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53 Bowles Rice Lawyers Recognized in Best Lawyers in America
August 31, 2011 - Charleston, WV



A total of 53 lawyers from Bowles Rice were recently selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2012.Bowles Rice lawyers in the firm’s Charleston, Martinsburg, Morgantown and Parkersburg, West Virginia and Lexington, Kentucky offices are among those recognized.

Underscoring the depth of the firm, as many as ten different Bowles Rice lawyers are recognized in each of more than 50 different areas of the law, including Corporate Law, Energy Law, Commercial Litigation, Real Estate Law and Tax Law.

Three Bowles Rice partners, F. Thomas Graff, J. Thomas Lane and Charles M. Love III, have been listed in Best Lawyers for more than 20 consecutive years, each receiving recognition in several different practice areas.

Two Bowles Rice lawyers are recognized for the first time in the 2012 edition: Diana Johnson, a partner in the firm’s Charleston, West Virginia office, for Mass Tort Litigation; and Floyd McKinley “Kin” Sayre, a partner in the firm’s Martinsburg, West Virginia office, for Litigation and Controversy - Tax.

The 53 Bowles Rice lawyers recognized in 2012 Best Lawyers, and the practice areas for which they were recognized by their peers, are:
    J. Mark Adkins - Charleston, WV
    • Commercial Litigation Law
    • Litigation - Banking & Finance
    • Litigation - Construction
      Carl D. Andrews - Charleston, WV
      • Real Estate Law
      Gregory W. Bailey - Morgantown, WV
      • Education Law
      Robert L. Bays - Parkersburg, WV
      • Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law
      Michael E. Caryl - Martinsburg, WV
      • Corporate Law
      • Litigation & Controversy - Tax
      • Mergers & Acquisitions Law
      • Tax Law
      • Trusts and Estates
      Julia A. Chincheck - Charleston, WV
      • Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
      • Litigation - Bankruptcy
      Lynn S. Clarke - Charleston, WV
      • Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
      Mark B. D’Antoni - Charleston, WV
      • Corporate Law
      • Real Estate Law
      David A. DeJarnett - Martinsburg, WV
      • Corporate Law
      • Litigation & Controversy - Tax
      • Litigation - Trusts & Estates
      • Non-Profit/Charities Law
      • Tax Law
      • Trusts and Estates
      Mark H. Dellinger - Charleston, WV
      • Employment Law - Management
      • Litigation - Labor & Employment
      Robert W. Dinsmore - Morgantown, WV
      • Natural Resources Law
      • Real Estate Law
      Richard M. Francis - Charleston, WV
      • Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
      • Government Relations Practice
      Andrew G. Fusco - Morgantown, WV
      • Litigation - Antitrust
      • Commercial Litigation
      • Corporate Governance Law
      • Litigation - Intellectual Property
      • Mergers & Acquisitions Law
      F. Thomas Graff, Jr. - Charleston, WV
      • Administrative / Regulatory Law
      • Corporate Law
      • Energy Law
      • Mergers & Acquisitions Law
      • Natural Resources Law
      • Oil & Gas Law
      Steven R. Hardman - Parkersburg, WV
      • Real Estate Law
      Thomas A. Heywood - Charleston, WV
      • Corporate Law
      • Health Care Law
      Paul L. Hicks - Parkersburg, WV
      • Elder Law
      • Tax Law
      • Litigation - Trusts and Estates
      • Trusts & Estates
      Robert L. Hogan - Charleston, WV
      • Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants
      Richard A. Hudson - Parkersburg, WV
      • Health Care Law
      • Mergers & Acquisitions Law
      • Tax Law
      • Trusts & Estates
      Diana L. Johnson - Charleston, WV
      • Mass Torts Litigation
      Michael B. Keller - Martinsburg, WV
      • Corporate Law
      Robert S. Kiss - Charleston, WV
      • Litigation & Controversy - Tax
      • Litigation - Trusts & Estates
      • Tax Law
      • Trusts and Estates
      Leonard B. Knee - Charleston, WV
      • Energy Law
      • Environmental Law
      • Litigation - Environmental
