Fifty-One Robinson Bradshaw Lawyers Listed In Best Lawyers In America 2009

Robinson Bradshaw & Hinson, a corporate and commercial law firm headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., has announced that 51 lawyers have been named Best Lawyers in America® in the 2009 edition. Best Lawyers compiles an annual list of outstanding lawyers by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers.

The current edition of The Best Lawyers in America (2008) is based on more than two million detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers. The 2009 edition also notes that Robinson Bradshaw & Hinson is ranked “#1 in North Carolina” in 31 areas and 10 of the firm’s lawyers have been listed in Best Lawyers for at least 10 years.

The 51 Robinson Bradshaw lawyers included in the 2009 edition include:

• Alice Pinckney Adams Public Finance
• Benjamin W. Baldwin Banking; Corporate
• Louis A. Bledsoe III Commercial Litigation; Labor and Employment
• Everett J. Bowman Antitrust ; Commercial Litigation; Health Care
• Martin L. Brackett, Jr. (10) Bet-the Company Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Personal Injury Litigation; White-Collar Criminal Defense
• Patrick S. Bryant Corporate Governance and Compliance; Corporate; Securities
• Peter C. Buck Banking; Corporate Governance & 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
• Robert W. Fuller Bet-the-Company Litigation; Commercial Litigation
• Richard W. Gibson, Jr. Employee Benefits
• Karen A. Gledhill Health Care
• Robert G. Griffin Corporate; Mergers & Acquisitions
• Julie Zydron Griggs (10) Trusts and Estates
• Edward F. Hennessey IV Commercial Litigation; Construction
• Robin L. Hinson (10) Corporate; Mergers & Acquisitions
• Thomas P. Holderness Commercial Litigation
• Graham D. Holding, Jr. (10) Trusts and Estates
• Douglas M. Jarrell Commercial Litigation
• Benjamin A. Johnson 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 & Compliance; Corporate; Mergers & Acquisitions; Securities
• Kent J. McCready Corporate; Mergers & Acquisitions
• Susan I. McCrory Trusts and Estates
• A. Ward McKeithen (25) Alternative Dispute Resolution; Appellate; Bet-the-Company Litigation; Commercial Litigation
• Robert S. McLean Corporate
• Mark W. Merritt  (10) Antitrust; Bet-the-Company Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Eminent Domain and Condemnation
• John R. Miller Corporate; Mergers & Acquisitions
• Henry H. Ralston Banking; Corporate Governance & Compliance; Corporate
• Jane S. Ratteree Real Estate Law
• Christy Eve Reid (10) Trusts and Estates
• Allen K. Robertson Public Finance
• Russell M. Robinson II (25) Corporate; International Trade and Finance; Mergers & Acquisitions
• S. Graham Robinson Banking
• D. Blaine Sanders Sports
• David M. Schilli Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights
• Caroline W. Sink Public Finance Law; Real Estate Law
• Robert C. Sink (10) 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 (10) Appellate; Bet-the-Company Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Labor and Employment
• David C. Wright III Commercial Litigation; Labor and Employment; Product Liability Litigation
• Julian H. Wright, Jr. Labor and Employment