The 2009 edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business has again recognized Bowles Rice McDavid Graff & Love LLP as a “Top Ranked” law firm in each of five practice areas measured in West Virginia: Corporate/Commercial, Natural Resources, Labor and Employment, Litigation and Real Estate. 

According to the Chambers USA researchers, “Companies benefit from the strategic business advice this firm offers in addition to its typical legal representation. Commentators consider the lawyers here  ‘simply wonderful to work with,’ and especially appreciate the excellent value for service they provide.”

The publication also named 14 Bowles Rice attorneys among America’s Leading Business Lawyers.   They are:  Carl D. Andrews, Real Estate; Ricklin Brown, Labor & Employment; Michael D. Caryl, Corporate/Commercial - Tax; Mark Dellinger, Labor and Employment; F. Thomas Graff, Jr., Natural Resources and Corporate/Commercial; Thomas A. Heywood, Corporate/Commercial and Litigation - Health Care; Leonard B. Knee, Natural Resources – Environment; J. Thomas Lane, Natural Resources; Charles M. Love, Litigation - General Commercial; Stephen M. Mathias, Real Estate; Marc Monteleone, Corporate/Commercial - Tax; Sandra M. Murphy, Corporate/Commercial - Banking & Finance; Gerard R. Stowers, Litigation - General Commercial; and Elizabeth D. Walker, Labor & Employment.

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.