Larry Bogart now concentrates in mediation and arbitration. Previously, he concentrated in real estate, corporate, partnership, construction and general business law practice. His extensive experience in real estate law includes commercial real estate acquisition, sales, development, reorganization, leasing and construction and planned unit developments.

Mr. Bogart is a Georgia Registered Neutral for Arbitration and General Mediation and is an experienced mediator and arbitrator.

During his forty-three years of practice with the Firm, he has dealt with and handled a wide variety of matters including real estate matters, including major, complex leases; acquisitions, sales, financings, and restructures of office, commercial, industrial and mixed use projects; and the creation of condominium regimes and planned unit developments. In addition, he has experience in real estate brokerage issues; construction matters; commercial issues; partnership and limited partnership matters, including formation and dissolution of and advice with regard to partnerships of accountants, lawyers, architects, doctors and real estate developers; corporate governance and intracorporate disputes; limited liability companies; trusts and estates; cooperatives; pest control companies; profit and non-profit corporations; breach of contract; franchising; employment issues; restrictive covenants and unfair competition; bankruptcy; long term disability insurance; uniform commercial code matters; zoning; securities law issues; issues arising with regard to properties on the National Registry of Historical Places; and environmental matters.

His real estate leasing experience on behalf of tenants includes the representation of a major law firm, a big six accounting firm, a national bank and a computer software company as tenants in four of Atlanta's largest office lease transactions and a national chain of large retail stores in approximately forty lease transactions throughout the United States. Mr. Bogart's leasing experience on behalf of landlords includes the representation of five major high rise office buildings and a number of suburban office and industrial-office parks and shopping centers.

Mr. Bogart's real estate experience also includes the creation of the first planned unit development community in the State of Georgia, the establishment of one of the first condominium projects in the State of Georgia, the negotiation and implementation of what was one of the largest single real estate transactions in metropolitan Atlanta and the obtaining of the necessary exemptions under ERISA from the United States Department of Labor for the consummation of that transaction, representation of the owners and redevelopers of buildings listed on the National Registry of Historic Places, representation of real estate brokerage companies and brokers, the representation of a foreign investment company in the acquisition of an inventory of commercial real estate properties located throughout the United States and the acquisition of real estate based operating financing for a national chain of nursing homes.

His corporate and partnership law practice included the general representation of public and closely held companies engaged in importing, manufacturing, retail merchandising and service and transactional representation in the formation and equity financing and acquisition and sale of companies and in the structuring and formation of real estate limited and general partnerships. He handled acquisitions and sales of, and advised in the management of, commercial projects for foreign investors in the United States. He served for two decades as general counsel to a privately held national pest control company and a statewide wholesale grocery cooperative. For twenty-five years, he served as General Counsel to a major real estate developer, and has served in that capacity to a number of other real estate developers, an accounting firm and a number of non-profit corporations.

Mr. Bogart's clients included the State Bar of Georgia in its capacity as a landlord and office building owner, the real estate arm of a major Wall Street investment banking company, a major national bank, two major Atlanta law firms, the real estate arm of a major New York bank, several major Atlanta real estate developers, two major accounting firms in Atlanta, major mixed use projects and a national chain of large retail stores for whom Mr. Bogart handled all of its real estate matters.

His construction experience includes the representation of owners and developers of major office buildings, free standing retail stores, industrial office parks and mixed use developments in the preparation and administration of construction contracts and in disputes with contractors. Mr. Bogart prepared the construction contract for the main terminal building at the Atlanta airport and has represented a developer of airline cargo facilities at a major northeastern airport. He has represented architects in a variety of matters and has lectured on construction contracts and architectural contracts to the loan officers of a major national bank.

Mr. Bogart handled a unique transaction that partnered an employee pension fund of a major national company with a real estate developer and manager for a long-term, ongoing ownership and development of present and future projects. This transaction may be the first of an arrangement between a developer and pension fund for other than a single project ownership.

Mr. Bogart has published a case study of the work involved in obtaining reversal of a U.S. Department of Interior disapproval of renovation plans for a building listed on the National Registry of Historic Places. He has conducted seminars on the Georgia condominium law for the Institute of Continuing Legal Education and has lectured for the Atlanta Board of Realtors.

Mr. Bogart served as an officer in the U.S. Army from 1953 to 1955 and is a native of Atlanta, Georgia. In 2002 he was honored with the Of Counsel Award by the State Bar of Georgia.