Counsel

Lewis P. Perling

Lewis Perling is Counsel in the firm's Atlanta office. He has over 20 years of commercial litigation experience including legal and accounting malpractice defense, defense of senior living facilities, consumer finance law, products liability, class actions, and regulatory and compliance matters. Lewis regularly manages highly complex, multi-party litigation and strives to stay well-versed in current and impending changes to consumer and business law legislation including FCRA, FDCPA and TILA. His complex commercial litigation practice includes assisting professionals, including attorneys, accountants, trustees, agents, and others with fiduciary obligations, navigate claims brought against them by former clients and third parties. He guides clients through all stages of litigation as well as pre-suit assessment, cost-effective dispute resolution, and advises on a wide range of risk management matters. Throughout his career, Lewis has handled or supervised litigation in over 4,000 state and federal matters across the United States, including mass tort and class actions suits, and successfully managed defense on behalf of multiple Fortune 500 companies.

Recent News, Articles & Speaking Engagements

Statute of Limitations: Lawyers Go Toe-To-Toe

8th Annual Accounting Risk Management Seminar, Atlanta, November 7, 2023

Lewis Perling Elected to Friends of Disabled Adults and Children Board

by staff writer, Attorney At Law Magazine, November 8, 2022

Stites & Harbison Adds 19 To Atlanta Team From 2 Firms

Bar Admissions
Georgia
Memberships
State Bar of Georgia, Member
Community Involvement

Friends of Disabled Adults and Children (FODAC), Board of Directors (2022-25)

Education
More Than Stites & Harbison

Prior to joining Stites & Harbison, Lewis was Counsel with a civil litigation law firm based in Atlanta. Prior to that, he worked at a highly-respected Atlanta firm where he served as National Counsel for Equifax for two decades and Counsel for several national corporations in connection with asbestos litigation.

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Events

8th Annual Accounting Risk Management Seminar

Date: 11/7/23
Time: 11:45 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

City Springs Conference Center, 1 Galambos Way, Sandy Springs, GA 30328

Join Stites & Harbison Accounting Defense team for the 8th Annual Accounting Risk Management Seminar in Atlanta on November 8, 2023.

Stites & Harbison, PLLC October 02, 2023
Press Releases

Lewis Perling Elected to Friends of Disabled Adults and Children Board

ATLANTA—Friends of Disabled Adults and Children (FODAC) has elected Stites & Harbison, PLLC attorney Lewis Perling to its of Board of Directors. He will serve a three-year term.

by Stites & Harbison, PLLC November 08, 2022
Articles

Stites & Harbison Adds 19 To Atlanta Team From 2 Firms

Law360 (January 24, 2022, 1:17 PM EST) -- Stites & Harbison PLLC has added 12 Copeland Stair Kingma & Lovell LLP attorneys and all seven of Owen Gleaton Egan Jones & Sweeney LLP's attorneys to its Atlanta office, the firm recently announced.

by Jack Rodgers January 25, 2022
Press Releases

Stites & Harbison Continues Expansion in Atlanta – Lands Commercial Litigation Team of 12 from Copeland, Stair, Kingma & Lovell LLP

ATLANTA—Stites & Harbison, PLLC is pleased to announce that 12 attorneys from Copeland, Stair, Kingma & Lovell, LLP (CSKL), including named Partner Johannes S. Kingma, Managing Partner Shannon M. Sprinkle and General Counsel William D. Newcomb, have joined Stites & Harbison’s Atlanta office.

by Stites & Harbison, PLLC January 24, 2022