Daily Report 2019 Georgia Legal Awards 
The Daily Report is pleased to announce its winners and finalists for the 2022 Georgia Legal Awards.
The honors will be presented at a gala on June 23 at Flourish Atlanta. In June, we'll publish a special section, further highlighting these skilled attorneys and their important accomplishments. We'll announce the Attorney of the Year and Law Firm of the Year winners from among this group of three finalists at the June 23 awards gala.
The award winners and finalists are:
Diversity Initiative
Akerman
Eversheds Sutherland
Greenberg Traurig
Harry Norman, Realtors
In-House Impact Award: Gulfstream
In-House Legal Department of the Year: Gulfstream
Law Firm of the Year Finalists
Drew Eckl & Farnham
Greenberg Traurig
Kilpatrick Townsend
Legal Innovators
Garvish Immigration Law Group's Elizabeth Garvish
Lefkoff Law's Steven Lefkoff
Mabra Law's Ronnie Mabra Jr.
Litigation Departments of the Year – Small/Midsize Firms: Weinberg Wheeler Hudgins Gunn & Dial
Most Innovative Law Firms: Bell Law Firm
Attorney of the Year Finalists
Linda Dunikoski of Cobb County District Attorney's Office
Eric Fisher of Barnes & Thornburg
Chris Glover of Beasley Allen
Best Mentor
Andrew "Drew" Beal of Buckley Beal
Cobb County Magistrate Court Judge Sonja Natasha Brown
Sandra Brown of Greenspoon Marder
Laura Cartner of Hall Booth Smith
Atlanta Legal Aid Society's Deborah Johnson
Halsey Knapp Jr. of Krevolin and Horst
Randy Scoggins of Miller & Martin
Bobby Woo Jr. of King & Spalding,
Distinguished Leaders
David Balser of King & Spalding
Ted Blum of Greenberg Traurig
Joel Correa of the Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation
Victor Haley of Eversheds Sutherland
Wab Kadaba of Kilpatrick Townsend
Simon Malko of Morris Manning & Martin
Hedy Rubinger of Arnall Golden Gregory
Anthony "Tony" Tatum of McGuireWoods
Lifetime Achievers
Mike Bagley of Drew Eckl & Farnham
Thomas Cauthorn of Cauthorn Nohr & Owen
Philip Henry of Cash Krugler Fredericks
Phil Holladay, formerly of King & Spalding (retired)
Julie John of Drew Eckl & Farnham
James "Jim" Leonard of Barnes & Thornburg
Michael Tyler of Kilpatrick Townsend
Marlan Wilbanks of Wilbanks & Gouinlock
Most Effective Deal-Makers: DLA Piper's Jeffrey Leavitt
On the Rise
Brannon Arnold of Weinberg Wheeler Hudgins Gunn & Dial
Alexandra Garrison Barnett of Alston & Bird
Bennett Bryan of DeKalb County Law Department
Robert Capovilla of Capovilla & Williams
Eric Charity of Kilpatrick Townsend
Amy B. Cheng of Nelson Mullins
Irina Dutcher of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Georgia
Stephen Floyd of BakerHostetler
Zack Greenamyre of Mitchell & Shapiro
Kathryn Hecker of Arnall Golden Gregory
Theodore Hertzberg of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Georgia
Tennille Hoover of U.S. Bank
Alana Kirkland of Greenberg Traurig
Kareemah Lewis of MARTA
Jessica MacAllister of Holland & Knight
Devang "Dev" Patel of Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy
Taylor S. Poncz of Drew Eckl & Farnham
John Rose of Fox Rothschild
Evan Rosenberg of Morgan & Morgan
Nick Rueter of Morris Manning & Martin
Bryan Schivera of Oliver Maner
Amanda Kay Seals of Bondurant Mixson & Elmore
Lindsey Siegel of Atlanta Legal Aid Society
Raymond Tran of Seyfarth Shaw
Emily C. Ward of Smith, Gambrell & Russell
Matthew M. Weiss of Parker, Hudson, Rainer & Dobbs
For more information on the gala, visit the Georgia Legal Awards event site. For information on sponsorships and tickets, please contact Andre Sutton at at (757) 721-9020 or [email protected].
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Law Firms Mentioned
- Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough
- Alston & Bird
- Miller Martin
- McGuireWoods
- DLA Piper
- Arnall Golden Gregory
- Morgan & Morgan
- Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C.
- Parker, Hudson, Rainer & Dobbs LLP
- King & Spalding
- Hall Booth Smith
- Barnes Thornburg
- Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
- Drew Eckl Farnham
- Eversheds Sutherland
- Morris Manning Martin
- Weinberg Wheeler Hudgins
- Greenberg Traurig
- Holland & Knight LLP
- Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP
- Fox Rothschild
- Seyfarth Shaw
- Barnes & Thornburg
- Bondurant Mixson & Elmore
- Greenspoon Marder
- Oliver Maner LLP
- Smith, Gambrell & Russell
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