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Hall Booth Smith, P.C. (HBS) is a United States-based full-service law firm headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. It has more than 100 attorneys in nine offices. HBS was named a "Best Law Firm" by U.S. News & World Report in 2011, and nine of the firm's attorneys were named "Best Lawyers." It has also been named one of Atlanta's "Best Places to Work" by the Atlanta Business Chronicle in 2010 and 2011. In addition to its headquarters in Atlanta, it has eight regional offices in the southeastern United States and one international office in Tbilisi, Georgia. HBS has been a longtime adviser to the state of Georgia on the legality of an interbasin transfer from the Tennessee River as a means to mitigate Atlanta's growing water problem.

History
In 1982, seven lawyers from the firm Phillips, Hart & Mozley&mdash;George Hart, Terry Sullivan, Elaine Whitehurst, Mike Frick, Phil Henry, Rush Smith, and Alex Booth&mdash;formed Hart & Sullivan, a litigation boutique that focused on professional liability defense, general liability, workers' compensation, and property and causality. In 1989, the firm became Sullivan, Hall, Booth & Smith after the departure of Hart. This is the date that HBS marks as its founding as a litigation practice. Sullivan departed the firm in 1996, and Jack Slover was added as a named partner, and the firm's name became Hall, Booth, Smith & Slover. The firm's name changed to its current Hall, Booth, Smith in 2012 when Slover left to start his own practice.

HBS opened its first regional office in Tifton, Georgia in 1999. It opened its second branch office in Brunswick, Georgia, and not long after added offices in Albany, Athens, and Columbus, Georgia as well as in Nashville, Tennessee and Charleston, South Carolina. In 2011, HBS partnered with the Eristavi Law Group in Tbilisi and became the first American law firm to open a practice in the country of Georgia.

Notable attorneys

 * Kevin Abernethy, Chairman of the Georgia Government Transparency and Campaign Finance Commission.
 * Terrell Benton, Jr., General Counsel to the school districts of Clarke, Oconee, and Walton counties and former president and current member of the Georgia School Boards Association's Executive Committee of the Council of School Board Attorneys.
 * John Hall, Jr., Honorary Consul to the Republic of Georgia, founder of the Georgia to Georgia Foundation, and chairman of the Atlanta Tbilisi Sister City Committee.
 * W. Scott Henwood, Reporter of Decisions for the Supreme Court of Georgia and the Appeals Court of Georgia from 1984–2005.
 * Michael Meyer von Bremen, former state senator for the 12th Senatorial District of Georgia and former Minority Leader in the Georgia State Senate.
 * Patrick N. Millsaps, former chairman of the Georgia Government Transparency and Campaign Finance Commission and former chief of staff of Newt Gingrich's presidential campaign.
 * John E. Parkerson, Jr., Honorary Consul to Hungary for the Southeastern U.S., president of the World Trade Center Atlanta, and treasurer of the Global Soap Project, a nonprofit that recycles used soap from hotels for distribution to populations with sanitation issues.
 * Robert L. Shannon, Jr., Brigadier General in the United States Air Force and Vice Commander of the Georgia Air National Guard.
 * Richard Sheinis, member of the Board of Directors for the American-Israel Chamber of Commerce, secretary and former president of the Netherlands-American Chamber of Commerce of the Southeastern United States, and fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
 * Rush S. Smith, Jr, former chairman of the USLaw Professional Liability Practice Group, a national network of professional liability attorneys.