Donaldson & Guin

read moreThe Wall Street Journal has published a story on how investors have been burned by complex securities in the recent volatility in the stock markets. These securities may take the form of supposed "Certificates of Deposit" or "Notes", that give the appearance of secure debt investments, but which, in actuality, are highly leveraged investments tied to stock market indices and to complex algorithms tied to the differential between various interest rate differentials. Institutional investors largely avoid these types of investments, so unscrupulous brokers have foisted them on trusting individual clients.

read moreWe do one thing: civil litigation - primarily complex business, financial and class action litigation. We don't draft wills, lobby Congress, give tax advice, defend DUIs, draft shopping center leases or negotiate collective bargaining agreements. Instead, our cases typically involve accounting issues, business valuations, shareholder control fights, derivative actions, business "divorces" among co-owners, covenants not to compete, municipal bond defaults, securities fraud, antitrust violations, whistleblower claims, and class actions.

read moreGuin Stokes & Evans attorneys have extensive experience representing business owners and their companies in a variety of business and commercial disputes. Here are just a few examples taken from published court decisions in the hundreds of business litigation cases that our lawyers have successfully handled. We've also included a few links to articles or seminar handouts we have written that may be of interest. For more information about our business litigation practice, contact Tammy Stokes or Dawn Evans.

read moreConsumer Frauds - Most of our consumer fraud cases are brought as class actions, because individual consumer frauds often may not be handled economically on an individual basis. Our consumer fraud cases have involved mortgage overcharges and servicing issues, violations of federal statutes (e.g., RESPA, ECOA, TILA, CROA) and state laws (e.g., UDAP, deceptive trade practices), defective products, failure of companies to honor their product warranties, credit repair frauds, bankruptcy violations, wage-and-hour law violations, and unconstitutional taxes.

read moreNamed by Birmingham Magazine as one of Birmingham's top business litigators, David Guin's law practice emphasizes complex financial litigation on a national scale, often including securities and antitrust class actions. Although most securities class actions involve straightforward allegations of fraud in the wake of a sudden stock drop, Guin's securities cases more often address particularly unique situations that require creative litigation approaches. Tammy McClendon Stokes Since joining the firm in 1998, Tammy Stokes has exercised lead roles in many of the firm's highest profile cases, including the HealthSouth Bondholder Litigation, the Culpepper mortgage litigation under RESPA, our OSB (Oriented Strand Board) price-fixing litigation, and Kentucky Dept. of Revenue v. Davis, which she took all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.