GASLOWITZ FRANKEL - Key Persons
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- Partner
- Founding Partner of Gaslowitz Frankel LLC
As a founding partner of Gaslowitz Frankel LLC, Adam Gaslowitz is a fiduciary litigator who specializes in representing individuals, executors, trustees, investors, shareholders, and financial institutions in complex fiduciary disputes involving wills, estates, trusts, guardianships, businesses, and securities. Mr. Gaslowitz's approach to his practice is rooted in his belief that his clients need more than just an attorney; they need guidance in making both legal and practical decisions during a time of enormous emotional stress. To his clients, he is a counselor in every sense of the word, providing both expert legal advice and perspective on what really matters. Always keeping his clients' best interests in mind, Mr. Gaslowitz is also an expert on mediation and alternative methods of resolving estate disputes.
Mr. Gaslowitz graduated summa cum laude from Emory University's Goizueta Business School, earning degrees in accounting and finance. After business school, he earned a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School.
Mr. Gaslowitz has served as an expert commentator on CNN and the Layman's Lawyer. He has given numerous seminars and lectures on estate litigation. As an active member of the community, Mr. Gaslowitz often lectures to groups such as AARP and serves on the Boards of several legal organizations, such as the Atlanta Probate Bar. He is proud to have been honored with many accolades, including being elected as a Fellow of ACTEC, attaining an "AV" Attorney Rating by Martindale Hubbell, and being recognized by Super Lawyers of Georgia annually since 2006.
Adam is an exceptional attorney and entrepreneur. I have known him for over 30 years and each time we meet, I am reminded of how smart, creative and caring he is. If you are looking for good sound advice and access to a great network of other talented and ethical professionals, I would recommend that you contact Adam.
Robert C. Port of Gaslowitz Frankel LLC has earned my highest recommendation. This endorsement does not come often or lightly. As a Florida CPA with over 40 years' experience in various Court appointed fiduciary capacities, I have had numerous occasions to engage and work with attorneys in Florida, Alabama, Nevada, Tennessee, Georgia, and Washington DC . Mr. Port ranks with the best I have ever dealt with. He has provided me with quality representation, excellent advice, explained clearly what was going on and answered my questions patiently, sometimes even before I asked. I have been very satisfied with the results he has obtained for me. I will not hesitate to use him again.
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- First Vice President at SunTrust Bank
I have known and observed Adam and Craig for many years, and I have found them to be knowledgeable, insightful and fair minded in their approach to handling fiduciary disputes.
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- Marketing and Management Consultant
I have consulted with Adam since 1992. Adam is among my most successful clients. He has risen from a solo practitioner to one of the prominent estate litigation firms in the Southeast. Adam's dedication and vision set him apart from his peers. He is a strong leader in the profession and among the most knowledgeable lawyers in his field, frequently going head to head against some of the largest national firms.
Forensic accounting, internal investigations, damages & business valuation analysis, mediation & arbitration services
Adam and his firm are well respected in the Atlanta legal community. They are viewed as diligent in finding solutions and helping their clients receive results that make them better than otherwise anticipated. Adam's knowledge of the law is unsurpassed.
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- Managing Partner
- President
Adam is an exceptional attorney . I have known him for over 5 years and each time I talk too him, I am reminded of how smart, and creative he is. He personifies professionalism, and his depth character and knowledge are refreshing, for some one of his status in the community and professional accomplishments I would recommend him to anyone who is in need of his services.
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- Owner at Fields Family Ventures
I met Adam when we were both involved in a year long educational program. Adam is bright, articulate, passionate, and cares deeply about achieving a just result for his clients and also in the world around him.
A few years later I consulted with Adam regarding a friend with a sticky estate issue. Once again, Adam showed himself to be knowledgable, passionate, and not afraid to deliver opinions that I did not necessarily want to hear.
Adam is competent, capable, and intelligent. He is an excellent lawyer and highly regarded by his peers, especially in the area of estate cases and disputes. He and his firm have an excellent reputation for representing their clients in very difficult cases.
