Experience

Teresa ("Teri") Bailey's practice centers on real property litigation, including title insurance, quiet title and condemnation cases, boundary and survey disputes, mortgage fraud, contracts, real estate brokerage disputes, professional negligence, construction defects, landlord/tenant disputes, foreclosure, covenant enforcement, premise liability claims, and business litigation. Ms. Bailey also has experience closing residential and commercial real estate transactions, and has managed an in-house title insurance group for a large firm. She has substantial lead counsel experience in bench and jury trials, appellate practice before both the Georgia Court of Appeals and Georgia Supreme Court, and is a certified mediator. For many years, Ms. Bailey has served Fulton County as a Special Master deciding numerous quiet title and condemnation cases involving property in all parts of Fulton County and involving a wide range of issues including: tax sales, fraudulent conveyances, forged deeds, lost deeds, adverse possession, boundary disputes, legal description errors, recording errors, utility and transportation easements.

Representative Cases:

Jenkins v. Edelhertz, 272 Ga. 480, 532 S.E.2d 94 (2000)

Carroll v. Pierce, 221 Ga. App. 805, 472 S.E.2d 560 (1996)

Zohoury v. Zohouri, 218 Ga. App. 748, 463 S.E.2d 141 (1995)

Hanlon v. Thornton, 218 Ga. App. 500, 462 S.E.2d 154 (1995)

Copeland v. Home Savings of America, F.A., 209 Ga. App. 173, 433 S.E.2d 327 (1993)

Tillman v. Lomas & Nettleton Insurance Agency Corp., 207 Ga. App. 410, 428 S.E.2d 451 (1993)

Johnson v. Lomas Mortgage USA, Inc., 201 Ga. App. 562, 411 S.E.2d 731 (1991)

Metmor Financial Inc., v. Jenkins, 199 Ga. App. 885, 406 S.E.2d 288 (1991)

Hardage v. Lewis, 199 Ga. App. 632, 405 S.E.2d 732 (1991)

Carroll v. Harry Norman Inc., 198 Ga. App. 614, 402 S.E.2d 357 (1991)

Phillips v. Connecticut National Bank, 196 Ga. App. 477, 396 S.E.2d 538 (1990)

American Communities Corp. v. RIHT Mortgage Corp., 195 Ga. App. 101, 392 S.E.2d 318 (1990)

Smithson v. Harry Norman, Inc., 192 Ga. App. 796, 386 S.E.2d 546 (1989)

Seligman v. Milam Builders, Inc, 191 Ga. App. 224, 381 S.E. 2d 401 (1989)

Simons v. Equitec Properties Co., 190 Ga. App. 804, 380 S.E. 2d 90 (1989)

Walker v. Castello, 187 Ga. App. 196, 369 S.E.2d 527 (1988)

Published Works:

"Covenant Enforcement", Real Property Law Institute, May, 1993

"Foreclosure Litigation," (Co-Author), Real Property Law Institute, May, 1993