Business North Carolina Magazine Recognizes 22 Robinson Bradshaw Lawyers as Legal Elite

Robinson Bradshaw & Hinson, P.A. is pleased to announce that Business North Carolina magazine has named 22 Robinson Bradshaw lawyers to its annual “Legal Elite” list. Christy Eve Reid was named a category winner in the area of tax and estate planning and is therefore a new member of the Legal Elite Hall of Fame. Everett Bowman, Peter C. Buck, Mark W. Merritt, Russell M. Robinson and Brent A. Torstrick are also prior category winners and Legal Elite Hall of Fame members as was the late Robinson Bradshaw attorney Robin Hinson. Robinson Bradshaw & Hinson tied Greensboro-based Smith Moore Leatherwood, LLP for the most lawyers on the list and leads all North Carolina firms in members selected for the Legal Elite Hall of Fame.

The Process

The attorneys were selected as the best practitioners in their field through a mailed survey that was sent to more than 16,500 lawyers licensed by the North Carolina State Bar representing 12 business-related specialties, asking each to vote for the person thought to be the best practitioner in each field. Participants were not allowed to vote for themselves, but could vote for members of their firm—but only if they also voted for someone outside of their firm. Other winners include:

Robinson Bradshaw & Hinson’s Legal Elite

• Robert W. Allen – Real Estate
• Martin L. Brackett, Jr. – Criminal
• Garland S. Cassada – Bankruptcy
• David W. Dabbs – Business Law
• R. Steven DeGeorge – Environmental
• Robert W. Fuller – Litigation
• Julie Zydron Griggs – Tax and Estate Planning
• Edward F. Hennessey, IV – Employment
• Graham D. Holding, Jr. – Tax and Estate Planning
• Charles E. Johnson – Employment
• Stephen M. Lynch – Business Law
• A. Ward McKeithen – Litigation
• John R. Miller – Business Law, Construction
• Lawrence C. Moore, III – Antitrust
• Steven D. Newmark – Intellectual Property
• Christy Eve Reid – Tax and Estate Planning
• David M. Schilli – Bankruptcy
• Robert C. Sink – Real Estate
• Herman Spence, III – Tax and Estate Planning
• Andrew W. J. Tarr – Young Guns
• William W. Toole – Environmental
• John R. Wester – Employment, Litigation

For more information on the methodology, please visit Business North Carolina's website.