Bonholtzer, Eric C.

Emmet Bondurant is a nationally recognized trial lawyer with more than 45 years of experience representing both plaintiffs and defendants. He is widely known as one of the top attorneys in the United States in antitrust law, and has secured favorable results for his clients in a wide variety of other areas including patent, securities, trade secret, professional malpractice, and complex corporate disputes in both federal and state trial and appellate courts. According to Best Lawyers, who named him 2010 Lawyer of the Year for Antitrust and Bet-the-Company Litigation, “Emmet Bondurant is the go-to lawyer when a business person just can’t afford to lose a lawsuit.”

In addition to the Best Lawyers accolade, Emmet was named one of the top ten trial lawyers in the United States by the National Law Journal. He is regularly listed among the nation’s leading lawyers for antitrust and commercial litigation by Chambers USA.

Emmet’s career has included a strong commitment to community service and pro bono litigation, including death penalty, habeas corpus, reapportionment, and other civil rights and constitutional cases. He has served as President and a Director of the Atlanta Legal Aid Society, Chairman and a member of the National Board of Common Cause, and Chairman of the Georgia Public Defender Standards Council (2003-2007).

Emmet is the author of various articles on constitutional law and local governmental issues and has spoken at numerous seminars sponsored by the American Bar Association, State Bar of Georgia, Atlanta Bar Association, Practicing Law Institute, Federal Publications, American Management Association, and University of Georgia Continuing Legal Education, on legal subjects including Antitrust Law, Appellate Practice, Banking Law, Evidence, Criminal Antitrust Problems, Ethics, Federal Practice and Procedure, Georgia Civil Practice and Uniform Commercial Code.