Law firms and legal organizations across Georgia raised a record-breaking $852,090 during an all-virtual 9th-annual Georgia Legal Food Frenzy. This is the equivalent of 3.33 million meals for Georgia’s food banks, which is twice the number of meals raised in 2019. The food drive went all virtual this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. The 13 competing firms in the CSRA raised the equivalent of 126,635 meals for hungry families, and the Augusta Judges’ team won the statewide judicial category.

“In light of the worldwide pandemic, we knew that the Georgia Legal Food Frenzy was going to be more important this year than ever before,” said Attorney General Chris Carr. “At the beginning of quarantine, food banks were seeing anywhere from 30 percent to 40 percent increases in demand and many of their events were running out of food with families still in line. We challenged the state’s legal community to step up and help those in need, and they truly went above and beyond.”

Regional awards went to Durham Law Firm (Regional Total Points & Per Capita Points Winner) Fulcher Hagler LLP (Regional Total Points Runner-up) and the Law Offices of Nathan M. Jolles (Regional Per Capita Points Runner-up).

Augusta’s participating law firms were: Alex M. Brown Law, LLC; Augusta Judges; Burroughs Elijah, LLC; Durham Law Firm; Emanuel County Courthouse; Enoch Tarver, P.C.; Fulcher Hagler LLP; Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP; Law Offices of Nathan M. Jolles; McAdams Law Firm LLC; McLeod & Murdock Attorneys At Law; Richmond County Solicitor-General’s Office; USBC - Augusta Office. 

The coronavirus pandemic has increased food insecurity in Golden Harvest’s service area by 42 percent. One in three children are now food insecure. Summertime is always a time of increased need as families struggle to provide more meals for more mouths as utility bills rise. Those challenges have been compounded by COVID-19’s economic effects including continued high unemployment and fewer options for childcare.

Since its inception in 2012, the Georgia Legal Food Frenzy has raised the equivalent of 12.2 million meals for Georgia’s food banks