involvement can preserve evidence, identify deadlines, and keep options open before the dispute begins controlling the business.
The initial review may include:
- Contracts, amendments, and organizational documents
- Emails, invoices, payment records, and internal communications
- Notice, cure, termination, audit, and other deadline provisions
- Available claims, defenses, counterclaims, venue, and jurisdiction
- Insurance, assets, guarantees, and collectability
- The need for emergency relief or an early negotiated resolution
If litigation becomes necessary, the work may include pleadings, discovery, document production, depositions, motions, mediation, hearings, and trial preparation.
Each significant step should remain tied to the client’s objective by advancing leverage, reducing risk, preserving rights, or positioning the matter for resolution.
A Judgment Is Not the Same as Payment
Collection strategy should begin before substantial resources are committed to a lawsuit.
The amount owed, available guarantees, secured interests, insurance, known assets, and the opposing party’s financial condition may affect whether and how the claim should proceed.
After judgment, the firm assists clients with lawful enforcement remedies, including:
- Recording and domesticating judgments
- Garnishment
- Post-judgment discovery
- Investigation of assets and transfers
- Evaluation of security interests and guarantees
- Negotiated payment arrangements
- Other available collection remedies
Experience in Complex Civil Litigation
Before opening his firm, Enoch P. Hicks practiced with a boutique securities litigation firm in Marietta, representing institutional investors in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. His work included motion practice, complex discovery, depositions, high-volume document productions, and coordination of litigation teams.
Enoch also served as an Assistant Attorney General, acting as lead counsel in lawsuits against Georgia government entities, and as a staff attorney in Cobb County Superior Court. Those roles inform how he evaluates pleadings, evidence, procedure, settlement, and trial risk.
Discuss the Business Dispute
Use the Scheduling page to choose the appropriate appointment to discuss the dispute, immediate concerns, available options, and next step. Select the 60 Minute Strategy Session when advance document review is needed.