Two Atlanta lawyers and their paralegal have won an $18 million award for a case over an brokerage that allegedly raided its rivals for financial advisers. The case was arbitrated in Memphis, Tennessee.

Litigators Joseph Alonso and Dan Wirth along with paralegal Kathy Manning of Gregory Doyle Calhoun & Rogers have been working on the case since 2017. They represent a brokerage firm in Jonesboro, Arkansas, Stephens Inc., that accused a competitor of raiding its financial advisers.