In the Daily Report's final roundup of newly elected partners, five firms—Arnall Golden Gregory; Taylor English Duma; Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete; Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner and Bouhan Falligant—have announced a total of 15 partner promotions in Atlanta, Macon and Savannah.

This follows earlier announcements of 2020 partner promotions from Alston & Bird, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton, Troutman Sanders, King & Spalding, Eversheds Sutherland, Morris Manning & Martin, Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough and other firms.

All partner promotions were effective Jan. 1.

Arnall Golden Gregory

Arnall Golden has elected five new partners, all in its Atlanta headquarters. They are: Michael Bargar, Kathryn Baldwin Hecker, Tanner Ivie, Vidhi Shah and Matthew Wilson.

Bargar has a bankruptcy practice, representing trustees, creditors and debtors in a range of bankruptcy matters. Hecker focuses her practice on complex wealth transfer planning, including tax, business succession and charitable planning, as well as probate matters. Ivie is a corporate lawyer who represents private and public companies in transactional and securities matters.

Shah has a real estate practice representing owners, developers, equity investors and lenders in commercial real estate transactions. Wilson co-leads Arnall Golden's entertainment and sports industry team, advising clients on legal issues related to entertainment, tech, new media and advertising.

Taylor English Duma

Taylor English Duma, also headquartered in Atlanta, has elected five new partners: Russ Dunlap, Deborah J. Livesay, Ryan Owens, Amanda Wilson Speier and Seth Kincaid Trimble.

Dunlap has an intellectual property practice, handling patent, trademark and copyright prosecution and litigation for clients ranging from inventors and startups to large companies. Livesay handles employment law for management, defending employers in employment litigation across the country, such as discrimination and wage and hour complaints. Owens has a corporate and transactional practice. Before joining Taylor English in 2018, he served as the general counsel for Kredible and as chief legal officer for DS Services.

Speier is a litigator, handling medical malpractice defense cases for health care providers including doctors, hospitals and insurers, as well as general liability, contract and billing disputes. She also defends professional liability claims in the insurance and financial services industries. Trimble is a tech and IP litigator, handling disputes over patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets.

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete

Constangy, a national labor and employment firm based in Atlanta, has promoted three lawyers to equity partner and four to partner firmwide, including new nonequity partners Katie Kelley in Atlanta and Claire Cronin in Macon.

Kelley's practice focuses on workers' compensation defense, representing employers, insurers and self-insured clients in workers' compensation matters throughout the state of Georgia. Cronin represents employers and insurers in all aspects of workers' compensation litigation, including mediation, subrogation and appeals.

Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner

National IP firm Finnegan has elected seven lawyers to partner firmwide, including Benjamin Schlesinger and M. David Weingarten in Atlanta.

Schlesinger practices patent litigation and licensing in the electrical and computer technology arts. Weingarten focuses on chemical, pharmaceutical and biotech patent litigation before U.S. district courts and the International Trade Commission and on post-grant proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.

Bouhan Falligant

Savannah firm Bouhan Falligant has elected Lucas Bradley to partner. A litigator, Bradley is the firm's primary appellate specialist, handling appellate advocacy, complex motions practice and admiralty and tort defense cases. As an undergraduate, Bradley was the drum major for the Duke University Marching Band.