Stites & Harbison, PLLC

ATLANTA (March 1, 2007)—Atlanta law firm Stites & Harbison has added four new attorneys and selected two existing attorneys for Member status, while three other attorneys were selected for the annual Georgia Super Lawyers list.

New Additions

L. Lou Allen has joined as a Member in the firm's Creditors' Rights and Bankruptcy practice.  Her practice focus is in the representation of institutional lenders throughout the State of Georgia in all areas of creditors' rights including foreclosure, bankruptcy, financial institutions litigation and workouts.

Melinda Agee has joined the firm as Counsel practicing in Creditors' Rights and Bankruptcy, where she represents institutional lenders and businesses in litigation related to bankruptcy, contracts, foreclosures, and workouts.

Samantha L. Imber has joined as Associate in the Creditors' Rights and Bankruptcy practice where she provides advice to non-debtor parties in bankruptcy litigation matters, including preference or recovery actions.

Leslie G. Toran has joined Stites & Harbison as an Associate in the firm's Torts and Insurance practice.  She previously had a nationwide federal courts practice handling complex business litigation matters, primarily on behalf of plaintiffs.

New Members

Donald R. Andersen and Brian T. Nash have been elected to Member status.
Andersen is in the firm's Aviation and Intellectual Property and Technology practices.  His aviation clients have included manufacturers, parts manufacturers, airlines, maintenance facilities, airports, fixed base operators and pilots in aircraft accident and product liability litigation.  He also has been lead or co-counsel on intellectual property issues in state and federal courts in six states.

Nash serves in the firm's Business and Finance practice where his services include strategic alliances, licensing and distribution agreements, e-commerce agreements, equity incentive plans, mergers and acquisitions, private placements and venture capital transactions.

Georgia Super Lawyers

Stites & Harbison Atlanta has three attorneys in the 2007 Georgia Super Lawyer listing.  They include J.D. Humphries, III and R. Daniel Douglass for Construction and Richard W. Stephens for Real Estate.  This is the third year that J.D. Humphries has been included in the list.

Super Lawyers names Georgia's top lawyers as chosen by their peers and through the independent research of Law & Politics.  2007 Georgia Super Lawyers is based on the survey of more than 23,000 attorneys across the state.  The goal is to select as Super Lawyers the top 5 percent of Georgia attorneys in more than 60 practice areas.

Stites & Harbison, PLLC is a southeast regional law firm with attorneys in:  Atlanta; Alexandria, Va.; Jeffersonville, Ind.; Louisville, Frankfort and Lexington, Ky.; Nashville and Franklin, Tenn.; and Washington, DC. Fifty-six Stites & Harbison lawyers are named in the current edition of The Best Lawyers in America®, and nearly 70 percent of all members and counsel to the firm are listed as AV™-rated in the current Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory®. The firm traces its origins to 1832.

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