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'Best Lawyers' Guide Lists 75 Nelson Mullins Attorneys

COLUMBIA, S.C. (September 6, 2011) – Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough attorneys in more than 40 practices areas have been selected for inclusion in the 2012 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® 2012 (Copyright 2011 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, S.C.). 

Lawyers are selected for inclusion based on a peer-review survey. Lawyers are not allowed to pay a fee to be listed. Best Lawyers is based on confidential evaluations by and interviews of the top attorneys in the country.

The Atlanta lawyers listed are:  

  • Taylor T. Daly, Mediation
  • Richard K. Hines V, Personal Injury Litigation, Product Liability Litigation - Defendants
  • Stanley S. Jones, Jr., Government Relations Law, Healthcare Law
  • Richard B. North, Jr., Product Liability Litigation

The Boston lawyers listed are:

  • Juliane Balliro, Civil Rights Law, Criminal Defense: Non-White Collar, and Criminal Defense, White Collar.
  • Jeffrey S. Patterson, Commercial Litigation

The Charleston, S.C., lawyers listed are:

  • Bill Bobo, Real Estate Law
  • Michael T. Cole, Product Liability Litigation
  • Jennifer Davis, Tax Law
  • Richard A. Farrier, Jr., Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation
  • John B. Hagerty, Corporate Law
  • Cynthia B. Hutto, Healthcare Law
  • Elizabeth Scott Moise, Insurance Law
  • Thomas F. Moran, Tax Law
  • G. Mark Phillips, Product Liability Litigation- Defendants
  • Newman Jackson Smith, Environmental Law, Environmental Litigation, Government Relations Law, Water Law
  • John C. von Lehe, Jr., Appellate Law, Tax Law

The Charlotte, N.C., attorneys listed are

  • John Nicholas (Jay) Suhr, Jr., Securitization and Structured Finance
  • Lance A. Lawson, Patent Litigation, Intellectual Property Litigation

The Columbia, S.C., lawyers listed are:

  • Stuart M. Andrews, Jr., Health Care Law
  • George S. Bailey, Tax Law, Trusts and Estates, Trusts and Estates Litigation
  • Edward D. Barnhill, Jr., Real Estate Law, Real Estate Litigation
  • C. Mitchell Brown, Appellate Law, Commercial Litigation
  • George B. Cauthen, Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law, Bankruptcy Litigation
  • Karen Aldridge Crawford, Environmental Law, Environmental Litigation
  • Christopher J. Daniels, Personal Injury Litigation, Product Liability Litigation
  • Clarence Davis, Personal Injury Litigation, Product Liability Litigation
  • Gus M. Dixon, Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law, Securities/Capital Markets Law
  • Dwight F. Drake, Government Relations Law
  • David E. Dukes, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Personal Injury Litigation, Product Liability Litigation, Patent Litigation, Securities Litigation
  • Mark C. Dukes, Intellectual Property Litigation, Technology Law
  • Carl B. Epps III, Personal Injury Litigation
  • Robert W. Foster, Jr., Personal Injury Litigation, Product Liability Litigation
  • Daniel J. Fritze, Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law, Securities/Capital Markets Law, Securities Regulation
  • James C. Gray, Jr., Administrative Law, Insurance Law
  • Sue Erwin Harper, Employment Law – Management, Labor & Employment Litigation
  • Bernard F. Hawkins, Jr., Environmental Law, Environmental Litigation
  • P. Mason Hogue, Jr., Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Litigation, Securities/Capital Markets Law
  • William C. Hubbard, Commercial Litigation, Banking & Finance Litigation
  • S. Keith Hutto, Commercial Litigation, Franchise Law, Banking & Finance Litigation
  • Kenneth Allan Janik, Employee Benefits Law, ERISA Litigation, Tax Law
  • Frank B.B. Knowlton, Product Liability Litigation
  • D. Larry Kristinik III, Commercial Litigation, Securities Litigation
  • John F. Kuppens, Commercial Litigation, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants
  • James K. Lehman, Commercial Litigation, Environmental Litigation, Mergers & Acquisitions Litigation,  
  • Steven A. McKelvey, Jr., Franchise Law
  • John T. Moore, Financial Services Regulation Law
  • Stephen G. Morrison, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Product Liability Litigation
  • Edward W. Mullins, Jr., Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Personal Injury Litigation
  • R. Bruce Shaw, Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions - Defendants, Personal Injury Litigation, Product Liability Litigation
  • B. Rush Smith III, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Banking & Finance Litigation
  • David G. Traylor, Jr., Mass Tort/Class Actions – Defendants, Personal Injury Litigation, Product Liability Litigation
  • Ralston B. Vanzant II, Real Estate Law
  • Daniel J. Westbrook, Health Care Law
  • George B. Wolfe, Government Relations Law

The Greenville, S.C., attorneys listed are: 

  • William H. Foster, Employment Law – Management
  • Neil E. Grayson, Mergers and Acquisitions, Securities Regulation
  • John M. Jennings, Corporate Governance, Mergers and Acquisitions, Mergers & Acquisitions Litigation, Securities Litigation, Securities/Capital Markets Law, Securities Regulation   
  • Neil Jones, Intellectual Property Litigation
  • Timothy E. Madden, Family Law
  • Marvin Quattlebaum, Jr., Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Insurance Law
  • Bo Russell, Mergers and Acquisitions, Venture Capital Law
  • Rivers S. Stilwell, Commercial Litigation, Construction Litigation  

The Huntington, W.Va., attorneys listed are:

  • Marc E. Williams, Appellate Law, Banking & Finance Litigation, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Environmental Litigation, Labor & Employment Litigation, Legal Malpractice Law, Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions - Defendants, Personal Injury Litigation, Product Liability Litigation, and Railroad Law. 
  • Robert L. Massie, Insurance Law, Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions - Defendants, Personal Injury Litigation, Product Liability Litigation, and Railroad Law.
  • Melissa Foster Bird – Railroad Law

The Myrtle Beach, S.C. attorney listed is: 

  • James F. McCrackin, Trusts and Estates  

The Raleigh attorneys listed are: 

  • Barry D. Alexander, Healthcare Law
  • William H. Gammon, Construction Law, Construction Litigation
  • Wallace C. "Chuck" Hollowell III, Healthcare Law
  • Noah H. Huffstetler III, Administrative Law/Regulatory Law, Appellate Law, Antitrust Litigation, Bet-the-Company Law, Commercial Litigation, Healthcare Law, Regulatory Enforcement (SEC, Telecom, Energy) Litigation
  • George M. Teague, Government Relations Law

The Tallahassee attorney listed is:

  • Dean Bunch, Franchise Law   

The Winston-Salem attorneys listed are:

  • Denise Gunter, Antitrust, Antitrust Litigation, Healthcare Law
  • Richard B. Howington, Corporate, Healthcare Law 

Established in 1897, Nelson Mullins has more than 420 attorneys and government relations professionals practicing from 12 office locations in the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, North Carolina, South Carolina, and West Virginia. For more information on the Firm, go to www.nelsonmullins.com, or call 803.255.9794.