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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.
July 20, 2018
Angela Spivey said she left McGuireWoods, where she had been managing partner in Atlanta, to be part of Alston & Bird's large team of lawyers practicing food and beverage law.
July 18, 2018
A combination of the two firms would have created a firm with almost 1,000 lawyers and gross revenue of $725 million. But too many obstacles stood in the way, sources said.
July 18, 2018
King & Spalding, Alston & Bird and Eversheds Sutherland have all boosted salaries this summer. Other firms have yet to capitulate to $165,000 starting associate pay, at least for now.
July 16, 2018
Simon Malko will succeed Louise Wells as managing partner, becoming Morris Manning's youngest leader to date and the first non-real estate lawyer to head the firm.
July 16, 2018
After forays into plaintiffs law, Terry Sullivan and Jack Slover have returned to their medical malpractice defense roots—Sullivan at Hall Booth Smith, which he launched almost three decades ago, and Slover at Downey & Cleveland.
July 10, 2018
After the Grady Memorial Hospital Burn Unit saved plaintiffs lawyer Sutton Slover's life in 2016, he and his family started the annual golf tournament to help other burn victims at Grady and their families.
July 09, 2018
With 140 lawyers, Swift Currie is now the biggest litigation-only firm in Atlanta.
July 06, 2018
Founder Nick Gladd says LegalSpark can provide extra income to lawyers and, more importantly, serve as a referral source.
July 02, 2018
As the state's new hands-free driving law takes effect, solo Ryan Schwartz said potential clients snapped up the magnetic cell phone holders he created to advertise his firm.
June 28, 2018
Bobby Shannon joined the Denver-based litigation boutique after a dual career at Hall Booth and as a major general in the Air Force Reserve.
June 28, 2018
Hicks, who leads the Atlanta real estate practice at DLA Piper, has handled quite a few massive mixed-use projects, but nothing quite like SunTrust Park and The Battery.
June 27, 2018
Dunwoody lawyers Eileen Shuman and Andrea Hirsch decided it was high time the city had its own bar association, like its neighbor Sandy Springs. They are now the group's co-presidents.
June 25, 2018
The two Atlanta-based labor and employment firms have both brought on a slew of new lawyers.
June 22, 2018
Georgia lawyers stood out again for their pro bono intellectual property work.
June 21, 2018
Jim Butler said he's spending a lot more time in the coastal city after marrying Savannahian Kim Cofer Harris. His firm has some active litigation there as well.
June 20, 2018
Fresh off an $18 million med-mal win, Andrew Bowen and Paul Painter of Bowen Painter recruited solo plaintiffs lawyer John Manly to form Bowen Painter Manly.
June 15, 2018
The city's top-grossing firm, King & Spalding, joined The American Lawyer's "super-rich" club based on RPL and PPL, but smaller Second Hundred firms Morris Manning Martin and Arnall Golden Gregory also posted big gains.
June 14, 2018
An unexpected offer of office space and pro bono support from Hall Booth allowed the nonprofit to open a much-needed location in the South.
June 13, 2018
Lawyers at firms, in government and in-house make up almost one-fifth of the 2019 classes for both Leadership Atlanta and its younger offshoot, LEAD Atlanta.
June 11, 2018
Nelson Mullins, with its center of gravity in Atlanta and the Carolinas, adds Florida to its footprint and forecasts health care, real estate and litigation opportunities in its merger with Broad and Cassel.
June 08, 2018
Burr & Forman added a quintet of lawyers from Stites & Harbison—including three partners—to its creditors rights and labor and employment practices.
June 07, 2018
“To move the needle, everyone in the firm needs a target,” said U.S. CEO Mark Wasserman.
June 01, 2018
The number of law students awarded summer public interest stipends by the University of Georgia School of Law has more than doubled in two years.
May 30, 2018
Dara Mann has taken her national class action, product liability and toxic tort practice to Squire Patton Boggs, saying she wants to help build the new office.
May 29, 2018
A team of Kilpatrick lawyers and staff spent about 800 hours on the asylum case of transgender Mexican woman Estrella Sanchez.
May 24, 2018
At the suggestion of a U.K. trainee, the firm has kicked off a transatlantic exchange for its younger lawyers on both sides of the pond.
May 22, 2018
Atlanta's homegrown Second Hundred firms outperformed the group as a whole, and they say they're not interested in mergers.
May 22, 2018
First-time test-takers from Georgia law schools showed improvement, but repeaters overall did worse, which dragged down the overall pass rate.
May 22, 2018
In the last five years, seven Am Law 200 firms have ventured into Atlanta, but the crowding isn't slowing growth.
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May 18, 2018
Troutman Sanders shed space but gained openness and flexibility in its high-tech new digs in Bank of America Plaza.
May 18, 2018
The Georgia Office of Bar Admissions has announced the results of the February bar exam.
May 16, 2018
Linda Klein, a longtime leader in the Atlanta legal community, is the immediate past president of the American Bar Association and senior managing shareholder at Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz.
May 15, 2018
In a creative fundraising twist, Georgia Lawyers for the Arts is auctioning off tickets for prime orchestra seats for the nearly sold out show at the Fox Theatre.
May 15, 2018
Crissy Wolfe took her midmarket deal practice to Krevolin & Horst while David Gordon moved his health care-focused bankruptcy practice to Polsinelli.
May 08, 2018
The former DOJ official and hero to Trump critics said she’s ready to return to practicing law. “I know other people sort of have political ambitions for me—but for me, I’m a lawyer,” Yates said.
May 04, 2018
Federal Judge Timothy Batten will be the instructor in residence for the Masters in Legal Studies program, which starts next fall. He is teaching an introductory course on the American legal system.
May 03, 2018
Bess Hinson, the new leader for Morris Manning's cybersecurity and data privacy practice, started the Atlanta Women in Cybersecurity Roundtable last fall.
May 01, 2018
Georgia appellate judges evaluate cutting-edge inquiries into what the Constitution's framers meant from Georgia State University law students.
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