Margaret Fernandez
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Licensed for 27 years
Law Degree
Awards
Primary Practice Area
Business
Language
English Spanish
About
Business LawyerOur Firm is focused upon business law. We form new corporations, new LLCs, and help our Clients with incorporations and start-up businesses. We assist Clients with all aspects of contract negotiation, and contract drafting, including real estate leases, equipment leases, and equipment financing. We regularly draft software licensing agreements, and other technology agreements. Dispute Resolution: Litigation, Mediation, ArbitrationOur Firm's principal, Margaret Fernandez, Esq., is a trained litigator, and has practiced in the state, superior, federal, and appeals courts of Georgia. She has millions of dollars in awards, verdicts, and judgments. She is skilled at motions practice, discovery, courtroom, and appellate practice. She is comfortable in litigation, arbitration, and mediation. Ms. Fernandez has enjoyed tremendous success in securities arbitration and litigation, construction litigation, employment litigation, intellectual property litigation, shareholder litigation, and many other kinds of business and other disputes. Ms. Fernandez regularly resolves EEOC matters in mediation for her corporate Clients. Ms. Fernandez's personal philosophy is in litigation prevention; however, when litigation is necessary, she believes it should be quickly initiated, and strongly and aggressively prosecuted, with an attention to detail. Ms. Fernandez is a 2005 Trial Lawyers College graduate, trained by Gerry Spence, as well as a 2015 Trojan Horse graduate, trained by Dan Ambrose and Alejandro Blanco. Ms. Fernandez is a former federal judicial law clerk for Chief Judge Richard C. Erwin for the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, and spent a year seated beside, and writing opinions for, a senior federal judge. Ms. Fernandez is a graduate of Harvard and Columbia Law Schools, where she was twice a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar for academic excellence, and is admitted to the bars of New York and Georgia. Ms. Fernandez assists Clients with all aspects of business law and business litigation. Technology LawThe Fernandez Law Firm's Client focus is on start-up technology firms. The Firm's Clients include innovators who have developed and continue to develop new technologies in many diverse areas such as: genetic testing for dangerous diseases; software and outage management systems for electric utilities; hardware, desks, and learning systems for disabled and chronically hospitalized children; enterprise personnel software; security software for protecting children and schools from active shooters. Many of our Clients are entrepreneurs: medical doctors; inventors; restauranteurs; business owners --- all of whom purchase, lease, license, or sell technologies, and come to us for our experience in negotiating and drafting contracts, and finding methods of financing those large purchases and leases. Employment LawWe regularly prepare employment agreements and 1099 consulting agreements to protect our Clients. We understand the many issues involved in employment law. Because we have litigated many employment matters, both for the employee and the employer, we have a strong sense of what works. Accordingly, we draft strong employment agreements. We try to resolve matters in mediation; but if we cannot, we litigate forcefully. We have successfully mediated many claims at the EEOC for our corporate Clients. ContractsThe basis of any relationship is the contract, and we have negotiated and drafted thousands of contracts. Because we litigate, we know what needs to be in a contract to protect our Clients. The Firm's practice includes licensing and intellectual property and technology law. We regularly assists technology and other companies seeking to create, license or exploit intellectual property, including start-ups, with many aspects of their businesses in such matters as: formation, financing, re-financing, shareholders, shareholder agreements, operating agreements, contracts, and intellectual property matters; negotiating and developing substantial commercial agreements and contracts; preparing licensing and maintenance agreements for software and intellectual property licensors and licensees; drafting NDAs and Confidentiality Agreements surrounding IP and IT; litigating IT and commercial business issues in the state, superior, appeals and federal courts in Georgia; negotiating leases for equipment and real property; purchasing real estate; purchasing airplanes; assisting clients in the management of employees and contractors; and leading in all areas of mergers and acquisitions work, from due diligence, negotiations, and closings. The Firm's PrincipalMs. Fernandez began her career as a litigator and has won millions of dollars in judgments, verdicts, and awards in the courts of Georgia and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. Ms. Fernandez has had great success with technology, commercial, contract, employment, confidentiality, trade secret, intellectual property matters, and libel and defamation in the State, Superior, and Federal Courts in Georgia as well as the Court of Appeals of Georgia. She is a 2005 graduate of the month-long Trial Lawyers College, run by famed trial lawyer Gerry Spence in