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37 McGlinchey Stafford Attorneys Selected for Inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2015—Six Lawyers Named Lawyer of the Year
Read Time: 2 minsMcGlinchey Stafford announced today that 37 of the firm’s attorneys have been selected by their peers for inclusion in the 2015 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® and six of these attorneys were selected for the publication’s “Lawyer of the Year” list.
The attorneys singled out as 2015 “Lawyer of the Year” were:
- Katherine Conklin, Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
- R. Andrew “Drew” Patty II, Trademark Law
- Anthony Rollo, Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants;
- Michael H. Rubin, Bet-the-Company Litigation
The complete list of McGlinchey Stafford attorneys listed in the 2016 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® include:
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, Lawyer of the Year—Trademark Law
- Anthony Rollo * – Litigation – Banking and Finance, Lawyer of the Year—Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants
- Michael H. Rubin * – Appellate Practice, Lawyer of the Year—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, Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants
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 * – Lawyer of the Year—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
* = 2015 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.”