Don's practice includes drafting and negotiating coal supply agreements, transportation agreements, and ash management agreements for electric-generating plants and handling disputes related to such contracts. He has also conducted internal corporate investigations and served as an arbitrator and as counsel in various commercial arbitration and mediation proceedings.
Representative Experience
Lead counsel for Georgia Power Company and other public utilities in condemnation proceedings to acquire property for electric substations, transmission lines, and communications facilities and in litigation matters involving real property throughout the State of Georgia, both at trial and appellate court levels.
Lead counsel for property owners in various condemnation proceedings brought by Georgia Dept. of Transportation, City of Atlanta, Fulton County, Cobb County, and DeKalb County.
Lead counsel for Georgia Power Company and other Southern Company subsidiaries in drafting and negotiating coal contracts and ash management contracts and in related disputes and litigation.
Arbitrator and counsel in various commercial arbitration and mediation proceedings.
Counsel for property owners in litigation concerning acquisition and financing for Underground Atlanta redevelopment.
Other Distinctions
Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America in Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law (2007-2012).
Work Experience
Partner, Troutman Sanders LLP, 1986-present
Associate, Troutman Sanders LLP, 1978-1986
Memberships
· Atlanta Bar Association
· State Bar of Georgia
· Speaker at seminars on eminent domain and real property matters