Robinson Bradshaw & Hinson, P.A. one of the state’s leading corporate and commercial law firms, has announced that 60 lawyers have been named Best Lawyers in America® for 2011.
The firm had the most attorneys listed among Charlotte firms and was the top-listed firm in North Carolina in Banking Law (seven attorneys), Bet-the-Company Litigation (10), Corporate Governance and Compliance Law (six), and Public Finance Law (five). The firm also was top-listed in the state for Entertainment Law, International Trade & Finance Law, Natural Resources Law and Sports Law.
Best Lawyers compiles an annual listing of outstanding lawyers through confidential peer-review surveys. The current 17th edition is based on more than 3.1 million professional peer reviews.
The 60 Robinson Bradshaw attorneys listed in the 2011 edition are:
Alice Pinckney Adams Public Finance Law
Benjamin W. Baldwin Banking Law; Corporate Law
Louis A. Bledsoe III Bet-the-Company Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Labor and Employment Law
Carl R. Boehm Employee Benefits Law
Everett J. Bowman Antitrust Law; Bet-the-Company Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Health Care Law
Martin L. Brackett, Jr. Bet-the-Company Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Criminal Defense: White-Collar; Personal Injury Litigation
Robert M. Bryan Intellectual Property Law
Patrick S. Bryant Corporate Governance and Compliance Law; Corporate Law; Securities Law
Peter C. Buck Banking Law; Corporate Governance and Compliance Law; Corporate Law; International Trade and Finance Law; Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law; Mergers & Acquisitions Law; Securities Law
Stokely G. Caldwell, Jr. Banking Law; Entertainment Law; Sports Law
Garland S. Cassada Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law
Matthew S. Churchill Corporate Governance and Compliance Law
Stephen M. Cox (Rock Hill, SC) Labor and Employment Law
R. Steven DeGeorge (Charlotte) Environmental Law
John M. Fogg (Chapel Hill) Securities Law; Venture Capital Law
Robert W. Fuller Bet-the-Company Litigation; Commercial Litigation
John B. Garver III Public Finance Law
Richard W. Gibson, Jr. Employee Benefits Law
Karen A. Gledhill Health Care Law
Robert G. Griffin Corporate Law; Mergers & Acquisitions Law
Julie Zydron Griggs Trusts and Estates
Robert E. Harrington Commercial Litigation
Jeffrey C. Hart (Chapel Hill) Venture Capital Law
Edward F. Hennessey IV Bet-the-Company Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Construction Law
John M. Herring Corporate Law; Private Funds Law
Thomas P. Holderness Bet-the-Company Litigation; Commercial Litigation
Graham D. Holding, Jr. Trusts and Estates
Douglas Jarrell Commercial Litigation ; Labor and Employment Law
Benjamin A. Johnson (Rock Hill, SC) Commercial Litigation
Carl E. Johnson, Jr. Employee Benefits Law
Charles E. Johnson Commercial Litigation; Labor and Employment Law
Stuart H. Johnson Mergers & Acquisitions Law
Haynes P. Lea Banking Law; Corporate Law; Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law; Venture Capital Law
Christopher W. Loeb Real Estate Law
Edwin F. Lucas Public Finance Law
Stephen M. Lynch Corporate Governance and Compliance Law; Corporate Law; Mergers & Acquisitions Law; Securities Law
Richard L. Mack Banking Law
Kent J. McCready Corporate Law; Mergers & Acquisitions Law
A. Ward McKeithen Alternative Dispute Resolution; Appellate Law; Bet-the-Company Litigation; Commercial Litigation
Mark W. Merritt Antitrust Law; Bet-the-Company Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law
John R. Miller Corporate Law; Mergers & Acquisitions Law
Lawrence C. Moore III Antitrust Law
Henry H. Ralston Banking Law; Corporate Governance and Compliance Law; Corporate Law; Mergers & Acquisitions Law
Jane S. Ratteree Real Estate Law
Christy Eve Reid Trusts and Estates
Allen K. Robertson Public Finance Law
Russell M. Robinson II Corporate Governance and Compliance Law; Corporate Law; International Trade and Finance Law; Mergers & Acquisitions Law
S. Graham Robinson Banking Law
D. Blaine Sanders Sports Law
David M. Schilli Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law
Caroline Wannamaker Sink Public Finance Law; Real Estate Law
Robert C. Sink Construction Law; Real Estate Law
Herman Spence III Tax Law
Richard S. Starling Venture Capital Law
William W. Toole Environmental Law; Natural Resources Law
Brent A. Torstrick Real Estate Law
Richard A. Vinroot Commercial Litigation
John R. Wester Appellate Law; Bet-the-Company Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Labor and Employment Law
David C. Wright III Bet-the-Company Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Labor and Employment Law; Product Liability Litigation
Julian H. Wright, Jr. Labor and Employment Law
In addition to the individual attorneys listed, Robinson Bradshaw ranked No. 1 in Charlotte in each of the following categories:
- Alternative Dispute Resolution, one attorney
- Antitrust Law, three attorneys
- Appellate Law, two attorneys
- Banking Law, seven attorneys
- Bet-the-Company Litigation, 10 attorneys
- Commercial Litigation, 14 attorneys
- Corporate Governance and Compliance Law, six attorneys
- Corporate Law, 11 attorneys
- Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law, one attorney
- Entertainment Law, one attorney
- Health Care Law, two attorneys
- International Trade and Finance Law, two attorneys
- Labor and Employment Law, six attorneys
- Mergers & Acquisitions Law, eight attorneys
- Natural Resources Law, one attorney
- Private Funds Law, one attorney
- Public Finance Law, five attorneys
- Securities Law, three attorneys
- Sports Law, two attorneys
- Trusts and Estates, three attorneys