MEMBERS OF FIRM: Atlanta, Georgia (Main Office) Office
Mitchell Allen, Partner
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Litigation; Labor and Employment
Richard L. Arenburg, Member
AV Rated
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Employee Benefits
David M. Armitage, Member
AV Rated
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Commercial; Corporate Law; Mergers and Acquisitions; Aircraft and Structured Finance; Leasing
Jason A. Bernstein, Member
AV Rated
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Patents(35%); Trademarks(30%); Copyrights(5%); Licensing(15%); Computer Law(15%)
John R. Bielema, Jr., Member
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Securities Litigation; Corporate Litigation; Commercial Litigation
Gerald L. Blanchard, Member
AV Rated
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Banking Law; Commercial Lending; Bankruptcy
Larry I. Bogart, Member
AV Rated
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Anthony R. Boggs, Member
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Corporate Finance; Tax Law
Armin G. Brecher, Member
AV Rated
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Employee Benefits; Executive Compensation
William Bard Brockman, Member
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation
R. Joseph Burby, IV, Partner
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: White Collar Crime; Antitrust
Richard J. Carter, Jr., Partner
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Real Estate
Paul F. Concannon, Member
AV Rated
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Employee Benefits; Executive Compensation
Charles C. Connors, Partner
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: ERISA; Employee Benefits; Employee Stock Ownership Plans; Executive Compensation; Investments; Taxation; Private Equity
Tia L. Cottey, Partner
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Real Estate
Frank A. Crisafi, Member
AV Rated
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Federal and State Taxation
William V. Custer, IV, Member
AV Rated
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation; Products Liability; Toxic Tort Litigation
Jennifer Burch Dempsey, Partner
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
C. Glenn Dunaway, Partner
AV Rated
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: ERISA; Employee Benefits; Executive Compensation; Federal Income Tax; Timberland and Private Equity Investments; Corporate Law; Business Law
Edmund Emerson, III, Partner
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Employee Benefits; Executive Compensation
Marilyn M. Fish, Member
AV Rated
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Labor and Employment Law
Christopher P. Galanek, Member
AV Rated
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Professional Liability Litigation; Commercial Litigation
Elliott Goldstein, Member
AV Rated
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
C. Scott Greene, Member
AV Rated
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Complex Business Litigation; Construction Litigation
Wendy L. Hagenau, Member
AV Rated
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Business Law; Bankruptcy Law
Wilbur Gordon Hamlin, Jr., Member
AV Rated
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Antitrust; Environmental and Toxic Tort; Commercial Litigation
Riccarda Heising, Member
BV Rated
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Corporate; Corporate Finance; Mergers and Acquisitions; Franchising
Sandra K. Herron, Partner
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Health Care Regulatory Counseling(50%); Health Care Administrative Law(20%); Health Care Transactions(10%); Medical Staff(10%); Health Care Operations(5%); Human Resources(5%)
Andrew Hough, Partner
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Business Law; Finance
Stuart C. Johnson, Partner
AV Rated
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Business Law; Finance
LeeAnn Jones, Member
AV Rated
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Litigation; Environmental; Products Liability; Toxic Tort Litigation
Cynthia D. Kennedy, Member
AV Rated
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Trusts and Estates
V. Scott Killingsworth, Member
AV Rated
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Technology; Corporate
Kathryn L. Knudson, Member
AV Rated
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Banking; Financial Institutions; Securities
Katherine M. Koops, Member
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Corporate Finance; Securities; Banks and Banking
Marlo Orlin Leach, Member
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation; Products Liability; Personal Injury
Jay J. Levin, Member
AV Rated
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Real Estate Law; Corporate; Banking; Corporate Finance; Public Finance
Robert C. Lewinson, Member
AV Rated
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Commercial Lending; Public Finance
William Joseph Linkous, Jr., Member
AV Rated
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Trusts and Estates Planning and Administration; Mediation and Litigation; Guardianship
John T. Marshall, Member
AV Rated
