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Attorneys
James A. Dunlap Jr. , Founder and Principal
 Born in Gainesville, Georgia, Mr. Dunlap graduated Gainesville High School Class of 1980. He completed an economics degree from Princeton University in 1984 and then he obtained a J.D., cum laude, from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1988. He has practiced law in Georgia and has been active in community and public affairs ever since.
Mr. Dunlap has engaged in a varied general practice, which has included personal injury and negligence cases. He has represented individuals, partnerships and companies in a wide range of business related legal matters. His criminal practice has included representation of persons charged with criminal violations ranging from misdemeanor traffic offenses through serious felony offenses.
Mr. Dunlap has extensive experience in jury trials of civil and criminal matters in State and Federal Courts. He is authorized to practice law in the State and Superior Courts of Georgia, the Georgia Courts of Appeals, the Georgia Supreme Court, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia and the Eleventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
He is a member of the State Bar of Georgia, the Local Government Section of the State Bar of Georgia, and the Capital City Club. He presently serves on the National Finance Committee of the John McCain Presidential Campaign.
He is married to Leigh Bennett Dunlap and they live in Atlanta with their son Farrell.
James A. Dunlap Jr. LLC is a Georgia Limited Liability Company. Licensed in Georgia.
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Jim Evangelista has over nineteen years of diverse, hands-on, complex financial fraud, commercial and class action litigation experience representing both plaintiffs and defendants in federal and state courts around the United States with extensive experience in electronic discovery matters.
Mr. Evangelista's broad plaintiffs' experience includes the representation of institutional pension funds, corporations and individual investors in securities fraud class action, merger and acquisition, shareholder derivative, and general business tort and commercial litigation against public companies such as AT&T, Bank of America, Beazer Homes USA Inc., BellSouth Corp., Cingular Wireless, Coca Cola Enterprises, Inc., Dell Inc., Mirant Corp., New York Community Bankcorp, Spectrum Brands Inc., Verizon, Vonage Holdings Corp., and Washington Mutual Bank. During his career Mr. Evangelista has helped investors and other clients recover over $200 million in losses from securities fraud and other wrongdoing, has fought procedurally and financially unfair acquisitions of public companies and breaches of fiduciary duty by corporate management and boards of directors, and has forced one public company's board to adopt new corporate governance measures designed to improve worker safety and management accountability.
On the defense side, and primarily during his decade tenure at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP and LeBoeuf, Lamb Greene & MacRae LLP, Mr. Evangelista assisted a substantial number of Fortune 100 and other corporate clients in high profile class action matters and internal corporate investigations including the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in the Insurance Sales Practices Litigation, Aventis CropScience/Bayer CropScience in the StarLink™ Corn Litigation, and Compaq Computer Company in the Floppy Disk Controller Litigation. Mr. Evangelista also participated in the Independent Counsel's investigation of the United States Justice Department's prosecution of Banca Nazionale del Lavoro for illegal loans to the Government of Iraq (the “Iraqgate Scandal"), the Independent Administrator's court appointed oversight of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, and in the internal investigations regarding illegal political campaign contributions by a large public utility and improper player and team owner conduct within a major national sports association.
Mr. Evangelista is admitted to the United States Court of Appeals for the First, Second, Eighth, Ninth and Eleventh Circuits; the United States District Courts for the Northern District of Georgia, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the District of New Jersey; and the State Bars of Georgia, New York, New Jersey, Colorado and the District of Columbia.
Mr. Evangelista attended Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and graduated in 1988 with a dual degree in Economics and Political Science. In 1991 Mr. Evangelista earned his J.D. from Rutgers University School of Law, in Camden, New Jersey, where he was Articles Editor of the school's Law Review and a recipient of its International Law Honors Program Award.
Publications
- Polishing the Gold Standard on the E-Discovery Cost-Shifting Analysis: Zubulake v. UBS Warburg LLC et al, 9 J. Tech. L. & Pol'y 1 (2004);
- Note, Toward a More Competitive Common Market: European Economic Community Council Regulation No. 4064/89, On the Control of Corporate Mergers Within the European Community, 22 Rutgers L.J. 457 (1991); and
- Comment, Cogdell v. Hospital Center At Orange, 22 Rutgers L.J. 255 (1990)(addressing New Jersey's entire controversy doctrine).
Reported Decisions Include
- Atwater v. National Football League Players Ass’n, NO. 1:06 CV 1510, 2007 WL1020848 (N.D.Ga., March 29, 2007) (Slip Op.) (denying defendants' motion to dismiss business tort litigation);
- Wagner v. First Horizon Pharmaceutical Corp., 464 F.3d 1273 (11th Cir. 2006)(reversing district court's refusal to permit repleading on securities fraud complaint);
- Koehler v. Green, 370 F. Supp. 2d 904 (E.D. Mo. 2005) (granting defendants/motion to dismiss breach of fiduciary duty complaint); and
- In Re Novastar Financial Securities Litigation, No. 04-0330-CV-W-ODS, slip op., 2005 WL 1279033 (W.D. Mo., May 12, 2005) (denying defendants' motion to dismiss securities fraud case).
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