Allegra Lawrence-Hardy

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.