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Stites & Harbison
Attorney S. Elizabeth Hall has joined Stites & Harbison’s
Atlanta office. Hall joins the Creditors’ Rights & Bankruptcy
Service Group, where her practice focuses primarily on
representing institutional lenders and businesses in litigation
related to bankruptcy, contracts, foreclosures, and workouts.
Prior to joining Stites & Harbison (www.stites.com), Hall
served as First Vice President and Senior Counsel at
SunTrust Bank, where she was responsible for managing
litigation and ensuring compliance with federal and 49 states’
mortgage laws and regulations.
Stites & Harbison named a Top Law Firm for Women for sixth
year in a row ATLANTA (June 11, 2012)—MultiCultural Law
Magazine once again named Stites & Harbison, PLLC, to
their 2012 “Top 100 Law Firms for Women” list. This is the
sixth consecutive year that the firm has been named to this
list. The “Top 100 Law Firms for Women” list is determined
by analyzing surveys received from law firms from across
the nation with 150 or more attorneys.
Stites & Harbison, PLLC, attorney Ron C. Bingham, II, has
been named the new Office Executive Member in Atlanta.
Mr. Bingham assumed this role August 1, 2012. He succeeds
attorney J.D. Humphries III who served in that capacity for
13 years. Mr. Humphries will continue his full-time litigation
and construction practice at the firm. As Office Executive
Member, Mr. Bingham will continue to serve clients in his
Creditors’ Rights and Bankruptcy practice.

Warner, Bates & McGough, P.C.
Warner, Bates & McGough, P.C., is pleased to announce
that the firm will now be known as Warner, Bates, McGough
& McGinnis, following the recent addition of James J.
McGinnis as partner. Mr. McGinnis, along with an associate
and support staff, joined the firm from the family law firm of
McGinnis & Chambers, LLC, earlier this month. The year
2012 marks Warner, Bates, McGough & McGinnis’ 30th
year in Atlanta, making it one of Atlanta’s most established
family law firms.
Warner, Bates, McGough & McGinnis attorney Traci Weiss
has been awarded an AV Preeminent Rating by MartindaleHubbell, the oldest and most respected provider of attorney
and law firm profiles in the United States. The AV Preeminent
Rating is the highest possible rating in Martindale-Hubbell’s
Peer Review Ratings, a system that is based on peer review
of ethical standards and legal ability. AV Preeminent rated
lawyers are recognized by their peers as performing at the
highest level of professional excellence.
MendenFreiman LLP
MendenFreiman LLP is pleased to announce Bridget W.
Christian has joined the firm’s Atlanta office as a senior
attorney in the Estates, Trust and Business practice groups.
With Christian, MendenFreiman LLP continues the firm’s
strategic growth in 2012, adds their 15th employee, and
celebrates their 15th anniversary. Previously a partner at
Hoffman & Associates, Attorneys-at-Law, LLC, and Johnson
& Christian, P.C., Christian specializes in the areas of wills,
trusts, charitable giving, probate, business representation
and buy/sell agreements.

Stites & Harbison, PLLC, is listed among the “Top Trademark
Firms” in the United States in the May 2012 issue of
Intellectual Property Today magazine. Stites & Harbison
Esquire Deposition Solutions was
Edward C. Konieczny LLC
ranked 32nd, placing the firm within the top 23% of all law voted
firms surveyed for the “Top “The Best Court Reporting Service of 2011”Konieczny, formerly a partner with Smith Gambrell &
Trademark Firms” list. Over Daily Ed
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placed 27th among all U.S. firmswarm thank you to all ofnumber of litigation firm, Edward C. Konieczny LLC. For seven years
trademarks registered.
before joining SGR in 2006, Ed was managing partner of
a national plaintiff's mass tort and class action law firm. Ed
Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell &
graduated with honors from Harvard Law School and has
Berkowitz, PC,
24 years of complex litigation experience.
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& Berkowitz, PC, has
named Nedom A. Haley its Atlanta Pro Bono Attorney of the
Year. Mr. Haley, a shareholder in the Firm's Atlanta office,
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corporate counsel to non-profit organizations such as the
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Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC,
announces the addition of William M. Osterbrock to the
firm’s Atlanta office. He is of counsel and a member of the
Corporate/Mergers and Acquisitions Practice Group and
Emerging Companies Team. A 2005 cum laude graduate of
the Syracuse University College of Law, he has served on the
Board of Directors of the Atlanta Bar Association Corporate
Counsel Section since 2008. He was named a Georgia Super
Lawyers “Rising Star” in 2010 and 2011.
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