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Christi Cannon Christi A. Cannon is Director, Client Relations and is based in the firm’s Atlanta, Georgia office. Ms. Cannon will oversee client relations, and will be reporting directly to the executive vice president, West Coast operations and the senior vice president, East Coast operations. Her experience representing both plaintiffs and defendants in complex national and international litigation gives her unique insights into how GCG can best meet the needs of all our clients. Christi A. Cannon first joined GCG in July 2007, as a Senior Account Executive, promoted to Director, Business Development in 2010, and assumed her current position in October 2011. Following law school, she spent 5 years practicing at Chitwood & Harley in Atlanta, Georgia. Then, she was associated with Troutman Sanders LLP also in Atlanta, Georgia. Later, as partner of her own law firm, she represented individual and institutional investors in a thriving practice. In 2005, she joined Schiffrin & Barroway LLP as Of Counsel and relocated to New York City. During this time, Ms. Cannon litigated the largest securities class action in history, In re Initial Public Offering Securities Litigation, pending in the Southern District of New York. Ms. Cannon received her law degree from Emory University School of Law and her undergraduate degree from Auburn University, magna cum laude. While at Emory, she was selected by its faculty to be one of 12 members of the Order of the Barristers in her class. She was also selected by faculty to be one of 12 members from her class in the Lamar Inn of Court. Ms. Cannon is licensed to practice law in Georgia and has been admitted to practice before the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia and all Georgia trial and appellate courts. In 2005, Ms. Cannon was voted by her peers and named by Atlanta Magazine and Law and Politics Magazine to be a “Georgia Super Lawyer,” placing her in the top 5 percent of all attorneys in Georgia and among the top 15 securities litigation attorneys in Georgia. |
