Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP

Community Service

Community Service

MMM encourages its lawyers and staff to become actively involved in community affairs for personal and professional growth. Participation in civic, trade, business, political, religious, legal and social organizations is a part of the culture of our firm, enhances human relations and business development skills, and offers exposure to events and issues that are relevant to our practices.

In addition to the philanthropic efforts of various individual members of the firm, Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP, is committed as a corporate citizen to participating in and supporting both civic and community projects and programs. Lawyers and staff across offices and practice groups contribute their time and energy in a variety of community service projects and the firm actively participates in and/or sponsors numerous events, programs, and projects. All members of the firm family are encouraged to become involved in those organizations and projects to which the firm provides volunteer and/or financial support.

Habitat for Humanity

Atlanta Habitat for Humanity’s mission is to partner with low-income working families, sponsors, and communities to build affordable quality homes and provide support services that promote successful home purchase and ownership. Since 1983, the organization has worked in partnerships to build more than 790 homes in the City of Atlanta. These homes currently house nearly 3,000 children, parents, grandchildren, and grandparents.

Atlanta Habitat’s “Buildable Hours” program began in 2002 to provide law firms with a vehicle to build upon the volunteer work that many associates and summer associates started at college chapters for Habitat for Humanity. The program has been extremely successful and is now established in Los Angeles, New York, Omaha, San Francisco, and Washington, DC, as well as Atlanta.

Trinity Men's Shelter Dinner

Trinity Community Ministries, Inc. is a program designed to teach homeless men how to live independently. The program targets homeless men with a substance abuse history. After completing the drug detoxification program elsewhere, residents enter the Trinity program. The program structure helps participants achieve self-sufficiency by requiring them to obtain full-time, permanent employment within six weeks of entering the program. In addition to individual counseling, residents are encouraged to bring all issues, problems, and conflicts to group therapy sessions. This program has a remarkably high success rate and, at any one time, there are 20-25 men enrolled.

Morris, Manning & Martin provides dinner to men enrolled in the program on the fourth Monday night of each month. The counselors, residents, graduates, and volunteers eat together at Trinity House with participating Morris, Manning & Martin volunteers. During dinner, everyone participates in a table discussion about drugs, drug rehabilitation, and other relevant issues and problems. It is incredibly compelling for volunteers to participate in this discussion and to learn about these men’s struggles and triumphs.

ServiceJuris Day

ServiceJuris Day is a public service day in which over 700 members of Atlanta’s legal community, including law firms, law schools, courts, bar associations, corporate in-house legal departments, and associated businesses, gather to undertake extensive volunteer renovation work in an underserved and/or underimproved area of Atlanta.

In past years, ServiceJuris volunteers have completed various renovation and landscaping projects and helped revitalize at-need local schools and parks. Such projects have had a significant impact on the selected site and neighboring community. Morris, Manning & Martin has proudly and enthusiastically participated in past years.

Project Open Hand/Atlanta

Project Open Hand/Atlanta’s mission is to provide freshly cooked meals and nutrition services to people living with symptomatic HIV/AIDS, to homebound seniors, and to individuals with other critical illnesses or disabilities. Volunteers work in every capacity imaginable at Project Open Hand/Atlanta: they prepare and deliver meals; organize and staff fund-raising events; recruit corporate partners and volunteers, assist with public relations, and help with administrative responsibilities. The firm’s primary role when volunteering is the preparation and delivery of meals.

Lawyers and staff from MMM prepare meals for and/or deliver meals to the Project Open Hand/Atlanta clients. Each Project Open Hand/Atlanta volunteer Saturday usually spans a three-hour period. MMM is a corporate sponsor of Project Open Hand/Atlanta and is a member of its Epicurean Circle.

