MLA Associate Trish Rogers Is On The Rise

August 24, 2005

The August 22 issue of the Fulton County Daily Report featured an interview with corporate Associate Trish Rogers and nine other "under 40" Atlanta lawyers whom the publication selected as this year's On the Rise picks. The ten interviewed are among the 80-plus lawyers who were nominated by Atlanta's legal community as this year's Rising Stars, with those selected to be announced in the Daily Report's October issue. The article states that the ten were chosen to be interviewed based not only on their excellent legal skills and strong work ethic, but on their "developing momentum with a clear path ahead."

Following are a few excerpts from the interview with Trish by Daily Report staff writer Meredith Hobbs:

• "'I like to work for the little guy,' said Rogers, who often does all her clients' legal work."
  
• "She's a 'legal goddess,' said Jerry Harrison, the CEO of Method IQ, a call-center developer. 'Trish is the single best attorney I've ever worked with,' said Harrison, an attorney himself, who entrusts her with all the legal work for his almost four-year-old company, which has about 100 employees. He said he values her unflappable demeanor, her sense of fun, and her practical business experience. He said Rogers' resourcefulness has saved a couple of deals for his telecom company which, because it's in a new and evolving area, often does complicated, off-the-wall transactions. In one acquisition, he said, there were some surprises at the closing table, but after 14 straight hours of negotiations, Rogers pulled the deal out of the fire."
  
• "She's not your typical starchy type lawyer,' said Henrietta Barnes, the CFO of Qcept Technologies, [an early-stage company] which makes contamination detectors for computer-chip components. Rogers is able to stretch the envelope but then go into lawyer mode and bring the techno-visionaries back to earth.'"
  
• "Rogers, who majored in cross-cultural communications in college, said the best thing about her practice is the chance it gives her to dip into so many different types of businesses. That curiosity and flexibility is also evident in her facility with languages. She is always learning new ones-most recently Spanish from a co-worker who tutors her during weekly lunches."
  
• "She likes running an entrepreneurial practice from within a big firm because her colleagues keep her motivated. That's the same reason she's signed up for fitness boot camp at Piedmont Park, which starts at the crack of dawn. Peer pressure gets her up at 5 a.m., she said."