John E. Taylor

Craig Smith serves as counsel to the full spectrum of healthcare and life sciences organizations with a focus on transactional and business matters including mergers and acquisitions, private equity deals and joint ventures. Craig frequently works with hospitals and health systems, physician groups, practice management companies, accountable care organizations (ACOs), ambulatory service centers (ASCs) and other providers to navigate the complex financial and regulatory issues that arise when ...

Maia Taylor is a litigator with Lawrence & Bundy focusing on Employment Matters, Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), Internal Investigations, Class Action Litigation, and General Commercial Litigation. Before joining Lawrence & Bundy, she was an associate at Sutherland (Eversheds Sutherland), where she participated in the firm’s 2012 Summer Associate program. Maia also served as a summer law clerk with the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund in Washington D.C.

Cindy A. Brazell is a partner in Holland & Knight's Atlanta office and co-chairs the firm's Financial Services Practice Group. She is a financial services attorney who focuses on a wide range of complex commercial and banking transactions, real estate finance and related matters. Ms. Brazell has extensive experience representing banks and other financial institutions in leveraged finance, asset-based lending, and other secured and unsecured lending transactions, with specific industry exp...

Amie M. Willis is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Employment Law - Management and Litigation - Labor and Employment. Amie M., who practices law in Atlanta, Georgia, has been recognized since 2021. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Amie M. is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Keith Broyles is the co-leader of Alston & Bird’s Intellectual Property Group. His practice includes all areas of intellectual property litigation and counseling, with particular emphasis on patent litigation, enforcement and appellate work. Mr. Broyles has extensive experience resolving intellectual property disputes involving a wide range of intellectual property issues and technical disciplines, including wireless telecommunications, mechanics, construction products, electronics,...

Ken Menendez is a Partner in the firm's Atlanta office. His experience is in complex commercial litigation, with concentrations in employment, financial and construction litigation. Ken has extensive experience with mediation, arbitration and other forms of alternative dispute resolution and serves as a certified arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association. He has a Martindale-Hubbell rating of AV (highest rating), has been selected for inclusion in Georgia Super Lawyers every year si...

Ann Margaret Pointer is a partner in the Atlanta office. She has represented management in labor and employment matters for more than 30 years with a particular emphasis on the agricultural industry. She has been listed in The Legal 500 as "one of the leaders in the country for her knowledge of H-2 agricultural workers." She counsels and defends many agricultural companies in connection with the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act (MSPA...

Lori L. Brewer is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Corporate Law and Technology Law. Lori L., who practices law in Atlanta, Georgia, has been recognized since 2023. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Lori L. is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Ann T. Kirk is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Insurance Law and Litigation - Insurance. Ann T., who practices law in Atlanta, Georgia, has been recognized since 2024. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Ann T. is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Nellie represents parties in the acquisition (owned or leased), financing, entitlement, development, re-development, operation and disposition of real property throughout North America, including projects involving corporate expansions, relocations and acquisitions, mixed-use developments and multi-family developments. She represents developers, investors, corporations, lenders and governmental entities with commercial real estate interests. Nellie has earned LEED Professional Accreditation, ...