The 2025 Best Law Firms® list recognizes firms for their exceptional client and peer reviews. Earning a tiered ranking demonstrates a firm’s credibility in the legal industry and is based on a transparent, data-driven evaluation process.

Bondurant received the following rankings:

Atlanta Tier 1:
Antitrust Law
Appellate Practice
Bet-the-Company Litigation
Commercial Litigation
Litigation, Antitrust
Litigation, Banking and Finance
Litigation, Securities
Litigation, Trusts and Estates

National Tier 2
Appellate Practice
Commercial Litigation
Litigation, Antitrust
Litigation, Banking & Finance

National Tier 3
Litigation, Securities

Earlier this year, attorneys Frank Lowrey, Mickey Mixson and Mike Terry were recognized by Best Lawyers as the 2025 “Lawyer of the Year” in Antitrust Litigation, Trusts and Estates Litigation and Banking and Finance Litigation, respectively. John Floyd was also recognized in multiple litigation practice areas.

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Bondurant Mixson & Elmore LLP attorneys Frank Lowrey, Mickey Mixson and Mike Terry have been recognized by Best Lawyers as the 2025 “Lawyer of the Year” in Antitrust Litigation, Trusts and Estates Litigation and Banking and Finance Litigation, respectively, outperforming other leading attorneys in one of America’s oldest and most respected peer-based awards programs.

Best Lawyers compiles its annual list of top attorneys by conducting thousands of peer review surveys. Only one lawyer is recognized as the “Lawyer of the Year” for each specialty focus and metropolitan area.

This marks the sixth “Lawyer of the Year” award for Lowrey, who was the top-ranked attorney in the Appellate Practice category last year and has made the Best Lawyers list every year since 2010. He has more than 25 years of experience litigating complex antitrust cases in federal and state court, and has served as lead counsel in defending and prosecuting plaintiff’s class actions, pursuing single-plaintiff antitrust claims on behalf of large institutions and defending merger challenges by the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice.

Mixson is a three-time “Lawyer of the Year,” as well as a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the International Academy of Trial Lawyers. His practice focuses on business torts, corporate governance, partnership and fiduciary disputes, insurance coverage and bad faith litigation and securities litigation. In recent years, he has recovered awards and settlements for clients totaling over $2 billion.

This is also the sixth “Lawyer of the Year” award for Terry, who has made the Best Lawyers list every year since 2009. Terry is a former president of the Atlanta Bar Association, and is a frequent speaker and author on business litigation topics, including class actions, punitive damages and appellate issues. He served on the plaintiffs’ trial teams for the two largest verdicts in Georgia history. Terry has also been on the winning side on appeal for the largest verdict in Georgia ever reversed, and the largest verdict in Georgia ever affirmed on appeal.

Best Lawyers also recognized partner John Floyd in multiple litigation practice areas.

A full summary of this year’s rankings is as follows:

• Frank Lowrey (recognized since 2010): Antitrust Litigation (Lawyer of the Year); Bet-the-Company Litigation; Antitrust Law; Appellate Practice; Commercial Litigation
• Mickey Mixson (recognized since 2003): Trusts and Estates Litigation (Lawyer of the Year); Bet-the-Company Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Securities Litigation
• Mike Terry (recognized since 2009): Banking and Finance Litigation (Lawyer of the Year); Appellate Practice; Bet-the-Company Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Antitrust Litigation
• John Floyd (recognized since 2006): Bet-the-Company Litigation; Commercial Litigation

This year’s Best Lawyers guide is the 31st edition. To learn more about the methodology click here.