Cheryl has been with Gaslowitz Frankel for over 31 years. She is currently the firm's Executive Director responsible for overseeing all aspects of the firm's day-to-day operations, including logistics, human resources, accounting and marketing. Prior to her various management roles with Gaslowitz Frankel, Cheryl was a litigation paralegal for more than 15 years and brings a unique perspective and understanding of the litigation process to her role. Cheryl lives in Morningside with her 2 sons, who both currently attend Georgia State University, and their 2 rescue dogs, Finley and Boadie.
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Craig Frankel is an experienced litigator specializing in fiduciary disputes, trust and estate disputes, and business and contract disputes. Known throughout the legal profession as a principled, aggressive attorney who gets the job done, Mr. Frankel emphasizes open and frank exchanges with every client, adversary, and the court. As a founding partner of Gaslowitz Frankel LLC, he takes pride in his firm's ability to create favorable results for their clients, whether through trial or settlements. Mr. Frankel's approach to his practice is centered on the belief that any successful result must meet both the financial and emotional challenges of his clients. Therefore, in addition to his years of experience in the courtroom, Mr. Frankel is well versed in mediation and alternative dispute resolution techniques.
Mr. Frankel attended the Honors Program of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and the Order of the Grail Honor Society. He later attended the University of Georgia School of Law as a Bryant T. Castellow Scholar, where he served as Executive Editor of the Georgia Law Review and a research assistant to Deans Beaird and Brussack. After graduating from law school with honors, Mr. Frankel clerked with the Hon. John C. Godbold, then Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
Mr. Frankel is a frequent speaker at continuing legal education programs, wealth management programs, and estate and tax programs, where he discusses fiduciary duties and the risks for fiduciaries. Additionally, his successful law practice is balanced with extensive pro bono work. Mr. Frankel currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. He recently completed his term as Chair of the Breman Museum of Jewish Heritage. He also serves on the Advisory Board of Hillside Hospital, a psychiatric residential and out-patient treatment facility for adolescents and their families. Mr. Frankel previously served as Chair of Hillside's Board of Directors. Mr. Frankel also is a violinist with the Atlanta Community Symphony Orchestra.
He also serves on the advisory board for Hillside Hospital, a residential and outpatient facility for severely abused or emotionally disturbed adolescents and their families. Mr. Frankel previously served as Chair of Hillside's Board of Directors. Additionally, Mr. Frankel is a violinist with the Atlanta Community Symphony Orchestra.
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- Attorney / Owner at the Law Offices of Craig D. Miller, LLC
Adam is a strong, experienced and dedicated advocate for his clients. He brings intelligence and integrity to every task and relationship, and has been successful at achieving the goals of his clients for a long time.
Adam puts quality and personalized service at the forefront. I have always felt that - as his client - I was protected and covered to the full extent of the law. Definitely NOT in the league of the "clinics" and chains.
I have known and worked with Adam for nearly twenty years. He is first person I recommend for fiduciary litigation. I say this because I know Adam to be competent, and I know, from thirty years of practice, that real competency requires study, experience, and good judgment. Adam has done the study, has obtained the experience though years of practice in and out of the courthouse, and possesses the judgment I would want, if I were his client. Because of all this, I stongly recommend him.
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- Owner, Malow Mediation & Arbitration, Inc
I served as a mediator on a probate matter that Adam handled. Adam is a master in his field. He is an excellent advocate. He earns his clients' trust and respect. I highly recommend Adam.
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- Partner at WatsonSpence, LLP
Adam has established a strong reputation among members of the Bar of the State of Georgia as a very effective and aggressive estate and trust litigator, especially in representing beneficiaries and collective family interests. He has often spoken to professional groups and has written for professional journals on the evolving fiduciary obligations of Executors, Administrators, Guardians and Trustees in seeking to serve the often conflicting needs and interests of beneficiaries, heirs, wards and collective parties-in-interest.
