Best Lawyers in America© Names Ted Speth “Lawyer of the Year”
August 22, 2013
COLUMBIA, SC – August 21, 2013 – Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. (Ogletree Deakins), one of the largest labor and employment law firms representing management, announced that Ted Speth was named by Best Lawyers® as the 2014 Columbia-SC Employment Law – Management Lawyer of the Year. Best Lawyers® annually identifies a single lawyer in each designated practice area and metropolitan area to honor as the Lawyer of the Year. This is the third consecutive year he has been named as a Lawyer of the Year.
Lawyers being honored as Lawyer of the Year are selected based on particularly impressive voting averages received during exhaustive peer-review assessments Best Lawyers® conducts with thousands of leading lawyers each year. Receiving this designation reflects the high level of respect a lawyer has earned among other leading lawyers in the same communities and the same practice areas for their abilities, their professionalism, and their integrity.
Speth was also selected by his peers for inclusion in the Employment Law – Management and Litigation – Labor and Employment categories in The Best Lawyers in America© 2014 (Copyright 2013 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, SC). This list 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.
Speth, who is the managing shareholder of the firm’s Columbia office, has been praised for his accomplishments throughout his career. He has earned a Band 1 ranking from Chambers USA, been named among the South Carolina Midlands Legal Elite, and is included among the South Carolina Super Lawyers.
Speth has more than 30 years of experience with employment-related litigation in state and federal courts throughout the United States. He devotes a significant amount of time to the representation of clients in class action litigation and also provides training and preventive advice to employers in an effort to resolve potential employment-related legal matters before the matters escalate into legal actions.
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