Dubois, Wyoming, as well as the Trojan Horse Method, taught by Dan Ambrose and Alejandro Blanco. Ms. Fernandez’s litigation work includes successful board room negotiations, mediations, and arbitrations, as well as victories before FINRA and the EEOC, and she has appeared for her Clients at the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia and has successfully resolved these and other matters involving FBI, HUD, and Secret Service. She has also successfully resolved matters before the Georgia Department of Banking and Finance, the Governor’s Office of Consumer Affairs, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Ms. Fernandez practices employment law, and regularly drafts and litigates restrictive covenants, and has successfully mediated many employment matters at the EEOC. Ms. Fernandez has also successfully obtained MBE certifications for her clients with the City of Atlanta and Georgia Department of Transportation. Ms. Fernandez has coached U-6 soccer with the United Futbol Academy and is a former director of both of the Hispanic American Center for Economic Development and the Hispanic Contractors Association of Georgia, which she also helped found. Ms. Fernandez earned her A.B. at Harvard University, where she was an IBM Thomas J. Watson scholar each year. She earned her Juris Doctor at Columbia University School of Law in the City of New York and was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar her second and third years of law school. She was also the Admissions Editor of the Columbia Business Law Review. She served as a federal judicial law clerk to the Hon. Richard C. Erwin, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina. She is a Member of the Technology Advisory Group for the State Bar of Georgia President and, as a pro bono matter, successfully negotiated the agreement for the new website for the State Bar of Georgia. Ms. Fernandez is admitted to practice in New York and Georgia, the State and Superior Courts of Georgia, Court of Appeals of Georgia, and the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.
Practices Areas
Intellectual Property
Business
Litigation
Language
English Spanish
Contact
The Fernandez Law Firm, P.C., A Business and Technology Law Firm327 Dahlonega Street, Suite 602ACumming, GA, 30040
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Margaret hired me as a business valuation expert in a difficult, contested, multimillion dollar case. She had her client's back and my back at every turn as she dismantled the opposing expert's work and set the stage for the case to succeed, carrying the ball into the end zone and achieving a far better result for her client than the settlement she had offered the other side before trial. Margaret is a pleasure to work with and I highly recommend her. Excellent.
I recently used The Fernandez Law Firm, A Business and Technology Law Firm for a hearing I had in Forsyth County. Ms. Fernandez, the Managing Partner, listened to the facts, and said: “Most lawyers would tell you to do X. I am going to tell you to do Z. Z will be faster, cheaper, and more likely to get you the results you want. And if it doesn’t get you your results, then you can still do X, but by doing Z, you will pay me less.” Ms. Fernandez then carefully prepared me for the hearing so that I would be comfortable and able to tell my story. She told me what the other side and the Judge would say, and how to counter it. She made me stay on strategy And then, I won! Ms. Fernandez was very straightforward, honest, ethical, and fair. She had such a strong courtroom strategy that I was surprised to find out that Ms. Fernandez is actually a business, technology, software and contracts lawyer. The work she did cost less than I would have expected, and saved me money. I would use The Fernandez Law Firm again, and I completely recommend The Fernandez Law Firm because the work is high quality.
Margaret always gives me good advice at a fair price. I've used her for personal issues, HOA issues and work-related issues.
Best business lawyer in Cumming, Johns Creek, and Alpharetta is Margaret Fernandez. Margaret Fernandez is the best contract lawyer. She has represented us for nearly a decade. She has saved us more than a million dollars. She is tough, fair, and honest. The other lawyers are scared of her, and they should be. You want her sitting next to you in court and in any mediation. We have hired half a dozen other lawyers and they were all jokers. Margaret Fernandez business lawyer. The Fernandez Law Firm best business law firm. Win.
Ms. Fernandez has been a blessing to me. I could not have gotten through my EEOC employment discrimination issues without her. Ms. Fernandez is professional, but also very caring and treated me with respect and kindness. Ms. Fernandez is accessible, courteous, and sympathetic. She always taken time to listen. I recommend her practice to anyone who has issues with their employers. Thank you, Ms. Fernandez, and The Fernandez Law Firm.
The Fernandez Law Firm is a business and technology law firm who has taken excellent care of our healthcare and medical practice by reviewing our contracts, agreements, licensing agreements, technology, software, financing agreements, real estate leases, employment agreements, equipment leases, financing agreements, technology, and Internet presence. We have been very pleased. We have had an excellent experience.
