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January 17, 2019
The firm added a prominent bond lawyer but saw the exit of a debt finance duo.
January 17, 2019
Alston & Bird led the pack in promotions of women.
January 15, 2019
Robinson, one of Georgia's most influential lobbyists and Troutman Sanders' Atlanta office leader, said he saw opportunities to broaden his practice into strategic advisory work across King & Spalding's national and international offices.
January 15, 2019
Dan Cohen has taken his higher education practice, representing universities in Title IX and sexual misconduct matters, to Nelson Mullins.
January 14, 2019
Chris Woods, who is relocating to Beijing to open the office, said the firm needs to be on the ground to meet the growing brand market.
January 14, 2019
Chris Woods, who is relocating to Beijing to open the office, said the firm needs to be on the ground to meet the growing brand market.
January 11, 2019
Kamal Ghali is heading back to Bondurant Mixson & Elmore after six years prosecuting cybercriminals and economic fraudsters for the Atlanta U.S. attorney's office.
January 10, 2019
The national labor and employment firm is continuing to grow its Washington, D.C., presence after launching a lobbying arm last year.
January 09, 2019
Atlanta lawyer Nathan Hardwick's sentencing hearing could be as contentious as the trial, according to dueling sentencing arguments.
January 08, 2019
The firm has landed another top white-collar litigator, Aaron Lipson, arriving from the SEC's Atlanta office.
January 07, 2019
Fox chair Mark Silow said he’d like to see about 50 lawyers in the firm's Atlanta office within five years.
January 04, 2019
The deal transforms Burr into a 360-lawyer Southeastern firm, now with coverage in the Carolinas.
January 04, 2019
John Wymer and Bryan Stillwagon have moved their labor and employment practice to Thompson Hine, marking the end of Colorado-based Sherman & Howard's Atlanta outpost, which they launched six years ago.
January 03, 2019
The outgoing Republican congressman says he's out of politics for good and relishes a new career in private practice. "In politics the desire is simply to win. I did not want to be part of that," he said.
December 28, 2018
The firms have elected a substantial portion of their new partner classes in Atlanta.
December 27, 2018
After a major arrival at the beginning of the year, mergers shook up the Atlanta legal landscape throughout the year.
December 27, 2018
Part two of our review takes a look at some of the contentious trials that heated up Georgia courtrooms in 2018.
December 26, 2018
In a departure from Atlanta's other large firms, which have opted to re-up their Midtown headquarters leases, Smith Gambrell has inked a deal with Selig Enterprises to anchor a new 31-story office building at 1105 West Peachtree St.
December 26, 2018
First up in our two-part year in review, a look back at the big trials targeting the misdeeds of two Georgia attorneys.
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December 18, 2018
The business and plaintiffs employment boutique used the tenant improvement allowance for its new digs at Bank of America Plaza to modernize.
December 14, 2018
As a kid, David Schulman played "Asteroids" and "Dungeons & Dragons." As a lawyer, he's helping developers create new video games and gaming business models as Atlanta grows as a hub for the industry.
December 11, 2018
John Koenig takes over from Stuart Johnson, who'd been the Atlanta managing partner since launching the office for Barnes & Thornburg almost a decade ago.
December 10, 2018
Jeremy Abernathy and Sean Ditzel are expanding their almost two-year-old firm, adding Jordan Hendrick from Stout Kaiser and promoting Mark Bryce to partner, to form Abernathy Ditzel Hendrick Bryce.
December 07, 2018
The firm recruited a Greenberg Traurig aviation finance team in Miami in a move it sees as opening a gateway to Latin America.
December 07, 2018
King & Spalding, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton and Morris, Manning & Martin each announced record classes of newly promoted partners.
December 06, 2018
Partners in Atlanta reported making an average of $665,000 in Major, Lindsey & Africa's partner compensation survey, compared to a national average of $885,000.
December 06, 2018
The University of Georgia and Georgia State University—the state's two public law schools—both have kept graduating students' debt loads well below the national average of $93,000 by keeping tuition low and leaning on donors.
