Government relations lawyer Chuck Clay has joined Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough as of counsel from the Marietta firm Gregory, Doyle, Calhoun & Rogers.

He rejoins his former partner, D. Glenn Brock, who took his education practice and six attorneys to Nelson Mullins last year fromGregory Doyle. At that time the Marietta firm, which Clay and Brock cofounded in 1985, changed its name from Brock, Clay, Calhoun & Rogers to Gregory, Doyle, Calhoun & Rogers. Clay was a partner there.