Providing Expert Legal Advice and Representation With a Focus on Helping Those in Need
Expertise and Legal Guidance from Veteran Attorney
Mr. Barclift is an old-school lawyer whose current objective as a lawyer is to help clients who are in need of legal advice and/or legal representation. Mr. Barclift is a veteran of both the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) and the United States Department of Defense (DOD), where he held dual appointments as a government lawyer for nearly 30 years. Upon his retirement from both DOJ and DOD in 2017, Mr. Barclift made it the goal for the remainder of his legal career to help those in need, sometimes for little or no remuneration, where justice requires his experienced and skilled helping hand.
With over ten years in private practice, rather than specializing in a single monotonous, repetitive area, as many lawyers who are unable to connect the dots over the legal spectrum do these days, Mr. Barclift listens to his client’s problems and concerns and determines how and whether he can be helpful. Sometimes, when working in collaboration with his in-laws, Mehmet Peker, Sercan Peker, and Guler Peker, who are lawyers in Kayseri, Turkey, Mr. Barclift’s practice takes on an international element.
Mr. Barclift, who is licensed in both Alabama and Georgia, handles civil and criminal cases in both state and federal courts. Mr. Barclift handles administrative claims and petitions to both private and governmental agencies and entities. Mr. Barclift has conducted administrative investigations as a government lawyer with both DOJ and DOD. Mr. Barclift has significant experience in wills, trusts and probate and otherwise assists professionals such as doctors, engineers and businesspeople in negotiating and handling contract disputes.
Mr. Barclift has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in personal injury cases, including as a government lawyer, and has represented both creditors and debtors in bankruptcy court. To cite just a few diverse examples, Mr. Barclift has represented an uninsured employer before the Georgia Workers Compensation Commission, an uninsured landowner in a real property liability dispute, a victim of sexual abuse in an administrative claim to the Archdiocese of New York, a music production company in contract negotiations for record production and promotion of the popular “Six-String Soldiers” with the United States Army Field Band at Fort Meade, Maryland; and an outstanding musical artist in the field of Electronic Dance Music in his petition for admission to the United States as an outstanding performing artist. In addition to representing defendants in state and federal criminal prosecutions, Mr. Barclift has served as a consultant and ghostwriter to and for other lawyers in federal criminal cases.
