ATLANTA (SEPTEMBER 14) – LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – Eighty-five Kilpatrick Stockton attorneys have recently been honored by their peers in The Best Lawyers in America® 2008. Kilpatrick Stockton ranks #9 among all AmLaw 100 firms in the percentage (nearly 20%) of attorneys named Best Lawyers, and is ranked 28th in the nation for all law firms in the overall number for attorneys listed.
Kilpatrick Stockton has 21 areas of practice ranked in the top 10 nationally for the number of attorneys named, including, in the top 5: (#2) Intellectual Property; (#3) Advertising Law; (#5) Alternative Dispute Resolution, Information Technology, and Structured Finance Law.
Others in the top 10 include: Biotechnology; Construction; Entertainment; Franchise; Appellate; Bet-the-Company Litigation; Employee Benefits; Antitrust Law; Environmental; Government Relations; Insurance Law; Corporate Governance and Compliance Law; Personal Injury Litigation; Product Liability Litigation; Trusts and Estates; and Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law.
Additionally, in Georgia, the firm garnered #1 rankings for the total number of attorneys listed in Advertising Law, Alternative Dispute Resolution, and Intellectual Property. In North Carolina, the firm achieved a #1 ranking in Environmental 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
Trusts and Estates
Miles J. Alexander (20)
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Antitrust Law
Corporate Law
Intellectual Property Law
Rupert M. Barkoff (10)
Franchise Law
Joseph M. Beck (10)
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Entertainment Law
Intellectual Property Law
Thomas J. Biafore (*)
Structured Finance Law
W. Stanley Blackburn
Corporate Law
Mergers & Acquisitions Law
William H. Boice
Commercial Litigation
Intellectual Property Law
Labor and Employment Law
Richard R. Boisseau (10)
Labor and Employment Law
R. Alexander Bransford, Jr.
Tax Law
William H. Brewster (10)
Intellectual Property Law
Christopher P. Bussert
Intellectual Property Law
Susan A. Cahoon (10)
Commercial Litigation
Intellectual Property Law
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
James H. Coil III
Labor and Employment Law
Brian G. Corgan
Construction Law
Kimbrough A. Davis (*)
Trusts and Estates
Theodore H. Davis, Jr. (*)
Intellectual Property Law
Scott M. Dayan
Tax Law
William E. Dorris
Construction Law
James L. Ewing IV (10)
Intellectual Property Law
Candace L. Fowler
Real Estate Law
Peter B. Glass (*)
Real Estate Law
Jamie L. Greene (10)
Biotechnology Law
Intellectual Property Law
Randall F. Hafer
Construction Law
Richard A. Horder
Environmental Law
Hilary P. Jordan
Banking Law
Corporate Law
Structured Finance Law
M. Andrew Kauss
Real Estate Law
Larry D. Ledbetter
Corporate Governance and Compliance Law
Corporate Law
Securities 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
Matthew H. Patton
Commercial Litigation
John S. Pratt (10)
Intellectual Property Law
Diane L. Prucino
Labor and Employment Law
Susan H. Richardson
Environmental Law
Dean W. Russell (10)
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
Mitchell G. Stockwell (*)
Intellectual Property Law
Phillip H. Street
Health Care Law
Jerre B. Swann (10)
Advertising Law
Intellectual Property Law
Neal J. Sweeney
Construction Law
G. Kimbrough Taylor, Jr. (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
Product Liability Litigation
Wyck A. Knox, Jr. (10)
Commercial Litigation
Health Care Law
Charlotte
Robert T. Duffy (*)
Tax Law
E. Lynwood Mallard (10)
Corporate Law
Mergers & Acquisitions Law
Real Estate 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
Gregg E. McDougal (*)
Commercial Litigation
Hayden J. Silver III
Commercial Litigation
Craig B. Wheaton (10)
Employee Benefits Law
Washington
Elliott H. Levitas
Government Relations Law
Mark I. Levy
Appellate Law
Mark D. Wincek
Employee Benefits Law
Winston-Salem
Stephen R. Berlin
Environmental Law
Susan H. Boyles
Insurance Law
Charles W. Calkins
Intellectual Property Law
Adam H. Charnes (*)
Commercial Litigation
C. Penn Craver, Jr.
Trusts and Estates
Louis W. Doherty
Labor and Employment Law
W. Randy Eaddy (10)
Corporate Governance and Compliance Law
Corporate Law
Securities Law
Robert Leon Edwards
Trusts and Estates
Steven Gardner
Intellectual Property Law
Dudley Humphrey
Construction Law
Corporate Law
James H. Kelly, Jr. (10)
Commercial Litigation
Insurance Law
Personal Injury Litigation
Richard J. Keshian
Commercial Litigation
Product Liability Litigation
George L. Little, Jr. (10)
Antitrust Law
Commercial Litigation
Intellectual Property Law
David C. Smith
Commercial Litigation
Daniel R. Taylor, Jr.
Commercial Litigation
(*) Lawyers who are listed for the first time in Best Lawyers.
(10) Lawyers who have been listed in Best Lawyers for at least 10 years.
(20) Lawyers who have been listed in Best Lawyers for at least 20 years.
About The Best Lawyers in America® 2008
The 2008 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 500 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 information, please go to www.kilpatrickstockton.com
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