Super Lawyers - Georgia 2016

2016

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GENERAL MANAGER Laura Long PUBLISHER Cindy Larson

EDITORIAL & RESEARCH

DIREC TOR OF EDITORIAL & RESEARCH Ron Cahill EDITOR Erik Lundegaard

MANAGING EDI TOR Ross Pfund

CONTRIBUTING EDI TORS Amy Kates, Trevor Kupfer, Beth Taylor

SENIOR EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Jessica Tam EDITORIAL INTERN Andre w Brandt

PHO TOGRAPH Y Stan Kaady

CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Candice Dyer, Jerry Grillo, Kenna Simmons

RESEARCH TEAM LEAD Laura Roepke SENIOR RESEARCH SPECIALISTS Chris Cheng, Jill Steward

RESEARCH EDITORS Caroline Daykin, Jessica Dehn, Andrew Eilertson, Wendy Lees, Mary Reeher

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ADVISORY BOARD

The Super Lawyers Board of Advisors is composed of attorneys who
embody excellence in practice. The board, which provides counsel,
feedback and editorial ideas, includes lawyers from across the country
and of varied firm sizes, who have consistently appeared at the top of the
Super Lawyers lists.
wants; and Edward Tolley tells us the
one thing he’d change about the criminal
justice system.
We think this lineup adds to the notable
attorneys, such as John C. Mayoue and Lori
Cohen, that we’ve featured in the past.
Thank you for reading. We welcome your
feedback.

FROM THE PUBLISHER
How do we choose which lawyers to feature?

For starters, we pick attorneys who’ve been selected to the current Super Lawyers list. Then we look at which firms and practice areas we’ve recently covered—we don’t want to play favorites or ignore deserving but little known candidates.

Attorneys ranking near the top of the list
are more likely to be included and to appear
on the cover. And the story itself is crucial.
We’re partial to lawyers who are breaking
new legal ground or have a career’s worth of
notable accomplishments.
The one thing that isn’t a factor?
Advertising. As with the Super Lawyers list,
editorial is never for sale.

In this issue, Pete Law lets us into his workshop, where he takes apart and puts together vintage cars the way he does with complex cases; Allegra Lawrence-Hardy talks about resilience, her mentors, and paying it forward with the Sutherland Scholars; Jennifer Auer Jordan develops the voir dire app (and the practice) she CINDY LARSON