OUR STORY

ABOUT OUR FIRM

Back in 2019, Todd retired from his long and successful career in the full-time practice of law. At the time of his retirement, he was Senior Counsel with Slepian, Schwartz and Landgaard near his home in the Peachtree City area. He handled civil litigation for the firm, widely recognized as one of the top law firms in the region.

It was during his tenure with the Slepian firm that he accepted divorce cases for the first time in his career and saw that they were fundamentally different from other civil litigation cases in a number of respects. He began to develop and refine his four secrets to avoiding the costly perfect storm of divorce, and recognized the potential of using the secrets to help his clients.

Todd has been the principal of his own bankruptcy law firm and holds a bachelor’s degree in finance in addition to his law degree, so he has the background and experience to guide his clients through the widely varied economic challenges of divorce.

Todd started this part-time solo practice from his home office to offer clients the option of exploring early divorce agreements, a strategy not commonly available through other family law attorneys in Georgia.

He accepts only a few clients at a time, which allows him to give those clients the attention they deserve, and also be free to enjoy his retirement.

ABOUT OUR ATTORNEY

Todd’s legal career spans forty years and thousands of cases.

Todd is a former Chief Assistant District Attorney. He has successfully conducted more than one hundred felony jury trials in Superior Court as lead counsel. He also directed the prosecutions against more than a dozen different death penalty murder defendants, all of whom were convicted and sentenced to life in prison or death. See, e.g., Sealey v. State, 277 Ga. 617, 593 S. E. 2d 335 (2004).

One of his cases was featured in the television series Surviving Evil episode of “Money, Madness and Murder” produced by Cineflix Productions for the ID Network, a case for which he was honored with the 2002 Victim’s Service Award as Outstanding Prosecutor by the Crime Victims’ Advocacy Council.

He has successfully handled more than seventy-five appeals, almost exclusively as lead counsel for the appellee. They include the presentation of a number of oral arguments before the Supreme Court of Georgia, and one before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

Todd has been honored to participate as a speaker and/or moderator in more than a dozen different seminars and programs approved for continuing legal education credits by the State Bar of Georgia, including a presentation to the Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers while he was a prosecutor.

He has also been honored to sit as a presiding judge or an attorney evaluator for a number of prestigious mock trial competitions, including the University of Georgia School of Law’s intramural tournaments, Georgia Tech’s Annual Ramblin’ Wreck Invitationals, and the National High School Mock Trial Championship.

Every few years, the Supreme Court of Georgia holds a special session at one of the accredited law schools in the state and invites distinguished alumni from the host school to participate. Todd was honored to present an oral argument for one of his capital murder prosecutions at such a session held by the Supreme Court at his alma mater, the University of Georgia School of Law.

Todd has lived in the Atlanta metropolitan area for most of his life. He attended Ridgeview High School in Sandy Springs, where he was the quarterback and captain of the football team.

He earned his undergraduate and professional degrees at respected institutions here in Georgia, and has practiced law on Atlanta’s suburban southside for most of his career.

He is married to former Broadway actress Kay McClelland, who is also from Sandy Springs. They have two kids. The family moved to the Peachtree City area over twenty years ago and they have enjoyed the unique golf cart culture of the area ever since. Both of their kids are graduates of McIntosh High School and are now in college.

In retirement, Todd enjoys time with his family and friends, still works out regularly, plays golf a few times a week, and follows football and other sports. His wife claims he has not yet embraced working in the yard or fixing things around the house.