Al Lurey has been a partner in the firm since 1975. Mr. Lurey concentrates his practice on bankruptcy and insolvency matters.

Mr. Lurey is listed as #1 in the 2011 edition of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business for Bankruptcy/Restructuring and has been listed in that publication each year since 2005. Mr. Lurey was recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® for Bankruptcy Law for 2012 and each of the 26 years immediately preceding. He was recognized as one of Georgia's "Legal Elite" for Bankruptcy & Creditors' Rights in Georgia Trend Magazine for 2011 and each of the two years immediately preceding. Mr. Lurey was recognized as a Georgia "Super Lawyer" in Business Law in 2009 and in Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights Law in 2012 and each of the three years immediately preceding by SuperLawyers magazine. He has also been listed The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers for 2009 and 2011. Mr. Lurey received the 2007 Atlanta Bar Association Bankruptcy Section David Pollard Achievement Award. He has been named by Legal Media Group to its 2010 Guide to the World's Leading Insolvency and Restructuring Lawyers. Mr. Lurey is AV® rated by Martindale-Hubbell.*

*CV, BV, and AV are registered certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedure's standards and policies.

Professional & Community Activities

American Bankruptcy Institute, Member

American Bar Association, Member

American College of Bankruptcy, Fellow

California Bar Association, Member

Emory Law School, Adjunct Professor

The Southeastern Bankruptcy Law Institute, Inc., Former President and Chairman of the Board of Directors

State Bar of Georgia, Corporate and Banking Law Section, UCC Committee, Former Chairman

Education

  • Harvard University, LL.B. (1967)
    cum laude
  • Duke University, A.B. (1964)
    summa cum laude

Bar Admissions

  • Georgia (1970)
  • California (1967)

Court Admissions

  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
  • Supreme Court of Georgia
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

Clerkships

  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit — Honorable Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr.

Who We Are

What fully engaged means to me:

Fully engaged means understanding the client's business and tirelessly seeking to find creative solutions to the client's problems.

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Alfred S. Lurey

Experience Highlights

Judicial estoppel issue involving one of the world's largest privately held software companies
Advised one of the world's largest privately held software companies, which had been sued by a reorganized debtor, about assertion of judicial more
Large preference claim against an IT products and services company
Defense of an IT products and services company against large preference claim in a bankruptcy case in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern more
Bankruptcy related assistance for principal loan servicer and asset manager
Represented a principal loan servicer and asset manager for a major investment bank in connection with the bank's Chapter 11 case in the United more
In re OneStar Long Distance
Represented the creditors' committee and now Chapter 7 trustee for OneStar Long Distance Inc. in connection with liquidation of assets of a more