Troutman Sanders has recruited Gary Marsh as a partner for its bankruptcy and restructuring practice. Marsh arrives from Dentons, where he co-chaired that firm's U.S. restructuring, insolvency and bankruptcy practice.

"Gary is highly regarded for his work in bankruptcy law and has extensive experience in representing debtors and creditors in and out of bankruptcy court," said Harris Winsberg, who heads Troutman's finance and restructuring practice, in an announcement.

Marsh, a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy Attorneys, represents debtors and creditors in Chapter 11 reorganizations, out-of-court restructurings and litigation. He also advises court-appointed receivers, examiners and trustees. His practice focuses on corporate insolvencies in the energy, real estate and health care industries.

He said in a statement that Troutman was the "perfect fit" for his practice, because of the firm's "national platform, size and prominence of its Atlanta office and focus on client service."

Marsh is an adjunct professor at Emory University Law School, his law school alma mater, where he teaches a course in complex Chapter 11 restructurings. He is also active in the American Bankruptcy Institute, American Board of Certification for business bankruptcy and creditor's rights issues, the Southeastern Bankruptcy Law Institute and the Lamar Inn of Court at Emory.

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Gray McCalley Jr. has joined Taylor English Duma as counsel after serving as the general counsel for national packaging giant Printpack, one of Atlanta's largest privately held companies with over $1.3 billion in revenue. McCalley, who has 30 years of in-house experience, also served as Coca-Cola Enterprises' deputy general counsel and its general counsel for Europe and, before that, as a division counsel for the Coca-Cola Co. in Germany and Norway. Earlier in his career, McCalley was a foreign service officer for the U.S. State Department, with postings in Washington, Bonn, London and Belfast. Taylor English said it has almost four-dozen lawyers with general counsel or senior in-house experience.

Tucker business litigation firm Poole Huffman has hired two associates, E. J. Inyang and Chris Hazelip. Inyang has joined its civil litigation practice after two years as a solicitor for the City of Atlanta, where he prosecuted criminal misdemeanors and ordinance violations. Hazelip, a 2019 graduate of Emory University Law School, is handling business and construction litigation.

James Bates Brannan Groover has hired three new associates: Morgan Owenbey, Michael Thompson and Adam Wittenstein—all 2019 law school graduates. Owenbey, who earned a joint J.D. and M.B.A. from Georgia State University, is in the corporate and M&A practice. Thompson, a graduate of the University of Georgia School of Law, is a litigator, handling insurance defense, general civil and commercial matters. Wittenstein, also a UGA Law graduate, is handling commercial litigation, employment law matters, alternative dispute resolution and appellate matters.

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart has added Will Collins as an associate from Freeman Mathis & Gary. Collins represents employers nationally in labor and employment administrative charges, single-plaintiff claims and class or collective action litigation.

Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Aughtry promoted three of its Atlanta lawyers to shareholders and two Atlanta shareholders to equity status at its annual meeting in Houston earlier this month. Drew Greene, Jennifer Duval Lindy and Christine Norstadt were elected as shareholders and shareholders John Hackney and Gina Vitiello were named to equity status.

Hawkins Parnell & Young has elected four equity partners, including Kate Whitlock in its Atlanta headquarters. Whitlock is a first-chair trial lawyer, who has tried more than 50 cases to verdict. She defends clients in professional, products and premises liability matters. This is the second year that Hawkins Parnell's new partner class has been 50% women, according to the firm.

Savannah firm HunterMaclean has promoted Patrick Barkley and Will Gallagher to partner. Barkley practices trusts and estates, tax and corporate law, while Gallagher practices specialty commercial litigation, including admiralty, transportation, logistics, insurance defense, collections and real estate matters.

Christy Walsh, the marketing and business development director for Drew Eckl & Farnham, has been named chair of the Atlanta steering committee for the Legal Marketing Association's Southeastern Region—one of the LMA's largest groups, with over 500 members in nine states. Ally Pritchett, the client services coordinator for Eversheds Sutherland, is the vice chair and Megan Stewart, King & Spalding's business development coordinator, is the secretary.

Emory University has chosen acclaimed human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson to deliver the keynote address for its 175th commencement exercise, scheduled for May 11. Emory president Claire Sterk said in an announcement that Stevenson "has worked tirelessly to confront systemic racism and injustice and to inspire all people to do the same."

Stevenson, who will receive an honorary Doctor of Laws from Emory, founded the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, where he and his staff have won reversals, relief or release from prison for more than 135 wrongly condemned prisoners on death row—and relief for hundreds of others wrongly convicted or unfairly sentenced. Stevenson in 2018 opened The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, America's first national memorials to tell the stories of victims of slavery and racial terror lynching. Stevenson's 2014 memoir "Just Mercy," which detailed his successful fight to overturn an Alabama man's false murder conviction, was made into a film starring Michael B. Jordan that Warner Brothers released in December.