Martin R. Tilson Jr. has left Atlanta’s Kilpatrick Stockton to join Burr & Forman as the partner in charge for its Atlanta office.

“They reached out to a native son,” said Kilpatrick Stockton’s co-managing partner, William E. Dorris, explaining that Tilson is from Birmingham, Ala., where Burr & Forman is based. He graduated from the University of Alabama Law School.