Other Community Service Initiatives

In addition to the firm's involvement in and support of the above-outlined organizations and projects, the firm also supports, or has supported in the past, the following organizations, programs, and/or projects:

  • Atlanta Women's Foundation
  • CURE Childhood Cancer
  • Horizon
  • 100 Black Men of America
  • 100 Black Men of Atlanta
  • EarthShare of Georgia
  • For the Kid in All of Us
  • Georgia Justice Project
  • Metro Atlanta Corporate Volunteer Council
  • Owen T. Wheeler Foundation
  • Woodruff Arts Center Employees for the Arts
  • March of Dimes WalkAmerica
  • Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation
  • American Diabetes Association
  • Junior Diabetes Foundation
  • Atlanta Legal Aid Society
  • D.C. Fraternal Order of Police
  • The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
  • American Cancer Society
  • Literacy Volunteers of Atlanta
  • Paul Anderson Youth Homes
  • Hands on Atlanta
  • Promina Corporate Challenge
  • Space Shuttle Children's Fund
  • UNC Hospitals J.C. Burn Center
  • United Way of Metro Atlanta
  • The Nathanial Anthony Ayers Foundation
  • Atlanta Food Bank
  • Dress for Success
  • Project Salute Veterans Benefits
  • The Prom Project
  • Latin American Association
  • BlazeSports
  • DeKalb Library Foundation
  • First Congregational Church
  • Foundation for Advanced Student Athlete
  • Helen Arts & Heritage Council
  • Saint Benedict’s Episcopal Church
  • Voices of Atlanta Choral Ensembles
  • Volunteers in Dental Service
  • Downtown Durham Partners in Progress
  • Atlanta Fraternal Order of Police

 

 

Firm Profile

Fast Facts

  • Corporate: MMM is ranked among the leading law firms in the U.S. for public securities offerings. In the past year, we have handled five IPOs with a combined market value of over $8.8 billion.
  • Corporate: MMM is nationally ranked among the Top 50 leading law firms for venture capital financing. In the past two years, we have averaged over 50 VC transactions per year.
  • Corporate: MMM is a Top 10 firm for public offerings in multiple industry areas.
  • Employment: Over the last 20+ years, MMM has secured outright victories (not settlements) in 32 cases.
  • Employment: MMM's winning streak continues for a leading healthcare system! No losses in 17 years for employment client.
  • Environmental: MMM was lead environmental and real estate counsel on the largest brownfield redevelopment in U.S. history.
  • Green: MMM is real estate and construction counsel to a leading Southeast bank for the nation's first green affordable housing project.
  • Healthcare: MMM serves as sole healthcare and regulatory compliance counsel for the largest consortium of hospitals in Georgia.
  • Insurance: In the past two years, MMM has provided regulatory counsel for insurance restructuring transactions valued at over $6 billion.
  • Intellectual Property: On a per capita basis, MMM files more patents than any other firm in the Southeast and is among the most active in the U.S.
  • Intellectual Property: MMM represents seven of the top 30 research universities and their technology incubators in the U.S.
  • Intellectual Property Litigation: More than 50% of the cases handled by MMM's IP litigators are located in jurisdictions outside of the Southeast.
  • International: With nearly 10 percent of our professional staff fluent in Chinese, MMM has one of the largest Asia-focused practices in the Southeast.
  • International: MMM obtained one in every ten U.S. patents filed by China-based companies.
  • Litigation: MMM handled the largest trade secret case in Florida history.
  • Litigation: MMM serves as lead national Products Liability Trial Counsel for a Fortune 50 company, obtaining seven consecutive defense jury verdicts.
  • Real Estate: MMM has represented clients in 39 of the 50 U.S. states and 4 of the 10 Canadian provinces.
  • Real Estate: MMM represents the largest private multi-family developer in the U.S.
  • Real Estate: Including real estate capital markets, MMM has handled nearly $50 billion in transactions, financings, joint ventures and public offerings for real estate clients.
  • Real Estate Capital Markets: MMM is primary corporate counsel for over a third of the publicly offered non-listed REIT market.
  • Real Estate Capital Markets: In the past three years, MMM has closed over $13 billion in real estate capital markets transactions/offerings.
  • Tax: MMM wrote the law on LLCs.
  • Timberland MMM has the largest Timberland Investments & Forestry Products practice in the Southeast and among the largest in the U.S. MMM recently represented a U.S. TIMO in the acquisition of 31,000 hectares in Brazil for $106 million.

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