Susan Cahoon has chaired the firm's Litigation practice group and is the firm's General Counsel. She joined the firm in 1971 and was admitted to partnership in 1977. Ms. Cahoon has spent all of her career as a litigator. Her diverse experience includes patent infringement litigation, complex commercial disputes and securities litigation. She also is trained as a mediator and as an arbitrator.

Ms. Cahoon has been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America^® for more than 10 years. In 2011, she was listed for Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation and Intellectual Property Law. She is listed in the 2009, 2010 and 2011 editions of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business for General Commercial Litigation. In 2009, 2010 and 2011, Ms. Cahoon was named one of the Top 100 Georgia Super Lawyers and a Top 50 Women Georgia "Super Lawyer" and recognized in the areas of Intellectual Property Litigation and Business Litigation in 2009 and again in 2010 and 2011 for Intellectual Property Litigation by SuperLawyers magazine. Ms. Cahoon has been listed for several years in the Practical Law Company's Which Lawyer? and was named a "recommended lawyer" in Georgia for Dispute Resolution in 2009. She was recognized as a 2011 "Legal Elite" for General Practice/Trial Law by Georgia Trend magazine. Ms. Cahoon received the Emory College of Arts & Sciences Alumni Award of Distinction in recognition of her contributions to her profession, to the community and to her college alma mater and she began a six-year term as a Trustee of Emory University in 2009. She has also been named to the Lawdragon 3000 Leading Lawyers in America and recognized in The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers for 2009 and The International Who's Who of Patent Lawyers for 2011. In 2008 and 2011, Ms. Cahoon was recognized by Benchmark: Litigation as a Georgia "Litigation Star." She speaks and reads French and reads Spanish. Ms. Cahoon is AV^® rated by Martindale-Hubbell.*

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