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Best Lawyers Names 10 at Bowles Rice “Lawyers of the Year”
October 05, 2011 - Charleston, WV


Ten Bowles Rice attorneys have been named Best Lawyers’ 2012 Lawyers of the Year. They have been recognized by their peers in the southern and northern regions of West Virginia as well as in Lexington, Kentucky.

Bowles Rice partners recognized as Lawyers of the Year in the firm’s Charleston, West Virginia office are:

F. Thomas Graff, Jr.: Best Lawyers’ 2012 Administrative / Regulatory Law Lawyer of the Year.

Thomas A. Heywood: Best Lawyers’ 2012 Health Care Law Lawyer of the Year.

J. Thomas Lane: Best Lawyers’ 2012 Mining Law Lawyer of the Year.

Sandra M. Murphy: Best Lawyers’ 2012 Corporate Law Lawyer of the Year.

George A. Patterson III: Best Lawyers’ 2012 Oil & Gas Law Lawyer of the Year.

Melody A. Simpson: Best Lawyers’ 2012 Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law Lawyer of the Year.

Gerard R. Stowers: Best Lawyers’ 2012 Litigation - Construction Lawyer of the Year.

In the firm’s Parkersburg, West Virginia office:

Richard A. Hudson: Best Lawyers’ 2012 Trusts and Estates Lawyer of the Year.

In the firm’s Martinsburg, West Virginia office:

Floyd McKinley “Kin” Sayre: Best Lawyers’ 2012 Litigation & Controversy - Tax Lawyer of the Year.

In the firm’s Lexington, Kentucky office:

Richard M. Wehrle: Best Lawyers’ 2012 Trusts and Estates Lawyer of the Year.

For 2012, in each of several high-profile areas of the law, Best Lawyers has designated only a single lawyer as the “Lawyer of the Year” in their community.

According to Steven Naifeh, Managing Editor of Best Lawyers, those named as “Lawyers of the Year” received particularly high ratings in Best Lawyers’ surveys, reflecting a high level of respect among their peers for their abilities, professionalism and integrity.

Bowles Rice is a full-service, regional corporate defense law firm with 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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