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Complex Business Litigation; Personal Injury Litigation
James J. McAlpin, Jr., Member
AV Rated
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Corporate; Corporate Finance; Mergers and Acquisitions
Frank S. McGaughey, III, Member
AV Rated
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Trust and Estate Planning and Administration
Thomas R. McNeill, Member
AV Rated
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Corporate; Corporate Finance; Mergers and Acquisitions; International Transactions
Robert Mercer, Partner
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Bankruptcy
Rick Miller, Member
AV Rated
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Corporate Governance; Corporate Finance; Mergers and Acquisitions
David N. Minkin, Member
AV Rated
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Commercial Real Estate; Secured Transactions; Commercial Lending; Corporate Finance; Government Relations
Walter G. Moeling, IV, Member
AV Rated
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Corporate; Banking; Mergers and Acquisitions
Charles Eugene Murphy, Jr., Member
AV Rated
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Public Finance
Julian D. Nealy, Partner
AV Rated
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Real Estate
Frank Donald Nelms, Jr., Partner
AV(T) Rated
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Business Law; Corporate Finance
E. Penn Nicholson, Member
AV Rated
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Workouts; Bankruptcy; Debtor and Creditor; Commercial Litigation
Jennifer Devine Odom, Partner
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Civil Litigation; Securities; Business Litigation; Corporate Litigation; Corporate Fiduciary Law; Corporate Investigations
John R. Parks, Member
AV Rated
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Commercial Real Estate
John C. Patton, Partner
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Products Liability; Commercial Litigation
Ryan T. Pumpian, Partner
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Intellectual Property Litigation; Business
Michael K. Rafter, Member
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Securities(65%); Mergers and Acquisitions(15%); Corporate Law(20%)
Thomas S. Richey, Member
AV Rated
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Securities Litigation; Class Actions Litigation; Derivative Litigation; Banking Litigation; Complex Business Litigation
Eliot W. Robinson, Member
AV Rated
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Corporate Finance; Mergers and Acquisitions
Curtis James Romig, Partner
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Construction Contracts; Government Contracts; Commercial Mediation, Arbitration and Litigation
Joan Boilen Sasine, Member
AV Rated
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Environmental Law
Steven G. Schaffer, Member
AV Rated
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Employee Benefits; Executive Compensation
Stephen B. Schrock, Member
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Commercial Real Estate
Eric P. Schroeder, Member
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: First Amendment; Libel; Media; Privacy; Technology; Litigation
William B. Shearer, Jr., Member
AV Rated
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Corporate Finance Law
W. Scott Sorrels, Member
AV Rated
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Securities Disputes; SEC Investigations; Banking; Corporate Law; Internal Investigations
G. William Speer, Member
AV Rated
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Corporate Finance; Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Governance; General Corporate Law
Louis C. Spelios, Partner
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Corporate Finance; Mergers and Acquisitions; Venture Capital
William J. Thompson, Member
AV Rated
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Real Estate
Robert M. Travis, Member
AV Rated
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation; Antitrust and Trade Regulation; Products Liability; Environmental; Complex and Multi-District Litigation
Kathryn B. Vargo, Partner
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Employment Discrimination
M. Todd Wade, Member
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Mergers and Acquisitions; Securities; Corporate
Nicole Jennings Wade, Member
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Trial Practice; Fiduciary Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Products Liability Litigation
G. Patrick Watson, Member
AV Rated
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Litigation; ERISA Litigation; Antitrust Litigation; Securities Litigation; Financial Institution Insolvency Law
James Clark Wheeler, Member
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures; Finance; Franchises and Franchising; Leases and Leasing; Banking Law
Karen Wildau, Member
AV Rated
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Complex Commercial Litigation; Contract Disputes; Partnership Disputes; Employment Disputes; Covenants Not to Compete; Professional Liability Litigation; Fidelity Law; Directors and Officers Liability; Financial Institution Insolvency...
