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Joseph A. Fried

hen it comes to handling substantial injury and wrongful death cases in Georgia and around the USA, Fried Rogers Goldberg (FRG) is consistently at the top of the list year after year. FRG is definitely not your typical personal injury law firm and partners Joe Fried, Buck Rogers and Michael Goldberg are not your typical plaintiffs’ lawyers. “While other lawyers often try to fit every case into a predetermined mold, we focus on what makes each case uniquely compelling,” says Fried. “For us, it is about finding the compelling story in every case that truly and universally cries out for justice.

It’s about figuring out why anyone should really care about the client’s loss.” “It is a very different way of practicing law,” adds Rich Hamilton, who recently joined the firm after spending twenty years on the defense side. “Now that I see what goes into every case at FRG, I understand why they always get top dollar results.” FRG is best known for their tremendous success handling truck accident cases and helping other lawyers with truck accident cases around the country, but because of their unique approach and history of great results, they are a go-to firm for any major damages case. “Other lawyers often associate us to

handle large cases,” says Goldberg. “They appreciate our team approach and generous referral philosophy.” Clients appreciate not only the results, but how they are treated at FRG. “We are committed to not only keeping our clients informed each step of the way, but to making our clients truly partners in the legal process,” Rogers highlights. “A lawsuit can be a very personal journey and clients should be able to know unquestionably that their lawyer has their back.” “Our firm is about making a difference in the lives of our clients, and also in the communities in which we all live”, concludes Fried. “That’s what it means to be a great lawyer.”

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It’s inevitable—at some point in your life, you’re going to need a lawyer, and you won’t always be able to forecast when that need will arise. Finding an advocate in whom you can place your trust—particularly during times of strain or duress—can be a particularly daunting task. For most of us, the choice must be made quickly and decisively, and large sums of money are potentially on the line. As when choosing a doctor, we place an immense amount of responsibility in the counsel we hire to represent us. In our search for the highest quality advocate, we expect to be treated fairly, for our grievances to be heard, and for our lawyers to take on our case as if it were their own. Best Lawyers is proud to be the oldest legal peer-review organization in the United States. Since 1983, lawyers have been nominating and voting on their colleagues, culminating in what is currently the 20th edition of The Best Lawyers in America, from which this directory has been culled. The 2014 edition includes 50,834 attorneys in 134 practice areas, covering all 50 states and the District of Columbia, and inclusion is based on more than

4.9 million detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers. A lot has changed in the last three decades. We now have myriad tools at our disposal, but has it gotten any easier to find a lawyer? No one is allowed to buy his or her way into Best Lawyers, so when you search for representation here, you are certain to find only the most highly regarded advocates in their chosen field. Lawyers must be re-nominated every year, thus ensuring that those listed are still considered the most esteemed in the profession. As a result, we congratulate those lawyers who have earned a place in this year’s guide and offer special recognition of those who have been honored for 30 years by highlighting their names in red throughout this publication. There have been other improvements to the magazine as well. This year, to make your search even more useful, we have included all listed lawyers in Georgia broken out by practice area and metropolitan region and are pleased to announce the 2014 recipients of the “Lawyer of the Year” award. Only one lawyer per practice area per metropolitan zone is granted this distinction, based on the highest peer ratings received. Turn to page 8 to find out more.

We are also thrilled to unveil our new, fully interactive digital edition, truly putting the power to make an informed decision at your fingertips. Each lawyer and firm with an online profile on BestLawyers.com is hyperlinked within these pages and highlighted in blue. Simply scan the QR code on page 4 with your smartphone or go to the Regional Publications section of BestLawyers.com to access the fully responsive digital edition. It’s available anytime, anywhere—accessible for free, all year long. Our aim is to quickly connect you to the Best Lawyer that best suits your needs. Whether you are in Atlanta or Augusta, our publication strives to put you in touch with the Best Lawyers in your hometown. Because it takes a community to recognize the best, if you know an outstanding attorney who isn’t listed here, do not hesitate to go online to BestLawyers.com and nominate him or her today.

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with Morton A. Harris of Hatcher Stubbs, listed in The Best Lawyers in America for 30 years businesses and their owners become and remain successful. What has been the key to your success? Having good senior lawyers as mentors who allowed and encouraged me to participate in continuing education at a high level early on. Always attempting to achieve a positive result for my client. Good personal health and energy and What interested you about the good fortune of having partners going into your particular area who believed in excellence. of law? With an accounting major What is one example of a case/ as my background, in law school I matter you are particularly proud naturally gravitated toward business of? Helping a particular family and tax courses—along with estate business remain successful amid planning—and found that I enjoyed great financial stress and helping to these areas and was able to do well. successfully transition that business What would you say is the most to the next generation. rewarding aspect of practicing in How has the legal industry in your area of law? Helping people your field changed in the last 30 accomplish their personal goals, years? Practicing law has become especially in the estate and retirement much more technically based and planning areas, and in helping proceeds at a much faster pace, and is

