General Business

We provide a full array of legal services and counsel to corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, joint ventures, real estate investment trusts, associations, and individuals. Services rendered include counsel and representation in the areas of incorporations, partnership matters, employment law, construction law, and trademark and copyright, with emphasis on services for health care providers, developers, automobile dealerships, and construction industry businesses.

Transactions

Several members of the firm are largely concerned with "transactional practice," including mergers, divestitures, acquisitions, and proxy disputes, financing and security arrangements. In addition, we are regularly involved in corporate financial matters, including industrial development bond financing and refinancing. The firm is, and has been for some time, listed by the Bond Buyers Directory of Municipal Bond Dealers ("The Red Book") in its list of municipal bond attorneys of the United States. In one year, the firm was bond counsel with respect to more bonds (by dollar amount) than any other firm in Tennessee.

Financial and Estate Planning

We routinely prepare simple and complex wills and trusts, and the attorneys in this practice area also serve clients’ needs regarding tax planning, tax audits, probate and estate administration, charitable and foundation organization and representation, pension and profit sharing matters, and formation of family limited partnerships. We are keenly aware of the issues surrounding generational succession in small business, and we help determine and implement plans for business longevity as it handed down generation to generation. We represent individuals, as well as businesses. Several of our attorneys act as trustees, and we prepare individual, gift, corporate, partnership, and fiduciary tax returns.

Litigation and Dispute Resolution

Our substantial litigation practice includes prosecuting and defending business, construction, corporate, domestic relations, employment, estate, environmental, intellectual property, personal injury, real estate, securities and tax matters in state and federal courts throughout the Southeast. We represent insurance policyholders and also liability, casualty and workers’ compensation insurance carriers in cases ranging from professional malpractice to products liability to automobile collisions. We also handle litigation for multiple health care providers. We represent clients in arbitration, mediation and other alternative dispute proceedings, and a number of our attorneys are certified arbitrators and mediators. We also handle the defense of certain white-collar civil and criminal matters.

Governmental

Firm members have served as special consultants for the Tennessee Department of Labor and the Tennessee Department of Employment Security. We are also general counsel to Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise, Inc., a nationally recognized public/private partnership for affordable housing. In addition, we represent clients on matters before agencies, departments, and commissions of the Tennessee government, the Federal government, and before the Tennessee General Assembly on legislative matters.

Health

The Grant Konvalinka & Harrison health law group represents physicians, home health agencies, hospitals, nursing homes and other healthcare providers in both administrative proceedings and litigation. Specifically, the health law group represents medical providers in obtaining certificates of need, licensure, staff privileges, Medicare certification, and HIPAA compliance. The group further provides representation to health care providers who are denied reimbursement by insurance companies, Medicare or TennCare. Members of the health care group have represented medical providers before various state agencies, as well as the federal Departmental Appeals Board, the Provider Reimbursement Review Board and district courts and courts of appeals.

Environmental

We provide a full range of legal and consultation services to corporations and individuals needing assistance in the fast moving field of environmental law. Our environmental practice has more than a decade of government regulatory experience, unique working relationships with regulators and government officials, and an insider's understanding of complex technical issues. We have experience in: solid waste and hazardous substances issues; sophisticated property transactions and environmental due diligence; proceedings relating to toxic substances, industrial hygiene and environmental enforcement; and environmental lobbying. We also have extensive new source siting and permitting capabilities.

Real Estate

We provide a full range of legal and consultation services for all aspects of real estate transactions, including development, leasing, sale, and title issues. We have experience on a national basis in office, multi-unit apartment, shopping center, large residential and golf course development. We are an agent for Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company and provide full title insurance services for both commercial and residential closings.

Bankruptcy

We provide a full range of legal and consultation services to clients in all areas of bankruptcy law. We represent numerous creditors, including mortgage companies, automobile financial institutions and other commercial lenders, and lessors and lessees of debtors in bankruptcy cases. In addition, members of our firm are experienced in the representation of creditor's committees, trustees, defendants in preference and other bankruptcy litigation and individual debtors in Chapter 7 and 13 cases and business debtors in Chapter 7 liquidations and Chapter 11 reorganizations.

Intellectual Property

We provide a full range of services with regard to the administration and registration of trademarks, copyrights, trade names, and assumed names. We also provide counsel regarding the protection of trade secrets, and have assisted many clients with regard to obtaining patent protection. We will audit a client's business practices to determine the need for protection of intellectual property assets, including the development of noncompetition and confidentiality agreements for both employees and third parties. We also both defend and prosecute related suits, such as infringement actions, in state and federal courts.

Employment

The Grant Konvalinka & Harrison employment law group primarily represents employers in connection with claims brought pursuant to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Tennessee Human Rights Act, the American with Disabilities Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, and other state and federal civil rights statutes. Additionally, the employment law group represents employers in connection with wage and hour claims and National Labor Relations Board proceedings. Members of the group have represented parties before state and federal courts and administrative agencies throughout the country.

Creditors’ Rights/Collections

The attorneys of Grant Konvalinka & Harrison have the experience to assist creditors in successfully enforcing their rights. Our firm represents financial institutions, corporations, and individuals in prosecuting actions to collect outstanding debts in the Southeast. We have the ability to take the necessary steps to collect on a judgment once it has been granted including wage garnishments, bank executions, filing of judgment liens and execution on real and personal property. We will domesticate judgments from foreign jurisdictions in several states including Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama, and can assist in collecting on a judgment after it has been domesticated. Furthermore, we conduct foreclosures on our clients’ behalf in eastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia, which can be followed up with dispossessory actions, if need be. Finally, if a debtor opts to file for bankruptcy protection, we have the ability to assist our clients throughout and following the bankruptcy proceedings.

Domestic Relations

Immigration

Taxation