December 04, 2018
Jeb Butler and Darren Tobin said ethicist Peter Singer's TED Talk on "effective altruism" inspired them to choose charities combating malaria, parasites and poverty in the developing world to do the most good for the most people.
November 29, 2018
Longtime Atlanta practitioners Travis DeHaven, John Mills and Craig Dowdy have joined Taylor English as partners, while Jonathan Yi joined as counsel.
November 28, 2018
The Catherine O'Neil Mentoring Award will provide opportunities for junior white-collar practitioners.
November 27, 2018
As it expands its national insurance defense practice, the New-York based firm has opened satellite offices in Birmingham and Nashville to complement the growing Atlanta office it launched last year.
November 26, 2018
Evans has kept busy with both politics and her plaintiffs practice after losing the Democratic gubernatorial primary in Georgia to Stacey Abrams last spring.
November 21, 2018
Plaintiffs lawyer Matthew Wilson, a Democrat, and tax lawyer Bonnie Rich, a Republican, are among the six lawyers who won seats in the state General Assembly. Both said they want to keep Georgia great.
November 19, 2018
David Dove from The Robbins Firm, Bob Barr and Cobb District Attorney Vic Reynolds are on the team.
November 16, 2018
Jill Travis will become the Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers' executive director on Dec. 1, after serving as deputy legislative counsel for the state General Assembly.
November 15, 2018
Children's Rights will honor the late Jeff Bramlett of Bondurant Mixson, its pro bono co-counsel for the landmark "Kenny A." foster care case, at the inaugural fundraiser for its new Atlanta office.
November 14, 2018
David Yates said he joined Miami-based Greenberg Traurig's 100-lawyer-plus Atlanta office from Hunton Andrews Kurth for new opportunities.
November 14, 2018
Alston & Bird tax partner Mark Williamson, who's a professional musician on the side, will lead the Atlanta Pops Orchestra Ensemble with special guest vocalist John Driskell Hopkins, then play trombone with the Joe Gransden Big Band at the Christmas at Callanwolde Holiday Gala.
November 13, 2018
Tomlinson will join Hall Booth Smith as a partner when her term ends in January.
November 12, 2018
Tina Roddenbery joined one of Atlanta's oldest and largest family law firms, now Boyd Collar Nolen Tuggle & Roddenbery, as a name partner after the retirement of her longtime partner Gwenn Holland.
November 09, 2018
The show features O'Neil's favorite numbers from the all-lawyer yet outrageously funny musical comedy parodies that she directed (and choreographed, produced, wrote and performed in) before her death from cancer last year.
November 08, 2018
Gov. Nathan Deal has appointed Robyn Crittenden, commissioner of the Georgia Department of Human Services, to replace Kemp, who resigned Thursday morning after declaring victory in the hotly contested gubernatorial election.
November 06, 2018
The new outpost, opened with a team from rival labor and employment firm Jackson Lewis, extends FordHarrison's range in the Midwest.
November 06, 2018
Randy Chartash is opening his own white collar defense firm after 27 years at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Georgia, where he headed the economic crimes section. “If I can get my computer to work, it will be fun,” he said.
November 06, 2018
Voters needing assistance should call the group's statewide hotline 866-OUR-VOTE. Trained Election Protection poll monitors and lawyers are in the field at key Atlanta precincts.
November 02, 2018
While Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner co-CEO Terry Pritchard jets around the globe, local managing partner Pat Watson is holding down the fort in Atlanta and ramping up European referrals—mainly outbound so far.
November 01, 2018
The merger, effective Jan. 1, will create a 365-lawyer Southeastern giant with 19 offices in eight states.
October 31, 2018
The Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation has launched an annual campaign, and Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough is the heavy-hitting firm so far, with 72 lawyers stepping up as campaign "hosts."
October 30, 2018
Squire has recruited MidCountry Financial Corp.'s general counsel, Alison LaBruyere, as it builds its Atlanta office.
October 29, 2018
The University of Georgia School of Law again led Georgia law schools with a first-time pass rate of 88.1 percent for the July 2018 exam.
October 26, 2018
Jake Evans said his father, GOP heavy-hitter and now-Luxembourg Ambassador Randy Evans, has been a role model for building a practice as a business litigator in the government space.
