Best Lawyers in America© Names Seven Ogletree Deakins Attorneys to 2014 List
August 16, 2013
COLUMBIA, SC – August 15, 2013 – Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. (Ogletree Deakins), one of the largest labor and employment law firms representing management, announced today that seven attorneys from the firm’s Columbia office were selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© 2014 (Copyright 2013 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, SC). 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. The Columbia-based Ogletree Deakins attorneys appearing on the 2014 Best Lawyers in America© list include:
- Preston R. Burch (Employee Benefits/ERISA Law, Employment Law – Management)
- William L. Duda (Employment Law – Management, Litigation – Labor and Employment)
- James H. Fowles, III (Employment Law – Management, Labor Law – Management, Litigation – Labor and Employment)
- Katherine Dudley Helms (Employment Law – Management, Labor Law – Management, Litigation – Labor and Employment)
- Leigh M. Nason (Employment Law – Management, Litigation – Labor and Employment)
- Elizabeth B. Partlow (Environmental Law, Litigation – Environmental)
- Charles T. Speth II (Employment Law – Management, Litigation – Labor and Employment)
Best Lawyers® has also named Charles T. Speth II as the 2014 Columbia-SC Employment Law – Management Lawyer of the Year, which the publication identifies in high-profile legal areas in large legal communities where only a single lawyer in each area in each community is honored.
Firm-wide, 168 Ogletree Deakins attorneys were named to the 2014 Best Lawyers© list. A vast majority earned recognition in multiple categories-131 have been named under the Employment Law – Management category; 99 have been named under the Labor Law – Management category; and 93 have been named under the Litigation – Labor & Employment category.
About Ogletree Deakins
Ogletree Deakins is one of the largest labor and employment law firms representing management in all types of employment-related legal matters. The firm has more than 650 lawyers located in 44 offices across the United States and in Europe. Ogletree Deakins was named Law Firm of the Year in both the Litigation – Labor & Employment and the Employment Law – Management categories in the 2013 edition of U.S. News – Best Lawyers Best Law Firms list. In addition to handling labor and employment law matters, the firm has thriving practices focused on business immigration, employee benefits, and workplace safety and health law. Ogletree Deakins represents a diverse range of clients, from small businesses to Fortune 50 companies. www.ogletreedeakins.com
