Firm Ranks 2nd in Number of Intellectual Property Attorneys Listed and 21st Overall
ATLANTA (SEPTEMBER 1) — Seventy one Kilpatrick Stockton attorneys have recently been honored by their peers in The Best Lawyers in America® 2006.
Kilpatrick Stockton is ranked in the nation’s top 25 for the overall number of attorneys listed (#21), with five practice areas ranked in the top 10 nationally for the number of attorneys listed — IP (#2), Alternative Dispute Resolution (#3), Construction (#4), Corporate (#7) and Commercial Litigation (#9).
Additionally, in Georgia, the firm garnered number one rankings for the total number of attorneys listed in IP, Alternative Dispute Resolution, and Construction. In North Carolina, the firm had a top ranking in Environmental Law.
“We are proud to have our lawyers once again acknowledged as national leaders by prestigious Best Lawyers in America® ,” said Bill Brewster, Managing Partner and Best Lawyers in America® honoree. “These selections are indicative of the depth of specific expertise available to our clients, as well as the firm’s tremendous reputation among its peers.”
The Best Lawyers lists are compiled through a peer-review survey in which 18,500 leading attorneys in the United States cast more than a half million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their specialties.
The total number of Kilpatrick Stockton attorneys listed by practice area includes:
Corporate (15); Intellectual Property (13); Commercial Litigation (9); Labor and Employment (5);Employee Benefits (5); Alternative Dispute Resolution (4); Personal Injury Litigation (4); Trusts and Estates (4); Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights (3); Construction (5); Environmental (5); Health Care (4); Tax (3); Antitrust (2); Real Estate (4); Entertainment (1); Financial Institutions and Transactions (1); Franchise (1); and Business litigation (1).
Kilpatrick Stockton attorneys honored include:
Harold E. Abrams
(Tax Law) (Trusts and Estates)
Miles J. Alexander
(Alternative Dispute Resolution) (Antitrust Law) (Corporate) (Intellectual Property Law)
John T. Allred
(Commercial Litigation)
Anthony B. Askew
(Intellectual Property Law)
Rupert Barkoff
(Franchise Law)
Joseph M. Beck
(Alternative Dispute Resolution) (Entertainment Law) (Intellectual Property Law)
Stephen R. Berlin
(Environmental Law)
W. Stanley Blackburn
(Corporate, M&A, and Securities Law)
William H. Boice
(Business Litigation)(Labor and Employment Law)
Richard R. Boisseau
(Labor and Employment Law)
R. Alexander Bransford, Jr.
(Tax Law)
William H. Brewster
(Intellectual Property Law)
Peter S. Brunstetter
(Corporate Law) (Health Care Law)
Susan Cahoon
(Commercial Litigation)
Tim Carssow
(Real Estate Law)
Raymond G. Chadwick, Jr.
(Personal Injury Litigation)
Richard R. Cheatham
(Corporate) (Financial Institutions)
A. Stephens Clay IV
(Alternative Dispute Resolution)(Commercial Litigation)
Evelyn H. Coats
(Real Estate Law)
James H. Coil III
(Labor and Employment Law)
Brian G. Corgan
(Construction Law)
C. Penn Craver, Jr.
(Trusts and Estates)
William E. Dorris
(Construction Law)
W. Randy Eaddy
(Corporate Law)
Robert Leon Edwards
(Trusts and Estates)
J. Robert Elster
(Commercial Litigation) (Personal Injury Litigation)
James L. Ewing IV
(Intellectual Property Law)
Daniel T. Falstad
(Corporate Law)
Candace L. Fowler
(Real Estate Law)
Jamie L. Greene
(Intellectual Property Law)
Randall F. Hafer
(Construction Law)
Carl W. Hibbert
(Trusts and Estates)
Richard A. Horder
(Environmental Law)
G. Dudley Humphrey
(Construction Law) (Corporate Law)
Gerald A. Jeutter, Jr.
(Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law)
James D. Johnson
(Intellectual Property Law)
Hilary P. Jordan
(Corporate Law)
M. Andrew Kauss
(Real Estate Law)
James H. Kelly
(Personal Injury Litigation)
Richard J. Keshian
(Commercial Litigation)
Wyck A. Knox, Jr.
(Commercial Litigation)(Health Care Law)
Jeffrey T. Lawyer
(Tax Law)
Larry D. Ledbetter
(Corporate Law)
Colvin T. Leonard III
(Corporate Law)
Steven J. Levitas
(Environmental Law)
George L. Little, Jr.
(Antitrust Law) (Commercial Litigation) (Intellectual Property Law)
Alfred S. Lurey
(Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law)
E. Lynwood Mallard
(Corporate Law)
Alan H. McConnell
(Environmental Law)
Dennis S. Meir
(Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law)
John S. Pratt
(Intellectual Property Law)
Diane L. Prucino
(Labor and Employment Law)
Susan H. Richardson
(Environmental Law)
Dean W. Russell
(Intellectual Property Law)
Steven J. Sacher
(Employee Benefits Law) (Labor and Employment Law)
Stephen M. Schaetzel
(Intellectual Property Law)
David C. Smith
(Commercial Litigation)
George Anthony Smith
(Construction Law)
James D. Steinberg
(Corporate Law)
David A. Stockton
(Corporate Law)
Phillip H. Street
(Health Care Law)
Jerre B. Swann
(Intellectual Property Law)
Daniel R. Taylor
(Commercial Litigation)
G. Kimbrough Taylor
(Corporate Law)
Virginia S. Taylor
(Intellectual Property Law)
Michael H. Trotter
(Corporate Law)
William J. Vesely, Jr.
(Employee Benefits Law)
Craig B. Wheaton
(Employee Benefits Law)
Mark D. Wincek
(Employee Benefits Law)
William E. Wright
(Employee Benefits Law)
David M. Zacks
(Alternative Dispute Resolution) (Health Care Law) (Personal Injury Litigation)
About The Best Lawyers in America® 2006
The 2006 edition is the twelfth edition and first annual edition of The Best Lawyers in America. 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 in which 18,500 leading attorneys throughout the country cast more than a half million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their specialties, 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 470 attorneys in nine offices across the globe: Atlanta and Augusta, GA.; New York, New York; Charlotte, Raleigh and Winston-Salem, N.C.; 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 .
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