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Barnes & Thornburg has added a new partner to its Atlanta office, business and technology litigator John Moye from Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton.

Moye, who focuses on tech and software litigation, trade secrets and restrictive covenants, is the eighth attorney to join Barnes & Thornburg's Atlanta office this year. His addition followed Barnes & Thornburg's hire in April of another partner, Sarah Hawk, from Polsinelli to lead its Southeastern immigration practice.

"We continue to execute on our strategic growth plans for our Atlanta office, even during these disruptive past few months," said Barnes & Thornburg's Atlanta managing partner John Koenig in a statement. "The COVID-19 pandemic is bound to spur more commercial litigation and contractual disputes, making John Moye's insightful approach to his work an invaluable asset to clients affected by the crisis."

As part of Moye's tech litigation practice, he represents large telecom companies in class actions arising from the Telephone Consumer Protection Act and other telecom law disputes. Barnes & Thornburg's litigation department chair, Randy Brown, said in a statement that tech disputes are among the emerging COVID-19-related litigation.

"We're only seeing the tip of the iceberg when it comes to this pandemic's ramifications in the technology space," Brown said. "New lawsuits involving trade secret theft, for example, have already started to crop up—and they're right in John's wheelhouse."

Moye also handles pro bono cases through the Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation and the Georgia Immigration and Asylum Network. GAIN has named him a Volunteer Attorney of the Year for his work representing Central American immigrants in federal asylum proceedings.

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Krevolin & Horst has hired Susan Coppedge as of counsel from Nardello & Co, where she headed the global investigations firm's Atlanta office. The firm also added Allison Bazinet as a corporate associate from King & Spalding. That gives the business law boutique 23 lawyers.

Coppedge is a former federal prosecutor and was an ambassador at large under the Obama administration for the U.S. State Department in its global efforts to combat human trafficking. She has almost two decades of experience in white-collar criminal matters, human trafficking prosecutions, government enforcement actions, internal investigations and environmental litigation. Coppedge worked for the U.S. Justice Department from 1995 to 2015, where she served as an assistant U.S. attorney for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Georgia in the government fraud and economic crimes and the major crimes sections.

She has remained active in the anti-trafficking community, serving on Street Grace's board and GAIN's advisory board.

Matt Hollingsworth has started his own plaintiffs firm, Hollingsworth Injury Law, primarily focused on injury and death cases from roadway accidents. Hollingsworth said cases are coming primarily from referrals. "The silver lining for our timing is that we were essentially born during the COVID-19 pandemic and have therefore implemented procedures that allow us to function at full capacity during this outbreak," he said.

Hollingsworth was previously of counsel at another plaintiff's firm, Ashenden & Associates, and continues to work with the firm on several cases. He earned his J.D. from Pennsylvania State University in 2013 and holds a B.A. in economics from the University of Georgia. He was recently selected for the State Bar of Georgia's Young Lawyers Division Leadership Academy for 2020. Hollingsworth Injury Law is located in Buckhead at 2020 Howell Mill Road.

The Georgia Defense Lawyers Association installed Jeff Ward of Drew Eckl & Farnham as its 53rd president during a Zoom board meeting earlier this month. George Hall of Hull Barrett in Augusta is the president-elect, while Dart Meadows of Balch & Bingham became treasurer and Pamela Lee of Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers became secretary. Marty Levinson of Hawkins Parnell & Young was promoted to vice president and Brannon Arnold of Weinberg Wheeler Hudgins Gunn & Dial was elected to the board of directors. The group is made up of almost 1,000 civil defense lawyers statewide.

Amanda Farahany of plaintiffs employment law firm Barrett & Farahany has been elected a fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers in recognition of outstanding performance in the profession. The national organization has almost 1,600 members in the United States and Canada.

Tina Roddenbery of family law firm Boyd Collar Nolen Tuggle & Roddenbery has received the Ross Adams Award from the State Bar of Georgia's Young Lawyers Division, which recognizes a YLD past president for continued support of the organization. Roddenbery, the YLD president from 1994 to 1995, also received the Ross Adams Award in 2011—making her only the second YLD past president to receive the award more than twice. The YLD is made up of about 10,000 members of the Georgia Bar.

David Pardue of Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein has been elected to the board of EarthShare Georgia, which connects corporations and individual volunteers with environmental nonprofits, such as Chattahoochee Riverkeeper, the Georgia Conservancy, the Georgia Wildlife Federation and Trees Atlanta.