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White Collar Defense
For a professional or business owner, a fraud allegation threatens everything at once: liberty, license, livelihood, and name. These cases are handled with discretion from the first call.
The Approach
Fraud cases are document cases. We read them like deal lawyers.
Theft by taking, embezzlement, and fraud prosecutions are built on records: bank statements, ledgers, emails, wire instructions. The same documents almost always tell more than one story, and the firm’s corporate practice reads financial paper for a living. That combination, trial lawyer and deal counsel on the same file, is how competing narratives get built and sold to a prosecutor or a jury.
White collar matters rarely stay in one lane. A criminal investigation often arrives with a civil lawsuit, a licensing board inquiry, or an employer’s internal investigation attached. Every statement made in one forum echoes in the others, and we coordinate all of them so nothing said to save your job convicts you in court.
Where the facts allow it, the best outcome is the case that never gets charged. Pre-charge advocacy, restitution dynamics, and quiet resolution are pursued first; trial readiness is what makes them credible.
What we handle
Financial and business crime matters.
- Fraud & theft by takingGeorgia’s broadest financial charges, defended record by record.
- Embezzlement allegationsEmployee and fiduciary cases, where intent is the whole fight.
- Forgery & financial instrumentsChecks, cards, and signatures, and the proof problems they carry.
- Internal investigationsCounsel when your company, or your employer, starts asking questions.
- Professional license exposureCoordinating the criminal defense with the board inquiry it triggers.
- Restitution negotiationsWhere repayment is the right lever, structured to protect you.
Questions
Before you call.
Can this be resolved before charges are filed?
Sometimes. Prosecutors have discretion before indictment that largely disappears after it, and early advocacy, sometimes paired with restitution, can change the charging decision. No one can promise it; positioning for it is the point of calling early.
Will my employer or licensing board find out?
Collateral consequences are managed as part of the defense, not discovered after it. We coordinate what is said where, and when, so one forum does not sink another.
What is the realistic exposure?
It depends on the amount alleged, the documentation, and your history. What we can tell you, candidly and early, is how the State will see the file and what each path costs.
Contact
Talk to a trial lawyer today
Tell us what you are facing. We will tell you where you stand and what to do next.
Canton Office
101 Woodland Way, Suite 1C
Canton, GA 30114
Phone: (770) 693-8715
Monday to Friday, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Florida office, by appointment:
1831 NW 33rd Street
Oakland Park, FL 33309
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Criminal and civil matters go directly to Mitch Skandalakis. Prefer the phone? Call (770) 693-8715.