MEMPHIS, Tenn., Aug. 15, 2016 – Memphis-based law firm Harris Shelton Hanover Walsh today announced that 21 of the firm’s lawyers were selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© 2017, including four receiving the top distinction of Best Lawyers 2017© "Lawyer of the Year.”
The firm’s lawyers named to the list of Best Lawyers 2017© "Lawyer of the Year” are: Charles C. Drennon III, mergers and acquisitions law; William W. Dunlap Jr., personal injury litigation – defendants; Edward J. McKenney Jr., litigation – municipal; and George T. Wheeler Jr., health care law.
The firm’s other lawyers selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© 2017 are: G. Rice Byars Jr., trusts and estates; Susan Callison, trusts and estates; M. Anderson Cobb Jr., personal injury litigation – defendants and real estate law; Steven N. Douglass, bankruptcy and creditor debtor rights/insolvency and reorganization law and litigation – bankruptcy; J. Matthew Kirby, workers’ compensation law – employers; Brett Hughes, litigation – insurance and personal injury litigation - plaintiffs; James L. Kirby, commercial litigation, construction law, medical malpractice law – defendants and medical malpractice law – plaintiffs; Allison T. Gilbert, real estate law; A. Neal Graham, health care law and tax law; Jeffrey L. Griffin, litigation – health care, medical malpractice law – defendants, personal injury litigations – defendants; James B. Jalenak, real estate law; Philip G. Kaminsky, real estate law; Barbara B. Lapides, municipal law; John L. Ryder, bankruptcy and creditor debtor rights/insolvency and reorganization law and litigation – bankruptcy; J. Max Shelton, health care law; John Kevin Walsh, eminent domain and condemnation law; and James D. Wilson, medical malpractice law – defendants.
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About Harris Shelton
Harris Shelton Hanover Walsh PLLC handles a wide variety of legal matters for a diverse group of clients. The firm has two offices in Memphis, Tennessee, and an office in Oxford, Mississippi, and is also active regionally, nationally and internationally. The firm is a result of the joining of two of Memphis’ oldest law firms, Harris, Shelton, Dunlap, Cobb & Ryder and Hanover, Walsh, Jalenak & Blair, representing more than 150 combined years of legal counsel to business and individuals. For more information, please visit www.harrisshelton.com.
About Best Lawyers®
Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers® has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Best Lawyers lists are compiled based on an exhaustive peer-review evaluation. Over 83,000 leading attorneys globally are eligible to vote, and we have received more than 13 million votes to date on the legal abilities of other lawyers based on their specific practice areas around the world. For the 2017 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America©, 7.3 million votes were analyzed, which resulted in almost 55,000 leading lawyers being included in the new edition. Lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed; therefore 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.”
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