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Baker Donelson
Eight attorneys from Baker Donelson have been ranked in
the 2014 edition of Chambers USA: Band 2: Linda A. Klein,
construction Band 3: Thomas William Baker, health care;
Nedom A. Haley, tax; Robert N. Johnson, immigration;
and Linda A. Klein, general commercial litigation Band 4:
Mark A.B. Carlson, corporate/mergers and acquisitions;
David Gevertz, labor and employment; and Michael
Rafter, corporate/mergers and acquisitions “Senior
Statesman”: J. Ben Shapiro, construction The Firm’s
health care practice in Georgia was ranked in Band 3.

Berman Fink Van Horn P.C.
Lea C. Dearing has joined Berman Fink Van Horn P.C.
as a Senior Associate Attorney. A business litigator with
transactional experience, Ms. Dearing assists businesses
with a wide range of issues, including labor and
employment matters, internal investigations, privacy
law, general commercial litigation and contracting,
products liability, construction disputes and e-Discovery
management. During her career, she has resolved
multiple payment, construction and employment
related disputes across the pharmaceutical, hospitality,
transportation telecommunication, manufacturing,
wholesale, healthcare, education, energy and banking
industries.

Carlock, Copeland & Stair
Congratulations to Carlock, Copeland & Stair Attorney,
ReShea J. Balams, for graduating from the 2014 Young
Lawyers Division Leadership Academy of the State Bar of
Georgia. The academy is a highly selective program that
is designed to equip young lawyers with leadership skills,
as well as provide opportunities to learn more about their
profession, their communities, and their state to position
themselves as leaders in the community. ReShea Balams
is an associate in the Atlanta office and her practice is
focused in the area of workers’ compensation litigation.

Stites & Harbison, PLLC

Taylor English Duma LLP
Taylor English Duma LLP is pleased to announce that
Allan Tanenbaum has joined the firm’s Corporate
practice as Of Counsel. Tanenbaum has served as the
general counsel of AFC Enterprises, Inc., the franchisor
of Popeyes Chicken, Church’s Chicken, Seattle’s Best
Coffee and Cinnabon, and most recently, served as
co-founder, managing partner and general counsel
of Equicorp Partners, an Atlanta-based private equity
and advisory firm specializing in the quick-service and
fast-casual food industry. In addition, he has more than
30 years of experience in private practice.

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Forbes magazine has named Stites & Harbison, PLLC
to its inaugural Forbes Legal Black Book 2014-15 as an
elite U.S. law firm. Created by Forbes Business Division,
the listing recognizes law firms for providing crit ical legal
services to major U.S. and global corporations. Selection
is based on a law firm’s track record representing top
corporations, practice area range and focus, and high
rankings for quality of execution in multiple reviews.

Womble Carlyle
Womble Carlyle attorneys Lou Isaf, Bill Ragland and
Jim Vaughan have been named to Intellectual Asset
Management magazine’s IAM Patent 1000: The World’s
Leading Patent Attorneys for 2014. All three attorneys
represent the firm’s Atlanta office. The IAM list is an
annual guide to the leading patent practitioners in 50
jurisdictions around the globe. Researchers spent five
months interviewing patent attorneys and the buyers of
their legal services to determine the 2014 list.

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