Joel C. Williams, Jr., Member
AV Rated
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Corporate; Environmental Law; Customs Law; International Trade
L. Lin Wood, Partner
AV Rated
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Civil Litigation; Business Litigation; Catastrophic Injury; Personal Injury; Libel, Slander and Defamation; Media Law; Medical Malpractice
Gregory H. Worthy, Member
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Municipal Finance Law; Corporate Law; Cable Law; Telecommunications Law; Government Relations; Regulatory Law
COUNSEL: Atlanta, Georgia (Main Office) Office
Daniel G. Ashburn, Counsel
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Litigation; Securities; Banks and Banking Law
Roy E. Hadley, Jr., Counsel
AV Rated
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Business and Finance
Howard S. Hirsch, Counsel
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Securities(60%); Corporate Law(40%); Business Law; Finance
Randall L. Hughes, Counsel
AV Rated
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Health Care Litigation; Health Care Regulation; Commercial Litigation
Beth Lanier, Counsel
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Financial Institutions
Michael B. Lasky, Counsel
AV(T) Rated
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Patent, Trademark and Copyright Law; International Intellectual Property Law; Brand Strategy Development
Wendolyn Ward Markham, Counsel
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Real Estate
Teresa Brazzel Pernini, Counsel
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Commercial Real Estate; Commercial Lending; Secured Finance; Secured Transactions; Corporate Finance; Real Estate Development
Christine N. Schneider, Counsel
AV Rated
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Real Estate; Asset-Based Lending; Secured Transactions; Real Estate Lending
Lyn G. Schroeder, Counsel
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Corporate Finance; Banking
Heather S. Spires, Counsel
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Real Estate; Finance
Gretchen von Dwingelo, Counsel
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Commercial Real Estate; Secured Transactions; Corporate Finance; Commercial Lending
Charles L. Warner, Counsel
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Patents
ASSOCIATES: Atlanta, Georgia (Main Office) Office
Kenneth Achenbach, Associate
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Corporate Law
Jody Arogeti, Associate
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Business Law
Lauren Brown, Associate
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Banking Law; Financial Law; Corporate Law; Technology Law
John Bush, Associate
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Intellectual Property
Tobias Butler, Associate
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Corporate Law
Michael P. Carey, Associate
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Securities Litigation; Corporate Litigation
Terrence A. Childers, Associate
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Financial Services Law
Kimberly Civins, Associate
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Trusts and Estates; Tax Law
Hannah Crockett, Associate
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Corporate Law
Jason R. Curles, Associate
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Securities
Stacey Godfrey Evans, Associate
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Securities; Corporate; Financial Litigation
Robyn W. Farmer, Associate
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Labor and Employment
Jennifer Diane Faucett, Associate
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Employee Benefits(50%); Executive Compensation(50%)
Ann Ferebee, Associate
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Litigation
Megan Gajewski, Associate
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: International Law
Raquel M. Gayle, Associate
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Health Care
James Gibson, Associate
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Litigation
Gwendolyn J. Godfrey, Associate
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Bankruptcy
Amy E. Grynol, Associate
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Labor and Employment
Shay E. Hable, Associate
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Labor and Employment
Daniel Hauck, Associate
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Business Litigation
Katherine Hernacki, Associate
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Nathan D. Hightower, Associate
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Castles R. Hollis, Associate
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Employee Benefits; Executive Compensation
Brent A. Howard, Associate
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Trusts and Estates(100%)
Theresa Sirois Hubbard, Associate
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Business Litigation
Sarah G. Isabel, Staff Attorney
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Trusts and Estates; Family Wealth Transfer; Nonprofit Corporations; Tax
Margaret P. Kane, Associate
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Litigation
Robert D. Klingler, Associate
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Financial Institutions Law
Luke Lantta, Associate
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Johnny D. Latzak, Jr., Associate
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Commercial Real Estate; Commercial Lending
Pierce Lowrey, Associate
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Real Estate
Robert J. Lystad, Associate
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Business Law
Matthew L. Mattila, Associate
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Angela McCord, Associate
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Financial Law; Real Estate
Kevin A. McGill, Associate
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Business Law; Finance
Amber A. Nash, Associate
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Mergers and Acquisitions; Securities; Finance
Karen W. Neely, Associate
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Labor and Employment
Ashley A. Palermo, Associate
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Labor and Employment
Ashley Palmer, Associate
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Litigation
Mitesh Patel, Associate
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Business Law; Finance
Payal Patel, Associate
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Real Estate
Matthew Pearce, Associate
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation; Fiduciary Litigation
Margaret E. Redman, Associate
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Real Estate
Karen Reschly, Associate
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Executive Compensation; Employee Benefits; Tax
Henry S. Rogers, Staff Attorney
AV Rated
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Real Estate
Christopher J. Rylands, Associate
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Employee Benefits
Adwoa Ghartey-Tagoe Seymour, Associate
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Litigation
Michael Shumaker, Associate
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Financial Institutions Law
Paige A. Stanley, Associate
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Products Liability; Personal Injury; Environmental
Todd H. Stanton, Associate
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Labor and Employment
Amy Stewart, Associate
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Products Liability; Personal Injury; Environmental Law
Guillermo Todd, Jr., Associate
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Real Estate
Rebecca Vandiver, Associate
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Real Estate
Qian "Bonita" Wang, Associate
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Transactional; Corporate; Business; Taxation; Employee Benefits
James Watson, Associate
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Real Estate
Damon J. Whitaker, Associate
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Technology Law; Intellectual Property Litigation
Laura A. Williams, Associate
Office: Atlanta, Georgia
Practice Areas: Products Liability