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Clients trust Lee Ann to guide them through complex environmental litigation. She frequently serves as managing counsel for large corporations and develops and implements litigation strategy at every level. She concentrates her practice on complex civil litigation, with a focus on toxic tort, product liability, and environmental matters. Lee Ann has experience with every phase of the litigation process, including pre-trial case investigation and evaluation, taking and defending critical fact ...

Mike Stevens is a partner in the firm’s Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Group. He focuses on executive compensation matters, with a particular emphasis on tax, securities and corporate governance issues relating to stock plans, incentive compensation arrangements, executive employment agreements and deferred compensation. Mr. Stevens frequently advises clients with respect to executive compensation issues relating to mergers and acquisitions and other corporate transactio...

Jeff Stinson is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Workers' Compensation Law - Employers. Jeff, who practices law in Atlanta, Georgia, has been recognized since 2026. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Jeff is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Jenny Hergenrother is a partner with Alston & Bird’s Products Liability Group, where she focuses on products liability and other complex litigation. Her practice experience includes representing companies in a variety of product litigation, including allegations of false and deceptive advertising, high-value personal injury and wrongful death cases, claim substantiation, and product-related class and mass actions. She chiefly represents automotive, food and beverage, and pharmaceuti...

Public and private companies call on Kerry Wenzel for unique, client-specific solutions to executive compensation issues. She is well-versed in corporate governance matters, securities laws, and tax issues. She takes a multifaceted approach when advising companies on executive compensation regulations, obligations, and corporate transactions. Kerry focuses her practice on corporate, tax, and securities issues relating to executive compensation, including Section 16 reporting and insider tradi...

Stephen Opler concentrates his practice on the distinctive characteristics of liquidity transactions by and with entrepreneurs. Stephen helps private equity funds, strategic acquirers and entrepreneurial buyers and sellers achieve their goals by leveraging his three decades as an M&A lawyer, entrepreneur, business founder, investment banker, in-house lawyer and CPA. Buying or selling entrepreneur-owned businesses requires a unique focus on the many ways these transactions and the post-clo...

For a number of clients, Nicole serves as an extension of their benefits and rewards department, designing compliant total rewards programs that facilitate her clients’ business objectives. For publicly traded and private companies, predominately in the financial services, healthcare and restaurant sectors, as well as tax-exempt entities, Nicole regularly advises on retirement plans, including 401(k) plans, pension plans and government correction programs for fixing plan operational err...

Liz Buckley represents banks and other financial institutions in single-lender and syndicated commercial debt financing transactions. Liz represents banks and other financial institutions in single-lender and syndicated commercial debt financing transactions, such as revolving and term loan credit facilities, and advises clients regarding structuring of financing transactions.

Relentless. Skilled. Prepared. Tenacious. All of these words describe Robert’s work as a trial lawyer. He understands that painstaking preparation, careful analysis, and attention to detail win big cases. In an era when very few cases are decided in a courtroom, Robert takes pride in trying cases to a jury whenever and wherever defendants are unwilling to accept full responsibility for their wrongdoing. Robert’s skill and tenacity have been widely noted. He is board-certified as a...

Frank Layson focuses his practice on mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures. He represents leading companies in a wide variety of cross-border transactions. Read full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/layson-frank/