section update
ACYL Section
By Jonathan E. Smith
Miller & Martin PLLC
[email protected]
W
e recently closed out a very successful and exciting
year at our May Happy Hour hosted jointly with the
Litigation Section. Over one hundred Atlanta Bar
Members and guests joined us at Monday Night Brewery
for beer tasting, networking, our awards presentation and
live music provided by ACYL Board Member Scott Lofranco
and his band, Escape Vehicle. At the event we honored
our former President, Genie Iredale with Fellows Labriola,
for the wonderful job she did leading us through 20142015. Additionally, we honored ACYL Board Members Matt
Simmons with Shepherd Law, LLC, and Jamie Perez with
Holland Roddenbery, LLC, with the Kerry Harike Joedecke
Atlanta Young Lawyer of the Year Award for their outstanding
record of leadership, service, and dedication to the Section
during the year.
Our transition into a new year should be seamless because
of the talented and driven group of young attorneys that are
serving on our Board. I am excited to announce and recognize
the incoming ACYL Board for this 2015-2016 year as follows:
Matthew Simmons, Vice President (Shepherd Law, LLCBusiness Litigation), C. Joseph Hoffman, Secretary (Kitchens
Kelley Gaines, P.C.- Commercial Real Estate and Business
Litigation), J. Wickliffe Cauthorn, Treasurer (Cauthorn Nohr
& Owen - Business and Tort Litigation and Criminal Defense),
Corey A. Aitken, Member At Large (Stern Edlin, PC - Family
Law), Julia L. Black, Member At Large (Atlanta Volunteer
Lawyers Foundation - Family Law), Lauren W. Brenner,
Member At Large (Gardner Groff Greenwold & Villanueva,
PC - IP Law), Nora H. Budman, Member At Large (Bodker,
Ramsey, Andrews, Winograd & Wildstein, P.C. - Corporate
and Technology Law), Eric B. Coleman, Member At Large
(Winter Capriola Zenner, LLC - Business and Construction
Litigation), Tammy Holcomb, Member At Large (Kaine
Law, LLC - Personal Injury), Elisabeth M. Koehnemann,
Member At Large (Miller & Martin PLLC - IP, Corporate and
Franchise Law), Christopher P. Lightner, Member At Large
(Alston & Bird LLP - IP Law), B. Scott Lofranco, Member At
Large (McCalla Raymer, LLC - Residential Real Estate and
Foreclosure), Ellis Chen-Mei Liu, Member At Large (Carroll &
Weiss, LLC - Medical Malpractice Defense), Colleen L. Quirk,
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