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Baker Donelson
Baker Donelson has garnered 175 first-tier metropolitan
rankings in the 2014 U.S. News - Best Lawyers "Best Law
Firms" list, earning them a spot among the top 20 firms
nationally with the most first-tier metropolitan rankings. Baker
Donelson also earned a Tier 1 national ranking in three
practice areas: Construction Law, Litigation – Construction
and Railroad Law. The Firm also has the most practice areas
with first-tier rankings in the nation and achieved four Tier 1
metropolitan rankings in Atlanta.
Boyd Collar Nolen & Tuggle
Stites & Harbison, PLLC
U.S. News-Best Lawyers have released their 2014 “Best Law
Firms” rankings. Stites & Harbison places among the top 50
law firms surveyed in the total number of metropolitan rankings.
The firm’s results include 107 metropolitan rankings, up from
89 in the 2013 release, from clients in Atlanta, Lexington and
Louisville, Ky., Nashville, Tenn., and Washington, DC, metro
areas. This year, the firm also gained another National Tier 1
ranking to include: Litigation – Construction, Litigation – Real
Estate, and Trademark Law.
Carlock, Copeland & Stair, LLP
Carlock, Copeland & Stair congratulates Dan McGrew on
his recent invitation to become a Fellow of the prestigious
American College of Trial Lawyers (ACTL). He was inducted
as a Fellow at the October 2013 ACTL meeting in San
Francisco, CA. “This is a huge honor for Dan and the firm,”
states firm founder Kent Stair. “It recognizes a career-long
history of trial achievement at the highest level, and in Dan’s
case it is an obviously well-deserved honor.”
Miller & Martin PLLC
Miller & Martin PLLC announces that effective December 1,
2013, Randall B. Scoggins and Robert F. Goodman, Jr. will
join the Atlanta office as Members, and Jonathan E. Smith
will join as an Associate. Scoggins, Goodman and Smith will
continue to practice in the area of commercial real estate.
“We are thrilled to welcome Randy, Bob and Jonathan to the
firm,” said Jim Haley, Chairman of the firm. “Their extensive
experience and solid reputation in the commercial real
estate community will further strengthen the firm’s versatile
real estate practice, particularly in the Atlanta market and
throughout the Southeast.”
Warner, Bates, McGough, McGinnis & Portnoy
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THE ATLANTA LAWYER
November 2013
Boyd Collar Nolen & Tuggle, LLC is pleased to announce
its recognition as a top family law firm in Atlanta in the 2014
edition of U.S. News – Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms” list.
The firm received the highest “Tier 1” ranking as a result of
a combination of impressive client feedback and the high
regard that other attorneys practicing in family law have for
Boyd Collar Nolen & Tuggle’s attorneys. The list is published
collaboratively by U.S. News Media Group and Best Lawyers,
and is available today at www.usnews.com/bestlawfirms.
The family law firm of Warner, Bates, McGough, McGinnis &
Portnoy (www.wbmfamilylaw.com) has been awarded a Tier
1 Ranking in the 2014 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s
“Best Law Firms.” The ranking is determined by the firm’s
overall evaluation, which is derived from a combination of
client feedback and peer review.
The Official News Publication of the Atlanta Bar Association