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Lisa received her B.A. in 1983 and her J.D. in 1986, both from Mercer University. After her graduation from law school, she clerked for two Superior Court Judges in Douglas County, Georgia. In 1987 Lisa went to work as staff attorney for DeKalb County, Georgia where for several years she represented the county in ad valorem tax disputes. She then went into private practice first with Dearing & Klauber then Jones, Morrison, Womack & Dearing before joining Ragsdale, Beals, Seigler, Patterson & Gray, LLP in 1999. The firm moved to a new address, and a new firm called Georgia Property Tax Counsel, LLC was created in 2024. Lisa is the Chair of the Firm's Ad Valorem Tax Practice and frequently writes and speaks both to lawyers and laymen on that topic.

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Hal grew up in Atlanta and Mt. Lebanon, PA, a suburb of Pittsburgh. He received his A.B. degree in 1975 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, then attended the Emory University School of Law where he earned his J.D. in 1978. Hal practiced with Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy (now Bryan Cave LLP) and was subsequently a partner with Varner, Stephens, Wingfield & Humphries, LLP before joining Ragsdale, Beals, Seigler, Patterson & Gray, LLP in 1999, and Georgia Property Tax Counsel, LLC in 2024. He currently serves as our Managing Partner.

Hal's construction practice involves advising and representing clients in all phases of construction and regarding all types of projects, including commercial high-rise office buildings, hospitals, regional malls and shopping centers, heavy and highway construction, bridge construction, federal government construction and contracting, mass transit construction, condominiums, apartments and dormitories, hotels, industrial and manufacturing plants, fuel storage facilities, schools and universities, Atlanta Olympic Stadium/Turner Field, Atlanta Olympic/Georgia Tech Village, Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, the Georgia World Congress Center, Ritz-Carlton Hotel - Atlanta and the Talmadge Memorial Bridge in Brunswick, Georgia. He has also been involved in construction projects outside of Georgia, including Bayside Festival Marketplace (Miami), Miami-Dade Transportation Authority, St. Louis Union Station, Healthpark Hospital (Ft. Myers, Florida), Marriott Grand Lakes Resort (Orlando), Centennial Campus at N.C. State University (Raleigh) and numerous others. He regularly represents design professionals (architects, engineers, interior designers and landscape architects), general contractors, program and construction managers, subcontractors, sureties, suppliers and material men.

He also regularly litigates general commercial, real estate and environmental-related disputes.

Hal has served as a neutral arbitrator for over twenty-five years and during that time has served in over 200 cases. He regularly serves as a construction and commercial mediator, and is a member of the Mediation Panel as well as the Commercial, Construction and Large and Complex Case Panels of Arbitrators of the American Arbitration Association. He is also a Fellow of the College of Commercial Arbitrators, a member of the Georgia Academy of Mediators and Arbitrators, a member of the Georgia Arbitrators' Forum and a Fellow of the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals. Hal has been recognized as a Georgia Super Lawyer in Construction Litigation by Atlanta Magazine. He is a registered mediator and arbitrator with the Georgia Office of Dispute Resolution.

A member of the Lawyers Club of Atlanta having served on its Executive Committee from 1986 through 1993 and as its President from 1991 to 1992, Hal served as a Trustee of the Atlanta Lawyers Foundation from 1993 to 2001, and as Chairman of the Board of Trustees from 1994 to 1995.

He belongs to the State Bar of Georgia and the Atlanta and American Bar Associations. He currently serves on the Boards of Directors of both the Construction Law and Dispute Resolution Sections of the Atlanta Bar Association and as Secretary/Treasurer and Program Chair of the latter, as well as the Chair and as a Member of the Executive Commitee of the State Bar of Georgia Dispute Resolution Section. In 2011, Hal served as the Co-Chair of the Georgia State Bar's Fifth Arbitration Institute.

Hal is the author of "Dispossessory and Distraint Procedure" and "Ejectment" chapters of Georgia Jurisprudence, published by Lawyers Co-op Publishing, and numerous published works on construction and alternative dispute resolution (ADR) topics. He often lectures both legal and industry professional groups on construction law and ADR matters of interest.

His practice areas include construction law and litigation, real estate law and litigation including ad valorem tax matters and appeals, ADR, both mediation and arbitration, and alcohol/regulated beverage control law.

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Brian graduated from Davidson College in 1978 with an A.B. in Economics. He then attended law school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill obtaining his J.D. degree in 1981. Brian practiced with several firms in south Florida and metropolitan Atlanta before joining Ragsdale, Beals, Seigler, Patterson & Gray, LLP in 2006, and Georgia Property Tax Counsel, LLC in 2024. He is the author of numerous articles and publications and speaks to professional and industry groups on insurance coverage and on construction law topics. He represents clients in a wide-range of business and litigation matters and is admitted to practice in the States of Florida and Georgia. His practice areas are construction, insurance and business law, and commercial litigation.

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Bill is originally from Mt. Airy, N.C. He attended Davidson College, graduating with honors in history in 1968. He received his Master's in international relations from The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in 1970 before returning to North Carolina to manage his family's newspaper. During this time, he served as campaign manager in a U.S. Congressional race, taught economics and government at a community college, and completed his active duty training as a 1st Lieutenant and then Captain in the U.S. Army Reserves.

Bill completed his legal education in two years, receiving a J.D. with honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1975, having been elected to the Order of the Coif and Moot Court Bench, and having studied at Oxford, U.K. He practiced with Hansell & Post in that firm's corporate and tax section before forming his own firm. He joined us in 1981.

While his practice is varied, Bill's primary focus is on the representation of closely-held businesses and family enterprises, assisting his clients in the formation of new ventures and the operation of their ongoing enterprises. In many ways Bill functions as "house counsel" for a number of small to mid-size firms, as well as serving his larger clients. He assists the principals of those firms in other areas such as real estate including ad valorem tax matters and appeals, estate planning, personal property tax matters, entertainment law, raising additional capital and shareholder/owner/employee relationships. He has served on the Atlanta Committee on Foreign Relations and has served on the advisory board to a financial institution acquired by a major bank and as an officer in the Tuxedo Park Civic Association Bill has also served as special assistant at the request of the Georgia Attorney General and the Georgia Insurance Commissioner, helped form a small firm law economics group and has lectured on the formation and economics of small firm law practices.

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We are a Firm of experienced AV®rated lawyers. Since its inception, our Firm has provided top-quality legal services with a personalized touch. We represent entities of all sizes from large, publicly-traded companies to small, family-owed businesses and individuals. Our size and our consistent attention to the providing of legal services in an efficient manner are two significant assets in ensuring our clients receive the value they seek.

Our property tax lawyers represent national and local clients who own all types of commercial property: hotels, apartments, shopping centers and regional malls, warehouses, office buildings, manufacturing and industrial facilities, medical complexes, golf courses, and other income producing properties, for both real and personal property valuations and appeals. Representation of our clients includes review and analysis of property tax valuations, filing returns and appeal letters in accordance with statutory requirements and deadlines, advocating on behalf of clients before county boards of assessors and boards of equalization, in arbitration proceedings, superior courts, and the appellate courts of the state of Georgia.

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