Experience. Expertise. Engagement.
Continuum Legal Group LLP, based in Atlanta, is a full-service law firm with highly experienced and nationally recognized attorneys in all of the primary areas of practice: commercial litigation, corporate, employment, environmental, lending and real estate. Continuum was founded in 2021, with each of our founding members having decades of experience in the practice of law. We knew exactly the type of firm we wanted to create – a smaller, boutique firm with a singular focus on the client. In this way, Continuum has been designed from the beginning to provide exceptional service, advice and value directly to our clients, without the additional layers often found at larger firms. We look forward to partnering with you.
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Ilene W. Berman
Employment | Employment Litigation
Ilene W. Berman
470-763-6230
Employment | Employment Litigation
Ilene W. Berman is an employment attorney with over 25 years of experience in advising and defending employers in all facets of employment law, including discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. Ilene serves as trusted advisor and lead counsel to Fortune 100 companies, large and mid-size employers, and start-up businesses. She also represents senior executives in negotiating and drafting executive-compensation agreements and separation packages. Ilene is a sought-after presenter to the film and television industry where she trains on workplace respect, professionalism, and harassment prevention. In addition, she conducts internal investigations for companies responding to claims of discrimination and harassment. Ilene received a J.D. with distinction from Emory University School of Law, and a B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University. Ilene is admitted to practice law in Georgia, New York, and Connecticut.
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Scott G. Blews
Employment | Employment Litigation
Scott G. Blews
470-763-6231
Employment | Employment Litigation
Scott G. Blews practices labor and employment law, advising clients from litigation to trial. As a former in-house counsel, Scott helps clients balance the legal and business landscape. He has the trial experience to take a case to a jury verdict, as well as the judgment and foresight to help clients evaluate when it may make sense to resolve a claim. He’s represented employers successfully in a wide variety of employment, labor and other litigation matters in state and federal courts and administrative agencies throughout the country, from Miami to Anchorage.
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Wade A. Buser
Real Estate | Lending
Wade A. Buser
770-314-8167
Real Estate | Lending
Wade A. Buser has been practicing commercial real estate law, including lending and corporate finance, for more than 35 years. Wade’s extensive experience spans all facets of commercial real estate, including retail, office, industrial and multifamily acquisitions, sales, contract and leasing negotiation, foreclosures, loan restructures, workouts, REOs, secured and unsecured lending transactions, asset-based lending, bond financing and condominium developments. Wade has represented purchasers, sellers and developers of real estate, federal and state banks, credit unions, the FDIC, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, commercial brokers, retail and office leasing companies and various other entities in purchasing, selling, developing, lending, leasing, and managing real estate.
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Marc D. Glenn
Real Estate | Lending
Marc D. Glenn
470-763-6223
Real Estate| Lending
Marc D. Glenn represents clients in all areas of real estate, lending and corporate finance, including in the acquisition, financing, development, leasing, subleasing, workout and foreclosure of commercial, office, retail, industrial and multifamily real estate. As part of his practice, Marc also advises clients in bond financing transactions, the corporate structuring of entities (including non-profits and supporting organizations), and all aspects of real estate held or utilized for educational purposes. Marc’s clients include Fortune 100 companies, global financial institutions, national outdoor advertising companies, state educational institutions, nationwide apartment developers, and local retail and industrial developers. Marc also holds the diplomatic post of Honorary Consul of Iceland.
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John M. Gross
Litigation: Commercial | Securities | Professional Liability
John M. Gross
470-763-6228
Litigation: Commercial | Securities | Professional Liability
John M. Gross has served as lead counsel in federal and state trial and appellate courts, in administrative proceedings and before alternative dispute resolution panels. His clients have included Fortune 100 companies, financial institutions, manufacturers, national and small-town community banks, corporate directors and officers, wealthy individuals and small-business owners. John has provided compliance advice and counseling in securities, antitrust and fiduciary duty matters. He’s represented defendants and plaintiffs in financial fraud claims, contract disputes, business dissolutions, fiduciary duty litigation, shareholders’ class-action litigation, corporate governance disputes, antitrust class actions and internal corporate investigations.
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Gary D. Knopf
Real Estate | Lending
Gary D. Knopf
470-763-6232
Real Estate | Lending
Gary D. Knopf routinely advises national and local developers, office building owners, retailers and restaurant companies and other landlords and tenants in all aspects of commercial real estate transactions, including acquisitions, predevelopment activities, due diligence, financing, dispositions and leasing. Knopf’s experience includes all types of real estate asset classes, including office, industrial and retail. Knopf’s clients include a national quick-service restaurant company in the acquisition and ground leasing of sites throughout the United States, a Fortune 500 company in connection with the acquisitions, dispositions and development of property in connection with its retail stores, and private equity real estate investment firms in the acquisition and leasing of industrial and office building assets.
