Attorney of the Year Finalists
David Green, Global Payments GC
Brandon Peak, Butler Wooten Peak
Attorney of the Year Winner
Sarah Geraghty, Southern Center for Human Rights
Law Firm of the Year
King & Spalding
Lifetime Achievement
Nathan Deal, former Governor of Atlanta
Frank Strickland, Taylor English
Jerre Swann, Kilpatrick Townsend
Judge Adele Grubbs, Former Chief Superior Court Judge, Cobb County Judicial Circuit
Jack Dalton, Troutman Sanders
Pitts Carr, Carr & Weatherby
Jack Martin, Martin Brothers PC
Rex Smith, Miles Mediation
John Zamer, Jones Day
Judge Bensonetta Tipton Lane, Former Fulton County Superior Court Judge
Judge Pinkie Toomer, Fulton County
Doc Schneider, King & Spalding
Caryl G Smith, Hunton Andrews Kurth
Distinguished Leaders
Lee Parks, Parks Chesin Walbert
Corey Martin, Martin & Associates
Woody Jameson, Duane Morris
Gerry Williams, DLA Piper
Bryan Knight, Knight Palmer
Chris Daniel, Paul Hastings
Lori Cohen, Greenberg Traurig
Tracy Ann Moore-Grant, Patterson Moore Butler
Cindy Brazell, Holland & Knight
Yussuf Aleem, Joseph & Aleem
Best Mentors
Tomieka Daniel, Georgia Legal Services Program
Tywanda Lord, Kilpatrick Townsend Stockton
Roger Martin, Hall, Booth & Smith
Anthony Cochran, Smith, Gambrell & Russell
Erin Gerstenzang, EHG Law Firm
Harold Franklin, King & Spalding
On The Rise
Katherine Dunn, Southern Poverty Law Center
Bess Hinson, Morris Manning & Martin, LLP
Patrick Darcey, Executive Office for Immigration Review, Atlanta Immigration Court
Crystal McElrath, Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers, LLP
Dee Debardeleben, Weinberg Wheeler Hudgins Gunn & Dial
Elizabeth Brown, Alston & Bird
Pamela Peynado Stewart, Lee & Peynado Immigration Law Group
William Horkan, James Bates Brannan & Grover, LLP
Kurt Kastorf, Kastorf Law
Alexandra "Sachi" Cole, Penn Law
Yvonne Godfrey, Harris Lowry Manton LLP
Mariel Smith, Hall Booth Smith, P.C.
Micheal Binns, Parker Poe
Ronald E. Daniels, Daniels Law LLC
Jeff Fisher, Kilpatrick Townsend
Austin Bersinger, Bersinger Law LLC
Kasey Chow, Southern Company
Andrew Q. Leba, Change Healthcare
Allison Ng, Greenberg Traurig
Tiffany Mallory Moore, United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Georgia
David Dove, Executive Counsel, Gov. Brian Kemp
Best Social Mediators
Jessica Wood, Bodker, Ramsey, Andrews, Winograd & Wildstein, PC
Most Effective Dealmakers
Keith Townsend, King & Spalding
Michael Cochran, Dentons
David Calhoun, Morris Manning & Martin
Legal Innovators
Eric Tannenblatt, Dentons
In-House Legal Departments of the Year
Pindrop Security
In-House Impact
Shelli Willis, Deputy General Counsel and Assistant Corporate Secretary, SunTrust
Litigation Departments of the Year — Midsize Firms
Weinberg Wheeler Hudgins Gunn & Dial, General Litigation
Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers, General Litigation
Litigation Departments of the Year — Small Firms
Brodhead Law
Most Innovative Law Firms
Troutman Sanders
Eversheds Sutherland
Drew Eckl & Farnham
