Armuchee Lawyers

Attorney Zach Burkhalter is a skilled litigator and zealous advocate. He has has extensive knowledge and experience in the areas of DUI defense, including charges relating to marijuana, prescription drugs, alcohol, and other drugs; criminal defense in misdemeanor and felony cases; family law, including divorce, child custody, child support, legitimation, and father's rights; estate and probate law, including highly contested estates; personal injury matters, including automobile, truck, and motorcycle accidents; firearms law and NFA trusts; and general civil litigation. Zachary Burkhalter has a reputation for success in the courtroom. He has secured numerous not guilty verdicts in criminal jury trials...

Stewart Bratcher is a trial attorney with over a decade of experience in Georgia courtrooms. Upon graduation from law school in 2005 he accepted a position as an Assistant District Attorney in the Cherokee Judicial Circuit (Bartow and Gordon Counties) where he remained employed until founding The Bratcher Firm. While employed as a prosecutor, Stewart handled thousands of criminal cases ranging from traffic violations to capital murder and tried over 100 cases to verdict before a jury or judge in Superior Court. As the office appellate specialist, Stewart served as appellate counsel in more than 20 cases and orally argued...

Randall Carver graduated cum laude from the University of Georgia with a bachelor’s degree in Economics in 2005 and obtained his law degree from the Cumberland School of Law at Samford University in 2008. Since then, he has concentrated his practice on consumer bankruptcy where he worked for one of Atlanta’s largest consumer bankruptcy firms managing their Rome division.
Over his career, Mr. Carver has helped thousands of clients gain control over their finances and protect their property. Mr. Carver aggressively represents his clients’ interests by pursuing unscrupulous creditors who illegally harass borrowers and violate the Fair Debt Collections Practices Act.

David C. Smith is an estate planning and elder law attorney in Rome, Georgia. David began practicing law in 1998 after receiving his law degree from the University of Georgia.

Firm member T. Neal Brunt has been serving clients since 1988. Before creating his current firm, Mr. Brunt served as a law clerk to Superior Court Judges in the Cherokee Judicial Circuit. He established Brunt & Hood, LLC with Jason P. Hood and Jeffrey M. Hood in 2005.

Lee joined MSP as an associate in 2012 and was elected to the Partnership in 2019. Lee's practice focuses heavily on litigation and he advises clients on a wide range of disputes, from personal injury to complex contract disputes . He routinely handles cases all the way from seeking efficient resolution at the negotiation phase through trial and, when necessary, the appellate court level. Lee’s client-focused mentality has resulted in numerous 5 and 6 figure settlements for injured victims. Lee is a Rome native and graduated from Darlington School in 2005. Lee attended the University of Georgia where he graduated early...

Patrick A. Matson is one of the founding partners of Matson & Matson. He practices in the area of personal injury, with an emphasis on automobile wrecks, truck wrecks, premises liability including slip and falls, trip and falls, and inadequate security, wrongful death, nursing home abuse and neglect, and cases involving catastophic injury or death.

David Guldenschuh is an attorney and native of Rome, Georgia. He is a 1981 cum laude graduate of the University of Notre Dame Law School. After serving a federal appeals court clerkship, he began practicing law in Atlanta at the firm of King & Spalding. Due to the serious illness of his daughter, David returned to Rome in 1990 where he joined the firm then known as Smith Shaw & Maddox. He started his current solo practice in 2004. His practice includes business law and litigation, personal injury and automobile accidents, trusts, will and estates, employment discrimination law, election...

Joann Brown Williams has been litigating for well over a decade. Joann’s “bread-and-butter” is business litigation, including breach of contract, corporate governance, trade secret, non-compete and non-solicit covenants, employment related disputes in the areas of discrimination, harassment and retaliation. Her “chocolate,” however, are claims dealing with First Amendment and defamation. Joann has tried cases throughout Northeast Georgia in both State and Federal Courts and has practiced in State and Federal Courts throughout the country. Joann has been involved in several high profile cases that have been written about in The Los Angeles Times, The National Law...

U. S. Army 1969 - 1971; Vietnam Veteran