AGG - Key Persons


ABA Rule

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board

Abe J. Schear

Job Titles:
  • Partner
  • Professionals

Anisa I. Abdullahi

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Partner
  • Professionals

Anuj Desai

Job Titles:
  • Co - Chair
  • Partner
  • Performing Committee Member of Commercialization of Brands Committee
  • Professionals
Anuj is a partner in the Intellectual Property practice, head of Trademarks, and a member of the International practice. As an intellectual property lawyer with a hybrid practice encompassing both transactional matters and litigation, Anuj is trusted to manage, safeguard, and resolve disputes involving a variety of intellectual property assets. He delivers strategic and practical advice to develop, protect, and enforce intellectual property rights in both the U.S. and abroad. He also provides effective guidance on technology transactions, creative review, advertising laws and standards compliance, licensing, and dispute resolution to companies ranging from start-ups to multibillion-dollar international corporations. Additionally, Anuj is a member of the Life Sciences industry team and has a particular focus on advising and representing companies in that sector. Anuj is a co-chair of the firm's Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Committee and is fluent in Hindi and Gujarati. As a longstanding member of the International Trademark Association ("INTA"), he often serves on its committees and regularly presents at INTA events.

Ashley Steiner Kelly - Chief Legal Officer

Job Titles:
  • General Counsel
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Partner
  • Lead Counsel
  • Professionals
Ashley is a partner in the Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice group, a co-chair of the Employment practice group, and a member of the Logistics and Post-Acute Care industry teams. She also serves as the firm's General Counsel and as a member of its Executive Committee. She guides employers through the most pressing human resources issues, using a direct approach to resolving employment matters that preserves positive workplace environments. Her clients span many sectors including the logistics, long-term care, healthcare, background screening, energy, financial services, and retail/hospitality industries. She also has a niche practice representing foreign-based companies that are establishing operations in the U.S. and has a great deal of experience conducting internal investigations, including investigations concerning employers' high-ranking executives.

Daniel J. Bradfield

Job Titles:
  • Partner
  • Professionals

Daniel R. Lehman

Job Titles:
  • Director of Technology
  • Member of the Administrative Leadership Team
  • Professionals

David W. Smith - CFO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • Member of the Administrative Leadership Team
  • Professionals
Dave, AGG's Chief Financial Officer, is responsible for the firm's accounting, finance, client information, and reporting services. Dave has more than 30 years of experience in the accounting and finance arena, with a mix of both corporate and professional services firms including multinational and multi-state operations. In addition to financial experience, he has also been tasked with various IT conversion projects and process improvements as well as HR leadership roles within professional service firms to form a well-rounded, expansive CFO career. Prior to joining AGG, Dave served as the CFO of Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP for five years, where he guided the former Sutherland Asbill Brenan LLP on financial matters through the eventual combination with Eversheds (UK) LLP as of February 2017. Prior to Eversheds Sutherland, Dave served as CFO for Ford & Harrison LLP for nine years, where he gained knowledge on multi-state operations. Dave began his career in professional service firms as the Director of Financial Accounting at AGG in 2001. He began his corporate accounting experience with Mercer Consulting, a division of Marsh, after graduating from university in 1986. He has served in varying capacities, from office controller in Dallas beginning in 1986, to South region controller in 1998. Dave has also been an active member of the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) for more than 10 years, supporting the membership and working with peer firms to increase participation and action from business and financial leaders. He served a six-year voluntary term as the business and financial management VP peer group leader, advancing financial and profitability concerns to peer CFOs and other finance leaders, and increasing finance membership within ILTA.

Elizabeth B. Davis

Job Titles:
  • Partner
  • Events
  • Professionals

Ellis G. Arnall

Ellis G. Arnall, Sol I. Golden, and Cleburne Gregory, Jr. founded the firm in 1949 after receiving significant recognition for their individual achievements in the practice of law and public service. Arnall was a nationally recognized litigator and served as Attorney General of Georgia before becoming Governor of Georgia from 1943 to 1947. Golden developed a reputation as a skillful attorney versed in innovative corporate financing techniques. Gregory worked as Assistant Attorney General and helped Governor Arnall end unequal freight rates that favored northern industrial states, which brought about a post-war economic boom throughout the southern U.S.

Georgia Trust

Job Titles:
  • Executive

Glenn P. Hendrix

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Jennifer M. Waite

Job Titles:
  • Director of Knowledge Management
  • Member of the Administrative Leadership Team
  • Professionals

John C. Spinrad

Job Titles:
  • Partner
  • Professionals

Jonathan E. Eady - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Chairman of the Executive Committee
  • Professionals

Kadeja A. Watts

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Professionals
Kadeja is an associate in the Healthcare practice and a member of the Change of Ownership (CHOW), Food & Drug, Hospitals & Health Systems, Life Sciences, and Post-Acute & Long-Term Care teams.

Kevin M. Bell

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Partner

Lance S. Edwards

Job Titles:
  • Chief Administrative Officer
  • Member of the Administrative Leadership Team

Lauren G. Brown

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Administrative Leadership Team
  • Director of Recruiting & Professional Development

Lisa M. Vicine - CMO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Marketing Officer
  • Member of the Administrative Leadership Team

Michael E. Burke

Job Titles:
  • Office Administrative Partner

Murphey Candler Little - President

Job Titles:
  • President

R. Michael Barry

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Partner

Robert Greenage - CHRO

Job Titles:
  • Director of Human Resources
  • Member of the Administrative Leadership Team

Ruth Cameron

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Administrative Leadership Team
  • Director of Reporting & Analytics

Scott E. Taylor

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Partner

Scott M. Shuman

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Partner

Sean P. Fogarty - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Managing Partner
  • Member of the Executive Committee

Sherman A. Cohen

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Partner