ATLANTA (August 17, 2015) – Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP (SGR) is pleased to announce that 21 of its attorneys were selected for inclusion in the 2016 edition of Best Lawyers, the leading peer-review-based directory of legal practitioners.
In addition to the 21 attorneys included in this year’s edition, J. Rodgers Lunsford III and Kathryn M. Zickert received the Lawyer of the Year designation.
The following SGR attorneys were selected in their respective practice areas for 2016:
Atlanta
Thomas H. Asselin (Construction Law)
Stephen M. Forte (Commercial Litigation; Litigation – Banking and Finance)
J.D. Humphries III (Commercial Litigation; Construction Law; Employment Law – Management; Labor Law – Management; Litigation – Construction)
Romy K. Kapoor (Immigration Law)
Gregory J. Kirsch (Patent Law)
Kristen M. Lewis (Trusts and Estates)
Dale Lischer (Litigation – Intellectual Property; Patent Law)
J. Rodgers Lunsford III (Litigation – Intellectual Property; Trademark Law)
James H. Morgan, Jr. (Trusts and Estates)
Stephen E. O’Day (Environmental Law; Litigation – Environmental)
Mark G. Pottorff (Real Estate Law)
Thomas W. Rhodes (Antitrust Law)
John H. Spillman (Corporate Law; Mergers and Acquisitions Law)
Andrew M. Thompson (Environmental Law)
Dennis J. Webb, Jr. (Insurance Law)
Kathryn M. Zickert (Land Use and Zoning Law; Litigation – Land Use and Zoning)
Jacksonville
Andrew J. Fawbush (Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law)
Karl B. Hanson, Jr. (Real Estate Law)
Patricia J. Hill (Employment Law – Management; Labor Law – Management)
James B. Porter (Real Estate Law)
New York
Dana Mark (Trusts and Estates)
About Best Lawyers
Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey. Over 52,000 leading attorneys cast more than 5.5 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas. Lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed; therefore inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers, “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.”