Overview
Todd J. Poole is a business litigation attorney and trial lawyer based in Georgia and a founding partner of Poole Huffman LLC. He represents businesses and their owners in high-stakes commercial disputes, including breach of contract, partnership disputes, fraud, and judgment collection.
Most lawsuits are not really about the lawsuit.
They are about the thing behind it. The business someone built over twenty years. The partnership that stopped being a partnership long before anyone said it out loud. The deal that looked fine on paper until it wasn’t. The quiet realization that something important is slipping out of your hands.
Todd understands that part.
He is an entrepreneur as well as a lawyer, which means he does not approach litigation as an abstract exercise in rules and arguments. He approaches it as a problem that needs to be solved before it costs the client something they cannot get back.
So he prepares every case the same way: as if it will be tried.
That means disciplined strategy. Careful, deliberate pressure. Motions that matter. Discovery that is aimed, not scattered. Depositions that are not just taken, but used. And a steady refusal to let the case drift into the comfortable middle where nothing actually happens.
He has carried that approach into state and federal courtrooms across the country, representing companies ranging from closely held businesses to multinational corporations. Along the way, he has learned that most cases do not turn on a single dramatic moment (though he loves to provide them during cross-examination at trial). They turn on who is better prepared, who is more consistent, and who understands where the leverage actually is.
Todd’s experience allows him to find that leverage early and apply it with purpose. Not loudly. Not theatrically. Just consistently, until the other side feels it.
Because in the end, clients do not need a speech.
They need a result.
And for businesses facing serious disputes, Todd Poole is the lawyer they hire when it needs to be handled that way.
- Top 100 Lawyers in Georgia, Super Lawyers Magazine (2026)
- Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers Magazine (2018-2026)
- Rising Star, Super Lawyers Magazine (2014-2017)
- Best Lawyers (2025)
- AV Preeminent Rated, Martindale-Hubble
- Legal Elite, Legal Trend Magazine (2025, 2012-2016)
- 4-day federal jury trial resulted in a $917,000 verdict. Our client was misled into purchasing what turned out to be a shell of an accounting firm, where the seller failed to disclose key clients had already left, withheld vital contact information, and tried to shift the blame for the collapse.
- 10-day federal preliminary injunction hearing in NY federal court successfully defended against an injunction. Our client had been accused of misappropriating trade secrets in an advertising technology. A much larger company attempted to shutter our client’s business by stopping them from competing during the litigation. We prevailed, and the court did not enter an injunction.
- 2-day arbitration win on a construction case. The contractor tried to change the contract from a fixed-cost contract to a cost-plus contract to account for severe cost overruns and a significant underestimation. The mediator sided with our client, and the house was built for the agreed-upon amount.
- Appellate victory setting aside an attorneys’ fees award. We were brought on after the judgment to challenge defects in the underlying case, and were successful in setting aside a large award for attorney’s fees.
- Defended a construction judgment through appeal, then collected it in a voidable transaction case. In a case where a contractor did shoddy work then abandoned the project, we were brought on after the judgment to defend it on appeal. We prevailed in the Court of Appeals, then filed a voidable transaction case when the contractor tried to shield his assets by transferring them to a family member. We were able to recover the entire judgment for the homeowner.
- DeKalb Bar Association Board Member
- Decatur Business Association
- Phi Delta Phi Legal Fraternity
- Sigma Nu Fraternity
- Lawyers Club of Atlanta
- Litigators Use Gaslighting Theme to Win Federal Jury Verdict, Law.com, 2025
