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Luke A. Lantta focuses his practice on general commercial litigation with concentrations in fiduciary litigation, trusts and estates litigation and First Amendment litigation.
Mr. Lantta's fiduciary litigation practice includes representing financial institutions and individuals in a wide range of fiduciary and trust and estate litigation matters, including breach of fiduciary duty claims, will and trust construction, will caveats, actions for removal of trustees and executors, competency claims and actions for trust modification and termination. In addition, Mr. Lantta regularly counsels corporate fiduciaries with respect to the exercise of their duties, including administration of client relationships and management of litigation risks.
Mr. Lantta's First Amendment litigation practice includes representing individuals and corporations in the prosecution of or defense against a wide range of claims, including libel, slander, assault, invasion of privacy and media law claims.
Mr. Lantta is the third recipient of a Fellowship sponsored by the Firm to serve with the Atlanta Legal Aid Society where he successfully litigated cases concerning unemployment compensation, landlord-tenant relations, consumer protection, education law, family law and public benefits.
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Education |
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| J.D., cum laude, Duke University School of Law, 2004
|  | | B.A., high honors, Michigan State University's James Madison College, International Relations, 2001
|  | | B.A., high honors, Michigan State University's James Madison College, Political Theory/Constitutional Democracy, 2001 |  |
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Bar & Court Admissions |
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| Georgia, 2004
|  | | U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, 2005
|  | | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, 2007
|  | | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, 2005
|  | | U.S. Supreme Court, 2008 |  |
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| Atlanta Bar Association, Estate Planning and Probate Section
|  | | Michigan State University Alumni Association of Greater Atlanta, Director
|  | | State Bar of Georgia, Fiduciary Law Section |  |
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Publications |
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The Post-Zelman Voucher Battleground: Where to Turn after Federal Challenges to Blaine Amendments Fail, 67 Law & Contemp. Probs. 213 (2004).
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