Charles Dalziel

Mr. Dalziel focuses his practice on commercial litigation. He is deeply involved in litigation and arbitration involving trade secrets, restrictive covenants, and unfair competition. Mr. Dalziel has intimate knowledge of the securities and financial services industries and assists professionals who want to avoid extended proceedings regarding their non-compete, non-solicit, or non-disclosure agreements, and employment contracts. Mr. Dalziel also serves managers seeking to recruit additional personnel.In addition to courtroom and arbitration representation of newly hired personnel, Mr. Dalziel counsels individuals and companies about avoiding restrictive covenant and unfair competition litigation through transition planning. Mr. Dalziel's defense team set one of the most widely known precedents in this area of law, Merrill Lynch vs. de Liniere, (572 F. Supp 246 N.D. Ga. 1983). The successful de Liniere transition and the many which followed over the past twenty years established Mr. Dalziel as a leading national expert on securities and financial services industry employment issues.