Law firms in atlanta

Updated: An Atlanta law firm is trying to warn consumers about a scam involving phony checks using its bank account information.Lisa Estes, office administrator for the Fryer Law Firm, told the ABA Journal that scammers have used law firm bank account information to create realistic looking checks in four different ruses in two years. The first three times, recipients received letters telling them they were being given checks as part of a mystery shopper program. The last time the recipients were told they had won a sweepstakes.The check recipients lost out, however, when they learned too late that the checks were phony and the money they returned to the scammers was not covered.“The checks look legitimate, bearing watermarks and all,” Estes says. “They are really good at creating these checks.”At first the scammers sent out checks ranging from $30,000 to $40,000, but that apparently raised red flags among some recipients, Estes says. The check amount was … [Read more...] about Law Firm’s Accounts Hijacked by Scammers Who Promise Sweepstakes Win

Some associates in Atlanta are benefiting as their law firms detect hints of a turnaround and increased business.Some examples, reported in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Labor and employment law firm Fisher & Phillips gave its associates a $10,000 pay raise, citing business from companies seeking advice on labor issues and defending labor lawsuits. Morris, Manning & Martin has hired nine lawyers in the last six months, reinstated its summer associate program and restored pre-recession salaries in select practice groups after 10 percent pay cuts.Morris Manning managing partner Louise Wells told the newspaper that her firm has definitely seen signs of improvement. “We don’t have crystal balls, but all our core groups are up,” she said.Fisher & Phillips chairman Roger Quillen said his firm never experienced a downturn. “While the whole legal industry was way off, we showed substantial growth in every category,” he told the … [Read more...] about Some Atlanta Law Firms See Business Uptick, and Associates Benefit

Home Daily News Suspended lawyer is convicted of embezzling… White-Collar Crime By Debra Cassens Weiss Posted October 15, 2018, 11:20 am CDT Image from Shutterstock. A suspended Atlanta lawyer was convicted Friday for embezzling $26 million from the law firm where he once served as managing partner. Nathan Hardwick IV was convicted on 21 counts of wire fraud, one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and one count of making false statements to banks, report the Daily Report and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Hardwick, 53, was accused of taking most of the money from IOLTA accounts at Morris Hardwick Schneider. The now-bankrupt real-estate closing firm once employed more than 800 people in 16 states. Hardwick had owned 55.55 percent of the law firm. Hardwick used the embezzled money to pay for gambling, private jets and other expenses. The Supreme Court of Georgia suspended Hardwick’s law license in 2016, the Journal-Constitution reports. Fidelity National Title … [Read more...] about Suspended lawyer is convicted of embezzling $26M from his now-bankrupt law firm

Home Daily News 18 LeClairRyan lawyers jump to growing law… Law Firms By Debra Cassens Weiss Posted January 11, 2019, 7:15 am CST Eighteen lawyers are leaving LeClairRyan to open a Boston office for Freeman Mathis & Gary, a law firm that began with three lawyers in Atlanta more than two decades ago. With the addition of the new lawyers, Freeman Mathis now has 150 lawyers in 15 offices in eight states, report the American Lawyer and a press release. Thirteen of the 18 departing lawyers are partners, including Kevin Kenneally. He led LeClairRyan’s Boston office, and he will have the same role at his new firm. LeClairRyan is among a dozen of the nation’s top 200 law firms where average profits per partner are less than $465,000, the American Lawyer reported in November. The firm’s revenues dropped from $163 million in 2016 to $142 million in 2018. Forty-two partners left the firm last year, according to data compiled by ALM Intelligence. LeClairRyan announced … [Read more...] about 18 LeClairRyan lawyers jump to growing law firm to open office in Boston

Who are these nutjobs (and I use that term affectionately!) who agree to sell legal services? There is no “typical” law firm salesperson, no “one-size-fits-all” description. Likewise, there is no “typical day” in legal sales. But recently, at a Lex Mundi North American Marketing and Business Development Roundtable, I attempted to describe what a sales day is like for those who are not yet familiar with what law firm salespeople do.For openers, I am convinced that most professional services salespeople would prefer to have an orderly, predictable schedule, dealing with, as Stephen Covey would put it, “important, but not urgent, projects.”But the reality is that reality is that salespeople must cope with the unexpected and unplanned on virtually a daily basis. In practice, interruptions are as—or even more—important than the scheduled activities because each interruption provides an opportunity to initiate, advance and … [Read more...] about Day in the Life of a Law Firm Salesman