Sixty-Two Robinson Bradshaw Attorneys Named 2015 North Carolina Super Lawyers, Rising Stars

Sixty-two Robinson Bradshaw attorneys have been named 2015 North Carolina Super Lawyers and Rising Stars. This accounts for almost half the attorneys at the firm.

“Our attorneys work hard, and they are deserving of this recognition. Almost 50 percent of our attorneys at Robinson Bradshaw are recognized as a Super Lawyer or Rising Star, and only 5 percent or less of lawyers in the state are so recognized,” said Managing Partner Robert Griffin.

The firm’s additional 2015 Super Lawyers accolades include:

• Attorneys Mark W. Merritt and John R. Wester were named two of the Top 10 North Carolina Super Lawyers.
• Robinson Bradshaw had more attorneys than any other firm included in the Top 25 Charlotte Super Lawyers; honorees are Robert W. Fuller III, Merritt, Wester and David C. Wright III.
• Caroline Wannamaker Sink and Angelique R. Vincent-Hamacher were named to the Top 50 listing of Women North Carolina Super Lawyers.
• Fuller, Stephen M. Lynch, Merritt, Wester and Wright were named to the Top 100 North Carolina Super Lawyers.

Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. Lawyers are selected through independent research, peer nominations and peer evaluations.

The 43 Robinson Bradshaw attorneys selected as 2015 North Carolina Super Lawyers are:

• Heyward H. Bouknight III – Business Litigation
• Everett J. Bowman – Antitrust Litigation
• Martin L. Brackett Jr. – Personal Injury General: Plaintiff
• Peter C. Buck – Mergers & Acquisitions
• Stokely G. Caldwell Jr. – Entertainment & Sports
• Garland S. Cassada – Business Litigation
• R. Steven DeGeorge – Business Litigation
• John M. Fogg (Research Triangle office) – Securities & Corporate Finance
• Robert W. Fuller III – Business Litigation (Top 25 in Charlotte)
• John B. Garver III – Health Care
• Julie Zydron Griggs – Estate Planning & Probate
• 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 & Labor
• Jonathan C. Krisko – Business Litigation
• Haynes P. Lea – Business/Corporate
• Christopher W. Loeb – Real Estate
• Edwin F. Lucas III – Government Finance
• Stephen M. Lynch – Securities & Corporate Finance (Top 100 in N.C.)
• Kent J. McCready – Mergers & Acquisitions
• A. Ward McKeithen – Business Litigation (Retired)
• Mark W. Merritt – Business Litigation (Top 10 in N.C.)
• John R. Miller – International (Retired)
• Lawrence C. Moore III – Antitrust Litigation
• J. Dickson Phillips III (Research Triangle office) – Business Litigation
• Jane S. Ratteree – Real Estate
• Allen K. Robertson – Government Finance
• Russell M. Robinson II – Business/Corporate
• S. Graham Robinson – Banking
• D. Blaine Sanders – Business Litigation
• David M. Schilli – Bankruptcy: Business
• Caroline Wannamaker Sink – Real Estate (Top 50 Women in N.C.)
• Robert C. Sink – Real Estate
• Herman Spence III – Tax
• William W. Toole – Environmental
• Brent A. Torstrick – Real Estate
• Angelique Vincent-Hamacher – Employment & Labor (Top 50 Women in N.C.)
• John R. Wester – Business Litigation (Top 10 in N.C.)
• David C. Wright III – Business Litigation (Top 25 in Charlotte)
• Julian H. Wright Jr. – Employment & Labor

The following 19 Robinson Bradshaw attorneys were named North Carolina Rising Stars for 2015, which recognizes top up-and-coming lawyers who are 40 years old or younger, or who have been practicing 10 or fewer years. No more than 2.5 percent of the lawyers in the state are recognized.

• Carl S. Beattie – Health Care
• Justin A. Brittain – Mergers & Acquisitions
• James R. Cass – Banking
• Nathan C. Chase Jr. – Business Litigation
• Brian L. Church – Business Litigation
• Ashley C. (Hedgecock) Durbin – Mergers & Acquisitions
• Matthew B. Efird – Entertainment & Sports
• Jessica Mering Hardin – Estate Planning & Probate
• Pearlynn G. Houck – Business Litigation
• Susan Miller Huber – Business Litigation
• Jennifer Csik Hutchens – Health Care
• Brandon M. Lofton – Government Finance
• Kate E. Payerle – Business Litigation
• Henry E. Riffe III – Business/Corporate
• Heidi E. Royal – Estate Planning & Probate
• Ty E. Shaffer – Business Litigation
• Emily S. Sherlock – Environmental
• Andrew W. J. Tarr – Creditor/Debtor Rights
• Matthew F. Tilley – Business Litigation