About Craig
Craig Thrift trained on two Southern campuses before entering practice. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from the University of South Carolina in 2001 and a J.D. from Washington and Lee University School of Law in 2006. Those schools shaped his approach to corporate and commercial work. They also set the stage for a career spent largely in Georgia courts and boardrooms.
After law school he moved into private practice and to the business side of legal work. He is admitted to practice in Georgia and maintains active membership in the State Bar of Georgia. Over time he has joined several of the bar’s substantive sections, including Business Law, Corporate Counsel Law, General Practice and Trial Law, Real Property Law, and Franchise and Distribution Law. Those memberships reflect a practice that crosses transactional and litigation lines.
Thrift handles corporate matters and routinely advises business clients on governance, contracts, and transactional deals. He also works on real estate matters, ranging from acquisitions to development agreements. Franchise and distribution issues appear regularly on his docket. He takes on commercial disputes as well, representing clients in contested business and real property cases when litigation becomes necessary.
He is a principal at Thrift McLemore, which maintains offices in Atlanta and Fayetteville. In those offices he divides time between counseling in-house legal departments and representing privately held companies. Colleagues describe him as methodical in preparing corporate documents and deliberate in court settings. He balances negotiated solutions against the need to litigate when a client’s business interests require it.
Outside of client work Thrift participates in bar activities that intersect with his practice areas. He contributes to professional discussions hosted by the various State Bar of Georgia sections to which he belongs. He continues to update his practice as statutory and regulatory changes affect corporate, real property, and franchise law in Georgia.
He practices in Georgia from the Atlanta and Fayetteville offices of Thrift McLemore and handles corporate, real estate, franchise, and commercial litigation matters as part of his current practice focus.
