News Release

36 McGlinchey Stafford Attorneys Listed as The Best Lawyers in America 2014

August 20, 2013

McGlinchey Stafford announced today that 36 of the firm’s attorneys have been selected by their peers for inclusion in the 2014 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® and four of these attorneys were selected for the publication’s “Lawyers of the Year.”

Singled out as 2014 “Lawyers of the Year” were Samuel A. Bacot (Real Estate Law) and Michael H. Rubin (Litigation – Banking and Finance).

The complete list of The Best Lawyers in America® from McGlinchey Stafford is below.

Albany, NY

• Marc J. Lifset Financial Services Regulation Law, Litigation – Banking and Finance

Baton Rouge, LA

• Rudy J. Aguilar, Jr. Commercial Litigation, Corporate Law, Litigation – Mergers and Acquisitions 
• Samuel A. Bacot* Litigation – Real Estate, Real Estate Law 
• Richard A. Curry Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Environmental 
• Michael D. Ferachi Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Banking and Finance 
• R. Marshall Grodner Equipment Finance Law 
• Mary Terrell Joseph Banking and Finance Law
• Christine Lipsey Commercial Litigation 
• Jay M. O’Brien Appellate Practice 
• R. Andrew Patty II Copyright Law, Patent Law, Trademark Law
• Anthony Rollo Litigation – Banking and Finance, Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants 
• Michael H. Rubin* Appellate Practice, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Banking and Finance 

Cleveland, OH 

• Mark S. Edelman Financial Services Regulation Law 

Jackson, MS 

• H. Hunter Twiford III Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Banking and Finance, Litigation – Municipal

New Orleans, LA 

• Stephen P. Beiser Employment Law – Management, Labor Law – Management 
• Mark N. Bodin Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants 
• Rudy J. Cerone Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law 
• Katherine Conklin Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
• Bennet S. Koren Banking and Finance Law, Litigation – Banking and Finance 
• Kathleen A. Manning Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants 
• Colvin “Woody” Norwood, Jr. Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants , Product Liability Litigation – Defendants 

* = 2014 Lawyer of the Year

Best Lawyers in America® compiles its lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. The current edition of The Best Lawyers in America is based on more than 3.9 million detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.”