Father Arrested, Son Safe With Grandmother
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"At the Manely Firm, Michael and his staff explore every possible solution to their clients dilemmas. They don't hesitate to employ political and public relations strategies in tandem with legal strategies to accomplish their clients goals. Michael actively utilizes professionals in marketing, public relations and journalism. This combination has proven very effective and is unique among Atlanta attorneys."
Cherry Spencer Stark
Past President, Atlanta ACLU and Former Client
The Manely Firm, PC Opens Gwinnett County Office
Atlanta - February 2009
The Manely Firm, PC, one of Metro Atlantas top family law firms, has opened its fourth office at 400 Crogan Street, Suite E, Lawrenceville, Georgia 30045, just steps from the Gwinnett County Courthouse steps. The new location is to better serve clients in Dekalb, Gwinnett and surrounding counties.
The Manely Firm, P.C. represents men, women, fathers, mothers, grandparents, and adoptive parents in the resolution of family law issues. With multiple office locations and cutting edge technology the Firms Attorneys are skilled in both family law negotiation and trial practice and represent their clients strategically and intelligently. The Firms business and public interest litigation experience strengthens its attorneys abilities in family law - especially where the division of a family business or the battling of a public agency is required. Founding Attorney, Michael Manely has been in practice for twenty years. He has developed a reputation for representing clients in high-profile, international divorce and custody cases with parties or opposing parties living in Chile, China, Cyprus, France, Lebanon, Kuwait, Norway, Netherlands, Peru, Russia, Singapore and Spain.
The Manely Firm, PC Announces Community Service Partnership
December 2008
Business Manager Shelia
Manely signs Partner in
Education Agreement with
Hickory Hills Principal
Diana Mills
The Manely Firm, PC is pleased to announce that on Tuesday, December 2nd it entered into a Partner in Education agreement with Marietta City Schools Hickory Hills Elementary. The signing took place during the schools PTA meeting. The Firm pledged to assist the school with tutors and financial assistance. The Manely Firm has a long history of community service in education. Founding Attorney Michael E. Manely has served as Marietta High Schools Mock Trial Attorney Coach since 2002. Business Manager Shelia Manely has served as a member of the Marietta High Schools Career Technical Educations Advisory Committee since 2004, and as Chair during the programs certification. The Firm has also hosted 10 students through the Executive Internship, Youth Apprenticeship and Diversified Cooperative Training Programs.
The Partners in Education Program is a collective effort of the Cobb Chamber, the Cobb County Public School System and the Marietta City Public School System that matches businesses and organizations with schools to provide extra funding, unique services and volunteer support.
The vision behind the Partners in Education Program is to enrich the learning experience of Cobbs children so that all develop a strong academic foundation, skills and core values that will benefit them in their community life and in a career.
Attorney Michael Manely Opens New Offices
Atlanta - January 2008
Attorney Michael Manely, one of Metropolitan Atlantas high profile attorneys, has opened two new offices at 3475 Lenox Road, Suite 400 Atlanta, GA 30326 and 270 East Main Street in Downtown Canton. Manely earned local and international notoriety fighting for the underdog in difficult public interest, family law and business law cases. In 2005, he recorded one of his biggest victories for the underdog helping a citizen and the ACLU in its fight against Cobb County Schools. As a result, Cobb County School District was forced to remove evolution disclaimer stickers from science textbooks. In 2001, he successfully won child custody for an American father who was incarcerated by the FBI for Extradition to France when his French wife accused him of kidnapping his own children. In 2000, he was successful in stopping a Marietta City Councilman and real estate owner from moving forward on plans to build a twelve story high rise on the Historic Marietta Square. When asked how he handles the notoriety, he laughs, Well, its humbling, because the interest is never really in my story, but my clients stories. I recall asking a Japanese reporter to send me a copy of the piece she was writing on the removal of the evolution disclaimer stickers. Of course, when I received it, I couldn't read a word! It was written in Japanese!
Manely's compassion for the defenseless can be traced to his childhood in Kansas, when his parents divorced and he moved with his mother to Smyrna at the age of 4. Watching his mother struggle to pay the bills while his father was serving in Vietnam gave him a desire to help broken families, and the majority of his caseload deals with domestic family law. This area of my legal practice is the most rewarding. I take tremendous pride in bringing every resource I have to bear on liberating families from dysfunction and opening the door to a new and brighter future. he said.
Later, as a student at what is now Campbell High School, Manely found himself once again the champion of the underdog, standing up for a group of his friends he dubs, the rocket-science-kids who were regularly pounded by schoolyard bullies. There was no such thing as zero tolerance then, he said. Laughing, Manely recalls how he stood up for his friends, telling the bullies they would have to go through him first, which occasionally they did.
After high school, Manely went on to graduate from Georgia State with a degree in philosophy and then law. He opened up his own practice, now 17 years old, which he runs with his wife and business manager, Shelia Manely. Manely explains, I know that when my clients are engaged in a family or business dispute, that their and their family's welfare is at stake. The worst settlement they can make, is settling for an attorney without a winning track record. For me and my staff, winning isn't a business, its personal.
