Stites & Harbison, PLLC

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (September 15, 2006)—Stites & Harbison announced today that 56 of its attorneys were recently selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2007 (Copyright 2006 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken S.C.). 

There were 23 attorneys from the Louisville, Ky., office that were recognized.  The Louisville, Ky., attorneys include:

Joel T. Beres - Intellectual Property & Technology
Craig C. Bradley, Jr. - Business & Finance
Carol Dan Browning - Torts & Insurance
Philip W. Collier - Business Litigation
Robert M. Connolly    - Torts & Insurance
Brian A. Cromer - Business & Finance
Charles J. Cronan - Business Litigation
Douglass C. E. Farnsley - Torts & Insurance
Robert W. Griffith - Business Litigation
William H. Haden - Real Estate & Banking
W. Thomas Halbleib, Jr. - Business & Finance
Joseph L. Hamilton - Business Litigation
T. Kennedy Helm III - Business & Finance
Alex P. Herrington - Business & Finance
Barry A. Hines - Real Estate & Banking
Alfred S. Joseph - Real Estate & Banking
David B. Ratterman - Construction
David E. Saffer - Real Estate & Banking
George B. Sanders, Jr. - Business & Finance
James C. Seiffert - Business & Finance
W. Patrick Stallard - Environmental
John L. Tate - Torts & Insurance
Jack A. Wheat - Intellectual Property & Technology

There were 16 attorneys awarded in the Lexington, Ky., office, the most out of any Lexington, Ky., law firm.  Those attorneys include:

Stephen G. Allen - Environmental
Robert M. Beck, Jr. - Business & Finance
Walter R. Byrne, Jr. - Business & Finance
Janet A. Craig - Business & Finance
W. Blaine Early - Environmental
John M. Famularo - Torts & Insurance
Anne E. Gorham - Construction
William T. Gorton, III - Envrionmental
Buckner Hinkle, Jr. - Construction
J. Clarke Keller - Business Litigation
Thomas E. Meng - Real Estate & Banking
Gregory P. Parsons - Construction
Bruce M. Reynolds - Business & Finance
Kenneth R. Sagan - Business & Finance
Elizabeth L. Thompson - Creditors' Rights & Bankruptcy
Ashley W. Ward - Torts & Insurance

The 15 Nashville, Tenn., honorees include:

Katherine Simpson Allen - Business & Finance
Julian Bibb - Real Estate & Banking
Robert N. Buchanan - Real Estate & Banking
A. Stuart Campbell - Business & Finance
J. Bryan Echols - Real Estate & Banking
Robert C. Goodrich, Jr. - Creditors' Rights & Bankruptcy
B. Riney Green - Business & Finance
Charles A. Grice - Business & Finance
Garry K. Grooms - Business Litigation
Jeffrey R. King - Real Estate & Banking
Bradley A. MacLean - Creditors' Rights & Bankruptcy
James G. Martin III - Domestic
Barbara J. Moss - Business Litigation
William L. Penny - Environmental
Warren H. Wild, Jr. - Real Estate & Banking

The Frankfort, Ky., attorneys include:

Bruce F. Clark - Business Litigation
Mark Overstreet - Business Litigation

Thirteen attorneys firm-wide have been recognized by this honor for 10 years or more and one attorney, Alfred S. Joseph, of the Louisville, Ky., office has been honored for over 20 years.

"This truly is an honor for our attorneys and our firm," said Kennedy Helm III, chairman of Stites & Harbison, PLLC.  "It takes hard work and dedication to be considered a 'best lawyer' and our attorneys exemplify that."

The Best Lawyers in America® is a nationally recognized referral guide to the legal profession that has been published biennially since 1983.  Attorneys selected for the publication are reviewed by professional peers through an extensive survey.  The current, 13th edition of Best Lawyers (2007), is based on more than 1.8 million detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers.

About Stites & Harbison

Stites & Harbison, PLLC, is a regional business and litigation firm with attorneys in Alexandria, Va.; Atlanta; Jeffersonville, Ind.; Louisville, Frankfort and Lexington, Ky.; Nashville and Franklin, Tenn.; and Washington, DC.  Fifty-six Stites & Harbison lawyers are named in the current edition of The Best Lawyers in America®, and nearly 70 percent of all members and counsel to the firm are listed as AV™-rated in the current Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory®.  The firm traces its origins to 1832.

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