Sixty-One Robinson Bradshaw Attorneys Named 2013 North Carolina Super Lawyers, Rising Stars

Six Shareholders Among State’s Top 100 Attorneys, Two in Top 10

Sixty-one attorneys from Robinson Bradshaw, one of the Carolinas’ leading corporate and commercial law firms, have been selected for inclusion in the North Carolina Super Lawyers and Rising Stars listing for 2013.

In addition, six shareholders – Martin L. Brackett Jr., Peter C. Buck, Robert W. Fuller, Mark W. Merritt, John R. Wester and David C. Wright III – have been named to the Top 100 listing of North Carolina Super Lawyers. Merritt and Wester were selected for a third consecutive year as two of the Top 10 North Carolina Super Lawyers. Karen A. Gledhill, Julie Zydron Griggs and Christy Eve Reid were also selected among the Top 50 Female North Carolina Super Lawyers; Griggs and Reid have received that designation since 2006.

Super Lawyers is a rating service that recognizes the achievements of attorneys in more than 70 practice areas through independent research, peer nominations and peer evaluations.

The 40 Robinson Bradshaw attorneys selected among the 2013 North Carolina Super Lawyers are:

• Louis A. Bledsoe III – Business Litigation
• Martin L. Brackett Jr. – Personal Injury Plaintiff: General (Top 100)
• Peter C. Buck – Mergers & Acquisitions (Top 100)
• Stokely G. Caldwell Jr. – Entertainment & Sports
• Garland S. Cassada – Business Litigation
• R. Steven DeGeorge – Business Litigation
• Robert W. Fuller – Business Litigation (Top 100)
• Karen A. Gledhill – Business/Corporate (Top 50 Female)
• Julie Zydron Griggs – Estate Planning & Probate (Top 50 Female)
• Robert E. Harrington – Business Litigation
• Edward F. Hennessey IV – Business Litigation
• Thomas P. Holderness – Business Litigation
• Graham D. Holding Jr. – Estate Planning & Probate
• Douglas M. Jarrell – Business Litigation
• Charles E. Johnson – Employment Litigation: Defense
• Haynes P. Lea – Business/Corporate
• Christopher W. Loeb – Real Estate
• Edwin F. Lucas III – Bonds/Government Finance
• Stephen M. Lynch – Securities & Corporate Finance
• Kent J. McCready – Mergers & Acquisitions
• Mark W. Merritt – Business Litigation (Top 10)
• John R. Miller – International
• Lawrence C. Moore III – Antitrust Litigation
• William K. Packard – Real Estate
• J. Dickson Phillips III (Research Triangle office) – Business Litigation
• Jane S. Ratteree – Real Estate
• Christy Eve Reid – Estate Planning & Probate (Top 50 Female)
• Allen K. Robertson – Banking
• Russell M. Robinson II – Business/Corporate
• S. Graham Robinson – Banking
• D. Blaine Sanders – Business Litigation
• David M. Schilli – Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights
• Caroline Wannamaker Sink – Real Estate
• Robert C. Sink – Real Estate
• Herman Spence III – Tax
• William W. Toole – Environmental
• Brent A. Torstrick – Real Estate
• John R. Wester – Business Litigation (Top 10)
• David C. Wright III – Business Litigation (Top 100)
• Julian H. Wright Jr. – Employment & Labor

The following 21 Robinson Bradshaw attorneys were named North Carolina Rising Stars for 2013:

• Nicholas G. Allmon – Securities & Corporate Finance
• Heyward H. Bouknight III – Business Litigation
• Glen E. Caplan (Research Triangle office) – Business/Corporate
• Adam K. Doerr – Business Litigation
• Richard C. Dunn – Banking
• Matthew B. Efird – Entertainment & Sports
• Jessica Mering Hardin – Estate Planning & Probate
• Ashley C. Hedgecock – Mergers & Acquisitions
• Pearlynn G. Houck – Business Litigation
• Susan Miller Huber – Business Litigation
• Jennifer Csik Hutchens – Health Care
• Jeffrey P. Kapp – Real Estate
• Jonathan C. Krisko – Business Litigation
• Katherine Gordon Maynard – Business Litigation
• Silpa Myneni – Mergers & Acquisitions
• Kate E. Payerle – General Litigation
• Henry E. Riffe III – Business/Corporate
• Heidi E. Royal – Estate Planning & Probate
• Andrew W. J. Tarr – Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights
• Angelique Vincent-Hamacher – Employment & Labor
• Richard C. Worf Jr. – Business Litigation