2022 Georgia Legal Awards Honorees Announced

The Daily Report is pleased to announce its winners and finalists for the 2022 Georgia Legal Awards.

The honors will be presented at a gala on June 23 at Flourish Atlanta. In June, we’ll publish a special section, further highlighting these skilled attorneys and their important accomplishments. We’ll announce the Attorney of the Year and Law Firm of the Year winners from among this group of three finalists at the June 23 awards gala.

The award winners and finalists are:

Diversity Initiative

Akerman

Eversheds Sutherland

Greenberg Traurig

Harry Norman, Realtors

In-House Impact Award: Gulfstream

In-House Legal Department of the Year: Gulfstream

Law Firm of the Year Finalists

Drew Eckl & Farnham

Greenberg Traurig

Kilpatrick Townsend

Legal Innovators

Garvish Immigration Law Group’s Elizabeth Garvish

Lefkoff Law’s Steven Lefkoff

Mabra Law’s Ronnie Mabra Jr.

Litigation Departments of the Year – Small/Midsize Firms: Weinberg Wheeler Hudgins Gunn & Dial

Most Innovative Law Firms: Bell Law Firm

Attorney of the Year Finalists

Linda Dunikoski of Cobb County District Attorney’s Office

Eric Fisher of Barnes & Thornburg

Chris Glover of Beasley Allen

Best Mentor

Andrew “Drew” Beal of Buckley Beal

Cobb County Magistrate Court Judge Sonja Natasha Brown

Sandra Brown of Greenspoon Marder

Laura Cartner of Hall Booth Smith

Atlanta Legal Aid Society’s Deborah Johnson

Halsey Knapp Jr. of Krevolin and Horst

Randy Scoggins of Miller & Martin

Bobby Woo Jr. of King & Spalding,

Distinguished Leaders

David Balser of King & Spalding

Ted Blum of Greenberg Traurig

Joel Correa of the Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation

Victor Haley of Eversheds Sutherland

Wab Kadaba of Kilpatrick Townsend

Simon Malko of Morris Manning & Martin

Hedy Rubinger of Arnall Golden Gregory

Anthony “Tony” Tatum of McGuireWoods

Lifetime Achievers

Mike Bagley of Drew Eckl & Farnham

Thomas Cauthorn of Cauthorn Nohr & Owen

Philip Henry of Cash Krugler Fredericks

Phil Holladay, formerly of King & Spalding (retired)

Julie John of Drew Eckl & Farnham

James “Jim” Leonard of Barnes & Thornburg

Michael Tyler of Kilpatrick Townsend

Marlan Wilbanks of Wilbanks & Gouinlock

Most Effective Deal-Makers: DLA Piper’s Jeffrey Leavitt

On the Rise

Brannon Arnold of Weinberg Wheeler Hudgins Gunn & Dial

Alexandra Garrison Barnett of Alston & Bird

Bennett Bryan of DeKalb County Law Department

Robert Capovilla of Capovilla & Williams

Eric Charity of Kilpatrick Townsend

Amy B. Cheng of Nelson Mullins

Irina Dutcher of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia

Stephen Floyd of BakerHostetler

Zack Greenamyre of Mitchell & Shapiro

Kathryn Hecker of Arnall Golden Gregory

Theodore Hertzberg of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia

Tennille Hoover of U.S. Bank

Alana Kirkland of Greenberg Traurig

Kareemah Lewis of MARTA

Jessica MacAllister of Holland & Knight

Devang “Dev” Patel of Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy

Taylor S. Poncz of Drew Eckl & Farnham

John Rose of Fox Rothschild

Evan Rosenberg of Morgan & Morgan

Nick Rueter of Morris Manning & Martin

Bryan Schivera of Oliver Maner

Amanda Kay Seals of Bondurant Mixson & Elmore

Lindsey Siegel of Atlanta Legal Aid Society

Raymond Tran of Seyfarth Shaw

Emily C. Ward of Smith, Gambrell & Russell

Matthew M. Weiss of Parker, Hudson, Rainer & Dobbs

For more information on the gala, visit the Georgia Legal Awards event site. For information on sponsorships and tickets, please contact Andre Sutton at at (757) 721-9020 or [email protected].