Law firms and legal organizations across Georgia raised a record-breaking $400,325 and 18,809 pounds of food during the 7^th-annual Georgia Legal Food Frenzy. This is the equivalent of 1.61 million meals for Georgia’s food banks and a 21.3 percent increase from last year. The 17 competing firms in Augusta raised the equivalent of 103,854 meals for hungry families, and the Augusta Judges’ team won the statewide judicial category.

“Our legal community has decided that we cannot sit idly by and allow any child in Georgia to worry about where their next meal is coming from,” said Attorney General Chris Carr. “Because of the dedication and passion of lawyers across our entire state for the Georgia Legal Food Frenzy competition, approximately 1.61 million meals will be delivered to those in need this summer.”

Augusta’s participating law firms were: Augusta Judges, Burroughs Elijah, LLC; David Dekle Law Firm; David L Huguenin, P.C.; District Attorney’s Office; Durham Law Firm; Enoch Tarver, PC; Fulcher Hagler LLP; Georgia Legal Services Program – Augusta Regional Office; Hull Barrett, PC; Kenneth Nugent, P.C. Augusta; Law Offices of Nathan M. Jolles, P.C.; McLeod & Murdock Attorneys At Law; Public Defender’s Office-Augusta Judicial Circuit; U.S. Attorney’s Office – Southern District of Georgia; U.S. Bankruptcy Court Clerk’s Office Augusta; Young Lawyers of Augusta.

More than 60 percent of Georgia’s children rely on free and reduced lunch at school, but when school is done so are those meals. In the CSRA, 1 in 5 children often go hungry, and summertime is a time of increased need as families struggle to provide more meals for more mouths as utility bills rise.

Since its inception in 2012, the Georgia Legal Food Frenzy has raised the equivalent of 7.2 million meals for Georgia’s food banks.