Download the 2023 Southeastern Legal Awards Program


Diversity Initiative

  • Adams and Reese
  • King & Spalding

In-House Impact Award

  • Rachel George of Aaron’s

Law Firm of the Year Finalists

  • King & Spalding
  • McGuireWoods 
  • Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough

Legal Innovators

  • Larry Bridgesmith of DASH4Law 
  • DAO/Vanderbilt
  • Jonathan Friedman and Shane O’Neill of Weinberg Wheeler Hudgins Gunn & Dial
  • John Martin of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough
  • Heather McCullough of Society 54
  • Sarah Sawvell of Honeywell

Litigation Departments of the Year – Small/Midsize Firms

  • Caplan Cobb

Most Innovative Law Firms

  • Hall & Lampros
  • McGuireWoods
  • Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders

Attorney of the Year Finalists

  • Jonathan Ellis of McGuireWoods
  • Parker Miller of Beasley Allen
  • Robert “Bob” Wilson Jr. of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough

Best Mentors

  • Kimberly Barone Baden of Motley Rice
  • Denise Gunter of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough
  • Daniel Huynh of Morris, Manning & Martin
  • Rose Jones of King & Spalding
  • Jon Jordan of King & Spalding
  • Johanna Jumper of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings
  • Courtney Noce of Greenberg Traurig
  • Jocelyn Mallette of McGuireWoods
  • Adria Perez of Kilpatrick Townsend

Distinguished Leaders

  • Kevin Abernethy of University of Georgia
  • Mark Carter of Taylor English Duma
  • Mark Chalos of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein
  • David Esquivel of Bass, Berry & Sims
  • Greg Kilpatrick of McGuireWoods
  • John McDonald of McGuireWoods
  • Steven Meckler of Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick
  • Tracy Ann Moore-Grant of Patterson Moore Butler
  • Mike Rafi of the Rafi Law Firm
  • Kevin Sharp of Sanford Heisler Sharp
  • Joseph Silver of DLA Piper
  • Lester Tate of Akin and Tate
  • Mike Terry of Bondurant Mixson & Elmore
  • Jim Vann of Dentons Sirote
  • Rocky Wilkins of Morgan & Morgan
  • Ricardo Woods of Burr & Forman

Lifetime Achievers

  • Sarah Borders of King & Spalding
  • Randy Hafer of Kilpatrick Townsend
  • Harrison Marshall of McGuireWoods
  • Jim Hardin of Offit Kurman
  • Jill Steinberg of Baker Donelson

Most Effective Deal-Makers

  • John Kennedy of James Bates Brannan Groover
  • Billy Ching of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough
  • G. Kirk Domescik of Duane Morris
  • Kate Hardey of McGuireWoods
  • Wes Misson of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft
  • Matt Peurach of Morris, Manning & Martin
  • Gene Price of Burr & Forman
  • Joseph Rice of Motley Rice
  • Evan Rosenberg of Morgan & Morgan

 


On the Rise

  • Marissa Coleman, Arnall Golden Gregory
  • Jackson “Jad” Dial of Weinberg Wheeler Hudgins Gunn & Dial
  • Chris Dickson, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft
  • Anna Altizer Dix, Troutman Pepper
  • Stephanie Nullman Eban of Thrift McLemore
  • Nick Foreste of Morris, Manning & Martin
  • Matthew Friedlander, Webb Daniel Friedlander
  • Rachel Friedman, Burr & Forman
  • Jasmine Garner, McGuireWoods
  • Caroline Gieser, Shook, Hardy & Bacon
  • Meagan Griffin, Paul Hastings
  • TaCara Harris of King & Spalding
  • Ashley Heintz of Jones Day
  • Edward Ivey, Moore & Van Allen
  • Andrew Kaufman, Lieff Cabraser
  • Jeffrey Kelly, Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough
  • Meredith Kingsley, Alston & Bird
  • Andrew Knowlton of Hall Booth Smith
  • Temitope Leyimu, Motley Rice
  • Benjamin Little, Dentons Sirote
  • Molly Lovedale, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft
  • Jocelyn Mitnaul Mallette, McGuireWoods
  • Emily McGowan, Alston & Bird
  • Louis Mendez, Bressler Amery & Ross
  • Mary Alexander Myers, Jones Day
  • Erica Opitz, Chamberlain Hrdlicka
  • Jonathan Parente, Alston & Bird
  • Adam Peoples of Hall Booth Smith
  • Alex Peurach, Alston & Bird
  • Jonathan Porter of Husch Blackwell
  • Sarah Primrose, King & Spalding
  • Gautam Reddy, Kilpatrick Townsend
  • Donna Tillis, Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough
  • Laura Wagner, Hunton Andrews Kurth