The 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® recognizes 227 Alston & Bird attorneys selected by their peers, spanning the firm’s 10 U.S. offices and representing 67 practice areas. Thirty of these attorneys received this honor for the first time.
In addition, 131 of the firm’s attorneys have been selected for the fourth edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America, which features lawyers who have been in private practice for between five and 10 years. Alston & Bird’s Ones to Watch honorees span the firm’s 10 U.S. offices and represent 36 practice areas.
The following Alston & Bird attorneys were named “Lawyer of the Year” in their practice areas and markets. Only a single lawyer in each practice area and designated metropolitan area is honored as the “Lawyer of the Year.” These lawyers are selected based on particularly impressive voting averages received during the peer review assessments.
- George Abney: Litigation and Controversy - Tax (Atlanta)
- Kristy Brown: Communications Law (Atlanta)
- Sandy Brown: Financial Services Regulation Law (Dallas/Fort Worth)
- Dennis Connolly: Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law (Atlanta)
- Jim Harvey: Privacy and Data Security Law (Atlanta)
- Joe Liebeschuetz: Patent Law (San Jose)
- Chris Lightner: Patent Law (Atlanta)
- Scott Ortwein: Securities Regulation (Atlanta)
- David Teske: Technology Law (Atlanta)
Highlighting the firm’s international reach, two Alston & Bird attorneys were selected by their peers for inclusion in the 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in the United Kingdom™ for the second consecutive year:
- Anna Nolan: Insolvency and Restructuring Law (London)
- Andrew Petersen: Securitisation Law (London)
Please see here for a complete list of Alston & Bird attorneys recognized in this year’s Best Lawyers and Ones to Watch.
First published in 1983, Best Lawyers is the world’s oldest peer-review attorney guide. Lawyers on The Best Lawyers in America® list are divided by geographic region and practice areas. They are reviewed by their peers based on professional expertise.