Turner Padget Attorneys Named Among South Carolina Super Lawyers
March 28, 2012
CHARLESTON, SC – March 28, 2012 – Turner Padget Graham & Laney, P.A. is pleased to announce that 12 of the firm’s shareholders have been named by Super Lawyers magazine as top attorneys in South Carolina for 2012. In addition, six attorneys are named as South Carolina Rising Stars.
From Turner Padget’s Charleston office, shareholder John S. Wilkerson, III is recognized for his work in General Litigation. Nosizi Ralephata, who was recently named as a shareholder of the firm, is honored as a Rising Star for Business Litigation.
In the firm’s Columbia office, the following shareholders are recognized: Reginald W. Belcher for Employment and Labor; John E. Cuttino for Civil Litigation Defense; Lanneau Wm. Lambert, Jr. for Real Estate; Curtis L. Ott for Personal Injury Defense: Products; Thomas C. Salane for Insurance Coverage; Franklin G. Shuler, Jr. for Employment and Labor; and of counsel Catherine H. Kennedy for Estate Planning and Probate. In addition, shareholders Nicholas William Gladd and Carmelo (Sam) D. Sammataro are included as Rising Stars for Personal Injury Defense: Products.
In Florence, J. René Josey and Arthur E. Justice, Jr., both shareholders, are recognized for Criminal Defense and Employment and Labor, respectively. Three Florence-based attorneys were named as Rising Stars: newly appointed shareholder Pierce C. Campbell for Business Litigation; associate J. Jakob Kennedy for Employment Litigation: Defense; and shareholder John M. Scott III for Estate Planning and Probate.
From Turner Padget’s Greenville office, shareholders William E. Shaughnessy, for Workers’ Compensation, and Timothy D. St. Clair, for Intellectual Property Litigation, are recognized among Super Lawyers.
The selections for Super Lawyers are made by Law & Politics, a division of Key Professional Media, Inc. of Minneapolis, Minn. Each year, Law & Politics undertakes a rigorous multi-phase selection process that includes a statewide survey of lawyers, independent evaluation of candidates by Law & Politics‘ attorney-led research staff, a peer review of candidates by practice area, and a good-standing and disciplinary check. Super Lawyers was first published in 1991, and the complete 2012 list can be found online at www.superlawyers.com.
About Turner Padget
Founded in 1929, Turner Padget is one of South Carolina’s largest law firms with over 90 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 www.turnerpadget.com.