fast becoming more of an “industry” than a “profession.” There is also a greater amount of competition from non-lawyer sources in the business, tax, employee benefits, and the trust and estates areas of practice. What does being included in Best Lawyers for 30 years mean to you? I am honored and proud to be recognized by my peers as being professionally excellent as a lawyer and for my respect of the responsibilities and obligations that lawyers have in our society. What is one piece of advice you would give to new attorneys? Always do your best, keep your clients informed in a timely manner, and be prompt in your response to clients, your fellow lawyers, and to the court. Also, it is very important to be fair and honest with your client and with opposing counsel; and if you are not skilled in what you are being asked

to do, get help, and never be afraid to tell your client you don’t know or are not sure of the answer, but will find out or get outside competent representation for the client if needed. What is the biggest obstacle you see for your practice area in the next 30 years? The growing expansion of nonlawyer participation in many areas which have traditionally been the sole province of attorneys, such as the areas of business, tax, employee benefits, and trusts and estates. I see a continuation of non-lawyer competition, which will continue to cause a decline in these areas of the law. I also see a continuation of the trend of the legal profession becoming a highly skilled “industry,” which blends in with non-lawyers who practice in these non-litigation areas.

with Robert G. Holt of Holt Ney Zatcoff & Wasserman, listed in The Best Lawyers in America for 30 years

What interested you about going into your particular area of law? Since middle school, I wanted to be an architect, but after studying architecture for two years, I decided to become a lawyer. Working in the commercial real estate practice gives me an opportunity to be on the team developing new real estate projects. What would you say is the most rewarding aspect of practicing in your area of law? Most of what I

work on is a win-win project. Overall, new value is added, which is shared by all parties involved. I tried litigation, but the win-lose nature of it was not satisfying. It usually is a lose-lose experience, because the winner of a law suit is usually unhappy about the time and expense he had to go through. What has been the key to your success? I identify completely with the needs and desires of my client. His victories and losses are my victories and losses. I usually become personal friends with my clients and enjoy socializing with them. What is one example of a case/ matter you are particularly proud of? I represented a major bank that was a subordinate lender in a large construction project. Due to cost overruns, the first mortgage lenders increased their loan, which decreased

the value of the collateral held by my client. I found in the details of the loan documents that the increases in the first mortgage lenders loan was not secured by the collateral, which made it necessary that they get my client’s consent to increase their loan. We negotiated in New York City all day each day for about 8 months to reach an agreement on the restructuring. How has the legal industry in your field changed in the last 30 years? When I started with a leading Atlanta firm, we had 24 lawyers. When the firm reached 135 lawyers I left to start my own firm. The firm I left now has over 900 lawyers, and my firm is the size that my former firm was when I started out with it. My firm is like an extended family. What does being included in Best Lawyers for 30 years mean to

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has named individuals as “Lawyers of the Year” in Georgia, based on their particularly high level of peer recognition. For all intents and purposes, Tommy Malone’s first medical negligence case—tried over the course of just a few short days in the late 1960s—should have been a slam dunk. His client, a 15-year-old girl, had taken a sulfur drug prescribed by a well-liked local physician despite her documented allergy to the chemical. The results were disastrous: the young girl, Malone says, developed severe exfoliating dermatitis, as in weeping blisters, all over her body, which left painful sores, raw skin, and complete paralysis. “At the hospital, the nurses had to put cornstarch on the sheets so she wouldn’t stick,” says Malone. “It was really horrible stuff.” As Malone is quick to point out, this was the deep South at a turning point in history, and young lawyers like himself all knew better than to take on the establishment in rural Georgia. But it didn’t stop Malone from trying. Sadly, they lost the trial. “It wasn’t polite to sue your neighbor, much less your doctor,” he says matter-of-factly. And while the outcome of the trial, given the times, may have been predictable, it was no less devastating for Malone. “I was left asking myself how I possibly could have failed this child,” Malone says with no small measure of emotion, despite the decades that have passed. “Here you’ve got a girl with a known allergy to sulfur who was given a sulfur drug. What was my life all about? I questioned everything.” For Malone, it was a swift punch in the gut and a reality check rolled into one. This isn’t where the story ends, however, in either the sulfur-drug case—in a separate suit, the drugmaker eventually settled for sum that satisfied his client’s medical bills and saw to her continuing care—or in Tommy Malone’s personal narrative. In fact, it was just the beginning, and was the case that Malone says for better or for worse cemented his path. “There are lessons to be had in losing a case that I felt nobody should lose,” says Malone, the son of a lawyer turned judge (Tommy worked at his father’s firm out of law school before striking out on his own some years later). “To lose such a case was more than humbling, it was earthshattering. But if anything, it, and others, is

