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Twenty Rushton Stakely Attorneys Named Best Lawyers 2015
Rushton Stakely is pleased to announce that twenty of our attorneys were chosen for the 21st edition of The Best Lawyers in America®. The selected lawyers are: Dennis R. Bailey, Communications Law, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Banking & Finance, Litigation – Intellectual Property, Litigation – Labor & Employment, Litigation – Real Estate, and Product Liability Litigation – Defendants; Jeffrey W. Blitz, Real Estate Law; L. Peyton Chapman, Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants; Ronald G. Davenport, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants; William I. Eskridge, Real Estate Law; James W. Garrett, Jr., Personal Injury – Defendants, and Insurance Law; Richard B. Garrett, Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants and Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants; Alan T. Hargrove, Insurance Law and Litigation – Insurance; William S. Haynes, Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants and Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants; R. Austin Huffaker, Jr., Appellate Practice; J. Theodore Jackson, Jr., Litigation & Controversy – Tax, Tax Law, Trusts & Estates; Paul M. James, Jr., Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants; Thomas H. Keene, Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants and Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants; Daniel L. Lindsey, Tax Law and Trusts & Estates; Patrick M. Shegon, Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants; Christopher S. Simmons, Litigation & Controversy – Tax, Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law, Public Finance Law, Tax Law, and Trusts & Estates; Frank J. Stakely, Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants and Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants; Fred W. Tyson, Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants and Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants; Robert C. Ward, Jr., Mediation and Insurance Law; and Helen Crump Wells, Tax Law and Trusts & Estates.
In addition, Mr. Jackson has been named Best Lawyers’ 2014-2015 Montgomery Litigation and Controversy – Tax “Lawyer of the Year.” Only a single lawyer in each practice area, in each community is being honored as a “Lawyer of the Year.”
For 30 years, Best Lawyers has been regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence in the United States. Inclusion in the Best Lawyers list is based on a rigorous national survey of almost 50,000 leading U. S. attorneys, and Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.” We are proud that twenty of our attorneys were recognized with this distinguished honor.