Georgia Legal Food Frenzy logo. (Courtesy photo)

The Georgia legal community had raised $544,668 for the state's food banks as of 4 p.m. Thursday—$125,000 more than the total Legal Food Frenzy raised last year.

"The legal community is pushing the boundaries of what was thought possible," the Atlanta Community Food Bank said on its Frenzy website.

"Georgia's food banks are humbled by the outpouring of support we have seen from Georgia's legal community," said Callie Roan of the Georgia Food Bank Association, one of the Frenzy co-sponsors.

The legal community has until 11:59 p.m. Friday to pad its numbers, which already will provide more than two million meals. Even before the pandemic forced more than one million people to lose their jobs lost in Georgia, food banks estimated there were 1.5 million Georgians who did not know how they'd get their next meal.

The Georgia legal community has responded to these needs with intense fundraising.

Habachy Law maintained its lead, standing at $35,317. The Georgia Tech Office of the General Counsel clung to second place, at $20,179, as Alston & Bird rode a huge wave to $20,171.

The rest of the top 10 firms included Arnall Golden Gregory, at $13,666; King & Spalding, $12,286; Troutman Sanders, $11,851; Kilpatrick Townsend-Atlanta Office, $10,713; Johnson & Ward, $10,638; the Office of the Attorney General, at $10,473; and BakerHostetler, at $10,210.

Joe Habachy of Habachy Law noted a $10,000 donation that came Wednesday left him speechless: "It came from a friend who has been generous in the past but took it to a new level this year."

He added he's most moved by random donors that surface each year, such as an auto parts supplier, a woman he sat next to on a short flight, several "prospective" clients who chose other attorneys, the owner of a vacation rental he used "and on and on."

"It's a reminder that people everywhere are good and kind."