Curphey & Badger, P.A.

For more than ten years, Eric Badger has served clients throughout Georgia providing friendly and efficient client-focused legal services. He has closed in excess of 5,000 real estate loans, focusing primarily on purchases, refinancing, and reversible mortgages – and meets clients at the time and location they choose. Eric is also an experienced consumer bankruptcy practitioner.

Before his legal career, Eric earned a Bachelor’s of Science in Accounting and obtained a Florida Real Estate Broker’s License and worked as an accountant and in property management for several years. These experiences serve him well in his real estate and consumer bankruptcy practice.
Practice Areas

Real Estate
Bankruptcy

Education

Loyola Law School of New Orleans, J.D. 2000
Florida State University, B.S. in Accounting, 1996

Admitted to Practice

Florida Bar
Georgia Bar

Shauna Curphey joined Curphey & Badger in 2011 after a range of experiences protecting the rights of individuals in and out of court. Shauna brings her interpersonal and analytical skills to bear on behalf of her clients. She focuses on learning her clients’ goals, and seeking the best possible resolution in light of the strengths and weaknesses of the case.
Prior to joining Curphey & Badger, Shauna spent a year volunteering for EarthRights International in Thailand, working on human rights issues related to natural resource development in Myanmar (Burma). She also worked for the Federal Public Defender for the District of Oregon and as the staff attorney for the Northwest Constitutional Rights Center in Portland, Oregon, where she worked primarily on police misconduct cases and police reform.
Shauna has also served as a law clerk for U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul Papak at the United States District Court for the District of Oregon. Before her legal career, she earned a Master of Arts in Communications and worked as a freelance writer.
 

Practice Areas
• Labor and Employment
• Civil Rights
• Corporate Law & Litigation
Affiliations
• Member, Multnomah Bar Association
• Member, Gus. J. Solomon American Inn of Court
• Member, Oregon State Bar Civil Rights, Constitutional Law and Appellate Divisions
• Board Member, National Lawyer’s Guild Portland Chapter
Education
• Loyola Law School of Los Angeles, J.D. 2006, Summa Cum Laude, Order of the Coif
• University of Washington, M.A. in Communications, 1999
• The Evergreen State College, B.A. 1995
Admitted to Practice
• Oregon State Bar
• U.S. District Court, District of Oregon
Publications
• EarthRights International, Broken Ethics: The Norwegian Government’s Investments in Oil and Gas Companies Operating in Burma (Myanmar), December 2010 (co-authored with EarthRights International staff members).
• Whose Streets? — Recommendations to the Portland Police Bureau for Responding to First Amendment Assemblies, May 2007 (published by the Northwest Center for Constitutional Rights.
• Shauna Curphey & Alejandro Queral, “A Path to Curbing Racial Profiling: An Overview and a Call to Action,” Oregon Civil Rights Newsletter, Oregon State Bar Civil Rights Section, Sept. 2006.
• Shauna Curphey, United States v. Lifshitz: Warrantless Computer Monitoring and the Fourth Amendment, 38 LOY. L.A. L. REV. 2249 (2005).
In The News
• Keaton Otis’ Father Still Waiting for Answers Over Appeal in Police Shooting (2012)
http://www.portlandmercury.com/BlogtownPDX/archives/2012/07/12/keaton-otis-father-still-waiting-for-answers-over-appeal-in-police-shooting-promises-new-photos-of-otis-hands
• Cop on pepper-sprayed protesters: “They can rinse their own eyes out… (2007)
http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/2007/05/they_can_rinse_their_own_eyes.php
• Raging Grannies vs. Retiring Cop (2007)
http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/2007/10/iraq_war_smackdown_raging_gran.php