what motivated me to keep moving forward.” Today, from his hardfought vantage point as one of the state’s best plaintiffs’ lawyers, the losses are much fewer and farther between, and the verdicts and settlements he and his firm obtain for clients are routinely some of the largest Georgia sees. In one 2009 example, Malone won a staggering sum, nearly $50 million in compensatory damages, for the victim of a traumatic brain injury who was hurt in a devastating accident involving two commercial truck drivers. ME D I CAL MA L PR ACT I C E L AW And in 1995, he won $45 million in compensatory P L A I N T I FF S damages due to medical negligence in the preventable ATL A N TA quadruple amputation of a six-month old baby. As a across the state as a go-to practice for result of the case, the Georgia legislature quickly moved to change the rules catastrophic personal injury, commercial governing the way HMO providers operate— vehicle accidents, traumatic brain injury, medical malpractice, aviation accidents and effectively saving other people from having products liability. The two Malones—both to jump through unnecessary hoops to board-certified by the selective American receive critical emergency care. Board of Professional Liability Attorneys— Malone has a reputation for selectivity, often go to trial together, as they did in and he says, only half-jokingly, that his a recent case involving a brain-damaged firm spends as much time turning cases infant. The setting was the known-to-beaway and staying out of marginal cases as conservative Cobb County; after a mistrial, it does working on those it takes on. But the pair settled favorably with the doctor then again, only taking on the best of the and hospital involved in the injury. best is a Malone trademark and a hallmark “Adam is just as strong-willed as I am. of his four-lawyer practice. “We could have a much bigger firm, maybe 25 or 30 lawyers,” He is certainly carrying the torch forward, Malone says, “but then our clients wouldn’t while picking up one of his own,” says the elder Malone of his son. “He shares the get the quality of representation that we same dedication and passion as I do, which can deliver by being personally involved in is an absolute requirement in this line of each case.” work. There is simply no greater reward than Malone Law, which he runs with his son making a meaningful difference for someone Adam—himself a formidable trial lawyer whose life has been devastated. It’s about who obtains record-setting personal injury having the confidence to move forward and verdicts of his own, with one in 2008 take on those whose stature might be larger netting some $25 million for the victim than your own.” of a unnecessary amputation—is known

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ow does a former local police officer end up one of the top personal injury lawyers in the entire country? For Atlanta-based “out of the box” attorney Joe Fried, it’s been a natural progression. “I have always hated bullies and stood up for the little guy,” Fried says. “Holding those who are responsible for hurting others fully accountable is what I did as a police officer and it is still what I do today as a lawyer—I just have a better education and much better resources.” That education goes way beyond law. Fried has formal education and real world experience in physics, accident reconstruction and forensics, as well as hundreds of hours of training in psychology, neurolinguistics, persuasion science, story structure and story-telling. When you add all these pieces together with a tireless work ethic and a spiritual calling, the final product is a lawyer who is hard to beat. “Cases are about much more than a string of facts and legal principles,” Fried muses. “It’s my job to figure out why anyone should really care about my client’s case and how I can present that case in a credible and compelling way. The jurors in my cases get a chance to be heroes by righting a wrong and restoring justice.” All you have to do is spend a few minutes talking to Fried to know he is not your typical lawyer. He is genuine and real—and has a rare ability to feel what is going on in others and connect with them at a deep level. “I wasn’t always like this,” Fried says. “I had to learn to deal with my own fears— to be willing to be vulnerable—and to find my own truth before I could feel the truth in others. I am still a work in progress.” Fried is a master at seeing through negatives that constrain other lawyers and turning them into positives. A defense lawyer recently said of Fried, “I thought I had him boxed in with a world class expert who was set to gut his case, but by the end of a short deposition that expert had flipped and was supporting Fried’s case. There was nothing I could do about it.” “I don’t let the defense dictate what is

important in a case,” Fried admonishes. “Lawyers often fight the wrong issues and then get mad and look like jerks when they lose the fight. I try hard not to be that lawyer.” Fried started out handling medical negligence cases and then happened into a case where a woman was badly Joseph A. Fried burned when her car caught fire after a crash. It was even left a magazine open to a truck safety the modern-day Ford Pinto case, but it article in my seat pocket on an airplane,” he involved the Ford Mustang. “When I first says. One night as Fried tossed and turned, saw how little damage there was to the it struck him: “I’m supposed to focus on car, I couldn’t understand why it caught truck accidents and truck safety,” he says. fire,” Fried says. “I “I woke up with a new started digging and vigor. That morning, found that a lot of I got my first truck people had burned crash case and that “THE JURORS IN MY CASES alive in Mustangs. I it for me.” GET A CHANCE TO BE HEROES confirmed felt compelled to do Since then, Fried something about it.” BY RIGHTING A WRONG AND has become one of the He quickly became foremost authorities RESTORING JUSTICE.” the go-to lawyer in in the country on Georgia and beyond handling truck for these cases, and said if Ford would fix crash cases resulting in serious injury the problem, he would stop suing them. or wrongful death. “Too many lawyers It took several years, but Ford ultimately treat truck crash cases as if they are changed the design of the Mustang to simply big car crash cases. That is a huge eliminate the issue. Fried kept his word mistake,” he says. Because of his extensive and stopped suing Ford. “My goal has been knowledge and record of success, Fried is reached,” he says. often associated by other lawyers to help Fried then looked for where he should maximize the results in trucking cases. focus next. For a few weeks, it seemed that “Most of the cases I handle these days everywhere he looked he saw safety issues involve truck or other commercial motor involving big trucks. “There were truck vehicles, but I always have time in my life wrecks on the news, I passed a terrible to consider other major cases where I can truck wreck on the road, and someone make a difference.”

