Legal Counsel Built for Business Owners
We Help Business Owners Reduce Risk, Get Paid, and Protect What They’ve Built.
Trusted Legal Advisors Numbers That Speak for Themselves.
Businesses Supported
Trusted by companies across Georgia and the Southeast for business law services that go well beyond the transactional.
Practice Areas
From corporate counsel services and privacy law to Mergers & Acquisitions and appellate work—comprehensive coverage for the full business lifecycle.
Millions Recovered
We are trusted by individuals, startups, and large enterprises across multiple industries.
Business Law Guidance for Modern Companies
Who We Are
Smith & Meadows is a Georgia-based business law firm built around a simple idea: Your legal counsel should feel like a trusted member of your leadership team, not a vendor you call when things go sideways.We work with growth-oriented companies across the Southeast, providing outsourced general counsel, business litigation, contract work, M&A support, privacy compliance, and more. We show up for our partners—down-to-earth, direct, and genuinely invested in the businesses we serve.We think like entrepreneurs because we are entrepreneurs, running our firm with the same standards we hold ourselves to in every client relationship.If you've built something worth protecting, you deserve more than a firm that bills by the hour and calls it a day. You deserve a legal partner who sees what's coming before you do, prepares you for it, and fights for you when it matters. That's what we do.
Business Legal Services Tailored to You.
Business Agreements
Contracts that protect you, drafted, reviewed, and negotiated with your business interests front and center.
Business Litigation
When disputes arise, we deliver strong, strategic representation. Our team handles complex business conflicts with a focus on minimizing disruption, protecting your interests, and achieving favorable outcomes.
Tree Service Legal Support
Built for the tree service industry, legal protection from contracts to disputes, rooted in how your business actually works.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Buying, selling, or restructuring a business is a big move. We make sure you're protected every step of the way.
In-House Counsel/General Counsel
Experienced In-House Counsel/General Counsel, available on your terms, without the cost of a full-time in-house legal department.
Strategic Planning
Think of us as your legal co-pilot, building strategy that protects your business today and sets it up for tomorrow.
Privacy
Privacy law is evolving fast. We keep you ahead of it, compliant, confident, and protected.
Company Formation & Setup
The right legal foundation from day one. Entity structure, governance, and compliance built for how you actually do business.
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Cybersecurity
When a breach happens (or before it does), you need a legal team that's ready. We help you prepare and respond.
Data Strategy
Your data is an asset and a liability. We help you manage both sides of the equation.
Appellate Services
When the stakes get higher, so does our game. We handle complex appeals with precision and persistence.
Meet Our Attorneys
Christopher Horton
Christopher Horton
Christopher Horton
Chris serves Smith & Meadows’s litigation and business advising practice areas, assisting companies—both for-profit and nonprofit organizations, on complex litigation matters and business legal services. Prior to Smith & Meadows, he worked in a law firm, in which he practiced business and estate planning, intellectual property law, and probate. Chris has served as a volunteer with the Liberty University Intellectual Property Clinic, where he assisted small businesses and nonprofits in issues pertaining to trademark and copyright law.
Credentials
Bar Admissions:
Georgia
Court Admissions:
- Georgia Courts
Education:
- Liberty University School of Law, magna cum laude
- Member of the Honors Program and Dean’s List
- Liberty University, Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude
Publications/Awards/Volunteer
- Before the Hourglass Runs Out: A Solution to the Impending Insolvency of Medicare Part A, 16 Liberty University Law Review 31 (2021).
- Symposium Editor, Liberty University Law Review
- Distinguished Service Award
- Volunteer for the Liberty University Intellectual Property Clinic
- Member of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Team at Liberty University School of Law
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Blake Meadows
Blake Meadows
Blake Meadows
Blake Meadows leads Smith & Meadows's litigation and business advising practice areas, representing companies on complex litigation matters and business legal services. Prior to Smith & Meadows, he worked for a boutique law firm and prior to that the Alliance Defending Freedom where he represented First Amendment constitutional claims of students against public colleges and universities.
Credentials
Bar Admissions:
Georgia
Court Admissions:
- All Georgia Courts
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
- U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Education:
- Emory University School of Law
- Juris Doctor (With Honors and Dean’s List)
- Order of Emory Advocates (Faculty selected recognition of excellence in oral advocacy).
- Robert W. Woodruff Fellowship
- Law Journal: Emory Corporate Governance and Accountability Review
Publications:
- Low Costs of Oil Prices Impact Energy Decisions: Geopolitics and Investments, 3
- Emory Corp. Governance and Accountability Rev. 2069 (2016).
- Defining Waters of the United States: Economic Burden Attaching to Real Property, 3
- Emory Corp. Governance and Accountability Rev. 2005 (2015).
Moot Court:
- Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition (various awards).
- New York City Bar Association: National Moot Court Competition (various awards)
- Patrick Henry College
- Bachelor of Arts (Magna cum laude & highest honors)
- Oratory Award (graduation award, awarded to one student)
- Moot Court and Debate Teams (various awards)
Adam Smith
Adam leads Smith & Meadows’ Privacy, Cybersecurity, and Data Strategy services with over 13 years of cutting-edge experience in law and technology. Before joining Smith & Meadows, he advised clients from Fortune 500 businesses to nonprofits through various incidents at a global law firm. Prior to his legal career, he supported incident response planning initiatives for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). As data privacy and security concerns galvanized the public, Adam became one of the nation’s go-to professionals as a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, frequent conference speaker, and corporate advisor.
Credentials
Bar Admissions:
Minnesota
Court Admissions:
U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
Education:
- Georgetown University Law Center
- Juris Doctorate (Dean’s List)
- Universidad de Navarra
- Distinguished Scholar
- Patrick Henry College
- B.A. in International Politics and Policy (Magna Cum Laude with High Honors)
Languages:
Spanish
Teaching/Public Service:
- Georgetown University Law Center
- Adjunct Professor of Cybersecurity Law
- United States Coast Guard
- Legal Extern
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