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While working as an account executive for a technology company before law school, Todd Stanton saw firsthand the amount of time and energy business owners spend dealing with employee, administrative, and regulatory issues. Frustrated with these unproductive distractions from his boss’s core business, Todd decided to enter employment law so he could help employers develop and implement the policies, procedures, and safeguards necessary to help avoid these sorts of diversions. Todd’s goal was, and still is, to allow business owners, executives, and managers to focus passion and time on growing their businesses, not navigating red tape and babysitting disgruntled employees.. Building upon his decade of “big law” experience with the reputable firms of Fisher & Phillips and Bryan Cave (formerly Powell Goldstein), and demonstrating the same entrepreneurial drive he admires in his clients, Todd founded Stanton Law LLC in Atlanta, Georgia. Seeking to combine the quality of large firm representation with the flexibility, responsiveness, and cost-effectiveness of a nimbler shop, Todd’s practice remains dedicated to the employer side of the employer-employee relationship. From on-boarding new talent and assisting with the development of workable job descriptions, personnel policies, and compensation plans, to guiding clients through sticky disciplinary, performance, and leave issues, to executing respectful and amicable separations, Todd provides practical bottom line-oriented legal advice to small and medium-sized employers.. As legal counsel, Todd is focused on helping companies avert employment-related issues without sacrificing managerial efficiency. In most instances, a proactive approach to employment issues can prevent months of disruptive headaches down the road. When the inevitable disputes do arise, however, his litigation experience allows his clients to consider all available options to efficiently resolve the problem. He regularly represents employers in state and federal courts and before administrative agencies such as labor departments, equal opportunity and human rights commissions, and employee safety administrations. He handles all manner of discrimination and harassment claims, as well as wage-and-hour disputes. While he sometimes has to take an adversarial approach, he prides himself on being able to focus on a solution that is the best and most efficient option for his clients. It is this type of dedication that led to him being tapped as one of Georgia’s 2013 and 2014 Legal Elite by Georgia Trend magazine and one of 2016’s University of Georgia Alumni Association Bulldog 100.. When not working to represent the needs of employers, Todd enjoys hiking, landscaping, photography, and coaching youth baseball. He played NCAA baseball while at Washington & Lee University and his love of the game inspired him to coach the next generation of ball players. Two of his players are current or former Major Leaguers, while several others have gone on to play college or professional ball. He’s active in the Georgia Bar Association’s Lawyers Assistance Program, serves as secretary for the board of directors of Buckhead Baseball, Inc. and sits on the Board of Trustees for Haygood United Methodist Church Weekday Children’s Ministries.  Todd is also member of the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Sports Network Board and the Board of Directors for the Boys & Girls Clubs of DeKalb County. Todd also speaks with groups and organizations on a variety of employment law topics. To learn more, click here.. Todd lives in the Atlanta neighborhood of Morningside with his wife, Ashley, their two sons, Parker and Griffin, and their rescue setter-collie mix, Hattie. “I take great pride in being able to provide counsel to employers and help them achieve practical solutions to what are often very personal, and potentially expensive, problems. I feel very lucky to be where I am right now, doing work I believe in. I really have a pretty good gig.”

Rajeshri (Raju) Shah Patel is an associate attorney at Weinstock Immigration Lawyers. Raju moved to Atlanta in 2003 and has been practicing immigration law exclusively for almost 10 years.   She specializes in family and employment-based immigration.  She has represented families and businesses all over the country and throughout the world.  Raju also has expertise in Eb-1, EB-2 National Interest Waivers, and PERM labor certifications, and has successfully represented numerous universities, hospitals, researchers, and other professionals in their applications for immigrant visas.. Prior to working in immigration, Raju worked for the chief counsel’s office at the Savannah River Site, U.S. Department of Energy.. Raju is admitted to practice law in both Georgia and North Carolina. Raju is also admitted to practice in the 11th circuit and in Federal Court for the Northern District of Georgia.. ·         Non-immigrant visas: B-1, H-1B, L-1A, L-1B, E-1, E-2, R-1, J-1, O-1, TN, F-1. ·         Employment-based immigrant petitions: EB-1, EB-2, EB-3. ·         National Interest Waivers. ·         Labor certifications (PERM). ·         J-1 visa waivers. ·         USCIS Interviews. ·         U.S. Citizenship/Naturalization. ·         Family based immigration including I-130, Adjustment of Status and Consular Processing. ·         Removal of Conditions (I-751). ·         K-1 and K-2 fiancée visas and all other consular applications. ·         I-601 Waivers of Inadmissibility, and I-601A Provisional Unlawful Presence Waivers. ·         Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) petitions

Mitchell Benjamin is a partner at DeLong, Caldwell, Bridgers, Fitzpatrick, & Benjamin, LLC with 26 years of experience. Mitchell was born and raised in New York City and began his practice in NYC.. Mitchell focuses primarily on the practice areas of wage and hour law and commercial litigation He has represented more than a thousand employees in a variety of employment-related disputes involving retaliation, unpaid overtime, minimum wages, sexual harassment, and discrimination claims based on race, age, gender, national origin and disability in both the state and federal courts.. He is dedicated to the unique interests of each individual, business, and union that comes to him for help. Mitchell applies his mediation skills to resolve claims by settlement and agreement when possible. However, he is ready to aggressively litigate cases in court when necessary to achieve justice.. Mitchell frequently represents public safety officers — such as police, firefighters, corrections officers, emergency medical technicians, and paramedics — in overtime cases brought under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), in addition to handling their grievances, appeals, and civil service hearings. He also represents firefighter unions in the Georgia counties of Fulton, DeKalb, Cobb, Rockdale, and Coweta. In 2008, Mitchell represented more than 600 City of Atlanta police officers in an overtime lawsuit, resulting in a $7,500,000 settlement. In 2013, Mitchell won a $2.6 million jury verdict in a single employee race discrimination case.. Because of his extensive knowledge of labor laws, several proactive businesses and public entities have retained Mitchell’s services to review their overtime and wage policies for compliance issues and to recommend important changes.. Mitchell has appeared as a guest on The Layman’s Lawyer on PBS.

