ATLANTA (SEPTEMBER 8) – Eighty-seven Kilpatrick Stockton attorneys have recently been honored by their peers in The Best Lawyers in America® 2007. Kilpatrick Stockton ranks #5 among all AmLaw 100 firms in the percentage (nearly 20%) of attorneys named Best Lawyers, and is ranked 26th in the nation for all law firms in the overall number for attorneys listed.
Kilpatrick Stockton has 23 areas of practice ranked in the top 10 nationally for the number of attorneys named, including, in the top 5: (#1) Advertising Law; (#2) Intellectual Property; (#4) Alternative Dispute Resolution; and Information Technology; (#5) Biotechnology; and Construction Law.
Others in the top 10 include: Employee Benefits; Environmental; Franchise; Government Relations; Structured Finance Law; Antitrust Law; Bet-the-Company Litigation; Entertainment; Medical Malpractice Law; Appellate Law; Insurance Law; Personal Injury Litigation; Corporate Governance and Compliance Law; Corporate Law; Banking; Health Care; and Trusts and Estates Law.
Additionally, in Georgia, the firm garnered #1 rankings for the total number of attorneys listed in Advertising Law, Intellectual Property, Alternative Dispute Resolution and Information Technology. In North Carolina, the firm achieved #1 rankings in both Environmental and Insurance Law.
Attorneys were selected for inclusion in this new edition of Best Lawyers based on an exhaustive and rigorous peer-review survey that has been developed and refined for nearly 25 years.
Kilpatrick Stockton attorneys honored include:
Atlanta
Harold E. Abrams (20)
Tax Law and Trusts and Estates
Miles J. Alexander (20)
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Antitrust Law
Corporate Law
Intellectual Property Law
Anthony B. Askew (10)
Intellectual Property Law
Rupert Barkoff (10)
Franchise Law
Joseph M. Beck (10)
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Entertainment Law
Intellectual Property Law
W. Stanley Blackburn
Corporate Law
Mergers & Acquisitions Law
William H. Boice
Commercial Litigation
Labor and Employment Law
Richard R. Boisseau (10)
Labor and Employment Law
R. Alexander Bransford, Jr.
Tax Law
William H. Brewster (10)
Advertising Law
Intellectual Property Law
Christopher P. Bussert (*)
Intellectual Property Law
Susan Cahoon (10)
Commercial Litigation
Tim Carssow (10)
Real Estate Law
Richard R. Cheatham (10)
Banking Law
Corporate Law
Richard Cicchillo, Jr. (*)
Mergers & Acquisitions Law
A. Stephens Clay IV (10)
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Bet-the-Company Litigation
Commercial Litigation
Evelyn H. Coats
Real Estate Law
James H. Coil III
Labor and Employment Law
Brian G. Corgan
Construction Law
Scott M. Dayan (*)
Tax Law
William E. Dorris
Construction Law
W. Randy Eaddy (10)
Corporate Governance and Compliance Law
Corporate Law
Securities Law
James L. Ewing IV (10)
Intellectual Property Law
Candace L. Fowler
Real Estate Law
Jamie L. Greene (10)
Biotechnology Law
Intellectual Property Law
Randall F. Hafer
Construction Law
Richard A. Horder
Environmental Law
James D. Johnson
Intellectual Property Law
Hilary P. Jordan
Banking Law
Corporate Law
Structured Finance Law
M. Andrew Kauss
Real Estate Law
Larry D. Ledbetter
Corporate Law
Colvin T. Leonard III
Corporate Law
Alfred S. Lurey (20)
Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law
Dennis S. Meir (10)
Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law
Reinaldo Pascual (*)
Corporate Law
Mergers & Acquisitions Law
Matthew H. Patton (*)
Commercial Litigation
John S. Pratt (10)
Intellectual Property Law
Diane L. Prucino
Labor and Employment Law
Michael W. Rafter (*)
Advertising Law
Susan H. Richardson
Environmental Law
Dean W. Russell (10)
Intellectual Property Law
Stephen M. Schaetzel
Intellectual Property Law
George Anthony Smith
Construction Law
James D. Steinberg
Corporate Law
Information Technology Law
David A. Stockton (10)
Corporate Governance and Compliance Law
Corporate Law
Securities Law
Phillip H. Street
Health Care Law
Jerre B. Swann (10)
Advertising Law
Intellectual Property Law
Neal J. Sweeney (*)
Construction Law
G. Kimbrough Taylor (10)
Corporate Law
Virginia S. Taylor (10)
Intellectual Property Law
Rex R. Veal (*)
Structured Finance Law
William J. Vesely, Jr.
