John E. Adkisson

Jason McCarter is a skilled business litigator who represents automotive, technology, and other business enterprises in complex commercial disputes and regulatory investigations. Jason is often called upon to counsel and advocate for clients facing contract, business tort, secured lending, creditors' rights and licensing issues. Jason practices in state and federal courts and alternative dispute resolution forums around the country. For example, he recently prevented class certification in an...

Amie’s experience as in-house counsel for both institutional and privately held real estate fund managers enables her to provide her clients with commercially minded and practical advice on real estate fund formation, management, compliance, and joint ventures. Amie Benedetto is a partner in the Real Estate Finance & Investment Group. Amie offers counsel on a variety of investment management and securities law matters, with an emphasis on private real estate investment vehicles, sep...

As a pragmatic creditors’ rights and litigation partner, Brian Levy represents financial institutions, non-traditional lenders, mortgage servicers, secondary debt purchasers, and other creditors in out-of-court loan workouts and restructurings, bankruptcy proceedings, and related litigation. Brian regularly represents creditors in loan workouts, suits on notes and guarantees, enforcing rights under the Uniform Commercial Code and real estate foreclosure law, and post-judgment enforcemen...

Ryan Burke is an associate in the firm’s Commercial Litigation, Insurance, and Healthcare practices. His practice includes contract and tort litigation, and he advises clients on matters of insurance coverage and bad faith, contractual rights and remedies, and litigation procedure. His practice also encompasses healthcare law, including payment disputes between providers and payors. Mr. Burke has represented clients in federal and state courts around the country and before the American ...

Wes Achey is a member of Alston & Bird’s Intellectual Property Litigation Team. Wes’s practice includes all areas of intellectual property litigation and counseling, with a particular emphasis on patent litigation and enforcement. He has represented clients in patent infringement lawsuits in federal district courts across the United States, including cases involving telecommunications, computer software and various mechanical devices. He is a member of the Georgia Bar and is a...

Read's practice focuses upon representing employers in connection with lawsuits, charges, claims, arbitrations, grievances, and appeals filed by employees. He also proactively counsels and advises employers regarding various aspects of employment law (including non-competition and trade secret matters); assists employers in designing and implementing personnel policies and procedures, employee handbooks, employment agreements (including non-competition agreements), and employment dispute reso...

S. Wade Malone is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Commercial Litigation. S. Wade, who practices law in Atlanta, Georgia, has been recognized since 2013. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which S. Wade is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Nick Moriatakis is a native Atlantan and has lived in Atlanta all his life. He attended public schools in DeKalb County and then worked his way through Emory College and Emory Law School. He is the first in his extended family to have graduated college. Nick was fortunate enough during college and law school to earn internships allowing him to work in the Department of Natural Resources during Jimmy Carter’s governorship and then in the United States Congress in 1975. His exposure to th...

Joshua I. Bosin leads the firm's Labor, Employment and Benefits Practice Group in its Atlanta office and serves as co-chair of its Education Team. He is an experienced trial lawyer and advisor who defends major corporations, educational institutions and governmental entities throughout the United States as principal counsel in complex civil litigation and employment-related disputes in federal and state courts, before administrative agencies and in arbitration. Mr. Bosin serves as outside cou...

M. Andrew Kauss is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Real Estate Law. M. Andrew, who practices law in Atlanta, Georgia, has been recognized since 2006. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which M. Andrew is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.