M. Michael Egan
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Top Rated Family Law Attorney with 47 years of experience
Insurance, Construction
1180 Peachtree Street, North East, Suite 3000, Atlanta, GA 30309
About M. Michael Egan
Practice Areas
- Insurance
- Construction
Education
- University of Georgia School of Law, Athens, Georgia, 1976J.D.
- Honors: cum laude
- Honors: Member, Moot Court Board, 1975
- Law Review: Georgia Law Review, Notes Editor, 1975 - 1976
- Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 1973M.A.
- Honors: cum laude
- Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 1972B.A.
- Honors: cum laude
Qualifications
Bar Admissions
- Georgia, 1976
- U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit, 1978
- U.S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit, 1981
- U.S. District Court Middle District of Georgia, 1976
- U.S. District Court Northern District of Georgia, 1978
- U.S. District Court Southern District of Georgia, 1988
Other Affiliations
- American Arbitration Association (Arbitrator, Construction Industry Panel of Arbitrators)
- American Bar Association, 1979 - Present (Member, Committee on Surety and Fidelity Law)
- American Bar Association, 1982 - Present (Member, Forum Committee on the Construction Industry)
- Atlanta Bar Association (Board of Directors, Section of Construction Law)
- American Bar Association, 1993 - 1994 (Vice Chair)
- State Bar of Georgia (Member)
- Atlanta Bar Association (Member)
- Georgia Bar Association
Past Positions
- Honorable Wilbur D. Owens, Jr., United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, Law Clerk, 1976 - 1978
Articles
Published Works
- Case Management, Construction Litigation, Wiley, 1989
- Discharge of the Performance Bond Surety, The Law of Suretyship, American Bar Association, 1993
- "Chapter Seven: The Indemnity Agreement and the Handling of Surety Claims,", The Surety's Indemnity Agreement- Law & Practice 2nd Edition, 2008
- "Owner Defenses to Lien Claims and Removal of Invalid Liens,", Construction Mechanics and Materialmen's Liens, Georgia Institute of Continuing Legal Education, Atlanta, May, 2007
- "Practical Implications of Bankruptcy on the Parties Rights in a Construction Contract,", The Construction Lawyer, Vol.22:2, Spring, 2002
- "Defending a Mechanics Lien Foreclosure Action", Construction Mechanics' and Materialmen's Liens, Georgia Institute of Continuing Legal Education, Atlanta, May, 2001
- "Construction Claims against Public Payment Bonds", Construction Mechanics' and Materialmen's Liens, Georgia Institute of Continuing Legal Education, Atlanta, May, 2000
- "The Owner's Perspective on Three AIA Forms: The New B141, the A312 Performance Bond and the G707 Consent of Surety to Final Payment", Commercial Real Estate Law, Georgia Institute of Continuing Legal Education, Atlanta, December, 1997
- Program Chair, Construction Mechanics' and Materialmen's Liens, Georgia Institute of Continuing Legal Education, Atlanta, May, 1997
- "Construction Claims Against Public Payment Bonds", Construction Mechanics' and Materialmen's Liens, Georgia Institute of Continuing Legal Education, Savannah, May, 1996
- Program Co-Chair, Construction Law Summit: Contract Termination in Public and Private Construction, ABA Forum on the Construction Industry, Section of Public Contract Law and TIPS Fidelity & Surety Law Committee, New York, October, 1996
- "Dispute Resolution", American Bar Association, TIPS Fidelity & Surety Law Committee (paper presented to the Mid-Year Meeting, Fidelity & Surety Law Committee), New York, 1995
- "Chapter 12: Discharge of the Performance Bond Surety," and "Chapter 13: The Surety's Other Performance Bond Defenses," The Law of Suretyship, American Bar Association, Torts and Insurance Practice Section (paper presented for the Fidelity & Surety Law Committee in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Atlanta), 1993
- "Foreclosure of a Mechanics and Materialmen's Lien", Construction, Mechanics' & Materialmen's Liens, Georgia Institute of Continuing Legal Education, Atlanta, May
- "Representing the Georgia Surety", Construction Law, Georgia Institute of Continuing Legal Education, Atlanta, November, 1991
- "Enforceability of Arbitral Awards," Arbitration Day, American Arbitration Association, Atlanta, November, 1990
- "Chapter 2 - Case Management", Construction Litigation: Strategies and Techniques, Wiley Law Publications, 1989
- "Construction Contracts: Contract Formation and How to Avoid Problems", Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute National Meeting, Chicago, 1989
- "Construction Claims Under Georgia Law", The Cambridge Institute, 1988
- Program Chair, Construction Litigation, Georgia Institute of Continuing Legal Education, Atlanta, April, 1986
- "Damages Against A Surety, Including An In Depth Look at Punitive Damages", Forum Committee on the Construction Industry, Denver, April, 1985
- "Is the Language of Bonds Really Clear?: An Examination of Old Bond Forms and the New AIA Bonds", TIPS Fidelity & Surety Law Committee (paper presented to the Annual Meeting, Fidelity & Surety Committee, Washington, D.C.), July, 1985
- "Construction Contract Disputes and the Surety", Construction Contract Disputes, Atlanta Bar Association, Atlanta, November, 1983
- "Civil Constitutional Law", 31 Mercer Law Review 885, Fifth Circuit Survey, 1980
- "Cost-Benefit Analysis in the Federal Courts: Judicial Review Under NEPA", 9 Georgia Law Review 417, 1975
- Co-Authored, "Redistributive Impact of the Atlanta Rapid Transit System", 42 Southern Economic Journal 49, A version of Master's thesis, 1975
- Co-Authored, "Income Distribution Effects of the Atlanta Transit System", 516 Transportation Research Record 35, A version of Master's thesis, 1974
Office Info
Other Colleagues
- 37 years of experienceInsurance, Premises Liability, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Personal Injury
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