28 Turner Padget Shareholders Named As Best Lawyers in America for 2011
August 9, 2010
Firm ranked as top law firm in South Carolina forAlternative Dispute Resolution and Municipal Law, and as the top firm inFlorence
CHARLESTON, SC – August 9, 2010 – Turner Padget Graham & Laney, P.A.is pleased to announce that 28 of its shareholders have been listed inthe 2011 edition of Best Lawyers in America. In addition, the firm hasbeen ranked as the top law firm in South Carolina in the areas ofAlternative Dispute Resolution and Municipal Law, is highly ranked in 14other practice areas, and is recognized as the top law firm inFlorence. Since the previous edition, Turner Padget has added twoattorneys to this prestigious ranking. The 2011 edition of Best Lawyersin 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 ofMedical Malpractice, Mergers and Acquisitions, and ProfessionalMalpractice 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 ofAlternative 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, TurnerPadget’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 andEstates.
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 annualpeer-review survey. For the U.S. edition, leading attorneys included inthe past editions of guide cast over 3.1 million votes on the legalabilities of other attorneys in the same and related fields. Because ofthe rigorous and transparent methodology used by Best Lawyers – andbecause attorneys are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed –inclusion in the guide is considered a singular honor. CorporateCounsel magazine has called Best Lawyers “the most respected referrallist of attorneys in practice.”
About Turner Padget
Founded in 1929, Turner Padget is one of South Carolina’s largest lawfirms with 91 attorneys and five offices in Charleston, Columbia,Florence, Greenville and Myrtle Beach. The firm provides clients in manyindustries with quality legal services in areas such as arbitration andmediation, business entity planning and organization, businesslitigation, construction and environmental litigation, employment andlabor law, estate and tax planning, insurance coverage analysis andlitigation, intellectual property, personal injury defense litigation,products liability, professional liability, real estate transactions,trucking and transportation, and workers’ compensation. For additionalinformation, visit http://www.turnerpadget.com.
