In the category of Best General Commercial 2008, ChambersUSA America's Leading Lawyers for Business Guide described Halsey Knappas an "aggressive and attentive litigator" with good trial experienceand a strong reputation for business break-up cases. Halsey puts it more simply: “I know how to try cases and I enjoy what I do very much.”

Halsey specializes in Atlanta Business Litigation and tries civil cases in state and federal courts in Georgia and other states. His multifaceted practice includes representing clients in complexcommercial litigation, business tort, trade secret, restrictivecovenant, technology litigation, and employment law.

“There are generally three different kinds of experiences that Ihave in my practice. I have a group of existing clients that I handleall of their business issues: employment issues, relationships withsuppliers, relationships with competitors, problems with governance andregulators, and so forth. Also I get a tremendous number of referralsfrom other law firms, and those are typically business tort cases thattend to center on corporate governance and disputes between businessowners. Finally, my partners have a lot of real estate clients, so I doa good deal of real estate litigation – especially in the currenteconomic environment.”