Matt Gilligan’s law practice focuses on employment law and litigation.  He has successfully defended employers in all types of employment-related litigation, regularly counsels employers on compliance with workplace laws, and he has extensive experience defending employers in government investigations, including OSHA investigations and U.S. DOL wage and hour audits.  Before founding HAGRS LLP, Matt was a Partner at the national law firm of Alston & Bird LLP in Atlanta for nine years.  He is recognized by SuperLawyers® as a “Georgia Super Lawyer” (employment law), by Best Lawyers in America® (employment law), and by Georgia Trend Magazine’s “Legal Elite” in Georgia.  He is a frequent lecturer on employment law and related human resources topics, and he has published several articles on employment law topics in various publications.  Matt is a retired Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army (JAG Corps), having served 22 years in the U.S. Army and Reserves, in both the combat arms (Infantry) and in the Army JAG Corps, as a criminal prosecutor and litigation counsel.  He was an Army Ranger, and was Airborne- and Air Assault-qualified.  Matt is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy (West Point) (BS) (Distinguished Cadet, top 5%), the University of Georgia School of Law (JD) (Order of the Coif, Editor-in-Chief of UGA Law Review), and the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s School (LLM) (Honor Graduate).

Clifford Maxwell Weiss has earned the highest rating given by Martindale-Hubbell for attorneys, and has been recognized by Corporate Counsel Magazine as a Legal Leader in Labor & Employment Law. Cliff focuses his practice in the areas of labor & employment law and general litigation.  He also develops programs for employers in the areas of employment discrimination & harassment, workers’ compensation, unfair labor  practices, disability claims, wage & hour claims, unemployment claims/taxes, employment contracts, severance agreements, non-compete, non-solicitation & non-disclosure agreements, wrongful discharge, affirmative action plans, OSHA charges, employee handbooks, and supervisory training. In addition to representing employers, about one-fourth of Cliff’s practice is devoted to representing employees. Prior to forming Fox and Weiss, P.A., Cliff practiced law in the Atlanta offices of two nationwide law firms, where he handled primarily employment law and corporate litigation.  He earned both his undergraduate degree and his law degree from Emory University, where he received numerous awards and honors.  Cliff has been an Adjunct Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law, and has taught courses in Wage & Hour Law, Trial Techniques, as well as Legal Research, Writing and Appellate Advocacy.  Additionally, he is in his twenty-seventh year as Counsel for Emory University Student Legal Services.  Cliff has served as General Counsel for the Georgia Association of Personnel Services, Zadok Publishing, LLC, and Home Mortgage Financial Corp.  He was appouinted by Governors Zell Miller, Roy Barnes, and Sonny Perdue to serve as a part-time State Administrative Hearing Officer for the Georgia Department of Community Health and for the Georgia State Health Planning Agency, where he presided over trials, adjudicated verdicts, and entered orders regarding applications for Certificates of Need for new institutional health services to be provided by doctors, hospitals, and other healthcare systems.. Cliff has been published in state and national business and legal publications, and served as the Editor in Chief of the Atlanta Jewish Times from March 2012 to December 2014.  He is a co-author of the labor and employment chapters of the legal encyclopedia, Georgia Jurisprudence, (West Publishing Co., 1996, 2002) and wrote the chapters on wage & hour laws and child labor laws in the book Georgia Apartment Law, (Georgia Apartment Assoc. Publishing, 1997, 2002).  Cliff is also an active seminar speaker, and he has presented programs for the Georgia Assoc. of Personnel Services, Georgia Assoc. of Nurses in Long Term Care, Georgia Nursing Home Assoc., Georgia Continuing Medical Education, Georgia Child Care Assoc., and Emory University.  He is recognized in the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers by Martindale-Hubbell.   Cliff is a member of Temple Beth Tikvah, where he has served as the synagogue President.. REPRESENTATIVE CLIENTS HAVE INCLUDED: Access General Insurance Agency; American Casualty Ins. Co.; AmSouth, Inc.; Atlantic Limousines, Inc.; Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (ADP); Balfour Residential, LLC; Bank of America; Ben Meadows Company; BioMed Plus, Inc; The Bombay Company; Capetown Diamond/Capetown Luxury Group, Inc.; CNA Insurance Co.; Continental Casualty Ins. Co.; Datatex TIS, A.G.; Formula 1 Imports, Inc.; The Frick Co.; Gallagher Bassett Insurance Services; Gorin’s/Great Wraps/J. Brenner’s Restaurants; Hearthstone of Roswell Personal Care Home; Home Focus Services, LLC; Kitchen Fronts of Georgia, Inc.; Leisure Bay Industries (Recreational Factory Warehouse); Pilgrim Dust Control, Inc./Pilgrim Mat Services; Preferred Administrative Services, Inc.; Rock-Tenn Corp.; Sheakley Uniservice, Inc.; Smurfit-Stone Container Corp.; Swiss Watch Expo, LLC; Temple Beth Tikvah; Travelers Insurance Companies; and Unicomp, Inc.