A small firm, an in-house office and one of the biggest BigLaw firms in town are bunching up at the top of the leaderboard in the Atlanta portion of the Legal Food Frenzy.

Joe Habachy PC and the Georgia Tech office of legal affairs have headed the race since it started last week, but by 5:45 p.m. Tuesday, King & Spalding shot up to within $10 of Georgia Tech.

The competition should remain intense through Friday, when the fundraiser for the Atlanta Community Food Bank ends. Organizers hope to raise $250,000 by that time, and the total raised late Tuesday afternoon was about $123,000—or just under half.

The event is timed so that food banks can stock up for the coming months, when Georgia children can't get the meals they rely on during the school year. One in four of all Georgia children don't know where their next meal is coming from, the food banks say.

Last year, the whole event sponsored by state Attorney General Chris Carr, the Young Lawyers Division of the State Bar and the Georgia Food Banks Association raised a record $329,000 and 19,000 pounds of food for all of Georgia's food banks.

Here are the top 10 teams working on behalf of the Atlanta Community Food Bank: Joe S. Habachy, PC, Attorney at Law, $13,885; Georgia Institute of Technology Office of Legal Affairs, $11,625; King & Spalding, $11,615; Troutman Sanders, $4,870; Jenkins & Roberts LLC, $4,745; DeKalb County Public Defender's Office, $4,501; Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP,
$4,486; Jones Day, $3,385; Lueder, Larkin & Hunter, LLC, $2,650; Serta Simmons Bedding LLC,
$2,565.

Readers can find any team to support by looking it up here; look on the right side for “Find a Participant or Team.” (Readers who want to participate but don't have a team to support are welcome to donate to the Daily Report's effort at this link.)