Chambers USA Recognizes Bowles Rice as "Top Ranked": 2016
The newly released 2016 edition of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business recognizes Bowles Rice as “Top Ranked” in each of the five areas of law evaluated by the publication’s researchers in West Virginia: corporate/commercial law; labor and employment law; commercial litigation; natural resources law; and real estate law.
Chambers editors also named 23 Bowles Rice lawyers as "Leaders in their Field” in West Virginia. They are:
Carl D. Andrews - Real Estate Law
Michael E. Caryl - Corporate Commercial: Tax
Julia A. Chincheck - Corporate/Commercial: Banking and Finance
Kimberly S. Croyle - Natural Resources Law
Mark H. Dellinger - Labor & Employment Law
Charles B. Dollison - Natural Resources Law
F. Thomas Graff Jr. - Natural Resources Law and Corporate/Commercial Law
Justin M. Harrison - Labor & Employment Law
Ronda L. Harvey - Litigation: General Commercial
Thomas A. Heywood - Corporate/Commercial and Corporate/Commercial: Healthcare
Leonard Knee - Natural Resources Law: Environment
J. Thomas Lane - Natural Resources Law
Charles M. Love III - Litigation: General Commercial and Litigation: Mass Tort
Stephen M. Mathias - Real Estate Law
Ellen Maxwell-Hoffman - Corporate/Commercial
Stuart A. McMillan - Litigation: General Commercial
Sandra M. Murphy - Corporate/Commercial: Banking & Finance
George A. Patterson III - Natural Resources Law
Brian M. Peterson - Labor & Employment Law
Charles F. Printz - Litigation: General Commercial
Camden P. Siegrist - Corporate/Commercial: Banking & Finance
Gerard R. Stowers - Litigation: General Commercial
Amy J. Tawney - Corporate/Commercial and Corporate/Commercial: Banking & Finance
Kimberly Croyle and Leonard Knee practice in the firm’s Morgantown, West Virginia, office. Michael Caryl, Brian Peterson, Charles Printz and Stephen Mathias practice in the firm’s Martinsburg, West Virginia, office. The other recognized attorneys practice in the firm’s Charleston, West Virginia, office.
Recognition by Chambers USA is highly regarded within the legal profession. For 25 years, Chambers Guides have been ranking the best law firms and lawyers in the United States, Europe, Central America and Asia Pacific. Their full-time researchers interview thousands of lawyers and clients to identify those who perform best, according to the criteria most valued by clients.
Bowles Rice is a regional law firm with more than 125 attorneys and seven regional offices located in Charleston, Martinsburg, Morgantown, Moundsville and Parkersburg, West Virginia; Southpointe, Pennsylvania; and Winchester, Virginia.