8/7/2019 Rising Stars Profile

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Reprinted from the October 2006 issue of Georgia Super Lawyers ® - Rising Stars Edition .

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practice group at a law firm with nearly

90 attorneys, and in 2001 clerked for the

Honorable Justice Hugh P. Thompson of the Georgia Supreme Court. “Practicing

law is more than just billing hours,” says

Daley. “It is about taking care of those

who have put their trust in us.”

Matthew LaVallee worked almost four

years in the Civil Rights Division of the

State of Georgia’s Attorney General’s

Office. He currently serves as a Special

Assistant Attorney General and is a certi-

fied Contract Advisor with the National

Football League Players Association. “We

are intimately involved in every aspect of 

resolving our clients’ issues, ” he says.

“Getting the job done for our clients is

what we are all about.”

AREAS OF PRACTICE

• Employment Law

• Governmental Liability• Governmental Relations

• Appellate Litigation

• Sports Law

• General Litigation

A FIRM ON THE RISE For the second

consecutive year, Daley, Koster and

LaVallee have been named Rising Stars.

“The designation is very much earned,”

says Sheila Brockman of Sunlink Health

Systems. “These lawyers are the cream of 

the crop.” Adds Teross Young, Director

of Government Relations for Food Lion:

“I know these three will be huge players

in the legal market for many, many years

to come.”

DALEY, KOSTER & LAVALLEE, LLC

2849 Paces Ferry Road

Suite 160

Atlanta, GA 30339

PH: (678) 213-2401

FX: (678) 213-2406

www.dkllaw.com

Daley, Koster & LaVallee (DKL)

was founded to provide clients

with the highest quality of repre-sentation with a strong personal

commitment. “Our clients are more than

  just business relationships,” says manag-

ing partner Paul Koster. “They are people

we care about on a personal level.”

Firm clients agree. “My experience working

with DKL is that they are not only outstand-

ing lawyers, but quality people who make

us feel more like personal friends than

business clients,” says Ola Smith, CEO,

McKinney Community Health Center.

THREE RISING STARS Prior to opening

DKL, Paul Koster chaired the govern-

mental liability practice group at a nearly

90 attorney law firm. He is a former staff 

attorney for the United States Court of 

Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and former

member of the faculty at Emory University

School of Law.

Cynthia Matthews Daley currently serves

as a magistrate judge in Carroll County.

She formerly co-chaired the employment

“THESE LAWYERSARE THE CREAMOF THE CROP.”

— Sheila Brockman,Sunlink Health Systems

DALEY, KOSTER & LAVALLEE, LLC

MATTHEW R.

LAVALLEE

CYNTHIA M.DALEY

PAUL R.

KOSTER