Landrum & Friduss has an unparalleled historical commitment to the representation of public entities and public officials. Attorneys in the firm have represented over two hundred public entities (and their officials), including cities, counties, school boards, development authorities, sheriffs’ departments, police departments, water authorities, the State of Georgia, zoning boards, library authorities, hospital authorities, multi-jurisdictional task forces, tax commissioners, clerks of court, as well as district attorneys and probate judges.
Landrum & Friduss attorneys have collectively served in general counsel roles for Georgia counties, school boards, and cities for over 50 years. Our attorneys are continuously retained by the leading insurance companies in the field to represent and defend Georgia’s public entities and public officials in high stakes litigation matters. Landrum & Friduss attorneys have won civil rights jury trials in every Federal District in the State of Georgia.
Other specialty services historically performed by Landrum & Friduss attorneys include:
- Direct service as general counsel
- Panel insurance counsel
- Outside litigation counsel
- Special counsel
- Independent counsel
- Training and compliance counsel
- Employment (Title VII; ADA; FMLA; FLSA, USERRA)
- Title IX Records Retention
- General Liability
- Workers’ Compensation
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Related Publications
Phillip E. Friduss & Ellen Ash f/k/a Gendernalik, Update Fourth Amendment Search Cases: The New and Confused Framework, 28 THE URBAN LAWYER: THE NATIONAL QUARTERLY ON STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT LAW 679-700 (1996).
Phillip E. Friduss & Ellen Ash f/k/a Gendernalik, Justices Give the War on Drugs a Significant Boost: The Year in the Fourth Amendment, 29 THE URBAN LAWYER: THE NATIONAL QUARTERLY ON STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT LAW 787-93 (1997).
Phillip E. Friduss, Ellen Ash, & Elaine Poon, The King Can Do No Wrong! State Law Tort Claims Against Georgia Counties, Cities and their Public Officials, (January 2008)
Phillip E. Friduss & Russell E. Owens, Racial Profiling Hits the Courts, For the Defense, DRI, October, 2000.
Phillip E. Friduss, State Supreme Court Refuses to Create Exception to At-Will Employment Doctrine, Georgia County Government, September, 2004.
Phillip E. Friduss, The Unexpected Aftermath of Manders – New Potential State Law Affirmative Defenses for Sheriffs and Their Employees. WITH UPDATED NOTE
Phillip E. Friduss & Cynthia Matthews Daley, Making Sense of Georgia’s Offer of Settlement Statute. WITH UPDATED NOTE
Holly L. Palmer, Jennifer L. McKernan, & Phillip E. Friduss, Sexual Discrimination - “Liability for Acts of Supervisors: Strict Liability.”
Phillip E. Friduss, The Good the Bad and the “What?” Continuing Violations in Employment
Cases After Morgan.
Phillip E. Friduss, Police Pursuit Liability.
Phillip E. Friduss, ADA UPDATE: Supreme Court Rejects “Ability to Perform Job Tasks”
Standard in Favor of Focusing on a Claimant’s Ability to Perform Activities of “Central Importance to Daily Life.”