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Leah J. Knowlton
Litigation: Environmental Health & Safety
Leah J. Knowlton
470-763-6229
Environmental Health & Safety
Leah J. Knowlton has more than 30 years of experience in a broad range of environmental regulatory, litigation and transactional matters. She has particular expertise in remediation of Superfund (CERCLA) sites and Brownfields properties, and in conducting environmental due diligence and negotiating contracts in corporate, real estate and lending transactions. Leah has successfully litigated complex federal Superfund litigation and other litigation involving chemical releases, and has defended clients in environmental criminal prosecutions. She has served as lead crisis response counsel to major manufacturing companies in workplace toxic exposure incidents and fatal industrial accidents. Leah also advises clients on a wide range of EHS compliance subjects, including PSM/RMP safety matters and CFATS chemical manufacturing security matters.
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Bill Leonard
Litigation: Commercial | Securities | Professional Liability
Bill Leonard
470-763-6225
Litigation: Commercial | Securities | Professional Liability
Bill Leonard has more than four decades of experience in litigation involving securities and investments, liability of directors, officers, managers, and partners of businesses, shareholder and member rights and fiduciary duties, accountant and auditor liability, law firm liability, and banking law. Bill’s experience includes class actions, lawsuits in federal and state courts in many different states and arbitrations. He also is a trained mediator and has served as an arbitrator for securities disputes. His experience includes conducting internal investigations into potential wrongdoing by officers, directors, and employees of corporations, representing officers, directors, accountants, brokers and other professionals in investigations by the Securities and Exchange Commission and major stock exchanges, and FINRA arbitrations concerning stocks, bonds and options.
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Kathleen G. McBride
Commercial Real Estate
Kathleen G. McBride (“Katie”)
470-763-6237
Commercial Real Estate
Katie represents clients including companies, developers, REITs, landlords, and tenants in real estate matters and other business transactions. She handles matters including the acquisition, sale, development, and financing of commercial real estate properties, and the leasing of office, retail, health care, warehouse, and industrial space. Katie also collaborates with corporate attorneys on real property matters in business transactions. Katie’s many years of experience enable her to assist with creative solutions to resolve issues and close deals.
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Brian T. Nash
Litigation: Corporate | Technology
Brian T. Nash
470-763-6233
Corporate | Technology
Brian T. Nash has served as general outside counsel to leaders of growth-oriented technology companies for more than three decades. He has helped his clients generate hundreds of millions of dollars in shareholder value. Brian’s hands-on experience as a software developer and systems analyst provides useful insight in negotiating technology-related transactions, including liquidity events, private placements, and venture capital and private equity transactions, as well as software-as-a-service (SaaS) agreements and other technology transfer, licensing and distribution, e-commerce and complex technology purchasing agreements.
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Craig K. Pendergrast
Litigation: Commercial | Environmental | Real Estate
Craig K. Pendergrast
470-763-6239
Litigation: Commercial | Environmental | Real Estate
In his more than 35 years of practice, Craig Pendergrast has learned about the interests and operations of a broad range of businesses while helping his clients work through their associated risks, problems and disputes. His experience includes high-stakes commercial litigation, environmental litigation, and real estate litigation. He has a strong focus on matters involving contaminated properties, including the development of plans and allocation of risks and costs associated with their purchase and sale, investigation, and remediation. He has formed and led groups of potentially responsible parties to work through the many legal challenges, including litigation, presented by such sites. Prior to joining Continuum, he practiced with some of the largest law firms in the nation and Georgia, representing both Fortune 500 companies and smaller ones.
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John J. Richard
Litigation: Commercial | Creditor’s Rights | Banking | Tort
John J. Richard
404-219-9014
Litigation: Commercial | Creditor’s Rights | Banking | Tort
John J. Richard is a member of the litigation team concentrating on resolution of creditor/debtor disputes, corporate and entity governance issues, and financial and real estate disputes. John represents clients in loan and special asset workouts, lender participation disputes, lender liability claims, mortgage and financial fraud matters, and complex post-judgment collection matters, all to maximize the recovery of outstanding loans. He has extensive experience working with troubled loans and guiding banks and other lending institutions through loan administration, workout, special asset litigation, and foreclosure processes. John counsels large national banks, community banks in Georgia and beyond, as well as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation on loan restructuring, workouts, receiverships, and troubled asset management.
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Sean R. Smith
Litigation: Commercial | Creditor’s Rights | Banking | Tort | First Amendment
Sean R. Smith
470-763-6227
Litigation: Commercial | Creditor’s Rights | Banking | Tort | First Amendment
Sean R. Smith is a founding member of Continuum and a member of the Litigation Department. For more than 30 years, Sean has represented companies and individuals in many different areas of litigation and alternative dispute resolution, including business contract and tort matters, banking law, antitrust actions, shareholder and securities litigation, environmental litigation and libel and related First Amendment issues. He’s tried multiple actions in state and federal courts in Georgia and surrounding states, including a representation of Time Inc., which was noted as one of the 15 significant defense verdicts in the country in 1996. Sean has represented clients in appeals in state and federal courts and advised clients on methods of avoiding litigation and making litigation more effective and efficient when it is necessary.
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