Best Lawyers is a respected peer-review publication in the legal profession, with a listing in the publication conferred on a lawyer by his or her peers.
Lists of outstanding attorneys are compiled through peer-review surveys in which tens of thousands of lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. Lawyers are not permitted to pay any fee to participate in or be included on the lists.
Savannah area attorneys listed in Best Lawyers in America 2015 include:
HunterMaclean, a business law firm with offices in Savannah and Brunswick, has 22 lawyers selected for 2015:
• Saunders Aldridge – Commercial Litigation
• Dorothea Coy – Commercial Finance Law
• Tom Cullen – Corporate Law
• Drew Ernst – Economic Development Law, Environmental Law
• Mills Fleming – Health Care Law, Immigration Law
• Ted Henneman – Real Estate Law
• Wade Herring – Employment Law, Management; Litigation, Labor and Employment
• John Hewson – Corporate Law
• Shawn Kachmar – Employment Law, Management
• Sarah Lamar – Employment Law, Management; Labor Law, Management
• Frank Macgill – Tax Law; Trusts and Estates
• Kirby Mason – Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants
• Diana McKenzie – Information Technology Law
• Colin McRae – Admiralty and Maritime Law
• Lane Morrison – Trusts and Estates
• Chris Phillips – Construction Law; Litigation, Construction; Medical Malpractice Law, Defendants
• Janet Shirley- Trusts and Estates
• David Sipple – Admiralty and Maritime Law
• Ron Talley – Environmental Law; Real Estate Law
• John Tatum – Bet-the-Company Litigation; Litigation, ERISA; Litigation, Intellectual Property; Litigation, Trusts and Estates
• Harold Yellin – Land Use and Zoning Law; Real Estate Law
• Arnold Young – Insurance Law; Personal Injury Litigation, Defendants; Product Liability Litigation, Defendants
Arnold Young was also named “Lawyer of the Year” in Personal Injury Litigation, Defendants.
Oliver Maner LLP announced that 16 lawyers have been named to the ‘best lawyers’ list for 2015:
• David Herschel Dickey – Tax Law and Trust Estates
• William P. Franklin, Jr. – Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants and Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants
• Julian R. Friedman – Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law – Tax Law and Trusts and Estates
• James P. Gerard – Real Estate Law
• Douglas J. Giorgio III – Trusts and Estates
• Douglas E. Herman – Commercial Litigation and Litigation - Real Estate
• I. Gregory Hodges – Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants and Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants
• William J. Hunter – Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants and Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs
• Alison Sawyer Kennickell – Medical Malpractice Law - Defendants
• Patrick T. O’Connor – Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Legal Malpractice Law – Defendants, Litigation – Municipal and Mediation
• Patricia Tanzer Paul – Workers’ Compensation Law - Employers
• Christopher L. Ray – Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants and Plaintiffs
• Timothy D. Roberts – Commercial Litigation
• Robert W. Schivera – Trusts and Estates
• Lee A. Summerford – Trusts and Estates
• Andrew M. Wilkes – Medical Malpractice Law - Defendants
The 2015 edition of ‘Best Lawyers in America’ includes 20 partners from Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP:
• Frank Bazzel – Real Estate
• David Cranshaw – Litigation – Banking and Finance
• Jason D’Cruz – Employment – Management
• Glenn Dunaway – Tax
• John Fry – Two Litigation Categories: Intellectual Property, Patent
• Tom Gryboski – Leisure and Hospitality
• John MacNaughton – Product Liability Litigation – Defendants
• Michele Madison – Health Care
• Seslee Mattson – Product Liability Litigation – Defendants • Dan Mohan – Health Care
• John “Sonny” Morris – Real Estate
• Gerald Pouncey – Environmental
• Lauren Burnham Prevost – Corporate
• Joseph “Rusty” Ross – Two Categories: Health Care, Real Estate
• Bruce Smith – Construction
• Robert Threlkeld – Health Care
• Homer “Lee” Walker – Real Estate
• Carl Westmoreland – Land Use and Zoning
• Wendelin “Wendy” White – Real Estate
• Andrew Williams – Real Estate
Fry, Walker and White have been ranked for 10 or more years in a row. Bazzel, Cranshaw, Mohan, Morris, Pouncey, Threlkeld, Westmoreland, Williams and Ross have been on the list at least five years.