ATLANTA, August 15, 2024 – Kabat Chapman & Ozmer LLP (KCO) is pleased to announce that Michael Kabat has been recognized in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® and two of its attorneys, Adria Harris and Robbie Wright, have been recognized by Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America. As one of the oldest and most distinguished legal directories, Best Lawyers® conducts peer-review surveys to compile its annual list of top attorneys across several practice areas. The 2025 edition is available at bestlawyers.com.
Michael D. Kabat
Kabat is a founding partner of KCO, serves as the firm’s managing partner, and leads the Firm’s labor and employment practice. He has over 30 years of experience in management-side labor and employment law with a heavy emphasis on class, collective, and representative action litigation. Kabat also regularly advises clients on labor relations issues as well as day-to-day employment disputes. He has been named a Georgia Super Lawyer® in Employment & Labor for over a decade and is ranked AV Preeminent® in the Martindale-Hubbell® peer review ratings. He earned his undergraduate degree from The State University of New York at Binghamton and his law degree at Duke University School of Law.
Adria Harris
Harris, an associate at the firm, advises and defends employers in all aspects of labor and employment law. She defends businesses against lawsuits involving employment discrimination, advises on and litigates wage and hour disputes, and conducts employee misconduct investigations. Harris is a member of the Langston Bar Association and serves on the Black Women Lawyers Association’s Young Lawyers Committee. She earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Tennessee and her law degree from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, where she was a member of the Hale Moot Court Honors Program.
Robert G. Wright
Wright, an associate at the firm, focuses his practice on labor and employment law, with an emphasis on single plaintiff and class, collective, and representative action litigation. Wright earned his undergraduate degree from Georgia Southern University and graduated from Mercer University School of Law in the top 3% of his class. He received the Georgia Scholar Award and Faculty Legal Writing Award, as well as earning membership to the William A. Bootle American Inn of Court, the Brainerd Currie Honor Society, Scribes – The American Society of Legal Writers, the National Trial Competition Mock Trial Team and Mercer Law Review.
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About Kabat Chapman & Ozmer LLP
Kabat Chapman & Ozmer LLP (KCO) is a boutique labor and employment, business, financial services, and white-collar litigation law firm with offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland (Oregon). KCO represents Fortune 500 companies in class, collective and representative actions, labor and employment disputes, complex commercial disputes, financial services and consumer litigation, and white-collar investigations, and litigation in districts across the country. KCO also provides consulting services, training, day-to-day advice, and conducts internal investigations in all the areas in which it litigates. KCO occupies a unique position in the legal market: While most smaller firms tend to be regional and small market in scope, KCO has a truly national client base and scope of practice which it manages out of its four offices across the country. This unique mix allows KCO to offer clients the personal attention and efficiency clients expect from a smaller law firm while providing the expertise and resources of a much larger firm. For more information, visit kcozlaw.com.