Akerman’s recent expansion in the Atlanta market was reported in The Daily Report article titled, “Am Law Firms Crowd Into Atlanta Market.” The Daily Report said of Akerman’s Atlanta expansion, “Florida firm Akerman (No. 94) quietly opened its own Atlanta office last September, led by Sidney Welch, who’d headed Polsinelli’s health care innovation practice. That office is up to five partners after Akerman in May landed corporate partners Bill Ide and Amanda Leech from Dentons.”