Alston & Bird announces the election of 22 lawyers to its partnership, effective January 1, 2026. The new partners span seven offices and nine practice groups.
“Each of our new partners has demonstrated a passionate, unwavering commitment to providing the highest levels of client service,” said Richard Hays, Alston & Bird Chairman and Managing Partner. “We look forward to their contributions to sophisticated matters and our collaborative culture throughout their very promising careers.”
Elected to Alston & Bird’s partnership are:
- Sam Bragg (Dallas) as partner in the Litigation & Trial Practice Group. He focuses on complex commercial litigation across the financial sector, and works closely with financial services providers, corporate trustees and administrators, private equity firms, and fintechs.
- Colony Canady (Atlanta) as partner in the Real Estate Group, where she focuses on the acquisition, ground-up development, financing, leasing, and disposition of commercial real estate projects across several asset classes, including multifamily, industrial, office, and mixed-use.
- Nick Chandler (Atlanta) as partner in the Labor & Employment Group. He represents employers in a wide variety of class action and single-plaintiff employment disputes, and has extensive experience litigating complex commercial lawsuits. In addition to his litigation practice, he counsels employers on a wide range of federal, state, and local employment issues, including restrictive covenants, traditional labor law, workplace safety, and wage-and-hour compliance.
- Gillian Clow (Los Angeles) as partner in the Litigation & Trial Practice Group. She focuses on complex litigation, including consumer class actions. Her practice is a mix of life insurance, data privacy, and business litigation, and she has vast experience defending claims for breach of fiduciary duty, RICO, fraud, and violations of Business & Professions Code Section 17200 and other tort claims.
- Blake Crohan (Atlanta) as partner in the Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation and ERISA Litigation Groups, where he represents employers, plan sponsors, insurers, and fiduciaries in litigation over employee benefits and fiduciary matters, including investments, excessive fees, actuarial factors, and benefit terminations. He also counsels clients on managing administrative claims and appeals and advises on ERISA fiduciary best practices and litigation avoidance strategies.
- Daniel Dubin (Los Angeles) as partner in the State & Local Tax Group. He focuses on cutting-edge, nationwide matters in unclaimed property and consumer protection. He is a cross-practice litigator with significant experience representing clients in unclaimed property audits and voluntary disclosure agreement programs, as well as high-stakes cases against both public and private entities in state and federal courts.
- Gregg Fish (New York) as partner in the Litigation & Trial Practice Group, where he focuses on complex commercial disputes and high-stakes government investigations. He represents clients across a variety of industries—particularly financial services, pharmaceuticals and health care, telecommunications, insurance, and media/entertainment—in state and federal courts, as well as arbitral forums, and through all stages of litigation, including trial.
- Trey Flaherty (Charlotte) as partner in the Finance Group. He represents major financial institutions as trustee, certificate/note administrator, custodian, and other service-provider functions across a broad range of asset types, including single-family rental, CRE CLOs, CMBS, ABS, RMBS, and other financing and warehousing arrangements. He also advises major financial institutions on SEC regulatory compliance, with a particular focus on Reg AB reporting and compliance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
- Jamie Furst (Los Angeles) as partner in the Litigation & Trial Practice Group, where she focuses on representing owners, large general contractors, and developers in negotiating contracts and throughout all stages of construction claims litigation. She has extensive experience representing clients in disputes over delays, extra work, defective work, changed conditions, and contract terminations.
- Mary Grace Gallagher (Atlanta) as partner in the Intellectual Property Litigation Group. She brings extensive experience protecting and enforcing clients’ intellectual property rights in high-stakes disputes. She focuses on trademark, copyright, and false advertising litigation and enforcement. She also handles trademark clearance and international portfolio management, as well as internet and domain name disputes.
