Caela Austen Eleanor Abrams

Caela’s practice encompasses a broad range of commercial and residential real estate transactions and litigation. Since joining the firm in 2019, Caela has combined insightful counsel and goal-oriented advocacy to minimize risk and deliver results for individuals and entities facing complicated real estate issues involving boundary line and title disputes, landlord-tenant relationships, squatters, and property damage.

Caela serves as local counsel for several national clients, offering practical and effective legal strategies to achieve reliable, portfolio-wide deliverables.

Caela is active in Atlanta’s legal and real estate communities. She is a member of the Atlanta Bar Association, the DeKalb Bar Association, and Lawyers Club of Atlanta. Caela served on the Atlanta Bar Association’s Law School Outreach Committee, where she helped connect Georgia law school students with members of the Atlanta Bar. In 2023, she was selected for the Council for Quality Growth’s Emerging Leaders Initiative, participating in professional development training with other young leaders from Atlanta’s property development industry.

Caela graduated from Emory University with a Bachelor of Arts in psychology and a minor in ethics before earning her Juris Doctorate from Georgia State University, where she concentrated on environmental law and land use and served as an Honor Court Justice. She was a 2018-19 Urban Fellow with the College of Law’s Center for the Comparative Study of Metropolitan Growth.