Richard Alembik

Richard S. "Rick" Alembik - general_mailbox@alembik.com

Recognized as a Super Lawyer® ("Rising Star") in Georgia's legal community by the state's top lawyers, Alembik has been providing his clients practical legal advice and representation for almost 20 years. His focus: preventing and resolving disputes that arise from real estate-,business-, and construction-related matters.

He also assists his clients with the formation and protection of their business entities and assets with special attention to harmonious relations between partners and shareholders.

In addition to his av rating and "Rising Star" status, testament to Alembik’s effectiveness is his having won multi-million dollar jury verdicts and having litigated, arbitrated and mediated many hundreds of other legal disputes to successful resolution.

Alembik's most satisfying professional accomplishments, however, have been those that did not get into the courts or the headlines: Negotiated resolutions that avoided litigation and preserved constructive business relationships.

An attorney who negotiates and drafts agreements is more effective when he has also tried courtroom cases involving commercial issues. By the same token, an attorney who litigates commercial issues is more effective when he is armed with real world experience in negotiating and drafting contracts. Alembik’s transactional and litigation expertise has thus enabled him to provide his clients a fairly unique perspective in addressing their legal needs. His track record representing title insurance companies has also given him a valuable perspective on issues related to real estate.

A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Drew University in New Jersey, Alembik went on to earn a Juris Doctorate from the University of Georgia School of Law where he was elected to be the Executive Editor of the GEORGIA JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LAW. Alembik has studied at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, the Université Libre de Bruxelles, the Hague Academy of International Law, and the United Nations Secretariat. While in law school, Alembik was elected to chair the International Law Students Association of the American Society of International Law.

Alembik has published several articles on issues of international competition and corporate law. He regularly lectures on various legal topics at continuing legal education seminars, and to other non-legal organizations. He has made TV appearances as a legal commentator, and provided consultation on state legislation to Georgia legislators and study groups.

In addition to practicing law in the Atlanta area, Alembik has worked at law firms in London, England and Paris, France. Alembik speaks English (native), French (bilingual) and Spanish (proficient). Although he has been a lawyer since 1991, Alembik has been working in the legal field in various capacities (courthouse runner, law clerk, legal assistant) for almost 30 years.

Alembik is admitted to practice before all trial and appellate courts of the State of Georgia, the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Judicial Circuit and the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Middle Districts of Georgia. The National Association of Consumer Advocates, Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, DeKalb County Bar Association, Lawyers Club of Atlanta, and Real Estate Section of the State Bar of Georgia count Alembik as one of their active members.

Alembik is a third generation Atlantan and second generation Atlanta attorney. He is the sixth member of his immediate family to practice law in Atlanta. (A seventh "Alembik" has recently been admitted to the bar.) Alembik attended and graduated from the Westminster Schools in Atlanta.

Alembik's personal interests include raising his two children, landscaping his property, architecture, politics, and military history.


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