PERSONNEL FILE: Best Lawyers recognizes 14 Dinsmore & Shohl W.Va. attorneys

CHARLESTON -- Fourteen lawyers from Dinsmore & Shohl's Charleston and Morgantown offices were recently selected by their peers for inclusion in the 2011 edition of The Best Lawyers in America.

In addition, Dinsmore & Shohl is Top Listed in the United States in two major practice areas - Mining and Workers' Compensation Law. In total, 141 attorneys were selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers firm-wide.

Dinsmore & Shohl West Virginia attorneys selected for this year's guide include:

CHARLESTON

* Jill Cranston Bentz (Government Relations Law)

* Mark A. Carter (Labor and Employment Law)

* Anna M. Dailey (Labor and Employment Law, Mining Law, Natural Resources Law)

* John F. Hussell IV (Banking Law, Trusts and Estates)

* Monika J. Hussell (Intellectual Property Law)

* W. Henry Jernigan Jr. (Alternative Dispute Resolution, Antitrust Law, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Energy Law, Mining Law, Natural Resources Law, Product Liability Litigation)

* Donna C. Kelly (Mining Law)

* Robert J. O'Neil (Health Care Law)

* Ashley C. Pack (Labor and Employment Law)

* Christopher B. Power (Commercial Litigation, Energy Law, Environmental Law, Mining Law, Natural Resources Law, Oil and Gas Law)

* Forrest H. Roles (Labor and Employment Law, Mining Law, Natural Resources Law)

MORGANTOWN

* Robert H. Beatty, Jr. (Mining Law)

* F. Thomas Rubenstein (Energy Law, Mining Law, Natural Resources Law)

* David M. Thomas (Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law, Commercial Litigation)

Since its inception 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 more than 39,000 leading attorneys cast almost 3.1 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."

Dinsmore & Shohl is comprised of more than 450 attorneys practicing in 10 offices throughout Ohio, Kentucky, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. For more than a century, Dinsmore & Shohl has provided a broad range of integrated services to meet the needs of both large and small businesses, as well as institutions, associations, governments, professional firms and individuals.

For more information, visit www.dinslaw.com.