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Maria E. Dalmanieras is a partner with the Firm. She is originally from Milford, Massachusetts. Maria received her B.A. in Classics from the College of the Holy Cross in Worchester, Massachusetts and thereafter attended law school at the University of Miami where she graduated cum laude in 1999. While in law school, Maria was the Community Outreach Chairperson for Miami Law Women, and she was an editor for the law school newspaper, Res Ipsa Loquitur. Maria is a Board Certified Trial attorney by the Florida Bar. Her practice focuses in the areas of personal injury and insurance defense litigation, including construction litigation, premises liability, auto liability, products liability, legal malpractice, wrongful death litigation, indemnification, subrogation claims, first party insurance claims, and medical malpractice. She has successfully obtained numerous defense verdicts for her clients during her almost twenty years of practice and is well respected within the legal community as a trial lawyer. Her previous partnership position before joining the Firm was with Restani & Dalmanieras, P.A.

Area of Practice: Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Peter Dalmasy advises publicly traded and privately held clients on a broad range of employee benefits and executive compensation matters in the context of mergers, acquisitions and other transaction structures including the treatment of incentive compensation plans and equity awards, advising on Internal Revenue Code Section 280G golden parachute requirements and drafting and negotiating employment, consulting and severance agreements.

Charles M. Dalziel, Jr. is well suited now to begin his own practice, as he has 39 years total experience in the practice of law and 32 years being rated as an AV lawyer by Martindale Hubbell. While many veteran defense lawyers start their own firms with the decision to represent plaintiffs only in contingent fee cases, this is not my intent. While I am a member of the Multi Million Dollar Advocates Forum with one settlement reaching $11.4 million, I also have extensive experience as a defense lawyer and have been rated as one of Georgia’s Top 100 Civil Defense Lawyers and as one Of Georgia’s Top Rated Employment Lawyers since 2013. I am also a Georgia Super Lawyer, having first been granted that distinction in 2010. The core of my practice concerns non-compete, non-solicitation and non-disclosure agreements and trade secrets claims. “The work I do” includes almost every kind of civil litigation cases imaginable–commercial litigation, contract disputes, insurance coverage cases, catastrophic injury litigation especially involving truck wrecks, rate cases for regulated businesses such as insurance companies and telecommunications companies, securities litigation under the 1933 and 1934 Acts, business divorce, trademark fights, Lanham Act controversies, partnership disputes, corporate governance disputes, claims under state Trade Practice Statutes, and Libel and Slander litigation. My goal in the new practice is to continue at the forefront of restrictive covenant litigation, and also to represent both plaintiffs and defendants in other cases within my experience, sometimes under alternative fee arrangements, always with the assurance that the client gets a bargain even when I bill hourly. “The work I do I do” means I don’t downstream cases to new associates as a training exercise (or worse yet, as an effort to pile up my origination dollars by downstreaming work to less qualified associates– the client gets my work, done by someone of my credentials, with my track record of success. I am the chairman of the State Bar Audit Committee, the chairman of the Atlanta Bar Association’s Alternative Dispute Resolution section, and a member of the Atlanta Bar’s Board of Directors for its Litigation Section, and a member of the Georgia Bar’s Trade Secrets Committee.

To Jonathan S. Damashek, the best part of his job is standing up for people who deserve their day in court. “I like fighting for the little guy against the large corporate defendants and insurance carriers to help them recover what they lost in their lives,” he says. In this regard, Mr. Damashek seeks to recover monetary compensation for his clients that covers their past and future pain and suffering, medical expenses, lost earnings and benefits, and loss of their enjoyment of life.