28 Turner Padget Shareholders Named As Best Lawyers in America for 2011
Firm ranked as top law firm in South Carolina for Alternative Dispute Resolution and
Municipal Law, and as the top firm in Florence
COLUMBIA, S.C., August, 2010 — Turner Padget Graham & Laney, P.A. is pleased to announce that 28 of its shareholders have been listed in the 2011 edition of Best Lawyers in America. In addition, the firm has been ranked as the top law firm in South Carolina in the areas of Alternative Dispute Resolution and Municipal Law, is highly ranked in 14 other practice areas, and is recognized as the top law firm in Florence. Since the previous edition, Turner Padget has added two attorneys to this prestigious ranking. The 2011 edition of Best Lawyers in America will be available in December 2010.
Listed from the firm’s Charleston office are:
- John K. Blincow, Medical Malpractice Law
- Elaine H. Fowler, Mergers & Acquisitions Law and Real Estate Law
- John S. Wilkerson III, Professional Malpractice Law
The firm is also ranked number one in Charleston in the categories of Medical Malpractice, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Professional Malpractice Law.
Listed from the firm’s Columbia office are:
- Danny C. Crowe, Alternative Dispute Resolution and Municipal Law
- Franklin G. Shuler, Jr., Alternative Dispute Resolution and Labor and Employment Law
- Lanneau W. Lambert, Jr., Banking Law and Real Estate Law
- Curtis L. Ott, Commercial Litigation and Product Liability Litigation
- W. Duvall Spruill, Commercial Litigation
- John E. Cuttino, Construction Law
- Thomas C. Salane, Insurance Law
- Steven W. Ouzts, Mass Tort Litigation and Product Liability Litigation
- Charles E. Hill, Medical Malpractice Law
- Edward W. Laney IV, Personal Injury Litigation
- J. Kenneth Carter, Jr., Product Liability Litigation
- John E. Cuttino, Product Liability Litigation
- Catherine H. Kennedy, Trusts and Estates
- Michael E. Chase, Workers’ Compensation Law
- Cynthia C. Dooley, Workers’ Compensation Law
The firm is also ranked number one in Columbia in the categories of Alternative Dispute Resolution, Medical Malpractice and Municipal Law.
Listed in the firm’s Florence office are:
- Richard L. Hinson, Alternative Dispute Resolution
- J. Rene Josey, Appellate Law and Criminal Defense: Non-White Collar Crime and Criminal Defense: White Collar Crime
- Arthur E. Justice, Jr., Labor and Employment Law
- Michael G. Roberts, Tax Law and Trusts and Estates
- J. Munford Scott, Jr., Tax Law
- John M. Scott III, Tax Law
In addition to being ranked as the top law firm in Florence, Turner Padget’s Florence office is recognized in the following categories: Alternative Dispute Resolution, Appellate Law, Criminal Defense: Non-White Collar, Criminal Defense: White Collar, Tax Law and Trusts and Estates.
Listed in the firm’s Greenville office are:
- Eric K. Englebardt, Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Timothy D. St. Clair, Intellectual Property Law
- Vernon F. Dunbar, Workers’ Compensation Law
- William E. Shaughnessy, Workers’ Compensation Law
Listed in the firm’s Myrtle Beach office is:
- R. Wayne Byrd, Commercial Litigation
The firm is ranked number one in Myrtle Beach for Commercial litigation.
First published in 1983, Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive annual peer-review survey. For the U.S. edition, leading attorneys included in the past editions of guide cast over 3.1 million votes on the legal abilities of other attorneys in the same and related fields. Because of the rigorous and transparent methodology used by Best Lawyers – and because attorneys are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed – inclusion in the guide is considered a singular honor. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.”
About Turner Padget
Founded in 1929, Turner Padget is one of South Carolina’s largest law firms with 91 attorneys and five offices in Charleston, Columbia, Florence, Greenville and Myrtle Beach. The firm provides clients in many industries with quality legal services in areas such as arbitration and mediation, business entity planning and organization, business litigation, construction and environmental litigation, employment and labor law, estate and tax planning, insurance coverage analysis and litigation, intellectual property, personal injury defense litigation, products liability, professional liability, real estate transactions, trucking and transportation, and workers’ compensation. For additional information, visit .
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