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- Regional President at Wilmington Trust
I take tremendous pleasure in recommending Adam. I'm a fiduciary lawyer and I have known Adam very well, professionally and personally, for over twenty years. I have worked with Adam many times and there is no finer fiduciary litigation firm in the Southeast. Adam and everyone in his firm displays consummate integrity every step of the way - not only in their professional lives but in their personal lives. The entire legal community knows that if Adam and his associates decide to take a case, that case has serious merit and is one that should be litigated, and their firm's results over many years have proven that to be true. I have utmost confidence in recommending Adam and his firm to my closest friends, clients and associates. Always have and always will.
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- Vice President of Sales at LaSalle Investment Management
Adam has an insightful and exacting mind for his business. It was always a pleasure to work with and spend time learning from Adam's experiences in being one of the first, boutique Trust and Estate Litigation firms. His breadth of knowledge and relationships allow him to provide a level of service that is the standard bearer for all firms throughout the Southeast. As other practices have added more Trust and Estate Litigation, they use Adam's experience and practice as the example. The most telling thing about Adam's character as a person is his humbleness in success. He is willing to share his experience and knowledge, but never in a condescending way, mainly from an educational perspective. I had the opportunity to learn a lot from him as an ancillary benefit of him being a prospect and client. His work is highlighted as the best for a reason.
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- Independent Investment Management Professional
Adam was able to deftly extricate me from a particularly difficult and deeply embarrassing personal problem involving an estate matter for which I will be forever grateful.
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- Attorney at Girardot & Associates, P.C
I've know Adam Gaslowitz for several years and he has an excellent reputation as a litigator for real estate matters.
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- Owner / Founder at Pets and Peeps Personal Assistant Services
I met Adam back in the 90's through a mutual friend that I was working with at the time. She assured me that he was great to work with and knew what he was talking about, so of course I wanted to meet him. Even though my request for services did not fall under Fiduciary law, he was willing to help me with my business issues. His integrity, thoughtfulness and knowledge has always made him my choice to work with. If you want a great experience dealing with an attorney that will take care of you and your family, go to Adam, he is the best!
Kristen Yadlosky specializes in commercial real estate disputes and creditor rights in bankruptcy. She has extensive experience in complex commercial litigation, including contract disputes, suits on notes and guarantees, protection of creditor rights in bankruptcy, foreclosure confirmations, class actions, intellectual property protection, and competitive activities of former employees.
With over three decades of experience, Kristen has litigated and resolved a wide variety of commercial disputes, including cases arising from real estate transactions, complex litigation, and intellectual property actions, represented creditors in bankruptcy proceedings related to commercial real estate including retail/office leases, SARE, and other protection of creditor interests in real property, and assisted clients in efforts to protect intellectual property, including cease-and-desist correspondence, emergency injunctions, and litigation.
Laura has over 20 years of experience as a legal assistant and has been with Gaslowitz Frankel for over 10 years. Laura is responsible for handling all of the day-to-day legal work for the firm's litigation attorneys, including assisting with trial preparation, document productions, and maintaining the firm's docket calendar. When not at work, Laura spends her time at the softball fields watching her daughter fall in love with the sport.
LeAnne Gilbert is an attorney who specializes in fiduciary and commercial litigation. Ms. Gilbert represents corporate fiduciaries, trustees, executors, business partners, and estate and trust beneficiaries in a variety of contract and fiduciary disputes. Ms. Gilbert's approach to her practice is centered on aggressively advocating for her clients' claims and being mindful of settlement opportunities. From initial case analysis through the trial, Ms. Gilbert guides clients through all phases of litigation, providing expert legal advice and honest analysis of unique legal disputes.
Ms. Gilbert earned her J.D. at the University of Toledo College of Law in 1999. She began her career as a litigator at Long Aldridge & Norman LLP, focusing on securities and products liability cases.
Since joining Gaslowitz Frankel LLC in 2006, Ms. Gilbert has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in multimillion-dollar fiduciary claims and estate litigation.
Ms. Gilbert's passion for her practice is rooted in helping her clients achieve positive results while working to keep their family relationships intact.