I had a very difficult matter. I called Margaret Fernandez. Margaret was very strategic. She thought about my case in ways that I had never thought about it. And she explained how critical it was that we win. Margaret prepared me and showed me which facts in my case were important. Most importantly, Margaret is a great coach. She got my head in the game. She is strict and disciplined. At first, she seemed harsh. She actually shouted at me to shut up a few times when she was preparing me. But I needed that. I was lost and rambling. I was in fear and denial. That shock helped me. Once I did what she said, and stopped thinking my way, and instead started thinking her way and doing what she said, my case came together. Margaret carefully and patiently negotiated with the other side (they were completely arrogant and would not back down at all), but based on her recommendation, I decided to go forward and try the case. She said that she will not take or push a case that she does not believe she cannot win. Also, now that I understand what all goes on, I know that the price was extremely fair. When Margaret showed up in that courtroom, she was respectful, quiet, and humble, and she took control. I could see that Margaret respected the Judge and that the Judge respected Margaret. Margaret is a lady. Margaret tried the case and won. When I say that Margaret won, I am telling you she beat the other side like a congo drum, up one side and down the other, and at first the other side did not even know it was happening. At the end, when the smoke cleared, the other side could not have imagined how bad the outcome was going to be. Margaret is a very quietly strong private person. In the beginning, when she pushed me, it upset me. But in the end, I understood that she was helping me to clear out the wrong way of thinking, to help me to get to what was really important in the case, and that she was completely dedicated to me, and was vested in my victory. One of the ways she wins is to help you change your way of thinking. Margaret Fernandez and The Fernandez Law Firm are the very best in Atlanta. She is the best, she cared about me, she is beautiful, she made me think properly, she went to the mat for me, she is not afraid of anyone or anything, and she always keeps a cool head.
Margaret Fernandez of The Fernandez Law Firm accompanied me to Court.She explained the legal strategy, and what mattered to the Judge. She allowed me to tell the truth and she never interfered or interrupted. She is very strong in the Courtroom.Margaret Fernandez is an excellent attorney and lawyer.She got the best possible result for me, very quickly, and I give The Fernandez Law Firm and Margaret Fernandez my highest recommendation.
Margaret Fernandez of The Fernandez Law Firm accompanied me to Court. She explained the legal strategy, and what mattered to the Judge. She allowed me to tell the truth and she never interfered or interrupted. She is very strong in the courtroom. Margaret Fernandez is an excellent attorney and lawyer. She got the best possible result for me, very quickly, and I give The Fernandez Law Firm and Margaret Fernandez my highest recommendation.
Margaret really helped me out with my unemployment benefits and facing appeal. We won my case together!
Margaret hired me as a business valuation expert in a difficult, contested, multimillion dollar case. She had her client's back and my back at every turn as she dismantled the opposing expert's work and set the stage for the case to succeed, carrying the ball into the end zone and achieving a far better result for her client than the settlement she had offered the other side before trial. Margaret is a pleasure to work with and I highly recommend her. Excellent.
I recently used The Fernandez Law Firm, A Business and Technology Law Firm for a hearing I had in Forsyth County. Ms. Fernandez, the Managing Partner, listened to the facts, and said: “Most lawyers would tell you to do X. I am going to tell you to do Z. Z will be faster, cheaper, and more likely to get you the results you want. And if it doesn’t get you your results, then you can still do X, but by doing Z, you will pay me less.” Ms. Fernandez then carefully prepared me for the hearing so that I would be comfortable and able to tell my story. She told me what the other side and the Judge would say, and how to counter it. She made me stay on strategy And then, I won! Ms. Fernandez was very straightforward, honest, ethical, and fair. She had such a strong courtroom strategy that I was surprised to find out that Ms. Fernandez is actually a business, technology, software and contracts lawyer. The work she did cost less than I would have expected, and saved me money. I would use The Fernandez Law Firm again, and I completely recommend The Fernandez Law Firm because the work is high quality.
Margaret always gives me good advice at a fair price. I've used her for personal issues, HOA issues and work-related issues.
Best business lawyer in Cumming, Johns Creek, and Alpharetta is Margaret Fernandez. Margaret Fernandez is the best contract lawyer. She has represented us for nearly a decade. She has saved us more than a million dollars. She is tough, fair, and honest. The other lawyers are scared of her, and they should be. You want her sitting next to you in court and in any mediation. We have hired half a dozen other lawyers and they were all jokers. Margaret Fernandez business lawyer. The Fernandez Law Firm best business law firm. Win.
