| Fifty-Seven Bradley Arant Attorneys Selected for 2005-2006 Edition |
National coaches polls and Bowl Championship Series computers may have snubbed Auburn's outstanding football team this season, but there's no denying another team from Alabama in a prestigious national ranking. The Birmingham-based law firm of Bradley Arant Rose & White LLP ranks first in the nation in the percentage of its attorneys selected by other attorneys across the land for inclusion in "The Best Lawyers in America(R), 2005-2006 edition."
Of Bradley Arant's 207 attorneys (at the time of the ranking), 27.5 percent - or more than one out of every four - were chosen for what Corporate Counsel magazine has called "the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice." That's the highest percentage of any firm on the National Law Journal's(a) current list of America's 250 largest law firms. The 57 Bradley Arant lawyers named to the list include 48 attorneys from the firm's Birmingham office, three from its Huntsville office, two from its Montgomery office, and four from its Jackson, Mississippi office.
Published every two years by Woodward/White, Inc. of Aiken, South Carolina, "The Best Lawyers in America" is now in its eleventh edition and the competition for inclusion has never been so intense. For the current edition, officially published this week, 16,000 attorneys across the nation cast more than half a million votes - a new record - in an exhaustive peer-review survey. Their task was to judge the legal abilities of other lawyers in their own specialties, in order to select those for this singular honor.
"Bradley Arant is extremely honored by this recognition," said Beau Grenier, Chairman of Bradley Arant's Executive Committee, and one of the attorneys named to the 'Best Lawyers' list. "It's very gratifying to see 57 Bradley Arant attorneys - or nearly half the partners in our firm - singled out by their peers in this way. We are especially grateful to our clients for the opportunities and challenges of doing work on their behalf. Bradley Arant remains dedicated to consistently raising the level of service to our clients and building on the professional achievements of our lawyers. This recognition by "The Best Lawyers in America" affirms our commitment to continually raising the bar - not just in Alabama and the Southeast, but nationally as well."
The 57 Bradley Arant lawyers listed in the 2005-2006 edition of "The Best Lawyers In America" include:
Birmingham:
James Patrick Alexander
Labor and Employment Law
Charles A. J. Beavers, Jr.
Real Estate Law
Thomas Neely Carruthers
Corporate, M&A, and Securities Law
Tax Law
James S. "Chris" Christie, Jr.
Employee Benefits Law
Brittin T. Coleman
Personal Injury Litigation
John James Coleman, Jr.
Labor and Employment Law
J. Paul Compton, Jr.
Financial Institutions and Transactions Law
Deane K. Corliss
Health Care Law
Patrick Darby
Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law
L. Susan Doss
Corporate, M&A, and Securities Law
Financial Institutions and Transactions Law
J. David Dresher
Financial Institutions and Transactions Law
Bruce P. Ely
Tax Law
Denson Nauls Franklin, III
Corporate, M&A, and Securities Law
Stuart J. Frentz
Tax Law
Linda A. Friedman
Intellectual Property Law
A. H. Gaede
International Trade and Finance Law
Construction Law
James W. Gewin
Business Litigation
Personal Injury Litigation
Andrew Robert Greene
Environmental Law
P. Nicholas Greenwood
Public Finance Law
John B. Grenier, Jr.
Corporate, M&A, and Securities Law
John E. Hagefstration
Real Estate Law
John G. Harrell
Public Finance Law
Kevin J. Henderson
Employee Benefits Law
K. Wood Herren
Tax Law
William Lyle Hinds, Jr.
Corporate, M&A, and Securities Law
Tax Law
Trusts and Estates
Thad G. Long
Business Litigation
Antitrust Law
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Intellectual Property Law
James Walker May
Labor and Employment Law
Joseph B. Mays, Jr.
Business Litigation
Hobart A. McWhorter, Jr.
Business Litigation
Personal Injury Litigation
John K. Molen
Corporate, M&A, and Securities Law
Stephen R. Monk
Real Estate Law
John H. Morrow
Business Litigation
First Amendment Law
Personal Injury Litigation
Virginia C. Patterson
Corporate, M&A, and Securities Law
Michael R. Pennington
Business Litigation
E. Mabry Rogers
Construction Law
James E. Rotch
Corporate, M&A, and Securities Law
Walter J. Sears, III
Construction Law
Jack W. Selden
Health Care Law
Jay D. St. Clair
Worker's Compensation Law
Labor and Employment Law
Bobby C. Underwood
Real Estate Law
Laurence D. Vinson, Jr.
Financial Institutions and Transactions Law
Robert C. Walthall
Corporate, M&A, and Securities Law
Tax Law
Paul Ware
Corporate, M&A, and Securities Law
Meade Whitaker
Real Estate Law
John P. Whittington
Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law
Kenneth T. Wyatt
Financial Institutions and Transactions Law
Ralph H. Yeilding
Trusts and Estates
Alan K. Zeigler
Public Finance Law
Huntsville:
E. Cutter Hughes
First Amendment Law
Scott E. Ludwig
Corporate, M&A, and Securities Law
Tax Law
Trusts and Estates
Charles R. Smith, Jr.
Real Estate Law
Montgomery:
W. Stanley Gregory
Tax Law
Robert D. Thorington
Corporate, M&A, and Securities Law
Jackson:
Roy D. Campbell, III
Personal Injury Litigation
David W. Clark
Business Litigation
W. Wayne Drinkwater, Jr.
Business Litigation
Stephen L. Thomas
Personal Injury Litigation
About the firm:
Bradley Arant Rose & White LLP has traditionally been the largest law firm in Alabama with more than 200 lawyers and offices in Birmingham, Montgomery, Huntsville, Jackson, Mississippi, Charlotte, North Carolina and Washington, D.C.
The firm maintains a diversified civil practice including banking, bankruptcy and creditor rights, construction, employment benefits, energy, environmental law, estate planning, general corporate, governmental affairs, health care, intellectual property and antitrust, international trade, labor and employment, litigation, mergers and acquisitions, municipal finance, partnership and business entity law, real estate, securities, tax, telecommunications, trade regulation and white collar criminal defense. The firm represents a variety of local, regional, national and international organizations.
For more information on Bradley Arant Rose & White LLP, please visit our website at www.bradleyarant.com.
(a) Reprinted with permission from the November 15, 2004 edition of The National Law Journal (c) 2004 ALM Properties, Inc. All rights reserved. Further duplication without permission is prohibited.
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