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SWIFT, CURRIE, MCGHEE & HIERS Roger E. Harris (D) THE LANGLAIS LAW GROUP Susan Witt Langlais (D, P) TISINGER VANCE David H. Tisinger (D) WARSHAUER LAW GROUP Lyle Griffin Warshauer (P) WATKINS, LOURIE, ROLL & CHANCE Lance D. Lourie (P) , Joseph W. Watkins (P) WAYNE GRANT Wayne Grant (P) WEINBERG WHEELER HUDGINS GUNN & DIAL John M. Hudgins IV (D), Robert G. Tanner (D)

AUGUSTA FULCHER HAGLER J. Arthur Davison (D) HULL BARRETT James V. Painter (D) KILPATRICK TOWNSEND & STOCKTON Joseph H. Huff (D) LAW OFFICES OF TUCKER LONG Benjamin H. Brewton (D) TROTTER JONES James S. V. Weston (D)

COLUMBUS BUTLER, WOOTEN & FRYHOFER James E. Butler, Jr. (P) WILLIS MCKENZIE Charles J. Willis (D)

MACON BUZZELL, GRAHAM & WELSH LAW OFFICES R. William Buzzell II (P) HALL BOOTH SMITH Anthony A. Rowell (D) JONES CORK & MILLER Thomas C. Alexander (D) LAW OFFICE OF EDWARD L. LONG, JR. Edward L. Long, Jr. (P) MARTIN SNOW John C. Edwards (D, P) O’NEAL & BROWN Manley F. Brown (D, P) THE LAW FIRM OF KATHY MCARTHUR Katherine L. McArthur (P)

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BERGEN & BERGEN Frederick S. Bergen (P) BOUHAN FALLIGANT Carlton E. Joyce (D), Frank W. Seiler (P) BRENNAN & WASDEN Joseph P. Brennan (D) AUGUSTA HUNTERMACLEAN WALL ELLISON Kirby G. Mason (D), Christopher W. James B. Wall* Phillips (D) SAVANNAH OLIVER MANER William P. Franklin, Jr. (D), I. Gregory ELLIS, PAINTER, RATTERREE & ADAMS Hodges (D), William J. Hunter (D), Alison R. Clay Ratterree Sawyer Kennickell (D), Christopher L. Ray OLIVER MANER (D), Andrew M. Wilkes (D) Patrick T. O’Connor* * LITIGATION ONLY ** LITIGATION & PRACTICE AREA

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NATURAL RESOURCES LAW ATLANTA ALSTON & BIRD Lee A. DeHihns III, Della Wager Wells

NON-PROFIT / CHARITIES LAW ATLANTA ALSTON & BIRD W. Marshall Sanders, Benjamin T. White BURR & FORMAN James M. McCarten SUTHERLAND ASBILL & BRENNAN James K. Hasson, Jr. TROUTMAN SANDERS Wayne R. Vason WALLACE MORRISON & CASTEEL Stephanie B. Casteel

COLUMBUS HATCHER, STUBBS, LAND, HOLLIS & ROTHSCHILD Alan F. Rothschild, Jr.

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GREENBERG TRAURIG Lori G. Cohen (D), Clarence Davis (D) GREER JACKSON Thomas E. Greer (P) HALL BOOTH SMITH John E. Hall, Jr. (D) HAWKINS PARNELL THACKSTON & YOUNG Warner S. Fox (D), Michael J. Goldman (D), Alan F. Herman (D), William H. Major III (D), Albert H. Parnell (D), H. Lane Young II (D) HENRY SPIEGEL MILLING Philip C. Henry (P) HOLLAND & KNIGHT Alfred B. Adams III (D), Thomas B. Branch III (D) HOUCK REGAS Michael G. Regas II (P) HUDSON, MONTGOMERY, KALIVODA & CONNELLY David R. Montgomery (P) HUNTON & WILLIAMS Matthew J. Calvert (D) INSLEY AND RACE Terrance C. Sullivan (D) J.TOM MORGAN, ATTORNEY J.Tom Morgan III (P) JAMS Albert M. Pearson III (P) JOHNSON & WARD William C. Lanham (P) KILPATRICK TOWNSEND & STOCKTON David M. Zacks (P)

