Best Lawyers Ranks Robinson Bradshaw First Among North Carolina Firms in Five Categories

Robinson Bradshaw, one of the state’s leading corporate and commercial law firms, has announced that 57 lawyers have been named Best Lawyers in America® for 2010. The Charlotte-based firm also ranked first among all North Carolina firms in five categories and first among Charlotte firms in 11 categories, including total lawyers named to the list.

Best Lawyers compiles an annual listing of outstanding lawyers through confidential peer-review surveys. The current 16th edition is based on more than 2.8 million professional peer reviews.

The 57 Robinson Bradshaw & Hinson attorneys listed in the 2010 edition are:

• Alice Pinckney Adams Public Finance
• Benjamin W. Baldwin Banking; Corporate
• Louis A. Bledsoe III Bet-the-Company Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Labor and Employment
• Carl R. Boehm  Employee Benefits
• Everett J. Bowman  Antitrust; Bet-the-Company Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Health Care
• Martin L. Brackett, Jr. Bet-the-Company Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Criminal Defense: White-Collar; Personal Injury Litigation
• Patrick S. Bryant Corporate Governance and Compliance; Corporate; Securities
• Peter C. Buck Banking; Corporate Governance and Compliance; Corporate; International Trade and Finance; Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity; Mergers & Acquisitions; Securities
• Stokely G. Caldwell, Jr. Banking; Entertainment; Sports
• Garland S. Cassada Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights
• Matthew S. Churchill Corporate Governance and Compliance
• Stephen M. Cox (Rock Hill, S.C.) Labor and Employment
• Robert W. Fuller Bet-the-Company Litigation; Commercial Litigation
• John B. Garver III Public Finance
• Richard W. Gibson, Jr. Employee Benefits
• Karen A. Gledhill Health Care
• Robert G. Griffin Corporate; Mergers & Acquisitions
• Julie Zydron Griggs Trusts and Estates
• Robert E. Harrington Commercial Litigation
• Jeffrey C. Hart (Chapel Hill) Venture Capital
• Edward F. Hennessey IV Bet-the-Company Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Construction
• John M. Herring Corporate; Private Funds
• Thomas P. Holderness Bet-the-Company Litigation; Commercial Litigation
• Graham D. Holding, Jr. Trusts and Estates
• Douglas Jarrell Commercial Litigation; Labor and Employment
• Benjamin A. Johnson (Rock Hill, S.C.) Commercial Litigation
• Carl E. Johnson, Jr. Employee Benefits
• Charles E. Johnson Commercial Litigation; Labor and Employment
• Haynes P. Lea Banking; Corporate; Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity; Venture Capital
• Christopher W. Loeb Real Estate
• Edwin F. Lucas Public Finance
• Stephen M. Lynch Corporate Governance and Compliance; Corporate; Mergers & Acquisitions; Securities
• Richard L. Mack Banking
• Kent J. McCready Corporate; Mergers & Acquisitions
• A. Ward McKeithen Alternative Dispute Resolution; Appellate; Bet-the-Company Litigation; Commercial Litigation
• Mark W. Merritt Antitrust; Bet-the-Company Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Eminent Domain and condemnation
• John R. Miller Corporate; Mergers & Acquisitions
• Lawrence C. Moore III Antitrust
• Henry H. Ralston Banking; Corporate Governance and Compliance; Corporate; Mergers & Acquisitions
• Jane S. Ratteree Real Estate
• Christy Eve Reid Trusts and Estates
• Allen K. Robertson Public Finance
• Russell M. Robinson II Corporate Governance and Compliance; Corporate; International Trade and Finance; Mergers & Acquisitions
• S. Graham Robinson Banking
• D. Blaine Sanders Sports
• David M. Schilli Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights
• Caroline Wannamaker Sink Public Finance; Real Estate
• Robert C. Sink Construction; Real Estate
• Herman Spence III Tax
• Richard S. Starling Venture Capital
• William W. Toole Environmental; Natural Resources
• Brent A. Torstrick Real Estate
• Richard A. Vinroot Commercial Litigation
• John R. Wester Appellate; Bet-the-Company Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Labor and Employment
• David C. Wright III Bet-the-Company Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Labor and Employment; Product Liability Litigation
• Julian H. Wright, Jr. Labor and Employment

In addition to the individual attorneys listed, Robinson Bradshaw ranked No. 1 among all North Carolina firms in each of the following categories:

• Banking Law, seven attorneys
• Bet-the-Company Litigation, 10 attorneys
• Corporate Governance and Compliance Law, six attorneys
• Corporate Law, 12 attorneys
• Public Finance Law, five attorneys

Robinson Bradshaw also Ranked No. 1 in Charlotte in each of the following categories:

• Total attorneys, 54
• Antitrust Law, three attorneys
• Banking Law, seven attorneys
• Bet-the-Company Litigation, 10 attorneys
• Commercial Litigation, 14 attorneys
• Corporate Governance and Compliance Law, six attorneys
• Corporate Law, 12 attorneys
• Labor and Employment Law, six attorneys
• Public Finance Law, five attorneys
• Securities Law, three attorneys
• Trusts and Estates, three attorneys

For more information on the methodology please visit the Best Lawyers Web site.