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21 Bowles Rice Attorneys Named 2009 WV Super Lawyers
July 13, 2009 - Charleston, WV



Twenty-one attorneys with the law firm of Bowles Rice McDavid Graff & Love LLP have been selected for inclusion in the 2009 edition of Virginia Super Lawyers magazine, published by Law & Politics Magazine.  Lawyers from the firm’s offices in Charleston, Martinsburg, Morgantown and Parkersburg were recognized.  Two of the 21 were noted among the Super Lawyers “Rising Stars” in West Virginia.

Only five percent of the lawyers in any state are selected as Super Lawyers, through polling and peer assessment and a research process that evaluates each candidate based on 12 indicators of peer recognition and professional achievement.  

The Bowles Rice lawyers selected for inclusion in West Virginia Super Lawyers 2009 are: Carl D. Andrews, Real Estate Law; Ricklin Brown, Employment and Labor Law; Michael E. Caryl, Tax Law; Julia A. Chincheck, Bankruptcy and Creditor/Debtor Rights Law; David DeJarnett, Estate Planning and Probate; Mark H. Dellinger, Employment and Labor Law; Robert W. Dinsmore, Real Estate Law; Thomas A. Heywood, Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Richard A. Hudson, Business/Corporate Law; Michael B. Keller, Real Estate Law; Leonard B. Knee, Environmental Law; J. Thomas Lane, Energy and Natural Resources Law; Charles M. Love III, Business Litigation; Marc A. Monteleone, Business/Corporate Law; Sandra M. Murphy, Banking Law; George A. Patterson, Business/Corporate Law; Charles F. Printz, Jr, Business Litigation; Gerard R. Stowers, Business Litigation; and Elizabeth D. Walker, Employment and Labor Law.

Hudson practices in the firm’s Parkersburg office and Dinsmore practices in one of  the firm’s two Morgantown offices.  Caryl, DeJarnett, Keller and Printz practice in Martinsburg.  The remaining attorneys are located in the Charleston office.

The two attorneys selected for inclusion in West Virginia Rising Stars 1009 are Corey L. Palumbo, Business Litigation, and Melissa M. Rounds, Energy and Natural Resources.  Both practice in the firm’s Charleston, West Virginia office.

Bowles Rice is a regional law firm with 120 attorneys and offices in Charleston, Martinsburg, Morgantown and Parkersburg, West Virginia; Lexington, Kentucky; and Winchester, Virginia.


Attorney Rick Santos has joined Bowles Rice in the firm’s Canonsburg, Pennsylvania office. Find out more.
Bowles Rice is among the businesses recognized by West Virginia KIDS COUNT as a winner of the Business on Board with Childcare! Achiever Award, for creating a childcare-friendly workplace. Find out more.
Bowles Rice senior partner Tom Graff was among those honored on April 26 as a 2012 West Virginia Bar Foundation Fellow. Find out more.
Bowles Rice partner J. Thomas Lane received the Servant Leader Award for outstanding leadership in the Kanawha Valley community at the Charleston Area Alliance’s 2012 “We Love Our Community Awards.” Find out more.
Thomas A. Heywood, Managing Partner of Bowles Rice, has been elected a Trustee of the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation. Find out more.
Attorneys Mark Dellinger, Robert Kent and Sandra Murphy have been elected to four-year terms on the Bowles Rice Executive Committee. Find out more.
Charles “Chud” Dollison has returned to Bowles Rice as a partner in the firm’s Charleston, West Virginia office. Find out more.
Paul Hicks, a partner in the Bowles Rice office in Parkersburg, West Virginia, has been named a board member of the Parkersburg Area Community Foundation. Find out more.
Bowles Rice is pleased to announce that Floyd Boone has been elected a partner of the firm. Find out more.
The University of Kentucky College of Law has recognized Bowles Rice as a member of its Dean’s Circle, of which the firm has been a member since 1995. Find out more.
David DeJarnett, a Bowles Rice partner in the firm’s Martinsburg office, was recently elected vice chairman of the board of directors of City Hospital Foundation and Jefferson Health Care Foundations.  Find out more.
Bowles Rice has earned the 2011 Business on Board with Childcare! Achiever Award. To read more, click here.
Attorney James V. Kelsh has joined Bowles Rice to practice in the areas of public utilities, regulatory and administrative law and government relations. To read more, click here.
Bowles Rice will open two new offices in 2012, in Canonsburg, PA and Moundsville, WV. To read more, click here.
As president-elect of the West Virginia Society of CPAs, Bowles Rice partner Rick Hudson recently attended the AICPA/CPA-SEA Leadership Conference. To see more, click here.
The Milken Institute’s 2011 Best Performing Cities Index ranks Morgantown, West Virginia third among small metro cities. Charleston, West Virginia and Lexington, Kentucky each placed in the top 50 of Milken’s list of top large metro areas. To read more, click here.
Bowles Rice has made a $500,000 gift to the West Virginia University College of Law to help fund a major renovation project. To read more, click here.
Attorneys Elisabeth Slater and Jeffrey Poulin have joined Bowles Rice. To read more, click here.
Bowles Rice has been nationally ranked in Mining Law and received First Tier rankings in 40 different areas of law in the 2011-2012 edition of Best Law Firms, published by US News & World Report and Best Lawyers. To read more, click here. 
 Bowles Rice partner Robert Kent is the author of the West Virginia section of the 2011 Employment and Labor Law State-by-State Compendium, published by the Defense Research Institute (DRI).
Chambers USA recognizes Bowles Rice as “Top Ranked” in its 2011 edition and names 17 attorneys as “Leaders in Their Field.” To read more, click here.
19 Bowles Rice attorneys have been selected for inclusion on the West Virginia Super Lawyers 2011 list. To read more, click here. 
The Bowles Rice Bricks & Mortar Seminar Series presents “Overcoming Obstacles in Building & Construction Law” on Thursday, November 3, 2011 at the Holiday Inn in Martinsburg, West Virginia. This free seminar is designed for builders, developers, contractors, sub-contractors, architects, engineers, surveyors and lenders. To find out more, click here
The University of Charleston’s 2010/2011 Annual Report includes a profile of Bill McDavid, currently Of Counsel with Bowles Rice. The McDavid Family Foundation has taken a leadership role in renovating Geary Auditorium in UC’s Riggleman Hall. To download a copy of the annual report, click here.
Bowles Rice is pleased to welcome seven new attorneys. They are Whitney Kerns, J. Tyler Mayhew, H. Hampton Rose, Patrick C. Timony, Michael S. Walker, Catherine A. Wilkes and Robert J. Zak. For more information, click here.
Bowles Rice attorneys Timothy C. Wills and Fred E. “Bo” Fugazzi, Jr. have been listed among 2011 Kentucky Super Lawyers. Both are partners in the firm’s Lexington, Kentucky office. To read more, click here.
Ten Bowles Rice attorneys have been named Best Lawyers’ 2012 “Lawyers of the Year.” To read more, click here.
Marc Monteleone elected to IOGA Executive Committee. To read more, click here.
53 Bowles Rice lawyers are recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® . To read more, click here.
“Managing Risks in the Electronic Workplace” is published in the Summer 2011 edition of Mountain State Manufacturing, a publication of the West Virginia Manufacturers Association. To read the article, written by Mark Dellinger, a Bowles Rice partner and head of the Labor & Employment group, click here.

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