Attorneys

Founder of the law firm of G. Roger Land & Associates, Roger received both his bachelors (Business Administration with a major in insurance and risk management in 1964) and law degree (1967) from the University of Georgia. He was admitted to practice law in the state of Georgia in 1966 and in the state of Florida in 1981.

Roger has over fifty years of experience involving general litigation, real estate, corporate law, contract law, international law, and administrative law. He has frequently lectured on property tax, land use, and survey matters. He is experienced in real estate litigation, having successfully challenged the constitutionality of zoning laws in the City of Atlanta, Fulton County, Forsyth County, and other metropolitan counties.

Now concentrating his practice on Georgia property tax law, Roger is successfully representing timber companies, real estate investment trusts (R.E.I.T.s), developers, hotel owners, office building owners, shopping center owners, commercial property owners, and home owners in administrative matters before arbitrators, boards of equalization, hearing officers, and superior courts concerning property tax assessments and collection of municipal and county ad valorem taxes in metropolitan Atlanta and across Georgia.

He has served as the Chairman of the Property Tax Subcommittee of the Georgia State Bar and currently serves as co-chairman of  the Property Tax Legislative Advisory Committee which liaisons with the Georgia Legislature. Roger helped draft Senate Bill 346 through many revisions to final adoption. SB 346 was the first property tax bill that contained working input from tax lawyers, assessors, chief staff appraisers, tax commissioners, the Association of County Commissioners, the Clerks of Superior Court, and every lobbying group that was affected by the bill. He currently has property tax appeals pending in over forty counties in Georgia.

Roger is a member of Phi Delta Phi; the Atlanta Bar Association; the State Bar of Georgia; the Florida Bar; the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association; the Lawyers Club of Atlanta; the Georgia Association Of Assessing Officials; the Georgia Forestry Association; and Business Executives For National Security.

Mitchell received his undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia in 2004, double majoring in political science and economics. He attended the Georgia State University College of Law and was admitted to practice in 2009. His practice focuses on managing - and lowering -  the property tax burden on hundreds of thousands of acres of timberland located in more than fifty counties throughout the State of Georgia, Alabama, and Florida. He has accrued millions of dollars in tax savings for his clients, among them real estate investment trusts (R.E.I.T.s), timber management organizations (T.M.O.s), charitable foundations, and private landowners. Mitchell also represents clients in various civil litigation matters, with an emphasis on family law and personal injury. Mitchell Mitchell is admitted in the Georgia Supreme Court, the Georgia Court of Appeals, and the Northern District of Georgia. He is a member of the Real Property and Family Law Sections of the Georgia Bar, the Georgia Association of Assessing Officials, and the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association.