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- Senior Managing Shareholder - Baker Donelson & President American Bar Association
Adam and I were opposing counsel in a contentious case. He maintained professionalism, despite the situation. He worked hard to get his client a fair result. Adam's practice centers around disputes in families. This is a very difficult position for a lawyer, who must do justice and help a family maintain good relationships. Adam does this very well.
I have had the pleasure of working with Adam on a number of different matters, including both client matters where my firm needed to bring in an expert trust and estate litigator and called on Adam to fill that role, as a mediator in a hotly contested matter relating to an estate, and on matters relating to the Estate Planning and Probate Section of the Atlanta Bar. Adam has also presented a number of continuing legal education presentations I have attended. I have come to know him as highly intelligent and experienced, reasonable, level-headed, diplomatic, and sharp as a fine sword in all of these arenas. His knowledge of trust and estate litigation is both deep and wide, and he has tremendous experience in those areas. He makes excellent arguments with perfect clarity. He's responsive and attentive, as well. In fact, I was part of the Estate Planning & Probate Section board who decided to present Adam with the Section's second Distinguished Service Award, because of the excellence of his legal skills and the graciousness and generosity with which he shares those skills and the benefits of his experience with his clients, his colleagues, and society.
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- Associate
- Legal Researcher and Judicial Writer
Luke M. Caselman is an exceptional legal researcher and judicial writer. Before joining Gaslowitz Frankel, Mr. Caselman served as a public defender with the Glynn County Circuit where he researched, prepared, and argued dozens of substantive pre-trial motions and evidentiary hearings. During his career, he has handled all aspects of criminal trials: working with expert witnesses, conducting voir dire, directing and cross-examining witnesses, and arguing openings and closings. Mr. Caslman also served the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia - first as a law clerk to the Honorable Charles H. Weigle, United States Magistrate Judge, and then as a Staff Attorney for three United States Magistrate Judges and seven Article III Judges.
Mr. Caselman holds his JD from the Walter F. George School of Law at Mercer University, where he graduated near the top of his class, served on and was published in, the Mercer Law Review, made the Dean's List, and earned a Certificate in Advanced Legal Research, Writing, and Drafting. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Missouri, where he majored in both Philosophy and Political Science.
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- CEO of Strategic Liquidity at GV / Wealth Management
I have known Adam since we worked at the same law firm - he moved on to become one of the most well known and respected lawyers in his field. I admire Adam and what he has created.
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- Owner, Web Writing Wizards, LLC
Adam is a superlative attorney; his expertise is unparalleled in his field and his integrity is unassailable. His in-depth knowledge and legal acumen both in and out of court is absolutely stellar. I have known Adam both personally and professionally for over two decades and recommend him unequivocally.
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- Coordinator
- Document Coordinator
Michael has been the document coordinator at Gaslowitz Frankel for over 16 years. He is responsible for maintaining all of the firm's litigation case files and ensuring compliance with the firm's commitment to being a paperless office. Michael also assists the attorneys with electronic document production. Michael and his wife, Victoria, have 3 children.
Adam is an excellent Estate Litigation attorney and his firm is highly respected in this area and deservedly so. He is a tough litigator, but respected by his peers and the courts.
Adam represented a family business in a matter against a taxing authority that I represented at the time. I found Adam to be straight-forward, up-front and transparent in his dealings with me and the taxing agency. He advocated strongly for the business he represented. I have been in private practice for 20 years, and I have given Adam's contact information to many folks needing advice on handling a complex estate dispute. Adam is reliable, smart and concise in his handling of cases and matters.
