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33 Turner Padget Attorneys Named Among Best Lawyers® Award Recipients
Posted On August 17, 2023
Turner Padget Graham & Laney P.A. announces that 33 of its attorneys have been included among Best Lawyers in America for 2024. 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 2024 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 2024 are:
Charleston
- David S. Cobb – Construction Law, Insurance Law, Litigation – Construction and Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants
- Richard S. Dukes – Commercial Litigation
- John S. Wilkerson III – Professional Malpractice Law - Defendants
- 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
- Mark B. Goddard – Litigation - Trusts and Estates and Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants
- J. David Johnson IV – Tax Law and Trusts and Estates
- Catherine H. Kennedy – Litigation - Trusts 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
- Thomas C. Salane –Appellate Practice, Insurance Law, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants and Product Liability Litigation - Defendants
- Carmelo B. Sammataro – Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants
- Franklin G. Shuler, Jr. – Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law, Employment Law – Management, Litigation – ERISA, Litigation - Labor and Employment and Mediation
- Kelli Sullivan – Professional Malpractice Law - Defendants
- Patricia Wharton – Real Estate Law
- C. Pierce Campbell –Commercial Litigation
- 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
- David L. Moore, Jr. – Appellate Practice, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants and Product Liability Litigation - Defendants
- Chris Scalzo – Criminal Defense: General Practice
- Audra Byrd – Commercial Litigation
- William E. Lawson – Litigation - Construction
Charleston
- Robert E. Kneece III – Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants
- Kristen N. Nichols – Banking and Finance Law, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law and Commercial Litigation
- Nickisha M. Woodward –Product Liability Litigation – Defendants
- Ryan T. Judd – Real Estate Law
- W. Taylor Stanley – Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Construction and Litigation - Real Estate
- Hannah D. Stetson – Litigation - Labor and Employment
The Turner Padget attorneys receiving the Best Lawyers in America “Lawyer of the Year” award for 2024 are:
Columbia
- Franklin G. Shuler, Jr. – Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
- Mark B. Goddard – Litigation - Trusts and Estates
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."
