33 Turner Padget Attorneys Named Among Best Lawyers In America

Posted On August 20, 2020

Turner Padget Graham & Laney P.A. announces that 24 of its attorneys have been included among Best Lawyers in America for 2021, 9 attorneys are included among the “Ones to Watch” and 3 have also received the “Lawyer of the Year” award. As one of the oldest and most distinguished legal directories, Best Lawyers conducts peer-review surveys to compile its annual list of top attorneys across several practice areas. The 2021 edition of the publication is available today at www.bestlawyers.com.

The Turner Padget attorneys named among Best Lawyers in America and their respective practice areas for 2021 are:

Charleston
David S. Cobb – Construction Law; Insurance Law; Litigation: Construction; and Personal Injury Litigation: Defendants
Richard S. Dukes – Commercial Litigation
John S. Wilkerson – Professional Malpractice Law: Defendants

Columbia
R. Hawthorne Barrett – Insurance Law
Reginald W. Belcher – Employment Law: Management; Labor Law: Management; and Litigation: Labor and Employment
J. Kenneth Carter, Jr. – Product Liability Litigation: Defendants
Michael E. Chase – Workers’ Compensation Law: Employers
Cynthia C. Dooley – Workers’ Compensation Law: Employers
Mark B. Goddard – Personal Injury Litigation: Defendants
J. David Johnson, IV – Tax Law
Catherine H. Kennedy – Litigation: Trust and Estates; and Trusts and Estates
Lanneau Wm. Lambert, Jr. – Banking and Finance Law; Corporate Law; Mergers and Acquisitions Law; and Real Estate Law
Edward W. Laney, IV – Personal Injury Litigation: Defendants
Ian D. McVey – Mortgage Banking Foreclosure Law
Charles F. Moore – Litigation: Insurance and Personal Injury Litigation: Defendants
Thomas C. Salane – Appellate Practice; Insurance Law; Personal Injury Litigation: Defendants; and Product Liability Litigation: Defendants
Carmelo B. Sammataro – Personal Injury Litigation: Defendants
Frank G. Shuler, Jr. – Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law; Employment Law: Management; Litigation: ERISA; Litigation: Labor and Employment; and Mediation
W. Duvall Spruill – Commercial Litigation; Litigation: Banking and Finance; Litigation: Construction; and Litigation: Real Estate

Florence
J. René Josey – Appellate Practice; Criminal Defense: General Practice; and Criminal Defense: White Collar
Arthur E. Justice, Jr. – Employment Law: Management; and Litigation: Labor and Employment

Greenville
David L. Moore – Appellate Practice; Personal Injury Litigation: Defendants; and Product Liability Litigation: Defendants

Myrtle Beach
R. Wayne Byrd – Commercial Litigation; Litigation: Banking and Finance; Litigation: Mergers and Acquisitions; and Litigation: Trusts and Estates
William E. Lawson – Litigation: Construction

The Turner Padget attorneys named among Best Lawyers in America: “Ones to Watch” and their respective practice areas for 2021 are:

Charleston
Sarah L. Fragale – Litigation: Construction
Robert E. Kneece, III – Personal Injury Litigation: Defendants
Kristen N. Nichols – Commercial Litigation
Benjamin J. Tripp – Insurance Law
Nickisha M. Woodward – Product Liability Litigation: Defendants

Columbia
Cheslyne Shea Brighthop – Professional Malpractice Law
Samuel V. Priddy, IV – Personal Injury Litigation: Defendants

Florence
Emily A. Jordan – Commercial Litigation

Greenville
Frank S. Stern – Insurance Law

The Turner Padget attorneys receiving the Best Lawyers in America “Lawyer of the Year” award for 2021 are:

Columbia
Catherine H. Kennedy – Litigation: Trusts and Estates

Charleston
David S. Cobb – Insurance Law
John S. Wilkerson – Professional Malpractice Law: Defendants

Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers in America has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Because its research is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which more than 36,000 leading attorneys cast almost 4.4 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas, and because lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed, inclusion in the guide is considered a singular honor. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers in America “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.”