Stone & Baxter,

Stone & Baxter is a Macon, Georgia based law firm offering unsurpassed legal services to businesses and individuals throughout Georgia. Founded by Ward Stone and Mark Baxter in 1996, the firm is dedicated to providing superior legal services to its clients in a prompt, efficient, and cost-effective manner, all while maintaining the highest ethical and professional standards. Our attorneys have extensive experience representing clients in matters spanning the business cycle and covering startups and business formation, general business law and corporate law issues, business finance law, banking law, mergers and acquisitions, commercial and industrial real estate transactions, wills, trusts, and estate planning, alternative dispute resolution (arbitration and mediation), commercial law and litigation, and financial restructuring and bankruptcy law (Chapter 7 and 11). Our firm specializes in construction issues, including residential and commercial construction disputes, construction liens, and we have deep experience in regulatory and administrative law, including telecommunications and public utilities, natural gas marketing practices, and environmental issues. Stone & Baxter is proud to have had a number of its attorneys listed in The Best Lawyers in America and distinguished as Georgia Super Lawyers by Atlanta Magazine. Half of our attorneys are rated by Martindale-Hubble® as AV Preeminent®, the highest rating allowed by that service and only awarded to the top 10% of all attorneys. The firm has been given the highest possible rating (Band 1) by U.S. News and World Report for its restructuring and bankruptcy practice. The firm’s attorneys are admitted to practice in all State and Federal Courts in the State of Georgia, and half of our attorneys are admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court. Attorneys from the firm regularly represent clients in arbitration, bankruptcy courts, and other state and federal courts throughout the United States.