Law Firm Overview

Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, LLP (“BME”) has been rated as “The state’s premiere litigation boutique” and the firm’s attorneys have consistently been selected as among the best in the state and the country.

Founder Emmet Bondurant has been recognized as one of America’s Top Ten Trial Lawyers by the National Law Journal, and in 2004, 2005, and 2006, his peers voted him as the number one lawyer in Georgia.

A recent survey of attorneys by Atlanta Magazine ranked 10 of BME’s 12 partners among the best attorneys in Georgia, and an independent research group (Chambers & Partners) referred to the firm as a “undoubted masters of the courtroom who represent a superb marriage of talent and knowledge.” BME’s attorneys have graduated at the top of their classes at the nation’s finest law schools, including Harvard, Yale, Duke, The University of Virginia, Emory, The University of Georgia, Georgetown and The University of Pennsylvania. Virtually all of our attorneys have also clerked for federal judges or in the highest state courts.

Areas of Practice

• Antitrust
• Appellate
• Business Torts
• Class Actions
• Commercial Litigation
• Corporate Governance
• Employment
• Environmental Litigation
• False Claims Act (FCA)
• Intellectual Property
• Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO)
• Professional Liability
• White Collar Crime

Representative Cases

• Hishon v. King & Spalding, 467 U.S. 69, 81 L.Ed.2d 59 (1984)
• Wesberry v. Sanders, 376 U.S. 1, 84 S.Ct. 526, 11L.Ed.2d 48 ( 1964), 376 U.S. 1, 84 S.Ct. 526, 11L.Ed.2d 48 (1964)
• Coca-Cola Company of Elizabethtown, Inc., et al. v. The Coca-Cola Company, 114 S.Ct. 289, 126 L.Ed 239 (1993)
• In Re: Domestic Air Transp. Antitrust Litigation, 148 F.R.D. 297 (N.D. Ga. 1993)
• Nelson v. Zant, 261 Ga. 358, 405 S.E.2d 250 (1991)
• Andrews v. American Tel & Tel. Co., 95 F.3d 1014 (11th Cir. 1996)

West Practice Categories

Antitrust Law, RICO Act, Business & Commercial Law, Corporate Governance, White Collar Crimes, Employment Law -- Employee, Employment Law -- Employer, Environmental Law, Professional Responsibility, Insurance Law, Intellectual Property Law, Litigation & Appeals, Class Actions, Professional Malpractice Law