Sixty Robinson Bradshaw Attorneys Listed in ‘Best Lawyers’ for 2011

Robinson Bradshaw & Hinson, P.A. one of the state’s leading corporate and commercial law firms, has announced that 60 lawyers have been named Best Lawyers in America® for 2011.

The firm had the most attorneys listed among Charlotte firms and was the top-listed firm in North Carolina in Banking Law (seven attorneys), Bet-the-Company Litigation (10), Corporate Governance and Compliance Law (six), and Public Finance Law (five). The firm also was top-listed in the state for Entertainment Law, International Trade & Finance Law, Natural Resources Law and Sports Law.

Best Lawyers compiles an annual listing of outstanding lawyers through confidential peer-review surveys. The current 17th edition is based on more than 3.1 million professional peer reviews.

The 60 Robinson Bradshaw attorneys listed in the 2011 edition are:

Alice Pinckney Adams Public Finance Law

Benjamin W. Baldwin Banking Law; Corporate Law

Louis A. Bledsoe III Bet-the-Company Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Labor and Employment Law

Carl R. Boehm Employee Benefits Law

Everett J. Bowman Antitrust Law; Bet-the-Company Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Health Care Law

Martin L. Brackett, Jr. Bet-the-Company Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Criminal Defense: White-Collar; Personal Injury Litigation

Robert M. Bryan Intellectual Property Law

Patrick S. Bryant Corporate Governance and Compliance Law; Corporate Law; Securities Law

Peter C. Buck Banking Law; Corporate Governance and Compliance Law; Corporate Law; International Trade and Finance Law; Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law; Mergers & Acquisitions Law; Securities Law

Stokely G. Caldwell, Jr. Banking Law; Entertainment Law; Sports Law

Garland S. Cassada Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law

Matthew S. Churchill Corporate Governance and Compliance Law

Stephen M. Cox (Rock Hill, SC) Labor and Employment Law

R. Steven DeGeorge (Charlotte) Environmental Law

John M. Fogg (Chapel Hill) Securities Law; Venture Capital Law

Robert W. Fuller Bet-the-Company Litigation; Commercial Litigation

John B. Garver III Public Finance Law

Richard W. Gibson, Jr. Employee Benefits Law

Karen A. Gledhill Health Care Law

Robert G. Griffin Corporate Law; Mergers & Acquisitions Law

Julie Zydron Griggs Trusts and Estates

Robert E. Harrington Commercial Litigation

Jeffrey C. Hart (Chapel Hill) Venture Capital Law

Edward F. Hennessey IV Bet-the-Company Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Construction Law

John M. Herring Corporate Law; Private Funds Law

Thomas P. Holderness Bet-the-Company Litigation; Commercial Litigation

Graham D. Holding, Jr. Trusts and Estates

Douglas Jarrell Commercial Litigation ; Labor and Employment Law

Benjamin A. Johnson (Rock Hill, SC) Commercial Litigation

Carl E. Johnson, Jr. Employee Benefits Law

Charles E. Johnson Commercial Litigation; Labor and Employment Law

Stuart H. Johnson Mergers & Acquisitions Law

Haynes P. Lea Banking Law; Corporate Law; Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law; Venture Capital Law

Christopher W. Loeb Real Estate Law

Edwin F. Lucas Public Finance Law

Stephen M. Lynch Corporate Governance and Compliance Law; Corporate Law; Mergers & Acquisitions Law; Securities Law

Richard L. Mack Banking Law

Kent J. McCready Corporate Law; Mergers & Acquisitions Law

A. Ward McKeithen Alternative Dispute Resolution; Appellate Law; Bet-the-Company Litigation; Commercial Litigation

Mark W. Merritt Antitrust Law; Bet-the-Company Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law

John R. Miller Corporate Law; Mergers & Acquisitions Law

Lawrence C. Moore III Antitrust Law

Henry H. Ralston Banking Law; Corporate Governance and Compliance Law; Corporate Law; Mergers & Acquisitions Law

Jane S. Ratteree Real Estate Law

Christy Eve Reid Trusts and Estates

Allen K. Robertson Public Finance Law

Russell M. Robinson II Corporate Governance and Compliance Law; Corporate Law; International Trade and Finance Law; Mergers & Acquisitions Law

S. Graham Robinson Banking Law

D. Blaine Sanders Sports Law

David M. Schilli Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law

Caroline Wannamaker Sink Public Finance Law; Real Estate Law

Robert C. Sink Construction Law; Real Estate Law

Herman Spence III Tax Law

Richard S. Starling Venture Capital Law

William W. Toole Environmental Law; Natural Resources Law

Brent A. Torstrick Real Estate Law

Richard A. Vinroot Commercial Litigation

John R. Wester Appellate Law; Bet-the-Company Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Labor and Employment Law

David C. Wright III Bet-the-Company Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Labor and Employment Law; Product Liability Litigation

Julian H. Wright, Jr. Labor and Employment Law

In addition to the individual attorneys listed, Robinson Bradshaw ranked No. 1 in Charlotte in each of the following categories:

• Alternative Dispute Resolution, one attorney
• Antitrust Law, three attorneys
• Appellate Law, two attorneys
• Banking Law, seven attorneys
• Bet-the-Company Litigation, 10 attorneys
• Commercial Litigation, 14 attorneys
• Corporate Governance and Compliance Law, six attorneys
• Corporate Law, 11 attorneys
• Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law, one attorney
• Entertainment Law, one attorney
• Health Care Law, two attorneys
• International Trade and Finance Law, two attorneys
• Labor and Employment Law, six attorneys
• Mergers & Acquisitions Law, eight attorneys
• Natural Resources Law, one attorney
• Private Funds Law, one attorney
• Public Finance Law, five attorneys
• Securities Law, three attorneys
• Sports Law, two attorneys
• Trusts and Estates, three attorneys