October 26, 2018
Jake Evans said his father, GOP heavy-hitter and now-Luxembourg Ambassador Randy Evans, has been a role model for building a practice as a business litigator in the government space.
October 26, 2018
The Georgia Office of Bar Admissions has announced the results of the July bar exam.
October 26, 2018
Ten years ago, the US firm set out to become an ultra-profitable, international player - and so far, it’s working
October 24, 2018
Temika Murry, a child advocacy lawyer for 15 years, will become DeKalb County Juvenile Court's newest judge on Nov. 1.
October 23, 2018
Doug Gilfillan handled a variety of financial crimes and other white-collar criminal matters in more than a decade at the U.S. Attorney's Office in Atlanta before returning to private practice this week.
October 23, 2018
"As a profession we’ve fallen short on providing equal justice in America, but a small group of us are inching justice forward—and it’s the people here in this room,” said Gideon's Promise founder Jon Rapping at the Atlanta Bar Association's annual "Celebrating Service" lunch.
October 19, 2018
A collection of 5,500 artifacts from the doomed ocean liner has found a buyer, after a planned auction at Troutman Sanders' Atlanta offices was canceled for lack of qualified bidders.
October 19, 2018
John Yates is chairing the Woodruff Arts Center's annual corporate campaign, with the goal of raising $13 million for Atlanta's flagship arts institution.
October 17, 2018
A prosecutor in the embezzlement case against Atlanta lawyer Nat Hardwick said at least $5 million went to one of Hardwick's girlfriends.
October 16, 2018
Atlanta closing attorneys said the trial showed the importance of proper oversight—and the jury's swift guilty verdict underlined how egregious Nat Hardwick's conduct had been.
October 12, 2018
Federal jurors convicted the Atlanta lawyer on Friday of one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, 21 counts of wire fraud and one count of making false statements to federally insured banks.
October 12, 2018
Federal jurors convicted the Atlanta lawyer on Friday of one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, 21 counts of wire fraud and one count of making false statements to federally insured banks.
October 12, 2018
Federal jurors convicted the Atlanta lawyer on Friday of one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, 21 counts of wire fraud and one count of making false statements to federally insured banks.
October 11, 2018
In closings, the government cast Hardwick as liar and a thief who knowingly stole money from Morris Hardwick Schneider's escrow accounts, while his lawyers said he was duped by the firm's former controller.
October 11, 2018
With closing arguments set for Thursday, Mark Wittstadt returned to the stand as the final witness in Nathan Hardwick's embezzlement trial.
October 09, 2018
Atlanta lawyer Nathan Hardwick IV testified on his own behalf on Tuesday, telling jurors that the millions he took from now-defunct Morris Hardwick Schneider were distributions that former controller Asha Maurya told him the firm could afford.
October 09, 2018
Two former employers of former Morris Hardwick Schneider controller Asha Maurya testified she took money and faked financial records.
October 08, 2018
Forensic accountant J.P. Gingras testifed for the defense that the $26 million Hardwick took from now-defunct Morris Hardwick Schneider was his fair share—and that there were no escrow shortfalls.
October 04, 2018
As Nat Hardwick's defense kicked off their case, prosecutors asked the judge to bar testimony by a forensic accountant who has been observing the trial.
October 03, 2018
Asha Maurya, the former controller for Morris Hardwick Schneider who pleaded to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, will not take the stand at Nat Hardwick's trial.
October 01, 2018
An ex-girlfriend Nat Hardwick met through SugarDaddy.com testified to his spending on trips to Disney World, the Biltmore Estate and pricey gifts.
September 30, 2018
Ten years ago, the Atlanta-based firm set out to scale the Am Law 50 and become an ultra-profitable, international law firm. So far, it’s working.
September 27, 2018
Mark Wittstadt's lively sparring with defense attorney Ed Garland kept the jury's attention as his cross-examination got underway.
September 26, 2018
"I did not appreciate Nat Hardwick taking money from the firm I spent 46 years building," said Art Morris, who retired from now-defunct Morris Hardwick Schneider in 2013.
