Pete Jacxsens primarily represents defendants in land use, property, transportation and commercial disputes.  Pete also represents professionals and business people who have been sued in the course and scope of doing their jobs with a particular focus on representing financial institutions and their associates in FINRA arbitration actions.  Pete also advises and represents insurance companies in coverage matters.

Professional Experience

Pete has first-chair trial experience in both jury and non-jury cases.

Pete has obtained multiple favorable outcomes for his clients in FINRA arbitrations including a pre-hearing dismissal of an arbitration brought by a former employee against the firm on two associated persons and expungement of another arbitration arising out of a customer dispute.

Pete tried a case brought by a homeowner against a contractor alleging defective workmanship resulting in property damage.  At the conclusion of the trial, Pete obtained a judgment for the contractor on the homeowner’s claims and was awarded damages on the contractor’s counterclaim against the homeowner for the balance due for the work completed.

Pete has also tried premises liability cases and cases alleging property damage due to rainwater and surface water runoff with favorable outcomes for his clients.

Pete successfully represented the defendants in a complicated federal estate case where the Plaintiff alleged that the defendants had exercised undue influence over an elderly family member prior to his death.  The Plaintiff brought claims for breach of fiduciary duty, conversion, fraud, conspiracy, deceptive trade practices and punitive damages.  Prior to trial, the Federal Court granted summary judgment to the defendants on all the Plaintiff’s claims.

Pete obtained the dismissal of million dollar counterclaims against a home improvement company on spoliation of evidence grounds.

Professional affiliations

• Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, Compliance & Legal Society
• Atlanta Bar Association
• Georgia Bar Association

SELECTED DECISIONS

• Tishcon Corp. v. Soundview Commun., Inc., United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division, 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 97309
• Kilday v. Kennestone Physicians Ctr., L.P., Court of Appeals of Georgia, 296 Ga. App. 818. (2009).
• Coon v. State Farm, United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division, 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 98475.
• Progressive Classic Ins. Co. v. Nationwide Mut. Fire Ins. Co.Court of Appeals of Georgia, 294 Ga. App. 787 (2008).
• Rowland v. Rowland, United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division, 2005 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 30296
• Park v. Nichols, Court of Appeals of Georgia, 307 Ga. App. 841 (2011).
• Hardnett v. Silvey, Court of Appeals of Georgia, 285 Ga. App. 424 (2007).
• Soufi v. Haygood, Court of Appeals of Georgia, 282 Ga. App. 593 (2006).

Honors

• Georgia Super Lawyers Rising Star, Super Lawyers Magazine (2006, 2010)

Articles and publications

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Practice areas

Education

J.D., with honors, George Washington University Law School, 2002

• Senior Articles Editor, Public Contract Law Journal, 2001-2002

B.A., summa cum laude, University of Richmond, 1999

Bar admissions

• Georgia

Courts

• United States District Court (Northern and Middle Districts of Georgia)
• United States Court of Appeals (Eleventh Circuit)
• Georgia Supreme Court
• Georgia Court of Appeals

• San Francisco 
• St. Louis 
• Los Angeles 
• Dallas 
• Charleston 
• Austin 
• Atlanta