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THOMAS KENNEDY SAMPSON & TOMPKINS Thomas G. Sampson (D, P) 404.688.4503 | page 15 TISINGER VANCE Richard G. Tisinger, Jr. (D), David H. Tisinger (D) TROUTMAN SANDERS N. Karen Deming (D) W. PITTS CARR & ASSOCIATES W. Pitts Carr (D, P) WARSHAUER LAW GROUP Michael J. Warshauer (P) WAYNE GRANT Wayne Grant (P) WEINBERG WHEELER HUDGINS GUNN & DIAL Earl W. Gunn (D), John M. Hudgins IV (D), Frederick N. Sager, Jr. (D), Robert G. Tanner (D), Y. Kevin Williams (D) WOMBLE CARLYLE SANDRIDGE & RICE Michael J. Sullivan (D)

AUGUSTA BELL & BRIGHAM John C. Bell, Jr. (P) DAVID BELL David B. Bell (D) DURHAM & CRANE LAW FIRM Danny L. Durham (P) FULCHER HAGLER James W. Purcell (D) HULL BARRETT George R. Hall (D), David E. Hudson (D), Patrick J. Rice (D), F. Michael Taylor (D) KILPATRICK TOWNSEND & STOCKTON R. Perry Sentell III (P) LAW OFFICES OF TUCKER LONG Thomas W. Tucker (D), John B. Long (P) NIMMONS & MALCHOW Leland M. Malchow (P)

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PRIVATE FUNDS / HEDGE FUNDS LAW ATLANTA ARNALL GOLDEN GREGORY D. C. Presten III JONES DAY John E. Zamer

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ALSTON & BIRD Todd S. McClelland

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ATLANTA HAWKINS PARNELL THACKSTON & YOUNG H. Lane Young II (D) JONES DAY Peter C. Canfield (D

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SAVANNAH BOUHAN FALLIGANT Carlton E. Joyce (D) BRANNEN, SEARCY & SMITH David R. Smith (D) BRENNAN & WASDEN Wiley A. Wasden III (D)

PROJECT FINANCE LAW ATLANTA HOLLAND & KNIGHT Woodrow W. Vaughan III JAMS John W. Hinchey MERCER THOMPSON John T. W. Mercer SUTHERLAND ASBILL & BRENNAN Peter A. Fozzard

PUBLIC FINANCE LAW ATLANTA ALSTON & BIRD Glenn R. Thomson BRYANT MILLER OLIVE Leonard T. Marcinko HUNTON & WILLIAMS Caryl Greenberg Smith KING & SPALDING William A. Holby, Floyd C. Newton III MCKENNA LONG & ALDRIDGE Earle R. Taylor III SUTHERLAND ASBILL & BRENNAN Matthew W. Nichols

SAVANNAH GRAY PANNELL & WOODWARD James L. Pannell

RAILROAD LAW ATLANTA CASEY GILSON Robert E. Casey, Jr. , James E. Gilson, Glenn C. Tornillo

AUGUSTA FULCHER HAGLER James W. Purcell, Mark C. Wilby

COLUMBUS HATCHER, STUBBS, LAND, HOLLIS & ROTHSCHILD William B. Hardegree*

SAVANNAH THE JORDAN FIRM Randall A. Jordan

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ATLANTA ALSTON & BIRD Albert E. Bender, Jr., James G. Farris, Jr., Timothy J. Pakenham, Mark C. Rusche, Allison M. Ryan ANDERSEN, TATE & CARR Thomas J. Andersen

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SAVANNAH BRENNAN & WASDEN Wiley A. Wasden III* BROOKS STILLWELL W. Brooks Stillwell III** HUNTERMACLEAN Edward O. Henneman, Jr., Ron D. Talley, Harold B. Yellin MCCORKLE & JOHNSON Phillip R. McCorkle MORRIS, MANNING & MARTIN Joseph R. Ross OLIVER MANER Douglas E. Herman*, James P. Gerard RUBNITZ & ZIBLUT Triece Gignilliat Ziblut

