The Georgia legal community dug deep again for the state's food banks, boosting its total over the first three days of the Legal Food Frenzy to $228,806 by 4 p.m. Wednesday.

Given food banks can turn a $1 donation into four meals, Georgia's lawyers, judges and legal professionals have provided 915,224 meals to hungry people so far.

That's a big number, but consider that last year, about 1.5 million Georgians did not know how they'd get their next meal, and in the past month about one million Georgians have lost jobs due to COVID-19 social distancing. Food banks have reported they have had to increase food distribution by up to 40%, all while losing some funding sources with the cancellation of their events. The Atlanta Community Food Bank, for example, had to cancel its annual Hunger Walk/Run, which in 2018 raised more than $1 million.

Many of the top 10 teams around Georgia still have thousands of dollars to collect before they reach their goals, while others have left their finish lines far behind.

The top 10, their current totals (and goals) are:

• Georgia Tech Office of the General Counsel, $19,016.50 ($20,000);
• Habachy Law, $7,791.25 ($30,000);
• Office of the Attorney General, $6,823.50 ($5,000);
• Squire Patton Boggs, $6,246.25 ($7,500);
• Johnson & Ward, $6,000 ($12,000);
• Parker Hudson Rainer & Dobbs $5,857 ($7,500);
• Troutman Sanders, $5,817.75 ($18,000);
• Imerys, $5,672.50 ($3,000);
• King & Spalding, $5,473 ($20,000); and
• Arnall Golden Gregory, $5,163 ($5,000).

Georgia Tech and Imerys' appearances in the top 10 point to a push by Attorney General Chris Carr to encourage more participation by the state's corporate counsel bar.

Already 189 teams are competing, but Carr noted it was not too late to start a team or donate. For more information, go to: https://galegalfoodfrenzy.org/.

Carr's office, the State Bar's Young Lawyers Division and the Georgia Food Bank Association sponsor the annual Food Frenzy.