Seyfarth Shaw Featured in Fulton County Daily Report
“In the Trenches: Seyfarth Grows Corporate, Labor Teams”

Paul Mattingly and Robert Reynolds were quoted in the Fulton County Daily Report article, “In the Trenches: Seyfarth Grows Corporate, Labor Teams,” published on July 8, 2009. The article featured the addition of Seyfarth’s newest labor and employment and corporate partners: Robert Reynolds, Shawn Baldwin, Joel Cartee, Robert Stevens and Benjamin Briggs. Paul Mattingly, Office Managing Partner of Seyfarth’s Atlanta office, noted, “Employment litigators Stevens and Briggs fit like a glove with what we do. Labor and employment, a traditional strength for Seyfarth.” Paul discussed the firm’s desire over the past 10 years to grow its corporate practice group and the addition of Reynolds, Baldwin and Cartee bring the number of corporate attorneys in the Atlanta office to 14. Paul noted, “We are very excited about the quality of these folks.” He described the new corporate technology team as astute business people as well as lawyers. Paul further commented, “They try to be ahead of the market, so they are providing a value instead of just being scriveners to clients.” 

Regarding his decision to move to Seyfarth Shaw, Bob Reynolds told the Daily Report, “Seyfarth’s focus on leading-edge business practices for pricing and managing legal services—a variation on the Six Sigma methodology dubbed SeyfarthLean—was a big draw, as well as the firm’s expansion of its New York and Los Angeles corporate groups.” He further explained, “The Seyfarth way of approaching the legal business is heaven-sent from my perspective. I’m extremely interested in what is the most efficient, effective solution for clients.”

Paul added, “SeyfarthLean is a business process for breaking down into steps a matter, such as a large corporate transaction, so in-house counsel can track the cost of each step and decide where to put their resources. Mapping a transaction in this way can help clients find a number of ways to carve out inefficiencies.”