Chris Lightner, Esq.

Armed with technical experience as a mechanical engineer on an industry-leading company’s missile defense program, Chris knows how to find creative and cost-sensitive solutions to his clients’ issues. His attention to detail, thoughtful counsel, and leadership in the local legal community have helped him form long-standing relationships with some of the world’s most recognizable companies, resulting in a thriving IP practice at Alston & Bird LLP.

Chris is active not only on the Georgia PATENTS Advisory Board, but also in leadership in the Intellectual Property Owners Association, on the Board of Directors for the Atlanta Bar Association, and in the IP Section of The State Bar of Georgia. For his ongoing local bar association and community service leadership efforts, Chris has been awarded the Georgia PATENTS Program’s Volunteer of the Year Award (2015 and 2016), and the Atlanta Bar Association’s Celebrating Service Award (2015). He will also in October 2017 receive Georgia State University College of Law’s IP Community Service Award. Chris routinely speaks as a panelist at local and state bar association CLE events; in his free time he goes to the park, swimming, camping, or the Tellus Museum with his seven children.