Civil Litigation
The Millsaps Law Firm has impressive experience - and success - in civil litigation cases, representing diverse clients in a broad range of disputes between individuals, businesses, and other organizations. We are skilled trial lawyers, negotiators, and mediators, and have an excellent record in getting parties to right a wrong, honor an agreement, or settle a dispute, often resulting in fair and equitable monetary compensation.

	Our Services
	* Wrongful death and catastrophic personal injuries * Contract & business disputes * Probate of wills, trusts, and property disputes

Corporate Representation
The Millsaps Law Firm has built close relationships with our corporate clients throughout southwest Georgia by providing them with comprehensive legal solutions and advice. We are ever vigilant in making sure they are protected from liability and other risk exposure. Through our staff attorneys and our vast network of attorneys and specialists around the state, we offer our clients - from one-person entrepreneurial start-up ventures to multi-million-dollar corporations - the expertise they need to be successful in today's business environment.

	Our Services
	* Creating new corporations and limited liability companies, as well as general, limited, and limited liability partnerships based on the strategic direction of each individual client	* Drafting and negotiating vendor agreements and operational contracts

Education Law

The Millsaps Law Firm stays updated in educational trends and issues, and offers particular expertise in education law, providing leadership and comprehensive solutions for sensitive issues facing school districts. Managing partner, Patrick Millsaps, currently represents the Mitchell County (Georgia) School Board, and has past experience as a policy advisor to the State School Board of Georgia, acting as a liaison between the board and the Governor's Office and the Georgia Department of Education.

	Our Services
	* Board Policy & Implementation * Bond financing * Commercial real estate transactions * Construction disputes	* First Amendment issues * Office of Civil Rights complaints * Contract review

Real Estate Transactions
Real estate transactions are governed by a wide body of federal statutes, as well as state statutory and common law. The Millsaps Law Firm represents lenders, borrowers, sellers, buyers, developers, investors, general partners, limited partners, landlords, and tenants in the acquisition, development, construction, ownership, operation, leasing, financing, and securement of different types of real estate assets.

	Our Services
	*Sale and purchase of residential, commercial, and agricultural properties * Title opinions and insurance * Land development * Construction contracts	* Easements * Eminent domain * Foreclosures * Quitclaim deeds

Criminal Representation
The Millsaps Law Firm handles a broad range of criminal cases. When clients are a suspect or in some way involved with other people who have committed the crime, we work to expedite police investigations and often are able to avoid the embarrassment and stress of a charge. Post indictment or charge, our attorneys vigorously defend the rights of our clients through trial.

	Our Services
	* White-collar crime * Counterfeiting/forgery * Embezzlement * Fraud * Healthcare fraud	* Government fraud * Theft/property crime * Drug crime * Juvenile crime

Wills, Trusts and Probate
The Millsaps Law Firm is committed to providing sound legal advice and comprehensive services to help ensure that clients' property and healthcare wishes are honored, and that their loved ones are taken care of if they are incapacitated or when they are gone. In this regard, we help plan, prepare necessary documents, handle proceedings - and whatever else is necessary to meet our clients' needs and fulfill their desires.

	Our Services
	* Last will and testament * Living wills	* Durable power of attorney * Trusts

Alternative Dispute Resolution
At The Millsaps Law Firm, we always attempt to settle disputes outside the courtroom primarily by representing our clients through alternative dispute resolution (ADR), which lessens litigation costs, as well as time delays. It can be used in place of - or part of - the litigation process. Typically, ADR entails arbitration or mediation, and sometimes early neutral evaluation and conciliation.

	Our Services
	* Arbitration is gaining popularity in many different types of disputes. It is a simplified version of a trial whereby both sides either agree on one arbitrator, or each side selects one arbitrator. These two arbitrators then elect a third neutral arbitrator to comprise a panel. Arbitration hearings usually last only a few hours and the opinions are not public record.		* Mediation is an even less formal alternative to litigation. Mediators are trained in negotiating settlements or agreements between opposing parties. It can be used in many different types of cases. The Millsaps Law Firm's managing partner, Patrick Millsaps, is a certified mediator by the Georgia Office of Dispute Resolution.

Alternative / Renewable Energy Technology
The Millsaps Law Firm has acted as outside general counsel to First United Ethanol, LLC and Southwest Georgia Ethanol, LLC since March 2005 when 10 community leaders invested a total of $200,000 for a feasibility study to determine if an ethanol plant could be built in Southwest Georgia. From its humble beginnings, Millsaps advised the company as it raised $76,610,000 from 850 investors, obtained $115,000,000 in debt financing, and constructed the plant. His client now operates the first 100 million gallon per year ethanol facility in the Southeast and one of the first corn-based ethanol plants built outside the American Corn Belt. Patrick now consults several other community and governmental leaders about building other alternative energy facilities in Georgia and the Southeast. Additionally, he participated in the 21st Red Clay Conference at The University of Georgia School of Law in 2009 where the topic was “Does Going Green Equal making Green?"