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ATLANTA ALSTON & BIRD Steven M. Collins*, Todd R. David*, Mary C. Gill*, Judson Graves*, H. Douglas Hinson*, John A. Jordak, Jr.*, John L. Latham*, Theodore J. Sawicki, M. Hill Jeffries, Jr., Mark C. Kanaly, Teri Lynn McMahon, William Scott Ortwein, Steven L. Pottle BAKER, DONELSON, BEARMAN, CALDWELL & BERKOWITZ Mark A. B. Carlson BONDURANT MIXSON & ELMORE Jeffrey O. Bramlett*, H. Lamar Mixson* BRYAN CAVE Thomas S. Richey*, Thomas R. McNeill FELLOWS LABRIOLA Stephen T. LaBriola* KILPATRICK TOWNSEND & STOCKTON Stephen E. Hudson*, W. Benjamin Barkley, Thomas J. Biafore, David M. Eaton, David A. Stockton KING & SPALDING Jeffrey S. Cashdan*, L. Joseph Loveland, Jr.*, Jeffrey M. Stein, M. Robert Thornton LEDBETTER WANAMAKER GLASS Larry D. Ledbetter, Bruce D. Wanamaker PARKER, HUDSON, RAINER & DOBBS J. Marbury Rainer*, David G. Russell* PAUL HASTINGS Elizabeth H. Noe ROGERS & HARDIN Dan F. Laney*, Tony G. Powers*, C. B. Rogers*, Richard H. Sinkfield*, Lori A. Gelchion, Hunter R. Hughes III SCHIFF HARDIN Michael K. Wolensky STRICKLAND BROCKINGTON LEWIS Oscar N. Persons** SUTHERLAND ASBILL & BRENNAN Peter J. Anderson*, S. Lawrence Polk*, W. Scott Sorrels* THOMPSON HINE Joseph M. Rigot TROUTMAN SANDERS J. Kirk Quillian*, W. Brinkley Dickerson, David W. Ghegan, Patrick W. Macken

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CHAMBERLAIN, HRDLICKA, WHITE, WILLIAMS & AUGHTRY Thomas E. Jones, Jr. DOFFERMYRE SHIELDS CANFIELD & KNOWLES AUGUSTA Everette L. Doffermyre* GASLOWITZ FRANKEL HULL BARRETT SECURITIZATION & STRUCTURED Mark S. Burgreen Craig M. Frankel*, Adam R. Gaslowitz* FINANCE LAW MORGAN AND DISALVO COLUMBUS Richard M. Morgan ATLANTA HATCHER, STUBBS, LAND, HOLLIS & ROGERS & HARDIN ROTHSCHILD C. B. Rogers* ALSTON & BIRD Morton A. Harris**, Charles T. Staples Rick D. Blumen, Richard W. Grice SALO & WALKER Ann D. Salo, Melissa P. Walker BURR & FORMAN MACON Edgar C. Snow, Jr. SMITH, GAMBRELL & RUSSELL ANDERSON, WALKER & REICHERT Kristen M. Lewis, James H. Morgan, Jr. KILPATRICK TOWNSEND & STOCKTON Albert P. Reichert, Jr. Thomas J. Biafore, Rex R. Veal STRATEGIC LAW HALL, BLOCH, GARLAND & MEYER Douglas W. Stein MCGUIREWOODS J. Patrick Meyer, Jr. Hilary P. Jordan, Jonathan R. Shils SUTHERLAND ASBILL & BRENNAN HARRIS & JAMES Nikola R. Djuric, Charles D. Hurt, Jr., MCKENNA LONG & ALDRIDGE John Burke Harris III Larry J. White Earle R. Taylor III JAMES-BATES-BRANNAN-GROOVER THE BOWDEN SPRATT LAW FIRM PARKER, HUDSON, RAINER & DOBBS W. Carter Bates III Henry L. Bowden, Jr., James Dean Spratt, Jr. C. Edward Dobbs, Mitchell M. Purvis SMITH, HAWKINS, HOLLINGSWORTH & REEVES THE GRAHAM FIRM ROGERS & HARDIN George Boone Smith III John M. Graham III** Carolyn B. Dobbins TISINGER VANCE SAVANNAH TAYLOR ENGLISH DUMA J. Thomas Vance Robert D. Strauss HUNTERMACLEAN TROUTMAN SANDERS Frank S. Macgill TROUTMAN SANDERS Wayne R. Vason Hazen H. Dempster, Carolyn Peterson Richter OLIVER MANER David Herschel Dickey, Julian R. Friedman WALLACE MORRISON & CASTEEL TAX LAW Ralph R. Morrison**, Stephanie B. SIMPSON LAW Casteel, John A. Wallace * LITIGATION ONLY K. Russell Simpson WOOD, HERNACKI & EVANS ** LITIGATION & PRACTICE AREA L. Lin Wood* TECHNOLOGY LAW

