Turner Padget Attorneys Named Among South Carolina Super Lawyers
April 3, 2012
COLUMBIA, SC – Turner Padget Graham & Laney, P.A.announces that 12 of the firm’s shareholders have been named by SuperLawyers magazine as top attorneys in South Carolina for 2012. Inaddition, 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 aRising Star for Business Litigation.
In the firm’s Columbia office, the following shareholders arerecognized: Reginald W. Belcher for Employment and Labor; John E.Cuttino for Civil Litigation Defense; Catherine H. Kennedy for EstatePlanning and Probate; Lanneau Wm. Lambert, Jr. for Real Estate; CurtisL. Ott for Personal Injury Defense: Products; Thomas C. Salane forInsurance Coverage; and Franklin G. Shuler, Jr. for Employment andLabor. In addition, shareholders Nicholas William Gladd and Carmelo(“Sam”) D. Sammataro are included as Rising Stars for Personal InjuryDefense: Products.
In Florence, J. René Josey and Arthur E. Justice, Jr., bothshareholders, are recognized for Criminal Defense and Employment andLabor, respectively. Three Florence-based attorneys were named as RisingStars: newly appointed shareholder Pierce C. Campbell for BusinessLitigation; associate J. Jakob Kennedy for Employment Litigation:Defense; and shareholder John M. Scott III for Estate Planning andProbate.
From Turner Padget’s Greenville office, shareholders William E.Shaughnessy, for Workers’ Compensation, and Timothy D. St. Clair, forIntellectual Property Litigation, are recognized among Super Lawyers.
The selections for Super Lawyers are made by Law & Politics, adivision of Key Professional Media, Inc. of Minneapolis, Minn. Eachyear, Law & Politics undertakes a rigorous multi-phase selectionprocess that includes a statewide survey of lawyers, independentevaluation of candidates by Law & Politics’ attorney-led researchstaff, a peer review of candidates by practice area, and a good-standingand disciplinary check. Super Lawyers was first published in 1991, andthe 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 largestlaw firms with over 90 attorneys and five offices in Charleston,Columbia, Florence, Greenville and Myrtle Beach. The firm providesclients in many industries with quality legal services in areas such asarbitration and mediation, business entity planning and organization,business litigation, construction and environmental litigation,employment and labor law, estate and tax planning, insurance coverageanalysis and litigation, intellectual property, personal injury defenselitigation, products liability, professional liability, real estatetransactions, trucking and transportation, and workers’ compensation.For additional information, visit www.turnerpadget.com.
