The Daily Report is pleased to announce its winners and finalists for the 2022 Georgia Legal Awards.
The awards will be presented at a gala on June 23 at Flourish Atlanta. In June, we will publish a special section further highlighting these experienced attorneys and their important achievements. We will announce the winners of Lawyer of the Year and Law Firm of the Year from this group of three finalists at the awards gala on June 23rd.
The award winners and finalists are:
diversity initiative
Akerman
Evershed’s Sutherland
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Harry Norman, broker
In-house Impact Award: gulf stream
In-house legal department of the year: gulf stream
Law Firm of the Year Finalists
Drew Eckl & Farnham
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Kilpatrick Townsend
Legal innovators
Elizabeth Garvish of the Garvish Immigration Law Group
Steven Lefkoff from Lefkoff Law
Ronnie Mabra Jr from Mabra Law
Process departments of the year – small and medium-sized companies: Weinberg Wheeler Hudgins Gunn & Dial
The most innovative law firms: Law Firm Bell
Lawyer of the Year Finalists
Linda Dunikoski of the Cobb County District Attorney’s Office
Eric Fisher of Barnes & Thornburg
Chris Glover from Beasley Allen
Best mentor
Andrew “Drew” Beal of Buckley Beal
Cobb County Magistrates Court Judge Sonja Natasha Brown
Sandra Brown from Greenspoon Marder
Hall Booth Smith’s Laura Cartner
Deborah Johnson of the Atlanta Legal Aid Society
Halsey Knapp Jr. by Krevolin and Horst
Randy Scoggins of Miller & Martin
Bobby Woo Jr from King & Spalding,
Respected Leaders
David Balser of King & Spalding
Ted Blum from Greenberg Sad
Joel Correa of the Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation
Victor Haley of Eversheds Sutherland
Wab Kadaba by Kilpatrick Townsend
Simon Malko from Morris Manning & Martin
Hedy Rubinger from Arnall Golden Gregory
Anthony “Tony” Tatum from McGuireWoods
achievers of life
Mike Bagley of Drew Eckl & Farnham
Thomas Cauthorn of Cauthorn Nohr & Owen
Phil Henry by Cash Krugler Fredericks
Phil Holladay, formerly 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
Ascending
Brannon Arnold of Weinberg Wheeler Hudgins Gunn & Dial
Alexandra Garrison Barnett of Alston & Bird
Bennett Bryan of the DeKalb County Legal Department
Robert Capovilla from Capovilla & Williams
Eric Charity from Kilpatrick Townsend
Amy B Cheng by Nelson Mullins
Irina Dutcher of the US Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia
Stephen Floyd of BakerHostetler
Zack Greenamyre from Mitchell & Shapiro
Kathryn Hecker from Arnall Golden Gregory
Theodore Hertzberg of the US Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia
Tennille Hoover of the US Bank
Alana Kirkland from Greenberg Sad
Kareemah Lewis from MARTA
Jessica MacAllister of Holland & Knight
Devang “Dev” Patel by Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy
Taylor S Poncz of Drew Eckl & Farnham
Fox Rothschild’s John Rose
Evan Rosenberg of Morgan & Morgan
Nick Rüter of Morris Manning & Martin
Bryan Schivera or Oliver Maner
Amanda Kay Siegel from Bondurant Mixson & Elmore
Lindsey Siegel of the Atlanta Legal Aid Society
Raymond Tran by Seyfarth Shaw
Emily C. Ward of Smith, Gambrell & Russell
Matthew M. Weiss of Parker, Hudson, Rainer & Dobbs
For more information about the gala, visit the Georgia Legal Awards events page. For sponsorship and ticket information, please contact Andre Sutton at (757) 721-9020 or [email protected].