Williams Mullen is pleased to announce that 54 attorneys have been selected to the 2017 Virginia Super Lawyers list, six of whom were included on a top-ranking list. In addition, 21 attorneys were selected to the 2017 Rising Stars list in Virginia. No more than five percent of the lawyers in a state are named to Super Lawyers and no more than 2.5 percent are named to the Rising Stars list.
The Williams Mullen attorneys named 2017 Virginia Super Lawyers, sorted by office location, are:
Charlottesville
Thomas F. Bergert – Intellectual Property
David L. Dallas, Jr. – Business & Corporate
Norfolk
Patrick C. Devine, Jr. – Mergers & Acquisitions
William F. Devine – Business Litigation
Alyssa Embree – Real Estate
Howard E. Gordon – Real Estate
Robert E. Korroch – Government Contracts
William L. Nusbaum – Real Estate
Sara B. Rafal – Labor & Employment
Richmond
David D. Addison – Estate Planning
Farhad Aghdami – Tax (Top 50: Richmond, Top 100: Virginia)
Ralph L. “Bill” Axselle – Land Use/Zoning
Earl D. Baggett, IV – Labor & Employment
Brian R. Ball – Business & Corporate
William D. Bayliss – General Litigation (Top 50: Richmond, Top 100: Virginia)
Wyatt S. Beazley, IV – Health Care
Gregory R. Bishop – Mergers & Acquisitions
Paul S. Bliley, Jr. – Creditor Debtor Rights
Turner A. Broughton – General Litigation
Matthew E. Cheek – Banking
John Staige Davis, V – Criminal Defense: White Collar
Calvin W. “Woody” Fowler, Jr. – Business Litigation (Top 50: Richmond, Top 100: Virginia)
W.F. Drewry Gallalee – Personal Injury General: Plaintiff (Top 50: Richmond, Top 100: Virginia)
Conrad J. Garcia – Tax
Phillip H. Goodpasture – Mergers & Acquisitions
Patrick O. Gottschalk – Business & Corporate
Patrick R. Hanes – Intellectual Property Litigation
Elizabeth G. Hester – Mergers & Acquisitions
A. Brooks Hock – Real Estate
Lynn F. Jacob – Labor & Employment (Top 50: Women)
Jamie Baskerville Martin – Health Care
James V. Meath – Employee Litigation: Defense
John M. Mercer – Real Estate
Douglas M. Nabhan – Labor & Employment
Brendan D. O’Toole – Business Litigation
W. Benjamin Pace – Business Litigation
Laurence V. Parker, Jr. - Mergers & Acquisitions
Robert D. Perrow – Consumer Law
Craig L. Rascoe – Tax
William H. Schwarzschild, III – Bankruptcy: Business
Julious P. Smith, Jr. – Business & Corporate
John L. Walker, III – Business Litigation
Fielding L. Williams, Jr. – Estate & Probate
Laura D. Windsor – Labor & Employment
Tysons Corner
Brian Cashmere – Construction Litigation
Robert K. Cox – Construction Litigation
Virginia Beach
George H. Bowles – Business Litigation
David C. Burton – Labor & Employment
Thomas R. Frantz – Business & Corporate
Monroe Kelly, III – Banking
Craig L. Mytelka – Intellectual Property
John M. Paris, Jr. – Securities & Corporate Finance
C. Grigsby Scifres – Banking
Stephen G. Test – Business Litigation (Top 100: Virginia)
The Williams Mullen attorneys named 2017 Rising Stars in Virginia are:
Charlottesville
Caroline W. Stanton – Business & Corporate
Norfolk
Scott C. Miller – Business Litigation
Cameron M. Rountree – Business Litigation
Richmond
Joseph Blackburn, III – Civil Litigation: Defense
Meredith M. Brebner – Medical Malpractice
W. Alexander Burnett – Construction Litigation
Patrick A. Cushing – Government Relations
William P. Dickinson, III – Intellectual Property
Daniel J. Durst – Tax
Harold E. Johnson – General Litigation
Jennifer Ligon – Health Care
Preston T. Lloyd, Jr. – Land Use/Zoning
Jonathan T. Lucier – Business Litigation
Andrew O. Mathews – Business Litigation
Katherine W. Payne – Government Relations
Lauren W. Waller – E-Discovery
J. Nelson Wilkinson – Labor & Employment
Kyle H. Wingfield – Tax
Tysons
William Wozniak – Government Contracts
Virginia Beach
Anne E. Domozick – Business & Corporate
Michael B. Steele – Labor & Employment
The selections for this list are made by the research team at Super Lawyers. Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters business, is a rating service for lawyers from more than 70 practice areas. The annual selections are made using a rigorous multi-phased process that includes a statewide survey of lawyers, an independent research evaluation of candidates, and peer reviews by practice area. The Super Lawyers lists are published nationwide in Super Lawyers magazines and in leading city and regional magazines across the country.
For more information about Super Lawyers, go to www.superlawyers.com.