Twenty-Six Turner Padget Shareholders Named as Best Lawyers in America 2010

Aug 05, 2009

26 Turner Padget Shareholders Named As Best Lawyers in America for 2010 Turner Padget named as top law firm in South Carolina for Alternative Dispute Resolution and Municipal Law, and as the top firm in Florence

Turner Padget Graham & Laney, P.A. is pleased to announce that 26 of its shareholders have been listed in the 2010 edition of Best Lawyers in America. In addition, the firm is ranked as the top law firm in South Carolina in the areas of Alternative Dispute Resolution and Municipal Law, is highly ranked in 14 other practice areas, and is recognized as the top law firm in Florence. The 2010 edition of Best Lawyers in America will be available in December 2009.

Listed attorneys from the firm’s Charleston office are:

John K. Blincow, Medical Malpractice Law

Elaine H. Fowler, Real Estate Law

John S. Wilkerson III, Professional Malpractice Law

The firm is also ranked number one in Charleston in the categories of Medical Malpractice Law and Professional Malpractice Law.

Listed attorneys from the firm’s Columbia office are:

Michael E. Chase, Workers’ Compensation Law

Danny C. Crowe, Alternative Dispute Resolution and Municipal Law

John E. Cuttino, Construction Law and Product Liability Litigation

Cynthia C. Dooley, Workers’ Compensation Law

Charles E. Hill, Medical Malpractice Law

Catherine H. Kennedy, Trusts & Estates

Lanneau W. (“Lanny”) Lambert, Jr., Banking Law and Real Estate Law

Edward W. Laney IV, Personal Injury Litigation

• Curtis L. Ott,  Commercial Litigation and Product Liability Litigation

Steven W. Ouzts, Mass Tort Litigation and Product Liability Litigation

Thomas C. Salane, Insurance Law

Franklin G. Shuler, Jr., Alternative Dispute Resolution and Labor & Employment Law

W. Duvall Spruill, Commercial Litigation

The firm is also ranked number one in Columbia in the categories of Alternative Dispute Resolution, Insurance Law, Medical Malpractice Law and Municipal Law.

Listed from the firm’s Florence office are:

Richard L. Hinson, Alternative Dispute Resolution

J. Rene Josey, Appellate Law, Criminal Defense: Non-White-Collar and

   Criminal Defense: White Collar

Michael G. Roberts, Tax Law and Trusts & Estates

J. Munford Scott, Jr., Tax Law

John M. Scott III, Tax Law

In addition to being ranked as the top law firm in Florence, Turner Padget’s Florence office is ranked number one in the categories of Alternative Dispute Resolution, Appellate Law, Criminal Defense: Non-White-Collar, Criminal Defense: White Collar, Tax Law and Trusts & Estates.

Listed from the firm’s Greenville office are:

Vernon F. Dunbar, Workers’ Compensation Law

Eric K. Englebardt, Alternative Dispute Resolution

William E. Shaughnessy, Workers’ Compensation Law

Timothy D. St. Clair, Intellectual Property Law

Listed from the firm’s Myrtle Beach office is:

R. Wayne Byrd, Commercial Litigation

The firm is ranked number one in Myrtle Beach for Commercial Litigation.

First published in 1983, Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive annual peer-review survey. For the new U.S. edition, more than 24,000 leading attorneys cast more than 2.8 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in the same and related specialties. Because of the rigorous and transparent methodology used by Best Lawyers, and because lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.”