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Seventeen Nelson Mullins Attorneys Named 'Best of the Year'

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Best Lawyers, a legal peer-review publication, has named 17 Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP partners as the 2012 Best Lawyers of the Year in their respective practices and cities:

  • C. Mitchell Brown has been named the Best Lawyers’ 2012 Columbia-SC Appellate Practice Lawyer of the Year.
  • Daniel J. Westbrook has been named the Best Lawyers’ 2012 Columbia-SC Health Care Law Lawyer of the Year.
  • David E. Dukes has been named the Best Lawyers’ 2012 Columbia-SC Bet-the-Company Litigation Lawyer of the Year.
  • David G. Traylor, Jr. has been named the Best Lawyers’ 2012 Columbia-SC Product Liability Litigation - Defendants Lawyer of the Year.
  • Dwight F. Drake has been named the Best Lawyers’ 2012 Columbia-SC Government Relations Practice Lawyer of the Year.
  • G. Mark Phillips has been named the Best Lawyers’ 2012 Charleston-SC Product Liability Litigation - Defendants Lawyer of the Year.
  • George S. Bailey has been named the Best Lawyers’ 2012 Columbia-SC Litigation - Trusts & Estates Lawyer of the Year.
  • John T. Moore has been named the Best Lawyers’ 2012 Columbia-SC Financial Services Regulation Law Lawyer of the Year.
  • Karen Aldridge Crawford has been named the Best Lawyers’ 2012 Columbia-SC Litigation - Environmental Lawyer of the Year.
  • Marc E. Williams has been named the Best Lawyers’ 2012 Charleston-WV Litigation - Banking & Finance Lawyer of the Year.
  • Neil E. Grayson has been named the Best Lawyers’ 2012 Greenville Mergers & Acquisitions Law Lawyer of the Year.
  • Neil Jones has been named the Best Lawyers’ 2012 Greenville Litigation - Intellectual Property Lawyer of the Year.
  • P. Mason Hogue, Jr. has been named the Best Lawyers’ 2012 Columbia-SC Securities/Capital Markets Law Lawyer of the Year.
  • Richard A. Farrier, Jr. has been named the Best Lawyers’ 2012 Charleston-SC Bet-the-Company Litigation Lawyer of the Year.
  • Richard B. Howington has been named the Best Lawyers’ 2012 Greensboro Health Care Law Lawyer of the Year.
  • Robert W. Foster, Jr. has been named the Best Lawyers’ 2012 Columbia-SC Personal Injury Litigation Lawyer of the Year.
  • Timothy E. Madden has been named the Best Lawyers’ 2012 Greenville Family Law Lawyer of the Year.

According to Best Lawyers, the list is compiled by conducting surveys in which lawyers evaluate their peers. The current, 18th edition of The Best Lawyers in America (2012) is based on more than 3.9 million evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers. Only a single lawyer in each category in each community is honored as “Lawyers of the Year.”

Nelson Mullins, established in 1897, has more than 420 attorneys practicing from offices in Atlanta, Boston, Charleston, Charlotte, Columbia, Greenville, Myrtle Beach, Raleigh, Tallahassee, Washington, and Winston-Salem. For more information on the Firm, go to www.nelsonmullins.com, or call 803.255.9794.