LORD BISSELL & BROOK’S Atlanta partners have voted former city attorney Michael V. Coleman to head their office, four months after Corliss S. Lawson resigned from the post to start her own firm.

Lawson, the first African-American woman to lead a local big firm office, vowed when she was voted Lord Bissell’s Atlanta partner-in-charge in 2004 to use her position to attract more women and minorities to the Chicago-based firm. At the time, the Atlanta office’s other nine partners were all white men.

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