45 Nexsen Pruet Attorneys Selected for Best Lawyers
September 20, 2008
COLUMBIA, SC – September 19, 2008 – Forty-five Nexsen Pruet attorneys will be included in the 2009 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®. The publication also ranks Nexsen Pruet #1 in eleven practice areas in South Carolina and three in North Carolina.
Ed Menzie practices in Columbia and has made the list for 25 years in a row. Seven other Nexsen Pruet attorneys have made the list for at least 10 years in a row: Harold Jacobs, Neil Robinson, Thomas Tisdale, Tommy Lavender, Kent Porth, Steve Coles and Trudy Ennis.
The 39 attorneys on the list practice in Charleston, Columbia and Greenville, SC and in Charlotte and Greensboro, NC.
Charleston
Molly Hughes Cherry – Labor and Employment Law
Paul A. Dominick – Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation
J. David Hawkins – Corporate Law
Harold W. Jacobs – Commercial Litigation
Neil C. Robinson, Jr. – Real Estate Law
Thomas S. Tisdale, Jr. – Commercial Litigation, First Amendment Law
Bradish J. Waring – Commercial Litigation
Columbia
Michael T. Brittingham – Employee Benefits Law
Henry W. Brown – Construction Law
Russell T. Burke – Commercial Litigation
David E. Dubberly – Labor and Employment Law
Victoria L. Eslinger – Family Law, Labor and Employment Law
William H. Floyd III – Labor and Employment Law
Jay Hennig III – Corporate Law, Securities Law
Timothy L. Hewson – Health Care Law
Fred L. Kingsmore, Jr. – Tax Law, Trusts and Estates
William Y. Klett III – Intellectual Property Law
Mark Knight – Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law, Securities Law
W. Thomas Lavender, Jr. – Environmental Law
Alan M. Lipsitz – Banking Law, Public Finance Law
W. Leighton Lord III – Real Estate Law
Burnet R. Maybank III – Tax Law
Susan P. McWilliams – Labor and Employment Law
Rick Mendoza, Jr. – Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law
Edward G. Menzie – Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law, Real Estate Law, Securities Law
William G. Newsome III – Trusts and Estates
Julian J. Nexsen – Trusts and Estates
Samuel F. Painter – Workers’ Compensation Law
R. Kent Porth – Employee Benefits Law
Matthew B. Roberts – Health Care Law
Greenville
E. Grantland Burns – Labor and Employment Law
Leon C. Harmon – Environmental Law
Russell T. Infinger – Workers’ Compensation Law
Michael S. Pitts – Labor and Employment Law
Thomas L. Stephenson – Alternative Dispute Resolution, Labor and Employment Law
B. Joel Stoudenmire – Trusts and Estates
Charlotte
Richard W. Wilson – Construction Law
Greensboro
Robert G. Baynes – Corporate Law
Margaret Shea Burnham – Real Estate Law
Stephen W. Coles – Personal Injury Litigation
M. Jay DeVaney – Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law, Real Estate Law
Trudy A. Ennis – Family Law
R. Harper Heckman – Construction Law
David A. Senter – Construction Law
William M. Wilcox IV – Tax Law
Best Lawyers is based on a peer-review survey of more than 25,000 attorneys and lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed.
Nexsen Pruet, LLC is one of the largest law firms in the Carolinas, with more than 170 attorneys and offices in Columbia, Charleston, Greenville, Hilton Head, and Myrtle Beach, S.C., as well as Charlotte and Greensboro, N.C. Founded in 1945, Nexsen Pruet provides a broad range of legal services to the business community and represents companies and other entities in local, state, national, and international venues. For further information, see www.nexsenpruet.com