Bill Curphey started his own practice in 1999 after decades of litigation experience, including work in the government sector for the U.S. Department of Labor, as in-house counsel at a Fortune 200 company, and as a partner at a large law firm. Since then, he has watched the practice grow to its present five offices.
Bill has tried hundreds of cases over the course of his career. Clients seek him out for his formidable trial skills and keen instincts. His experience encompasses jury trials for corporate defendants and plaintiffs alike, in both federal and state courts, in cases including complex business disputes, breach of contract including employment contracts, covenants not to compete, sexual harassment, the Americans With Disabilities Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, and other employment-related matters. He has also successfully handled numerous appeals.
In addition to his active litigation practice, Bill also assists client outside of the courtroom, advising businesses on regulatory compliance, and responding to EEOC, OSHA and other government investigations of the workplace. An accomplished and engaging speaker, he has traveled around the United States and as far as India, the United Kingdom, and the Philippines speaking on such topics as regulatory compliance, how to avoid employment litigation, supervisory skills and negotiation. He has also served as an adjunct professor on labor and employment law at Stetson College of Law and the University of South Florida Graduate School of Business.
Practice Areas
• Labor and Employment
• Civil Rights
• Corporate Law & Litigation
Affiliations
• Member, American Bar Association, Labor Law Section
• Member, Florida Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section, Real Estate Law Section, Litigation Law Section
• Member, Georgia Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section, Real Property Law Section
• Member, American Association for Justice
• Member, Manatee County, Florida Chamber of Commerce
Admitted to Practice
• Florida, Georgia and Ohio State Bar
• U.S. District Court for the Northern and Southern District of Ohio
• U.S. District Court for the Northern, Middle and Southern District of Florida
• 6th Circuit Court of Appeals
• 11th Circuit Court of Appeals
• U.S. Supreme Court
Publications and Training Materials
• Effective Interviewing, Choosing the Right Employee: a Step-by-Step Approach
• Government Investigations of the Workplace
• Avoiding Litigation in the Workplace
• Supervisory Skills, Maintaining a Union Free Environment
• Employer’s Guide to Wage and Hours Laws
• Employer’s Guide to the American with Disabilities Act
• Workers Compensation and the American with Disabilities Act
In the News
• Hess sexual harassment case settled (2012)
http://www.mountvernonnews.com/local/12/04/25/hess-sexual-harassment-case-settled
• Manatee School for the Arts to fight whistleblower lawsuit (2012)
http://www.bradenton.com/2012/03/13/3936565/manatee-school-to-fight-whistleblower.html#storylink=cpy
• Law and Order: Avoiding Legal Pitfalls in the Workplace (2007)
http://www.biz941.com/ARTICLES/Past-Issues/2007/September-2007/Law-and-Order.aspx
• Woman Sues Ex-Workplace (2001)
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1755&dat=20010816&id=1FIdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=on8EAAAAIBAJ&pg=1922,738277
Sample Appellate Cases
• Tart v. Bay Fin. Sav. Bank, F.S.B., 13 So. 3d 487 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 5th DCA 2009)
• Baumgart v. Washington Partners, Inc., 983 So. 2d 586 (Fla. 2d DCA 2008)
• Diaz v. John Adcock Ins. Agency, Inc., 729 So. 2d 465 (Fla. 2d DCA 1999)
• Braishfield Assocs. v. McCahill, 724 So. 2d 601 (Fla. 5th DCA 1998)
• Stuart v. Danka Corp., 986 F. Supp. 741 (E.D.N.Y. 1997)
• Bradley v. Hurricane Restaurant, 670 So. 2d 162 (Fla. 1st DCA 1996)
• Burdick v. Bob’s Space Racers, 659 So. 2d 351 (Fla. 1st DCA 1995) (amicus)
• Southeast Tel. Contractors v. Monk, 657 So. 2d 1166 (Fla. 1st DCA 1995)
• Voulgaris v. Skipper’s Ice Cream Cafe, 647 So. 2d 116 (Fla. 1st DCA 1994)
• Brevard County Bd. of County Comm’rs v. State, 516 So. 2d 968 (Fla. 5th DCA 1987)