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- Attorney, Morgan & DiSalvo, PC
Adam Gaslowitz is an exceptional Trusts & Estates Litigation attorney. I have known and personally worked with Adam on professional and client matters since the 1990's. While my firm and I are very good at resolving Estate and Trust disputes, some matters just cannot get resolved outside of a court process,either because of the type of dispute involved or the legal positions being taken by the apposing parties or their legal counsel. When we get to the point of determining that the matter is heading to court, either at the beginning of the process or later when the apposing counsel is taking hard and fast unreasonable positions, then we call in the T&E litigation experts. For many years, Adam, and his firm, Gaslowitz Frankel, have been the clear go to firm in Georgia to handle these types of matters. These are normally very emotional and difficult cases and Adam and his firm excel at this type of work. Adam and his firm have my highest recommendation!
Robert Port is a business litigation attorney with extensive experience in general commercial litigation and fiduciary disputes involving wills, trusts, estates, guardianships and conservatorships. Mr. Port also has significant experience representing investors harmed by the misconduct of their stockbroker, investment advisor, insurance agent, or other trusted advisor. This includes matters arising from inappropriate investment strategies, unsuitable sales of annuities and life insurance products, failed or unlawfully offered private placements, real estate investment trusts (REITs) and other complex investment products, excessive trading (churning), unauthorized trading, sale of unregistered securities, and losses suffered as a result of Ponzi schemes.
Mr. Port graduated with honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with Bachelors of Science in Political Science and Psychology. He then went on to receive his J.D. with honors from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Mr. Port is "AV" rated by Martindale-Hubbell and has been repeatedly selected as a Georgia "Super Lawyer." As a widely published expert in his field of practice, Mr. Port's articles have been featured in the Georgia Bar Journal, the Atlanta Business Chronicle, the Daily Report (an ALM publication), and the Public Investors Arbitration Bar (PIABA) Journal. Mr. Port is the editor of Georgia Business Litigation, a one-volume, comprehensive guide to matters business litigators encounter. Additionally, he has been interviewed and quoted by a variety of media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, The Atlanta Business Chronicle, TheStreem.com, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and the Daily Report.
Mr. Port's passion for law is rooted in the thoughtful analysis of legal issues, the challenges associated with understanding issues from multiple perspectives, and the rigorous debates over disputed issues of law and fact. He thrives on taking complex legal arguments and presenting them in ways that simplify the complexity and create compelling cases for his clients.
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- Owner, Roger a. Kirschenbaum, PC
I have known Adam for many years as a fellow attorney. I have consulted with Adam and his partner Craig Frankel on an informal basis many times regarding issues in estate and trust planning, and fiduciary obligations. In 2012 I was in need of counsel regarding an estate for which I had been appointed as Administrator. Adam and the Gaslowitz Frankel firm was the choice to engage for my situation.
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- American Surety Bonds Agency, Managing Member, Senior Underwriter
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- Experienced Counsel for Growing Businesses
I've worked with Adam on the Atlanta Bar Association Managing Partner Committee. Adam is organized and detail oriented with a good strategic view of issues.
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- Senior Director Business Development
Was representing a family that was questioning the fiduciary and investment expertise of their current trustee. Adam, did a thorough review including requesting me to do a complete risk audit of the client's current investment statements. As a proactive advisor, Adam wanted my and BNY Mellon's perspective on where their were overlaps, redundancies, missing asset classes and hidden fees in the portfolio. This was above and beyond his scope of service for his client but it demonstrates Adam's attention to detail in looking at all aspects of a client's situation to secure the best outcome possible for them.
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- Senior Counsel at the Bowden Spratt Law Firm, LLC
Adam brings great expertise and knowledge to a matter and is very adept at providing not only the big picture but the details of how to get to the end result. He is a real advocate for his clients.
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- Attorney at Troy a. Lanier, P.C
Adam is one of the most knowledgeable and experienced estate practice attorneys in the country, and I give him my highest recommendation. He has extensive experience in a number of high profile disputed estate cases, and he has the judgment to determine which matters should be resolved through litigation, and which should not.
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- President, Common Sense Solutions, Inc
Adam exhibits the highest level of integrity, plays fair and is honest about cases, explains and manages realistic expectations. When needed, Adam is tough and aligns his actions with his convictions which is needed in many situations. I appreciate Adam's approach to his work which is focused and spot on.