Several Atlanta Law Offices Damaged in Tornado
Lawyers were dealing with broken windows and debris after a tornado Friday damaged several downtown law offices.
Stephanie Dyer, managing partner of The Bloom Law Firm, returned to the office from a client event just minutes after the tornado ripped through the downtown, according to the Fulton County Daily Report. Dyer told the publication that as she walked to her office, “Glass was falling, creating about two inches of debris and broken glass. The police were yelling at people to get off the sidewalks and walk in the middle of the street so they wouldn’t get hit by broken glass.”
When Dyer reached the Equitable Building, where her firm has offices on the 21st floor, she and others waited more than an hour in the basement because of reports another tornado was on its way. When she finally went up to her office, she had to remove sheetrock and metal from a collapsed hallway to get to the door. But inside the damage was not too bad, she said. “There was a window out in the office of one attorney who had just received document production, so there were papers everywhere.”
Dyer said she heard other offices in the building were harder hit. Several other law firms in the building did not answer the phone when a reporter called from the Fulton County Daily Report.
The Atlanta Legal Aid Society suffered minimal damage in the form of a couple broken windows, said the group’s executive director, Steven Gottlieb.