- Brad Harder (Atlanta) as partner in the Litigation & Trial Practice Group. He focuses on health care litigation, class actions, government investigations, and other complex business disputes. He has managed large-scale litigation with a leading-edge approach to AI, information governance, data privacy, and discovery practices. He handles all phases of litigation on behalf of clients from many sectors, including insurance, finance, and health care.
- Daniel Lord (Raleigh) as partner in the Real Estate Group, where he represents developers, owners, and institutional investors across all facets of commercial real estate transactions. He focuses on delivering practical, deal-driven solutions while keeping his clients’ best interests first.
- Ashley Miller (Atlanta) as partner in the Litigation & Trial Practice Group. She focuses on class action defense and government/regulatory investigations, with an emphasis on data security and privacy matters. She represents clients across a variety of industries, including health care, hospitality, technology, insurance, and consumer products, in all phases of litigation, including developing and executing defense strategies for fact discovery, expert discovery, mediation, and dispositive motion practice.
- Anna Nolan (London) as partner in the Financial Restructuring & Reorganization Group, where she works on contentious and noncontentious matters in England and internationally. With more than a decade of experience, she works on high-stakes matters for debtors, creditors, trustees, investors, and insolvency practitioners. She has extensive restructuring and transactional experience with all stages of stressed and distressed, domestic, and cross-border transactions.
- Katie Owen (Los Angeles) as partner in the Labor & Employment Group. She handles complex commercial and employment disputes with a focus on class and representative actions. She also represents businesses in wrongful termination and fair employment matters, including sexual harassment, discrimination, and retaliation.
- Drew Phillips (Atlanta) as partner in the Litigation & Trial Practice Group. He helps food and beverage clients navigate complicated, multifaceted class action, consumer protection, and product defect litigation. Top manufacturers, suppliers, distributors, retailers, and restaurants look to him for vigorous defense and informed counsel on a range of issues, including class action defense, product recalls, food-borne pathogens, food safety, and regulatory compliance.
- Sharon Steinerman (New York) as partner in the Litigation & Trial Practice Group, where she concentrates on general commercial litigation, representing plaintiffs and defendants in a broad range of complex disputes. She handles litigation involving breach of contract, fraud, restrictive covenants, products liability, and administrative agency review actions on behalf of clients in a range of business and industry segments, including the health care, insurance, and retail/manufacturing industries.
- Caroline Strumph (Atlanta) as partner in the Litigation & Trial Practice Group. She focuses on health care litigation and government enforcement actions. She defends clients in matters involving complex contract disputes and fraud and advises health care, life sciences, and education clients on the potential impacts of evolving regulations. She also has extensive experience defending companies against qui tam litigation and regularly represents clients in proceedings before the Department of Justice, HHS Office of Inspector General, Department of Education, Federal Trade Commission, and state attorneys general.
- Lance Taubin (New York) as partner in the Litigation & Trial Practice Group. He advises clients on cybersecurity and data privacy issues, including cybersecurity breach preparedness and response, cybersecurity and privacy compliance and enforcement, managing cyber risk, technology transactions, and M&A diligence. He provides counsel to a variety of companies, from startups to large multinational public companies, in various industries, including financial services, health care, manufacturing, telecommunications, retail, and technology.
- Logan Thore (Atlanta) as partner in the Corporate & Business Transactions Group, where he focuses on private equity, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, sponsorship arrangements, and other complex commercial transactions. He has experience in the legal departments of government agencies and public and privately held companies.
- Matt Tyson (Charlotte) as partner in the Corporate & Business Transactions Group. He assists private equity funds and their portfolio companies in all stages of mergers and acquisitions, business reorganizations, and joint ventures. He also advises clients on general corporate matters.
- Kerry Wenzel (Atlanta) as partner in the Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation and ERISA Litigation Groups. Her practice centers on executive compensation and corporate governance for public companies, including SEC compliance, stock exchange requirements, incentive plans, deferred compensation, employment agreements, and golden parachutes. She also advises on executive compensation issues in IPOs, mergers, and acquisitions.