Bondurant is proud to announce five of its attorneys have been recognized in the 2026 edition of Best Lawyers®, one of the nation’s oldest and most respected peer-based awards programs. The guide also honored five of the firm’s rising stars in the Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America category, which spotlights exceptional early-career attorneys.

Frank Lowrey earned special distinction as the 2026 “Lawyer of the Year” in Atlanta for both Appellate Practice and Bet-the-Company Litigation. Only one lawyer is recognized as the “Lawyer of the Year” for each specialty focus and metropolitan area. This marks the seventh “Lawyer of the Year” award for Lowrey, who was the top-ranked attorney in the Antitrust Litigation category last year and has made the Best Lawyers® list every year since 2010.

Best Lawyers® compiles its annual list of top attorneys by conducting thousands of peer review surveys.

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

2026 Best Lawyers® Honorees:

• John E. Floyd: Bet-the-Company Litigation | Commercial Litigation
• Benjamin E. Fox: Qui Tam Law
• Frank M. Lowrey IV: Antitrust Law | Appellate Practice | Bet-the-Company Litigation | Commercial Litigation | Litigation: Antitrust
• H. Lamar Mixson: Bet-the-Company Litigation | Commercial Litigation | Litigation: Securities | Litigation: Trusts and Estates
• Michael B. Terry: Appellate Practice | Bet-the-Company Litigation | Commercial Litigation | Litigation: Antitrust | Litigation: Banking and Finance

2026 Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America Honorees:

• Solesse Altman: Commercial Litigation | Litigation: Intellectual Property | Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions: Plaintiffs
• Michael Baumrind: Appellate Practice | Commercial Litigation
• Jeff Chen: Commercial Litigation | Litigation: Banking and Finance
• Jennifer Peterson: Appellate Practice | Commercial Litigation | Municipal Law
• Matthew Sellers: Appellate Practice | Commercial Litigation | Municipal Law

This year’s Best Lawyers guide is the 32nd edition. To learn more about the methodology, click here.