Employee Benefits Law
David M. Zacks (10)
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Health Care Law
Personal Injury Litigation
Augusta
Raymond G. Chadwick, Jr.
Commercial Litigation
Personal Injury Litigation
Wyck A. Knox, Jr. (10)
Commercial Litigation
Health Care Law
Charlotte
E. Lynwood Mallard (10)
Corporate Law
Mergers & Acquisitions Law
Elizabeth G. Wren (*)
Securities Law
Raleigh
Randall D. Avram (*)
Labor and Employment Law
Jeffrey A. Benson (*)
Real Estate Law
Carl W. Hibbert
Trusts and Estates
Gerald A. Jeutter, Jr.
Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law
Gary K. Joyner (*)
Real Estate Law
William F. Lane (*)
Environmental Law
Steven J. Levitas
Environmental Law
Alan H. McConnell
Environmental Law
Hayden J. Silver III (*)
Commercial Litigation
Craig B. Wheaton (10)
Employee Benefits Law
Washington, DC
Elliott H. Levitas (*)
Government Relations Law
Mark I. Levy (*)
Appellate Law
Steven J. Sacher (20)
Employee Benefits Law
Labor and Employment Law
Mark D. Wincek
Employee Benefits Law
Winston-Salem, NC
Stephen R. Berlin
Environmental Law
Susan H. Boyles (*)
Insurance Law
Peter S. Brunstetter
Corporate Law
Health Care Law
Charles W. Calkins (*)
Intellectual Property Law
C. Penn Craver, Jr.
Trusts and Estates
Louis W. Doherty (*)
Labor and Employment Law
Robert Leon Edwards
Trusts and Estates
J. Robert Elster (10)
Commercial Litigation
Medical Malpractice Law
Personal Injury Litigation
Steven Gardner (*)
Intellectual Property Law
Dudley Humphrey
Construction Law
Corporate Law
James H. Kelly, Jr. (10)
Insurance Law
Personal Injury Litigation
Richard J. Keshian
Commercial Litigation
Jeffrey T. Lawyer
Tax Law
George L. Little, Jr. (10)
Antitrust Law
Commercial Litigation
Intellectual Property Law
David C. Smith
Commercial Litigation
Daniel R. Taylor, Jr.
Commercial Litigation
(*) Denotes First Year Listed
(10) Denotes Listed for at least 10 Years
(20) Denotes Listed for at least 20 Years
About The Best Lawyers in America® 2007
The 2007 edition of Best Lawyers in America is based on 1.8 million confidential evaluations by the top attorneys in the country as well as thousands of extensive telephone interviews with leading attorneys throughout its balloting process. Since its inception in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence in the United States. Because Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey by the country’s leading attorneys and because lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.”
About Kilpatrick Stockton
Kilpatrick Stockton LLP is a full-service international law firm with more than 480 attorneys in nine offices across the globe: Atlanta and Augusta, GA.; Charlotte, Raleigh and Winston-Salem, NC.; New York, NY; Washington, D.C.; London, England; and Stockholm, Sweden. Kilpatrick Stockton’s delivery of innovative business solutions provides results-oriented counsel for corporations, from the challenging demands of financial transactions and securities to the disciplines of intellectual property management. Collaboration among Kilpatrick Stockton’s corporate, litigation and intellectual property attorneys provides knowledgeable and proactive guidance for companies at every stage of the business life cycle. For more, go to www.kilpatrickstockton.com
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