September 25, 2018
In trying to prove that Nathan Hardwick embezzled millions of dollars from his firm, prosecutors will need to guide jurors through a welter of financial records and complex details.
September 21, 2018
"Muddled" escrow accounts and the "poor condition of debtors' books and records" have delayed Morris Hardwick Schneider's bankruptcy proceedings, according to bankruptcy filings from the firm and its liquidating trustee.
September 19, 2018
Opening statements are now set to begin Monday after lawyers for defendant Nathan Hardwick said he had developed a severe and "highly contagious" respiratory illness.
September 19, 2018
The Chapter 11 bankruptcy auction is not for the casual souvenir hunter. Bidding will start at $21.5 million, and bids must be qualified in advance.
September 18, 2018
Opening statements will start on Thursday morning after a break on Wednesday in observance of Yom Kippur.
September 13, 2018
Prosecutors say they'll show Nathan Hardwick siphoned funds from now-bankrupt Morris Hardwick Schneider to fuel his "lavish spending," including more than $16 million on charter jets, gambling and women.
September 11, 2018
Savannah trial lawyers, all but one fellow Mercer Law alums, have started an endowed scholarship for aspiring trial lawyers in the renowned Georgia plaintiffs lawyer's name.
September 11, 2018
Michael Levinson, who is also an M.D., joined the Florida business law firm to lead its health care practice, saying the midsize business law firm can "take a more integrated approach" to health care law, which is siloed at giant firms.
September 10, 2018
The labor and employment firm's new autonomous vehicles practice addresses workplace issues surrounding driverless cars and other new technologies.
September 10, 2018
The labor and employment firm's new autonomous vehicles practice addresses workplace issues surrounding driverless cars and other new technologies.
August 24, 2018
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton is the latest big Atlanta-based firm to raise associate pay. It's matching the new top starting salary of $165,000 in Atlanta and $190,000 in other markets.
August 23, 2018
The former deputy attorney general said the Trump administration has largely abandoned reforms, such as literacy classes, that she made to the federal prison system, but reformers "across the ideological spectrum" are at work in the states.
August 22, 2018
The pair are the only Atlanta-headquartered law firms among 41 firms that earned "Mansfield Rule" certification for their diversity efforts.
August 22, 2018
Richard Riley, the former South Carolina governor and education secretary under President Clinton, has given his career to advancing children's education.
August 21, 2018
Joel Pieper succeeds Michael Sullivan as the new Atlanta managing partner for Womble Bond Dickinson. Atlanta is one of the largest offices and the hub of the U.S. fintech practice for the newly trans-Atlantic firm.
August 20, 2018
Polsinelli's Atlanta office is up to 31 lawyers with the latest three hires, and half the lawyers are women.
August 16, 2018
Atlanta Legal Aid is using a major federal grant to expand "limited scope," high-impact volunteer projects, including the property tax aid initiative.
August 15, 2018
Troutman Sanders is raising associate pay across all offices, with Atlanta associates to start at $165,000.
August 14, 2018
The clinic offers on-the spot advice from volunteer immigration lawyers, with assistance from law students, who learn client-intake skills and immigration law.
August 10, 2018
Licensing spinoffs? Partnerships of associates? The IRS and Treasury Department anticipated how law firms might try to take advantage of Trump's tax reforms—and said no way.
August 10, 2018
Licensing spinoffs? Partnerships of associates? The IRS and Treasury Department anticipated how law firms might try to take advantage of Trump's tax reforms—and said no way.
August 08, 2018
BJay Pak has hired the first new group of AUSAs in Atlanta—including three from Alston & Bird—since he took the job last fall.
August 07, 2018
Two more Atlanta-based firms have matched the $165,000 starting salary set by King & Spalding, Alston & Bird and Eversheds Sutherland, while the city's other top firms still hang back.
July 26, 2018
Many of the city's big law firms remain in wait-and-see mode, as one firm leader called the latest round of pay raises "a self-inflicted wound."
July 25, 2018
Larry Sommerfeld spent almost 16 years prosecuting cybercrime and other cases at the U.S. Attorney's Office in Atlanta.
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