Randy Avram and Dan Taylor Selected to Top 100 Attorney Listing Lois Colbert Selected to Top 50 Women Attorney Listing Firm is Tops in Number of North Carolina Environmental Super Lawyers
NORTH CAROLINA (January 26) -- Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton announced today that 31 of the firm’s attorneys were selected as North Carolina Super Lawyers and North Carolina Rising Stars. In addition to this prestigious list, partners Randy Avram and Dan Taylor were named to the select Top 100 Super Lawyers and partner Lois Colbert was named to the select Top 50 Women Super Lawyers listing for North Carolina.
Also, with four attorneys listed, Kilpatrick Townsend led all North Carolina firms with the most Super Lawyers listed statewide in Environmental Law.
North Carolina Super Lawyers is a listing of the top five percent of lawyers in the state who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The multi-step process involved soliciting nominations from attorneys across the state (lawyers were not allowed to vote for themselves), followed by a thorough case-by-case review of each nominee. North Carolina Rising Stars recognizes outstanding attorneys who are 40 or under, or who have been practicing for 10 years or less. No more than 2.5% of North Carolina lawyers are named to this list.
The following names are the 2012 Kilpatrick Townsend attorneys recognized by North Carolina Super Lawyers:
Appellate Adam Charnes Richard Dietz (Rising Star)
Business Litigation Raymond Bennett (Rising Star) Richard Gottlieb Chad Hansen (Rising Star) James Kelly Richard Keshian Alan McInnes John Moye (Rising Star) David Smith Dan Taylor (Top 100 Super Lawyers)
Employment Benefits/ERISA Lois Colbert (Top 50 Women Super Lawyers)
Employment & Labor Randy Avram (Top 100 Super Lawyers) Jill Cox Sabrina Rockoff (Rising Star)
Employment Litigation: Defense Michael Rosenberg (Rising Star)
Environmental Steve Berlin William Lane Steve Levitas Alan McConnell
Estate Planning & Probate Carl Hibbert
General Litigation Gregg McDougal
Intellectual Property William Bryner Charles Calkins Carl Sanders (Rising Star)
Intellectual Property Litigation Steve Gardner Jon Pierce (Rising Star)
Real Estate Jeff Benson Gary Joyner
Securities & Corporate Finance Randy Eaddy Paul Foley (Rising Star)
About Kilpatrick Townsend
Founded more than 150 years ago, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP is a full-service international law firm with more than 630 attorneys in 21 offices across the globe, including: in the United States (Atlanta, Augusta, Charlotte, Denver, New York City, Oakland, Raleigh, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Silicon Valley, Walnut Creek, Washington, DC, and Winston-Salem); in Asia (Taipei and Tokyo); in Europe (Stockholm); and, in the Middle East (Al-Khobar, Dubai, Jeddah, and Riyadh). Kilpatrick Townsend's delivery of innovative business solutions provides results-oriented counsel for corporations, from the challenging demands of financial transactions and securities to the disciplines of intellectual property protection and litigation. The collaborative approach of Kilpatrick Townsend's corporate, litigation and intellectual property attorneys delivers knowledgeable and proactive guidance for companies at every stage of the business life cycle. For more information, please visit www.kilpatricktownsend.com.
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