Forty-one attorneys with the law firm of Bowles Rice McDavid Graff & Love LLP have been selected by their peers for inclusion in the 2010 edition of Best Lawyers, the oldest peer-review publication in the legal profession. Bowles Rice lawyers in the firm’s offices in Charleston, Martinsburg, Morgantown and Parkersburg, West Virginia and Lexington, Kentucky are among those recognized.
Bowles Rice received a #1 national ranking from Best Lawyers in the area of Ethics and Professional Responsibility, as well as a #1 statewide ranking in 18 practice different areas including Corporate Law, Construction Law, Education Law, Tax Law, Real Estate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law, Employee Benefits Law, Non-Profit/Charities Law, Securities Law and Trusts and Estates. The firm’s offices in Martinsburg and Parkersburg, West Virginia each received a #1 ranking, having more recognized lawyers than any other firm in those areas.
First published in 1983, Best Lawyers is a highly regarded referral guide to the legal profession in the United States. For the new U.S. edition, more than 24,000 leading attorneys throughout the U.S. cast more than 2.8 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in the same and related specialties.
Bowles Rice lawyers selected for the 2010 edition of Best Lawyers and the practice specialties for which they were recognized are:
Carl D. Andrews - Real Estate LawFive 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.
Gregory Bailey - Education Law
Robert L. Bays - Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law
Ricklin Brown - Labor and Employment Law
Michael E. Caryl - Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law, Tax Law; Trusts & Estates Law
Julia A. Chincheck - Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law
Mark D'Antoni - Corporate Law; Real Estate Law
David A. DeJarnett – Corporate Law; Trusts & Estates Law
Robert W. Dinsmore - Natural Resources Law; Real Estate Law
Richard M. Francis - Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law; Government Relations Law
Andrew G. Fusco – Antitrust Law; Mergers & Acquisitions Law
F. Thomas Graff, Jr. - Administrative Law; Corporate Law; Energy Law; Mergers & Acquisitions Law; Natural Resources Law; Oil & Gas Law
Steven R. Hardman – Real Estate Law
Thomas A. Heywood - Corporate Law; Health Care Law
Paul L. Hicks - Elder Law
Robert L. Hogan – Mass Tort Litigation
Michael B. Keller - Corporate Law
Robert S. Kiss - Tax Law; Trusts & Estates Law
Leonard B. Knee - Environmental Law; Energy Law
J. Thomas Lane - Energy Law; Mining Law; Natural Resources Law; Oil & Gas Law; Real Estate Law
Charles M. Love III – Bet-the-Company Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Mass Tort Litigation
Stephen M. Mathias – Real Estate Law
Ellen Maxwell-Hoffman - Ethics and Professional Responsibility Law
Edward D. McDevitt - International Arbitration; Public Finance; Securities Law
Stuart A. McMillan – Media Law
Marc A. Monteleone - Construction Law; Corporate Law; Tax Law; Trusts & Estates Law
Sandra M. Murphy - Banking Law; Corporate Governance & Compliance Law; Corporate Law
George A. Patterson III - Oil & Gas Law
P. Michael Pleska - Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law
Phyllis M. Potterfield - Workers' Compensation Law
Charles F. Printz, Jr. - Bet-the-Company Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Labor & Employment Law
Lesley A. Russo - Employee Benefits Law; Non-Profit/Charities Law; Tax Law
Howard E. Seufer, Jr. - Education Law
Camden P. Siegrist - Corporate Law; Public Finance Law
Melody A. Simpson - Employee Benefits Law; Non-Profit/Charities Law
Sally Smith - Workers' Compensation Law
Gerard R. Stowers - Bet-the-Company Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Legal Malpractice Law; Personal Injury Litigation
Elizabeth D. Walker - Labor and Employment Law
Kenneth E. Webb, Jr. – Construction Law
Timothy C. Wills - Construction Law; Labor & Employment Law; Professional Malpractice Law
Bowles Rice is a regional law firm with more than 120 attorneys and offices in Charleston, Martinsburg, Morgantown and Parkersburg, West Virginia; Lexington, Kentucky; and Winchester, Virginia. Contact: Barbara Joseph
Charleston attorneys Gene Bailey, Carl Fletcher and Charles Hughes joined Bowles Rice on January 4, 2010. To read more, click here.
Attorneys Michael Lorensen, Stuart McMillan, Stan Lee and Timothy Wills have been named to the Bowles Rice Executive Committee. To read more, click here.
Tom Lane Named Best Lawyers' 2010 Lawyer of the Year for Real Estate. To read more, click here.
Attorney Sara Lloyd has joined Bowles Rice in the firm's Martinsburg, West Virginia, office. To read more, click here.
Bowles Rice is pleased to announce that attorneys Joshua Jarrell and Emily Lambright have joined the firm. To read more, click here.
Best Lawyers recognizes 41 Bowles Rice attorneys. To read more, click here.
23 Bowles Rice Attorneys Named 2009 Super Lawyers. To read more, click here .
Chambers USA has again recognized Bowles Rice as a "Top Ranked" law firm in each of five practice areas evaluated in West Virginia: Corporate/Commercial, Natural Resources, Labor and Employment, Litigation and Real Estate. To read more, click here .
14 Bowles Rice attorneys recognized by 2009 edition of Chambers USA as "Leaders in their Field." To read more, click here.