Ms. Fernandez has been a blessing to me. I could not have gotten through my EEOC employment discrimination issues without her. Ms. Fernandez is professional, but also very caring and treated me with respect and kindness. Ms. Fernandez is accessible, courteous, and sympathetic. She always taken time to listen. I recommend her practice to anyone who has issues with their employers. Thank you, Ms. Fernandez, and The Fernandez Law Firm.
The Fernandez Law Firm is a business and technology law firm who has taken excellent care of our healthcare and medical practice by reviewing our contracts, agreements, licensing agreements, technology, software, financing agreements, real estate leases, employment agreements, equipment leases, financing agreements, technology, and Internet presence. We have been very pleased. We have had an excellent experience.
I had a very difficult matter. I called Margaret Fernandez. Margaret was very strategic. She thought about my case in ways that I had never thought about it. And she explained how critical it was that we win. Margaret prepared me and showed me which facts in my case were important. Most importantly, Margaret is a great coach. She got my head in the game. She is strict and disciplined. At first, she seemed harsh. She actually shouted at me to shut up a few times when she was preparing me. But I needed that. I was lost and rambling. I was in fear and denial. That shock helped me. Once I did what she said, and stopped thinking my way, and instead started thinking her way and doing what she said, my case came together. Margaret carefully and patiently negotiated with the other side (they were completely arrogant and would not back down at all), but based on her recommendation, I decided to go forward and try the case. She said that she will not take or push a case that she does not believe she cannot win. Also, now that I understand what all goes on, I know that the price was extremely fair. When Margaret showed up in that courtroom, she was respectful, quiet, and humble, and she took control. I could see that Margaret respected the Judge and that the Judge respected Margaret. Margaret is a lady. Margaret tried the case and won. When I say that Margaret won, I am telling you she beat the other side like a congo drum, up one side and down the other, and at first the other side did not even know it was happening. At the end, when the smoke cleared, the other side could not have imagined how bad the outcome was going to be. Margaret is a very quietly strong private person. In the beginning, when she pushed me, it upset me. But in the end, I understood that she was helping me to clear out the wrong way of thinking, to help me to get to what was really important in the case, and that she was completely dedicated to me, and was vested in my victory. One of the ways she wins is to help you change your way of thinking. Margaret Fernandez and The Fernandez Law Firm are the very best in Atlanta. She is the best, she cared about me, she is beautiful, she made me think properly, she went to the mat for me, she is not afraid of anyone or anything, and she always keeps a cool head.
Margaret Fernandez of The Fernandez Law Firm accompanied me to Court.She explained the legal strategy, and what mattered to the Judge. She allowed me to tell the truth and she never interfered or interrupted. She is very strong in the Courtroom.Margaret Fernandez is an excellent attorney and lawyer.She got the best possible result for me, very quickly, and I give The Fernandez Law Firm and Margaret Fernandez my highest recommendation.
Margaret Fernandez of The Fernandez Law Firm accompanied me to Court. She explained the legal strategy, and what mattered to the Judge. She allowed me to tell the truth and she never interfered or interrupted. She is very strong in the courtroom. Margaret Fernandez is an excellent attorney and lawyer. She got the best possible result for me, very quickly, and I give The Fernandez Law Firm and Margaret Fernandez my highest recommendation.
Margaret really helped me out with my unemployment benefits and facing appeal. We won my case together!
Margaret hired me as a business valuation expert in a difficult, contested, multimillion dollar case. She had her client's back and my back at every turn as she dismantled the opposing expert's work and set the stage for the case to succeed, carrying the ball into the end zone and achieving a far better result for her client than the settlement she had offered the other side before trial. Margaret is a pleasure to work with and I highly recommend her. Excellent.
I recently used The Fernandez Law Firm, A Business and Technology Law Firm for a hearing I had in Forsyth County. Ms. Fernandez, the Managing Partner, listened to the facts, and said: “Most lawyers would tell you to do X. I am going to tell you to do Z. Z will be faster, cheaper, and more likely to get you the results you want. And if it doesn’t get you your results, then you can still do X, but by doing Z, you will pay me less.” Ms. Fernandez then carefully prepared me for the hearing so that I would be comfortable and able to tell my story. She told me what the other side and the Judge would say, and how to counter it. She made me stay on strategy And then, I won! Ms. Fernandez was very straightforward, honest, ethical, and fair. She had such a strong courtroom strategy that I was surprised to find out that Ms. Fernandez is actually a business, technology, software and contracts lawyer. The work she did cost less than I would have expected, and saved me money. I would use The Fernandez Law Firm again, and I completely recommend The Fernandez Law Firm because the work is high quality.
