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 Michael T. Smith Partner
MSmith@amrslaw.com
Mike is a life-long resident of Dacula, Georgia, having graduated from Dacula High School in 1985. He holds a Bachelor's Degree from the University of Georgia in Geography (1989), and a Juris Doctorate Degree from Georgia State University College of Law (1992). His practice is concentrated in two (2) primary areas of law, probate/estate and conservatorship/guardianship work, and business and corporate work. Regarding the first practice area, Mike represents individuals, beneficiaries and fiduciaries, estates, trusts, conservatorships and guardianships in probate and superior courts around the State of Georgia. He also serves as executor, administrator and trustee in over two hundred (200) cases per year, on a continuing basis. In 1993, Mike was appointed to serve a four (4) year term as County Administrator/County Guardian by the Probate Court of Gwinnett County, to represent estates and conservatorships in both legal and fiduciary capacities. Since then, Mike has been appointed to five (5) additional terms, and is now in his sixteenth (16th) year serving Gwinnett County estates and conservatorships as County Administrator/County Conservator. In both his private practice and in his official appointed capacity, Mike and his staff provide detailed legal service from beginning to end, including not only initial filings and formation, but also estate and trust administration, asset management, gift and estate tax planning, post mortem tax planning, and drafting wills and trusts. He is also a speaker at seminars each year regarding probate estates, conservatorships and guardianships.
Mike’s second area of practice is business and corporate law. In this practice, Mike represents a number of business and corporate entities with their day-to-day legal needs, including negotiation and drafting of contracts, employment issues, stock and asset buy-sell agreements, distributorship and licensing agreements, real estate litigation and the like. Presently Mike serves as outside corporate counsel for a number of business and corporate entities located in and around metro Atlanta, and takes over operational aspects of companies when the principal has died, for purposes of running the company and preserving its value for the heirs and beneficiaries.
Mike grew up in Gwinnett County, attending his entire primary school years in the Dacula schools, and continues to live in the Dacula community. Mike is married to wife Jennifer, and has three children, Austin, Landon, and Morgan. The family attends Hebron Baptist Church in Dacula, Georgia. Hobbies include farming and motocross.
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