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Four Local Attorneys Named Among Best Lawyers in America 2008
September 20, 2007 - Charleston, WV



Thirty attorneys with the law firm of Bowles Rice McDavid Graff & Love LLP have been selected by their peers for inclusion in the 2008 edition of The Best Lawyers in America, published by Woodward & White.  Four of the attorneys practice in the firm’s Martinsburg office, which received a prestigious #1 ranking.  Bowles Rice also received a statewide #1 ranking for 11 of the firm's practice areas, including Tax Law, Administrative Law, Education Law and Trusts and Estates.

Published biennially since 1983, Best Lawyers is a highly regarded referral guide to the legal profession in the United States.  Top lawyers in the United States confidentially evaluate their professional peers in Washington, D.C. and all fifty states.

The Bowles Rice attorneys in the firm’s Martinsburg office who were recognized as Best Lawyers (with law practice specialties indicated) are:

Michael E. Caryl - Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Tax Law and Trusts and Estates Law
David A. DeJarnett - Trusts and Estates Law
Michael B. Keller - Corporate Law
Charles F. Printz, Jr. - Commercial Litigation

The other Bowles Rice lawyers selected as Best Lawyers are: 
 
Carl D. Andrews - Real Estate Law
Gregory Bailey - Education Law
Ricklin Brown - Labor and Employment Law
Julia A. Chincheck - Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law
Robert W. Dinsmore - Natural Resources Law
Richard M. Francis - Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law
F. Thomas Graff, Jr. - Administrative Law, Corporate Law, Energy Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law, Natural Resources Law, Oil & Gas Law
Thomas A. Heywood - Corporate Law and Health Care Law
Paul L. Hicks - Elder Law
Robert S. Kiss - Tax Law and Trusts and Estates Law
Leonard B. Knee - Environmental Law
J. Thomas Lane - Energy Law, Natural Resources Law, Oil & Gas Law and Real Estate Law
Charles M. Love, III - Commercial Litigation
Edward D. McDevitt - International Arbitration and Securities Law
Marc A. Monteleone - Construction Law, Corporate Law and Tax Law
Sandra M. Murphy - Banking Law
George A. Patterson - Oil & Gas Law
Phyllis M. Potterfield - Workers’ Compensation Law
Lesley A. Russo - Non-Profit/Charites Law
Howard E. Seufer, Jr. - Education Law
Camden P. Siegrist - Corporate Law
Sarah E. Smith - Workers' Compensation Law
Gerard R. Stowers - Commercial Litigation, Legal Malpractice Law and Personal Injury Litigation
Anthony P. Tokarz - Intellectual Property Law
Elizabeth D. Walker - Labor and Employment Law
Tracy L. Webb - Workers’ Compensation Law

Five of the firm’s attorneys, F. Thomas Graff, Thomas A. Heywood, J. Thomas Lane, Charles M. Love III and Phyllis M. Potterfield have been recognized in Best Lawyers for more than 10 years.

Bowles Rice is a regional law firm with 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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