Alison Ballard

Alison Ballard is an experienced commercial litigator representing her clients as lead counsel in all types of disputes in federal and state courts, in arbitration, and before administrative agencies.

Ms. Ballard zealously protects and enforces her clients’ rights in intellectual property, trade secrets, restrictive covenants, employment, and commercial contracts. Ms. Ballard represents public companies, large corporations, small businesses, executives, and individuals that span a diverse range of industries. She has a track record of significant wins both prosecuting and defending disputes at all stages of litigation, from pre-litigation investigations and strategic negotiations through trial and appeals.

Ms. Ballard has particular experience with the technology sector. Her clients range from publicly-traded, global service providers to IT developers and start-ups in the areas of software, SaaS, CRM, CX, telecommunications, and more. Ms. Ballard is also well-versed in the technological aspects of investigations and litigation. She manages large scale electronically stored information (“ESI”), forensic investigations, and e-discovery, and previously served as an e-discovery chair, developing firm wide protocols for client ESI.

In addition to her litigation practice, Ms. Ballard is a trusted advisor to her clients on a variety of pre-litigation legal issues, including employment matters, internal investigations, government investigations, data privacy, data breach response, proactive safeguarding of trade secrets and intellectual property, and more.

Ms. Ballard previously served for five years as Deputy General Counsel to a full-service law firm based in Atlanta, where she was a partner.