Bowles Rice LLP issued the following announcement on Aug. 15.
Forty-four Bowles Rice attorneys from five of the firm's offices – Charleston, Martinsburg, Morgantown and Parkersburg, West Virginia and Southpointe (Canonsburg), Pennsylvania – have been named to the 2020 edition of The Best Lawyers in America©.
Those recognized in Charleston include:
J. Mark Adkins – Commercial Litigation; Litigation – Banking and Finance; Litigation – Construction
Julia A. Chincheck – Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law; Bet-the-Company Litigation; Litigation – Bankruptcy
Lynn S. Clarke – Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
Mark B. D’Antoni – Corporate Law; Real Estate Law
Charles B. Dollison – Oil and Gas Law
Thomas Graff, Jr. – Administrative/Regulatory Law; Corporate Law; Energy Law; Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Natural Resources Law; Oil and Gas Law
Roger G. Hanshaw – Environmental Law; Litigation – Environmental
Ronda L. Harvey – Product Liability Litigation – Defendants
Thomas A. Heywood – Corporate Law; Health Care Law
Roger D. Hunter – Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Diana Leigh Jacobs – Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Defendants
Thomas Lane – Energy Law; Litigation – Real Estate; Mining Law; Natural Resources Law; Oil and Gas Law; Real Estate Law
Charles M. Love, III – Bet-the-Company Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Litigation – Environmental; Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Defendants
Ellen Maxwell-Hoffman – Ethics and Professional Responsibility Law
Stuart A. McMillan – Commercial Litigation; Insurance Law; Litigation – First Amendment
David A. Mohler – Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants
Marc A. Monteleone – Construction Law; Corporate Law; Oil and Gas Law; Tax Law; Trusts and Estates
Sandra M. Murphy – Banking and Finance Law; Corporate Compliance Law; Corporate Governance Law; Corporate Law; Financial Services Regulation Law
Corey L. Palumbo – Litigation – Insurance
George A. Patterson, III – Oil and Gas Law
Howard E. Seufer, Jr. – Education Law
Camden P. Siegrist – Corporate Law; Public Finance Law
Melody A. Simpson – Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law; Nonprofit/Charities Law
Gerard R. Stowers – Bet-the-Company Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Legal Malpractice Law – Defendants; Litigation – Construction; Litigation – Real Estate; Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants
Amy J. Tawney – Corporate Law
Rebecca M. Tinder – Education Law
Kenneth E. Webb, Jr. – Commercial Litigation; Litigation – Construction
Those recognized in Martinsburg include:
Michael E. Caryl – Corporate Law; Litigation and Controversy – Tax; Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Tax Law; Trust and Estates
David A. DeJarnett – Corporate Law; Litigation – Trusts and Estates; Litigation and Controversy – Tax; Nonprofit/Charities Law; Tax Law; Trusts and Estates
Stephen M. Mathias – Litigation – Real Estate; Real Estate Law
Charles F. Printz, Jr. – Bet-the-Company Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Employment Law – Management; Labor Law – Management; Litigation – Construction; Litigation – Labor and Employment
Floyd McKinley Sayre – Litigation and Controversy – Tax; Municipal Law
Those recognized in Morgantown include:
Kimberly S. Croyle – Education Law
Robert W. Dinsmore – Natural Resources Law; Real Estate Law
Andrew G. Fusco – Commercial Litigation; Corporate Governance Law; Litigation – Antitrust; Litigation – Intellectual Property; Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Michael R. Proctor – Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law
C. Seth Wilson – Energy Law
Those recognized in Parkersburg include:
Robert L. Bays – Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law
Fred Earley – Health Care Law
Steven R. Hardman – Real Estate Law
Richard A. Hudson – Health Care Law; Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Tax Law; Trusts and Estates
Robert J. Kent – Litigation – Insurance; Litigation – Labor and Employment
J. Breckenridge Martin – Energy Law
Those recognized in our Southpointe office in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania include:
K. Bradley Mellor – Construction Law; Litigation – Construction
Best Lawyers recognition is compiled annually by geographic region and practice areas. Lawyers are reviewed by their peers on the basis of professional experience and ability, and undergo an authentication process to assure they are in current practice and in good standing.
Original source can be found here.