 Robert Lanier and Clifford Anderson started the firm with which all four generations practiced and which, dating from the 1840s and having gone through several iterations, is the second oldest continuous practice in the state of Georgia.Robert Sampson Lanier, was the father of noted poet and musician Sidney Lanier.After graduating from Bibb County, Georgia public schools Anderson earned an Artium Baccalaureus degree from Yale University in 1958, and a Bachelor of Laws from Harvard Law School in 1961.