Roland’s practice focuses on representing cooperatives and other types of business entities with corporate, finance, and regulatory matters.  He advises clients on all business matters related to cooperatives, corporations, and LLCs, including entity formation, member agreements, contracts, procurement, employment matters, financing agreements, regulatory requirements, bankruptcy, and claims.  He assists clients with obtaining trademarks and copyrights.  He assists electric and telecommunications cooperatives with general corporate matters, as well as with fiber optic agreements, colocation agreements, AMI and SCADA agreements, leases and easements, procurement arrangements, wholesale power contracts, board matters, and FERC and NERC requirements. 

Roland has assisted a wide variety of cooperatives throughout the United States, including grocery and consumer cooperatives, agricultural cooperatives, investment cooperatives, and various types of worker cooperatives.  He assists with cooperative conversions and with platform cooperatives.  As a board member of the nonprofit Georgia Cooperative Development Center, he assists with the formation of new cooperatives in Georgia.  He is also on the steering committee of the Cooperative Professionals Guild, a national collective of legal and tax professionals supporting cooperatives. 

Roland has written numerous articles about cooperatives, and he and partner Charles Autry co-authored The Law of Cooperatives, a leading treatise on cooperative law published by the American Bar Association.