An Atlanta-area lawyer hired to help lead the prosecution in the Georgia voting interference case has become the center of a firestorm related to his relationship with the district attorney. Now there are calls for the lawyer, Nathan Wade, a partner in a small firm, to leave the case.

Wade is a longtime divorce and civil dispute lawyer based in Marietta, a suburb about 20 miles north of Atlanta, whom District Attorney Fani Willis in neighboring Fulton County asked to lead her prosecution team in 2021 in the case involving racketeering charges against 19 people, including former President Donald Trump, in Georgia’s 2020 presidential election.