With over 24 years of experience in securities litigation and complex transaction-related litigation, Mary Gill has been lead counsel in cases pending across the country, including numerous trials. She is highly experienced in representing companies and their officers and directors in investigations and enforcement actions before the Securities and Exchange Commission. Ms. Gill was also a member of the executive committee that led the Enron investigation on behalf of the Bankruptcy Examiner. Mary Gill is the senior woman in the Securities Litigation Group.

Ms. Gill created and is the leader of Alston & Bird’s women’s initiative and is a member of the Steering Committee of the Diversity Committee. She also serves as the advisor for the firm’s Alternative Career Path Policy. She is a frequent speaker on diversity and issues relating to the retention of women in the law profession.  Mary is listed in Super Lawyers magazine. 

Mary has served as an adjunct professor at Emory University School of Law and on the faculty of the National Intensive Trial Advocacy Programs sponsored by Emory University School of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo University School of Law, and San Francisco University. She serves on the executive committee of the board of directors of Planned Parenthood of Georgia, the Advisory Council of Ben Franklin Academy and the Alumni Counsel for Emory University School of Law.