WHEN YOU’RE interviewing the general counsel of H.J. Russell & Co., it makes sense to have lunch at Paschal’s. The historic Atlanta company-the nation’s largest minority-owned real estate development company and a big player in the construction industry-is headquartered right across the street from the restaurant in Castleberry Hill. Herman J. Russell built the restaurant after the original Paschal’s, a meeting place for Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders in the 1960s, closed.

H. Eric Hilton ushered me to an enormous circular booth in the corner of the loft-like restaurant, which he said was Russell’s usual table.

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