ATLANTA - Kilpatrick Stockton and Townsend and Townsend and Crew has jointly announced the merger of their high-profile firms, creating one of the world's leading law firms. Following the merger's effective date of Jan. 1, 2011, the combined firm... Read More

CLEVELAND - J. Timothy McDonald has joined Thompson Hine LLP as a partner in the firm's Labor & Employment practice group in its Atlanta office. McDonald focuses his practice on litigation and counseling related to employment and employee benefit... Read More

ATLANTA - Elarbee, Thompson, Sapp & Wilson LLP, the award-winning Atlanta labor, employment and complex litigation firm, has announced that Amy Auffant and Glianny Fagundo have been elevated to partner status. Auffant's practice includes the... Read More

ATLANTA - The Atlanta office of Greenberg Traurig LLP has announced that Kurt R. Erskine, former assistant U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia and deputy chief of economic crimes, joined the firm as a shareholder in the White Collar Litigation... Read More

ATLANTA - Pat Huddleston, the driving force behind Investor's Watchdog LLC and the author of The Vigilant Investor , joined the Atlanta-based law firm of Page Perry LLC as a partner on Nov. 28, 2011. Formerly an SEC enforcement branch chief out of... Read More

ATLANTA - Greenberg Traurig's Atlanta-based national Pharmaceutical, Medical Device & Health Care Litigation Practice Group continues to grow with the addition of Ginger Heyman Pigott . Pigott, who joins as a shareholder, will work closely... Read More

ATLANTA - Atlanta-based Johnson & Freedman LLC, a member of the Fannie Mae Retained Attorney Network and Freddie Mac Designated Counsel Program, has announced that January N. Taylor has been promoted to partner. Johnson & Freedman is a business... Read More

ATLANTA - Russell Rogers, a partner in Thompson Hine LLP's Business Litigation and Product Liability Litigation practice groups, assumed leadership of the firm's Atlanta office effective Dec. 1. Rogers replaced Walt Addison Linscott, who will... Read More

ATLANTA - Attorney Hezekiah Sistrunk Jr. of The Cochran Firm - Atlanta has been selected for a leadership position in the DePuy ASR Hip Implant mass tort multidistrict litigation. Federal Judge David A. Katz appointed Sistrunk to the Discovery Committee... Read More

ATLANTA - On Jan. 31, 2011, the national law firm of Gordon & Rees continued the expansion of its national platform with the opening of an office in Atlanta, the firm's 18th office. The office was opened by two partners, C. Anthony Mulrain... Read More

MILWAUKEE - Gonzalez Saggio & Harlan LLP, one of the nation's largest minority-owned law firms, has announced that it has opened an office in Atlanta - its 15th - as the firm continues to extend its national presence. Attorneys Tracey Walker... Read More