Download the Georgia Legal Awards 2022 Program


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