      J. Thomas Lane - Charleston, WV
      • Energy Law
      • Mining Law
      • Natural Resources Law
      • Oil & Gas Law
      • Real Estate Law
      • Litigation - Real Estate
      Michael D. Lorensen - Martinsburg, WV
      • Commercial Litigation
      • Insurance Law
      • Litigation - First Amendment
      • Litigation - Land Use & Zoning
      Charles M. Love III - Charleston, WV
      • Bet-the-Company Litigation
      • Commercial Litigation
      • Litigation - Environmental
      • Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants
      Stephen M. Mathias - Martinsburg, WV
      • Real Estate Law
      • Litigation - Real Estate
      Ellen Maxwell-Hoffman - Charleston, WV
      • Ethics and Professional Responsibility Law
      Edward D. McDevitt - Charleston, WV
      • International Arbitration - Commercial
      • Public Finance Law
      Stuart A. McMillan - Charleston, WV
      • Commercial Litigation
      • Litigation - First Amendment
      • Media Law
      David Mohler - Charleston, WV
      • Personal Injury Litigation
      Marc A. Monteleone - Charleston, WV
      • Construction Law
      • Corporate Law
      • Tax Law
      • Trusts and Estates Law
      John S. Moore - Charleston, WV
      • Health Care Law
      Sandra M. Murphy - Charleston, WV
      • Banking and Finance Law
      • Corporate Governance Law
      • Corporate Compliance Law
      • Corporate Law
      • Financial Services Regulation Law
      George A. Patterson III - Charleston, WV
      • Oil & Gas Law
      P. Michael Pleska - Charleston, WV
      • Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law
      Phyllis M. Potterfield - Charleston, WV
      • Workers’ Compensation Law - Employers
      Charles F. Printz, Jr. - Martinsburg, WV
      • Bet-the-Company Litigation
      • Commercial Litigation
      • Litigation - Construction
      • Litigation - Labor and Employment
      Marion E. Ray - Charleston, WV
      • Workers’ Compensation Law
      Lesley A. Russo - Charleston, WV
      • Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
      • Non-Profit/Charities Law
      • Tax Law
      Floyd McKinley “Kin” Sayre - Martinsburg, WV
      • Litigation & Controversy - Tax
      Howard E. Seufer, Jr. - Charleston, WV
      • Education Law
      Camden P. Siegrist - Charleston, WV
      • Corporate Law
      • Public Finance Law
      Melody A. Simpson - Charleston, WV
      • Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
      • Non-Profit/Charities Law
      Sarah E. Smith - Charleston, WV
      • Workers’ Compensation Law - Employers
      Gerard R. Stowers - Charleston, WV
      • Bet-the-Company Litigation
      • Commercial Litigation
      • Legal Malpractice Law - Defendants
      • Litigation - Construction
      • Litigation - Real Estate
      • Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants
      Amy J. Tawney - Charleston, WV
      • Corporate Law
      Rebecca M. Tinder - Charleston, WV
      • Education Law
      Elizabeth D. Walker - Morgantown, WV
      • Employment Law - Management
      • Labor Law - Management
      Kenneth E. Webb, Jr. - Charleston, WV
      • Commercial Litigation
      • Litigation - Construction
      Richard Wehrle - Lexington, KY
      • Litigation - Trusts & Estates
      • Trusts and Estates Law
      Timothy C. Wills - Lexington, KY
      • Construction Law
      • Employment Law - Management
      • Labor Law - Management
      • Litigation - Construction
      • Litigation - Labor & Employment
      • Professional Malpractice Law - Defendants
      C. Seth Wilson - Morgantown, WV
      • Energy Law

      The Best Lawyers in America has been published by Woodward/White of Aiken, South Carolina since 1983. During an extensive peer-review survey, more than 39,000 leading attorneys cast almost 3.1 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas. 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.”

      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.

      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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