Krevolin Horst, LLC

Litigation

Allegra Lawrence-Hardy is a highly accomplished litigator known for her innovative thinking, tenacity and real-world solutions. Allegra has successfully defended Fortune 100 companies throughout the United States and abroad in numerous trials and arbitrations. Known for her skill in trying cases, negotiating complex settlements, and finding creative solutions, Allegra advises clients daily on a wide range of complex litigation, election law, political law, voting rights, and labor and employment issues. She helps develop processes and tools for improving the efficiency and delivery of legal services, and often shares her deep litigation knowledge as a prolific author and sought-after speaker.

Allegra works closely with clients on high-stakes, high-profile complex litigation matters. She has extensive experience conducting internal investigations and guiding clients through sensitive crisis management situations to successful resolution.

Allegra also advises and counsels management on a wide range of labor and employment issues. She provides practical, solution-oriented advice to help navigate complex employment law issues while keeping her client’s business goals firmly in mind.

During the over two decades of her practice, Allegra also has led and been part of legal teams representing municipalities, non-profit organizations, political candidates, and political parties in election, voting rights, and political law matters including representing presidential candidate Al Gore before the Eleventh Circuit in Bush v. Gore and serving on the 2020 Biden for President recount team.

Allegra has an active pro bono practice, through which she has successfully represented voters, asylum applicants, adoptive parents, underserved children, farmworkers, and more.

Trustee, Spelman College Trustee, Emory University Member, Election Law Advisory Committee, American Bar Association Co-Chair, Professional Success Summit, Litigation Section, American Bar Association Member, The American Employment Law Council Board of Advisors, American Constitution Society, Georgia Lawyer Chapter Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America Director, Executive Committee of the Independent School Chairpersons Association Chair, Board of Trustees, Atlanta Girls’ School Commissioner, ABA’s Committee on the Lawyers’ Role in Assuring Every Child’s Right to a High-Quality Education Member, Board of Directors, Georgia Legal Services Foundation Member, Board of Governors, State Bar of Georgia Member, Board of Directors, Leadership Institute for Women of Color in Law and Business Member, Board of Directors, Zoo Atlanta Executive Committee Member, Board of Directors, Children’s Museum of Atlanta Fellow, American Bar Foundation Member, American Inns of Court (Bleckley Inn) Member, Gate City Bar Association Member, Georgia Association for Women Lawyers (GAWL) Member, International Women’s Forum Georgia Member, Labor and Employment Section, American Bar Association Member, National Bar Association Appointee, Mayor’s Transition Team Appointee, Georgia Supreme Court’s Commission on Access and Fairness in the Courts Appointee, Mayor’s Living Wage Commission Appointee, Chief Justice’s Commission on Professionalism Appointee, Georgia Supreme Court’s Commission on Domestic Violence Graduate, Leadership Atlanta Graduate, Leadership Georgia Former Member, Leadership, Litigation Section, American Bar Association Past Member, Corporate Council, Fernbank Museum Past President, Atlanta Legal Diversity Consortium (ALDC) Past President, Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys (GABWA) Former Member, Board of Directors, Atlanta Legal Aid Society Former Chair, Women and Minorities in the Profession Committee, State Bar of Georgia Former Executive Committee Member, Board of Directors, Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta Past Member, Board of Directors, Atlanta Community Food Bank

Yale Law School J.D. Spelman College B.A.