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ABRAMS, DAVIS, MASON & LONG Harold E. Abrams, Suzanne G. Mason ALSTON & BIRD Mary T. Benton**, John L. Coalson, Jr.**, Timothy J. Peaden*, Leon Andrew Immerman, Sam K. Kaywood, Jr., Michael T. Petrik, R. Mark Williamson ARNALL GOLDEN GREGORY Cleburne E. Gregory III BAKER, DONELSON, BEARMAN, CALDWELL & BERKOWITZ Nedom A. Haley BALLARD SPAHR Saba Ashraf BRYAN CAVE Frank A. Crisafi BURR & FORMAN James M. McCarten** CHAMBERLAIN, HRDLICKA, WHITE, WILLIAMS & AUGHTRY David D. Aughtry* GOMEL, DAVIS & WATSON Jeffrey H. Kess HOLT NEY ZATCOFF & WASSERMAN Michael G. Wasserman JONES DAY John M. Allan**, Jerry N. Smith**, E. Kendrick Smith* KILPATRICK TOWNSEND & STOCKTON Lynn E. Fowler**, Charles E. Hodges II* KING & SPALDING Peter J. Genz, James H. Lokey, Jr. MCKENNA LONG & ALDRIDGE Mark S. Lange MORRIS, MANNING & MARTIN Cassady V. Brewer, C. Glenn Dunaway PARKER, HUDSON, RAINER & DOBBS Charles E. Elrod, Jr., J. Alston Thompson, Jr. PAUL HASTINGS Philip J. Marzetti RAYMOND P. CARPENTER & ASSOCIATES Raymond P. Carpenter** STANLEY, ESREY & BUCKLEY Joseph C. Mandarino SUTHERLAND ASBILL & BRENNAN N. Jerold Cohen**, James K. Hasson, Jr.**, Sheldon M. Kay*, Daniel R. McKeithen**, W. Scott Wright**, Reginald J. Clark, Matthew J. Gries TAYLOR ENGLISH DUMA Julian A. Fortuna** THE HISHON FIRM Robert H. Hishon** THE LITWIN LAW FIRM Richard C. Litwin**

ATLANTA ALSTON & BIRD David C. Keating BRYAN CAVE Scott M. Hobby COHEN POLLOCK MERLIN & SMALL Scott I. Merlin GREENBERG TRAURIG Channing H. Cline SEYFARTH SHAW Robert C. Reynolds, Jr. THE GIGALAW FIRM Douglas M. Isenberg WOMBLE CARLYLE SANDRIDGE & RICE William M. Ragland, Jr.

TIMBER LAW ATLANTA SUTHERLAND ASBILL & BRENNAN Victor P. Haley, Daniel R. McKeithen, Haynes R. Roberts

TRANSPORTATION LAW SAVANNAH BOUHAN FALLIGANT Carlton E. Joyce HUNTERMACLEAN Dennis B. Keene

TRUSTS & ESTATES * LITIGATION ONLY ** LITIGATION & PRACTICE AREA

ATLANTA ABRAMS, DAVIS, MASON & LONG Harold E. Abrams, A. Kimbrough Davis, Mary Balent Long, Suzanne G. Mason ALSTON & BIRD John C. Sawyer**, Benjamin T. White**, Robert G. Edge, W. Marshall Sanders, R. Mark Williamson ARNALL GOLDEN GREGORY Jack K. Holland, Bertram L. Levy, Suzanne Tucker Plybon BARNES & THORNBURG James R. Robinson BONDURANT MIXSON & ELMORE H. Lamar Mixson* BRYAN CAVE William J. Linkous, Jr.**, Frank S. McGaughey III BURR & FORMAN James M. McCarten

AUGUSTA FULCHER HAGLER Russell V. Mobley WALL ELLISON James B. Wall*

COLUMBUS HATCHER, STUBBS, LAND, HOLLIS & ROTHSCHILD William B. Hardegree*, Morton A. Harris**, John M. Sheftall**, Alan F. Rothschild, Jr., Charles T. Staples PAGE, SCRANTOM, SPROUSE, TUCKER & FORD Charles H. Ford, Jr. , E. Lowery Reid, Jr. PERRY & WALTERS James E. Reynolds, Jr.** WATSON SPENCE Gregory L. Fullerton

MACON ANDERSON, WALKER & REICHERT Albert P. Reichert, Jr.** BARNESLAW Richard E. Barnes HALL, BLOCH, GARLAND & MEYER J. Patrick Meyer, Jr. HARRIS & JAMES John Burke Harris III JAMES-BATES-BRANNAN-GROOVER John Flanders Kennedy*, W. Carter Bates III JONES CORK & MILLER Hubert C. Lovein, Jr.*, H. Jerome Strickland*, Timothy K. Adams SMITH, HAWKINS, HOLLINGSWORTH & REEVES George Boone Smith III

SAVANNAH BART, MEYER & COMPANY Randall K. Bart, Paul D. Meyer GILBERT, HARRELL, SUMERFORD & MARTIN Rees M. Sumerford HUNTERMACLEAN John M. Tatum*, Frank S. Macgill, M. Lane Morrison, Janet A. Shirley OLIVER MANER David Herschel Dickey, Julian R. Friedman, Douglas J. Giorgio III, Robert W. Schivera, Lee A. Summerford SIMPSON LAW K. Russell Simpson

