{"id":3831,"date":"2017-09-22T09:58:26","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T13:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/?page_id=24080"},"modified":"2026-03-02T18:28:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T18:28:52","slug":"atlanta-legal-market","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/career-exploration-professional-development\/for-jd-students\/explore-legal-careers\/legal-markets\/atlanta-legal-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Market Overview<\/h2>\n<p>Top companies headquartered in Atlanta include Home Depot, United Parcel Service (UPS), Coca Cola, Delta Airlines, Southern Company, Daimler (the German car maker\u2019s US headquarter relocated in 2017), SunTrust Bank, and AFLAC.\u00a0 Approximately 16 of the Fortune 500 companies have their headquarters in Atlanta, making it third in the nation (after New York City and Houston), with at least an additional 14 companies in the Fortune 1000 based in the metro region.\u00a0 (Some companies are based in Georgia, not specifically Atlanta, but most legal work is done out of the Atlanta law firms for these companies.)\u00a0 Atlanta also houses a securities exchange, Intercontinental Exchange, and a consumer financial transaction technology company, NCR Corporation, which drives some of the data privacy and technology transactions law in Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Five Atlanta-based firms are on the Am Law 100 list: King &amp; Spalding (#22), Alston &amp; Bird (#52), Troutman Sanders (#68), Ogletree Deakins (#73), and Kilpatrick Townsend &amp; Stockton (#78).\u00a0 Thirty-one of the AmLaw 100 firms have offices in Atlanta.<\/p>\n<h2>Practice Area Overview<\/h2>\n<h3>What&#8217;s Hot?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Corporate (M&amp;A, Banking, Securities, Finance)<\/li>\n<li>Technology Transactions<\/li>\n<li>Health Care<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What&#8217;s Stable?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Labor &amp; Employment<\/li>\n<li>IP (Patent Prosecution)<\/li>\n<li>Privacy<\/li>\n<li>Real Estate<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What&#8217;s Cold?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Commercial Litigation<\/li>\n<li>IP Litigation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Recruiting Outlook<\/h2>\n<p>Ties to Georgia, or at least the Southeast, are highly preferred. Connections to Georgia or other southern schools may be preferred at some firms.<\/p>\n<h2>Atlanta Market Resources<\/h2>\n<p>Check out the links below for more information regarding the Atlanta legal market, networking opportunities, and job listings.<\/p>\n<h3>Georgetown Law Resources<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Atlanta.pdf\">Atlanta Job Search Strategy Handout<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>External Resources<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyreportonline.com\/\">Fulton County Daily Report<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Local Legal Associations<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gabar.org\/\">Georgia Bar Association<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlantabar.org\/\">Atlanta Bar Association<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gawl.org\/cpages\/home\">Georgia Association for Women Lawyers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gabar.org\/aboutthebar\/lawrelatedorganizations\/localvoluntarybars\/index.cfm\">List of other local bar associations<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Market Overview Top companies headquartered in Atlanta include Home Depot, United Parcel Service (UPS), Coca Cola, Delta Airlines, Southern Company, Daimler (the German car maker\u2019s US headquarter relocated in 2017), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"parent":3757,"menu_order":55,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-3831","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34444,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3831\/revisions\/34444"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}