Summary of Experience:

Thomas Rosseland represents clients engaged in all areas of business, including heavy equipment financing and leasing companies, retail and wholesale distribution businesses with credit facilities, and importers of high quality and high-value products for the consumer and business markets. These clients are based in and operate on the local, regional, national as well as international level. Over the past 22 years of legal practice, Mr. Rosseland has worked with and successfully handled a wide array of complex legal matters for individual and corporate clients, with a dedicated focus on achieving client goals timely and efficiently.  Mr. Rosseland is committed to each client and views each matter as an opportunity to demonstrate a level of dedication and persistence that serves to strengthen the relationship with the client and to justify their confidence in the Firm.  Early in his career, Mr. Rosseland served as in-house counsel for Exxon Corporation (now ExxonMobil).  Mr. Rosseland's experience as in-house counsel for a global corporation has provided him with a unique sensitivity to needs of business clients and their in-house counsel.

Educational Background:

• Admitted to bar, 1986, Texas; 1987, Georgia and South Carolina; 1988, District of Columbia.
• Colgate University (B.A., cum laude, 1982).
• University of South Carolina (J.D., 1986).

Bar Affiliations:

Atlanta Bar Association; American Bar Association; Arbitrator, Fulton County Superior Court and DeKalb County Superior and State Courts; Georgia Trial Lawyers Association; State Bars of Georgia, Texas and South Carolina; District of Columbia Bar.

Area of Specialization/Experience:

Trade Secret Disputes: Representation of employers and employees with respect to the Georgia Trade Secrets Act of 1990, as amended.

Workouts, Restructurings and Bankruptcy Creditor's Rights: Facilitation of business debt workouts, business debt restructurings and/or the surrender or recovery of collateral pledged or owed to business creditors; aggressive representation of creditors in connection with bankruptcy proceedings.

Commercial Litigation: Trial and appellate practice in all state and federal courts relating to complex business and corporate issues; breach of contracts; financial transactions; business claims.

Commercial Construction: Representation of commercial builders, developers, subcontractors, suppliers, materialmen and property owners and tenants in commercial construction disputes, including mechanic's and materialmen's liens, suits to foreclose and discharge liens, as well as surety bond disputes, including those relating to public works projects.

Heavy Equipment Finance and Leasing: Representation of commercial lenders and leasing companies with respect to fleet sales and leasing transactions of heavy equipment used in the transportation and construction industries, as well as post-default remedies, collections, asset and collateral recovery.

Creditor's Rights: Debt recovery; collection strategy; debtor-creditor relations; representation of creditors in connection with pursuit of fraudulent transfers and conveyances; receivership and insolvency proceedings; writs of possession and writs of immediate possession.

Credit Litigation: Defense of consumer lenders and creditors involving claims brought by borrowers for alleged violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Truth in Lending Act, as well as the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.
 
Post-Judgment Collection: Enforcement of judgments; registration of foreign and out of state judgments; garnishment, foreclosure, levy, and attachment.

Speaking Engagements and Publications:

Author and Speaker: "Leveraging Trade Secret Laws to Increase A Company's Corporate Value," presented at the April 22, 2008 Meeting of the Atlanta Chapter of the Georgia Society of CPAs.

Interviewed and featured in article entitled "A Georgia Problem-Solver with Swedish-American Roots," in "Currents", Spring 2008 Edition of magazine published by the Swedish-American Chambers of Commerce USA.

To read the article, click here http://www.sacc-usa.org/magazine/currents_spring08/index.html and turn to page 11 of the magazine.

Legal Panelist and Speaker: "Advanced Debt Collection," presented at the State Bar of Georgia Institute of Continuing Legal Education program, February 21, 2008.

Mr. Rosseland was interviewed by GlobalAtlanta.com regarding his role as Chairman of the Atlanta Chapter of the Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce.  Mr. Rosseland has been working with the chamber's Bioenergy committee to build relationships between Georgia and Sweden on legislative, technology and business opportunities for companies to explore cooperation in biofuels for domestic use and for export, using Georgia's abundant wood resources and other organic materials.

To read the article and view the video clips from the interview click here: http://stories.globalatlanta.com/2007stories/015276.html

Co-Author and Speaker: The New Federal E-Discovery Amendments: Your Duty to Preserve and Produce Electronically Stored Information in Disputed Matters," presented to the Kettering Executive Network on March 7, 2008, and at the Georgia Society of CPAs Tax Forums in Atlanta and Savannah, Georgia, in November, 2007, and at the June 19, 2007 Meeting of the Atlanta Chapter (jointly presented with Aon Consulting).

Legal Panelist and Speaker: "Key Success Factors for Doing Business in the U.S.," Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce, Atlanta, Georgia, 2005.

Author and Speaker:  Settlement of Debts to Avoid Preference and Fraudulent Transfer Liability, presented at the State Bar of Georgia Institute of Continuing Legal Education program, Emerging Issues in Debt Collection, 2002.

Author and Speaker:  Implied Trusts and Fraudulent Conveyances:  A Review of Georgia Law, presented at the State Bar of Georgia Institute of Continuing Legal Education program, Emerging Issues in Debt Collection, 2001.

Honors and Awards:

Named Georgia Super Lawyer, Atlanta Magazine, 2007 & 2008 (listing the top 5% of Georgia attorneys http://www.superlawyers.com)  

"AV" rated by Martindale-Hubbell through anonymous peer review for its highest ratings on legal ability and ethics

Associate Justice, Moot Court, University of South Carolina School of Law

Hon. Strom Thurmond Law School Scholarship, 1984 - 1985

Joseph Hughes Scholarship for Citizenship, Community Service, and Academic Excellence, 1978 - 1982

Civic and Community Organizations:

Mr. Rosseland serves on the Board of Directors and is Chairman of the Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce (Georgia Chapter). He is a member of the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) Atlanta Chapter.  Mr. Rosseland also serves on the Board of Directors of his homeowners' association,  is pro bono legal counsel to several non-profit cultural and charitable organizations, and volunteers in community service activities through his church.