Margaret always gives me good advice at a fair price. I've used her for personal issues, HOA issues and work-related issues.
Best business lawyer in Cumming, Johns Creek, and Alpharetta is Margaret Fernandez. Margaret Fernandez is the best contract lawyer. She has represented us for nearly a decade. She has saved us more than a million dollars. She is tough, fair, and honest. The other lawyers are scared of her, and they should be. You want her sitting next to you in court and in any mediation. We have hired half a dozen other lawyers and they were all jokers. Margaret Fernandez business lawyer. The Fernandez Law Firm best business law firm. Win.
Ms. Fernandez has been a blessing to me. I could not have gotten through my EEOC employment discrimination issues without her. Ms. Fernandez is professional, but also very caring and treated me with respect and kindness. Ms. Fernandez is accessible, courteous, and sympathetic. She always taken time to listen. I recommend her practice to anyone who has issues with their employers. Thank you, Ms. Fernandez, and The Fernandez Law Firm.
The Fernandez Law Firm is a business and technology law firm who has taken excellent care of our healthcare and medical practice by reviewing our contracts, agreements, licensing agreements, technology, software, financing agreements, real estate leases, employment agreements, equipment leases, financing agreements, technology, and Internet presence. We have been very pleased. We have had an excellent experience.
I had a very difficult matter. I called Margaret Fernandez. Margaret was very strategic. She thought about my case in ways that I had never thought about it. And she explained how critical it was that we win. Margaret prepared me and showed me which facts in my case were important. Most importantly, Margaret is a great coach. She got my head in the game. She is strict and disciplined. At first, she seemed harsh. She actually shouted at me to shut up a few times when she was preparing me. But I needed that. I was lost and rambling. I was in fear and denial. That shock helped me. Once I did what she said, and stopped thinking my way, and instead started thinking her way and doing what she said, my case came together. Margaret carefully and patiently negotiated with the other side (they were completely arrogant and would not back down at all), but based on her recommendation, I decided to go forward and try the case. She said that she will not take or push a case that she does not believe she cannot win. Also, now that I understand what all goes on, I know that the price was extremely fair. When Margaret showed up in that courtroom, she was respectful, quiet, and humble, and she took control. I could see that Margaret respected the Judge and that the Judge respected Margaret. Margaret is a lady. Margaret tried the case and won. When I say that Margaret won, I am telling you she beat the other side like a congo drum, up one side and down the other, and at first the other side did not even know it was happening. At the end, when the smoke cleared, the other side could not have imagined how bad the outcome was going to be. Margaret is a very quietly strong private person. In the beginning, when she pushed me, it upset me. But in the end, I understood that she was helping me to clear out the wrong way of thinking, to help me to get to what was really important in the case, and that she was completely dedicated to me, and was vested in my victory. One of the ways she wins is to help you change your way of thinking. Margaret Fernandez and The Fernandez Law Firm are the very best in Atlanta. She is the best, she cared about me, she is beautiful, she made me think properly, she went to the mat for me, she is not afraid of anyone or anything, and she always keeps a cool head.
Margaret Fernandez of The Fernandez Law Firm accompanied me to Court.She explained the legal strategy, and what mattered to the Judge. She allowed me to tell the truth and she never interfered or interrupted. She is very strong in the Courtroom.Margaret Fernandez is an excellent attorney and lawyer.She got the best possible result for me, very quickly, and I give The Fernandez Law Firm and Margaret Fernandez my highest recommendation.
Margaret Fernandez of The Fernandez Law Firm accompanied me to Court. She explained the legal strategy, and what mattered to the Judge. She allowed me to tell the truth and she never interfered or interrupted. She is very strong in the courtroom. Margaret Fernandez is an excellent attorney and lawyer. She got the best possible result for me, very quickly, and I give The Fernandez Law Firm and Margaret Fernandez my highest recommendation.
Margaret really helped me out with my unemployment benefits and facing appeal. We won my case together!