Adams and Reese Has Twelve Columbia Office Attorneys Ranked Among 2015 Best Lawyers

COLUMBIA, SC – A total of 120 Adams and Reese attorneys, including 12 attorneys from the firm’s Columbia office, have been named to the 2015 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®, all selected and voted on by their peers and the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession.

Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Because Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which almost 50,000 leading attorneys cast nearly five million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas, and because lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed, 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.”

Below are all of Adams and Reese’s Best Lawyers honorees for 2015:

The Best Lawyers® in America 2015 – Adams and Reese LLP
(Year Denotes First Year Attorneys Received Best Lawyers Distinction)

Charleston, SC

• Tara E. Nauful (2011)
  • Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
  • Litigation – Bankruptcy

Columbia, SC

• John F. Beach (2013)
  • Commercial Litigation
• Robert P. Bethea, Jr. (2011)
  • Corporate Law
  • Mergers and Acquisitions Law
  • Tax Law
• F. Earl Ellis, Jr. (1995)
  • Workers’ Compensation Law – Employers
• William O. Higgins (2007)
  • Ethics and Professional Responsibility Law
  • Real Estate Law
• Ernest G. Lawhorne (2005)
  • Workers’ Compensation Law – Employers
• William P. McElveen, Jr. (2007)
  • Real Estate Law
• W. Cliff Moore III (2010)
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Litigation – Banking and Finance
  • Litigation – Real Estate
• Tara E. Nauful (2011)
  • Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
  • Litigation – Bankruptcy
• Louis T. Runge, Jr. (2013)
  • Real Estate Law
• Kirby Darr Shealy III (2001)
  • Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs
• William H. Short, Jr. (2005)
  • Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
  • Litigation – Bankruptcy
  • Litigation – Construction
  • Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants
• Lana H. Sims, Jr. (2005)
  • Workers’ Compensation Law – Employers

Adams and Reese

Adams and Reese is a multidisciplinary law firm with more than 340 attorneys and advisors strategically located in 16 offices in 15 markets throughout the southern United States and Washington, D.C. American Lawyer includes Adams and Reese on its distinguished list of the nation’s top law firms – “The Am Law 200”. The National Law Journal also includes the firm on the “NLJ 350” list of the nation’s largest law firms.