WATER LAW ATLANTA KING & SPALDING Lewis B. Jones

WORKERS’ COMPENSATION LAW C WORKERS’ COMPENSATION LAW CLAIMANTS; E WORKERS’ COMPENSATION LAW – EMPLOYERS

ATLANTA BLASINGAME BURCH GARRARD ASHLEY E. Davison Burch (C) COLLINS & EDDINGS Michael R. Eddings (C) DREW ECKL & FARNHAM H. Michael Bagley (E), John G. Blackmon, Jr. (E), John A. Ferguson, Jr. (E), Daniel C. Kniffen (E) HAMILTON, WESTBY, ANTONOWICH & ANDERSON William N. Anderson (E), Andrew J. Hamilton (E) MOORE INGRAM JOHNSON & STEELE Robert D. Ingram (E) SLAPPEY & SADD E. Scott Slappey (C) SUSAN J. SADOW Susan J. Sadow (C) SWIFT, CURRIE, MCGHEE & HIERS Douglas A. Bennett (E), Robert R. Potter (E), John F. Sacha (E) ZIRKLE & HOFFMAN Charles B. Zirkle, Jr. (E)

AUGUSTA FULCHER HAGLER N. Staten Bitting, Jr. (E) HOLLINGTON BROWN Larry Neal Hollington (C)

MACON BUZZELL, GRAHAM & WELSH LAW OFFICES Neal B. Graham (C), Stephen M. Welsh (C) COLEMAN TALLEY George T. Talley (E) WALL & ELLIOTT James M. Elliott, Jr. (E)

Mr. Croft is one of Georgia’s most successful ADR neutrals, having resolved more than 3,500 mediations and arbitrations. A graduate of Yale and Michigan Law School, with distinction, he has served as President of the Atlanta Bar Association. He was Chairman of its Litigation and ADR Lawyers Sections and the State Bar of Georgia’s ADR Law Section. Mr. Croft, a Fellow of the American College of Civil Trial Mediators and a Distinguished Fellow of the International Academy of Mediators, has been recognized as one of the leading commercial mediators in the world by the International Who's Who of Business Lawyers. He has twice been selected as one of the Top 100 Lawyers in Georgia, selected annually since 2005 as a Georgia Super Lawyer and has been selected annually since 2006 as one of The Best Lawyers in America in ADR. He is exclusively affiliated with JAMS, the Resolution Experts in Atlanta. Croft ADR offers his services as ADR consultant and coach. CROFT ADR

127 Peachtree Street NE, Suite 707 | Atlanta, GA 30303 PHONE 404.577.8400 | FAX 404.577.8401 EMAIL tlc@croftadr.com www.CroftADR.com | www.jamsadr.com

Thomas G. Sampson PERSONAL INJURY LITIGATION

Eloquence and persuasiveness is the trademark of Thomas G. Sampson, one of Atlanta’s premier lawyers. He is the Managing Partner of Thomas Kennedy Sampson & Tompkins LLP, Georgia’s oldest minorityowned law firm. He earned a JD degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Sampson has served as president of the Gate City Bar Association, president of the Atlanta Legal Aid Society, and Chairman of the State Bar’s Client Security Fund. Sampson was the first African American to be inducted into the Georgia Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates, and has been listed in every edition of The Best Lawyers in America since 1993. Sampson has been a Georgia Super Lawyer every year of its existence.

SAVANNAH DEMING, PARKER, HOFFMAN, CAMPBELL & DALY Christopher W.T. Daly (C) OLIVER MANER Patricia Tanzer Paul (E)

THOMAS KENNEDY SAMPSON & TOMPKINS LLP

3355 Main Street | Atlanta, GA 30337 PHONE 404.688.4503 | FAX 404.761.3224 EMAIL t.sampson@tkstlaw.com www.tkstlaw.com

John D. Steel PERSONAL INJURY LITIGATION

John D. Steel is a trial lawyer selected by his peers to The Best Lawyers in America (Woodward/ White, Inc.), Georgia Super Lawyers (Law & Politics), and the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers. In addition, he was selected as one of the Top 100 Trial Lawyers by the American Trial Lawyers Association and has received an AV®-rating from Martindale-Hubbell. He specializes in civil cases that will likely end up in front of a jury, focusing on cases involving a wide variety of issues, including serious injury and death, FELA (railroad injury) claims, as well as individual business or contract disputes.

VENTURE CAPITAL LAW ATLANTA SUTHERLAND ASBILL & BRENNAN Peter C. Quittmeyer, Wade H. Stribling

STEEL & MOSS, LLP

15 Piedmont Center, Suite 1560 | Atlanta, GA 30305 PHONE 404.264.1292 | TOLL FREE 800.776.0098 | FAX 404.264.0161 EMAIL jsteel@steel-moss.com www.steel-moss.com

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From left to right: David Wm. Boone, James W. Stone, William S. Stone, Ryals D. Stone, Simone R. Siex

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Stone is recognized by their peers as being one of the best trial law firms in the business. Both partners have maintained AV®-ratings from Martindale-Hubbell for decades and have held prominent positions in local and state legal associations, while Stone was named Best Lawyers’ 2013 Lawyer of the Year in Atlanta for Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs. But for Boone & Stone, what really matters is getting their clients a fair shake—no matter how high the stakes or how challenging the case. “We devote the full resources of the firm to every client because we believe in their cases,” Stone says. “That’s what we’re all about.”

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