Robert Buckley has joined Freeman Mathis & Gary as a partner from Altisource, a publicly traded company providing default mortgage and other real estate services, where he was senior litigation counsel. Buckley is part of Freeman Mathis’ national commercial litigation and directors and officers practice. He spent four years at Altisource, where he oversaw its U.S. litigation strategy, after seven years as a litigation associate at Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton.

Fields Howell has added Tyler Bryant Walker, who handles insurance coverage and bad faith litigation, as of counsel from Goodman McGuffey. Walker represents insurers in coverage and bad faith claims at the state, federal and appellate level. She also defends insureds in complex personal injury cases, including premises liability, dram shop and negligent security cases.