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22 Chambliss Attorneys Selected for Best Lawyers in America© 2020
Five Selected as “Lawyer of the Year”
Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel, P.C. is honored to announce Best Lawyers in America© selected five Chambliss attorneys as “Lawyer of the Year” in the Chattanooga area, and the publication included 22 Chambliss attorneys in The Best Lawyers in America.
Best Lawyers® selected five Chambliss attorneys for the 2020 Edition of “Lawyer of the Year”:
| Attorney Name | 2020 Lawyer of the Year, Chattanooga, Practice Area |
|---|---|
| William M. Barker | Arbitration |
| Richard W. Bethea | Litigation – Intellectual Property |
| David J. Hill | Patent Law |
| J. Nelson Irvine | Corporate Law |
| Dana B. Perry | Trusts and Estates |
Each of these lawyers represents a wide variety of clients across the nation on matters ranging from elder law to product liability disputes. Justice William M. Barker focuses his practice on arbitration and mediation. Richard W. Bethea is a litigator, representing and defending clients in a variety of areas: intellectual property, patent, commercial, and product liability. David J. Hill counsels clients on copyright law, patent law, and trademark law. Clients turn to J. Nelson Irvine for matters in corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, and nonprofit and charities law. Dana B. Perry is a Certified Elder Law Attorney and concentrates her practice in trusts and estates, elder law, and special needs planning.
Best Lawyers selects only one lawyer in each practice area and designated metropolitan area as the “Lawyer of the Year.” The publication selects lawyers based on voting averages received during the peer review assessments. Receiving this designation reflects the high level of respect a lawyer has earned among other leading lawyers in the same communities and same practice areas for their abilities, professionalism, and integrity.
Best Lawyers selected 22 Chambliss attorneys for the 2020 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America:
| Attorney Name | Practice Area |
|---|---|
| William P. Aiken | Corporate Law, Health Care Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law |
| T. Maxfield Bahner | Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Litigation – First Amendment, Litigation – Antitrust |
| William M. Barker | Mediation, Arbitration |
| Richard W. Bethea | Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Intellectual Property, Litigation – Patent, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants |
| Mark A. Cunningham | Health Care Law |
| James F. Exum III | Insurance Law |
| Timothy M. Gibbons | Construction Law |
| David J. Hill | Copyright Law, Patent Law, Trademark Law |
| Rosemarie L. Hill | Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Antitrust, Litigation – Labor and Employment |
| Frederick L. Hitchcock | Energy Law |
| Richard T. Hudson | Real Estate Law |
| J. Nelson Irvine | Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Corporate Law, Non-Profit / Charities Law |
| Anthony A. Jackson | Litigation – First Amendment |
| Hugh J. Moore | Commercial Litigation, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Litigation – Municipal |
| Harold L. North, Jr. | Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law |
| Dana B. Perry | Trusts and Estates, Elder Law |
| William H. Pickering | Litigation – Labor and Employment, Labor Law – Management, Employment Law – Management |
| Michael N. St. Charles | Real Estate Law |
| Mark Turner | Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships), Securitization and Structured Finance Law, Real Estate Law |
| Paul S. Weidlich | Patent Law |
| Gregory D. Willett | Trusts and Estates |
| Jay A. Young | Project Finance Law, Banking and Finance Law |
About Best Lawyers®
Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers® has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Best Lawyers lists are compiled based on an exhaustive peer-review evaluation. Almost 87,000 industry leading lawyers are eligible to vote (from around the world), and we have received almost 10 million evaluations on the legal abilities of other lawyers based on their specific practice areas around the world. For the 2019 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America©, 7.8 million votes were analyzed, which resulted in almost 60,000 leading lawyers being included in the new edition. Lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed; therefore, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.”
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