Highlighted Lawyers & Firms
The Year’s Best in the Eyes of Their Peers
“Lawyer of the Year” Honorees
Known as Ned to his friends and clients, Mr. Currie has been practicing law in the State of Mississippi since graduating from the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1976. In addition to eight years of teaching as an adjunct professor at the Mississippi College School of Law, Mr. Currie’s practice has run the gamut of insurance defense matters. He has tried numerous significant cases in the fields of personal injury, large loss claims, insurance coverage matters and bad faith. Mr...
Dick’s litigation and appellate practice focuses primarily on business and commercial disputes, employment law, education law, and civil rights cases that are typically resolved in federal court. He frequently appears in the U.S. District Courts for the Districts of Maine and New Hampshire and in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Dick devotes a significant portion of his practice to the representation of individuals with disabilities and their families, often in cases ari...
Gerald A. Sumida is a partner in Carlsmith Ball LLP's Honolulu office and Chair of the firm's Corporate & Business Practice Group. He concentrates on business structuring and operations, including corporate, limited liability company, joint venture and partnership matters; business acquisitions; sales and mergers; securities law; start-up company and venture capital financing; administrative and public utilities law; energy law, including energy project development and project finance; an...
James E. Arnold is recognized as one of Ohio's top trial lawyers. He was recognized by Best Lawyers as Central Ohio's "Securities Litigation Lawyer of the Year" in 2012, as the "Bet-The-Company Litigation Lawyer of the Year" in 2013, and as the "Intellectual Property Litigation Lawyer of the Year" in 2014. Since 2001 he has consistently been recognized by Best Lawyers in multiple fields, including bet-the-company, personal injury (plaintiffs and defense), commercial, intellectual property and...
David S. Gordon is a shareholder on the Real Estate and Land Use/Environmental teams at Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer, P.A. He represents developers, owners, users and other clients in all aspects of complex real estate transactions, with an emphasis on land acquisition and disposition, leasing, development approvals, redevelopment, construction contracts and the structuring of business entities. With regard to his financing practice, Mr. Gordon focuses on construction, interim and permanent...
"Ones to Watch" Recipients
Logan Chaney Abernathy is a Senior Managing Associate in Dentons Sirote’s Huntsville, Alabama office. She is a member of the Tax practice group. Logan’s practice focuses on tax controversy, tax litigation, and government investigations. Logan earned her JD magna cum laude from the University of Alabama School of Law, where she attended on a full academic scholarship. She received a BA in criminology summa cum laude from Mississippi State University, where she was a member of the W...
Emily is an associate attorney at Bercow Radell Fernandez Larkin & Tapanes. As a Miami native, Emily is passionate about her home town and has focused her legal practice on land use, zoning, and environmental matters throughout Miami-Dade County. Before law school, Emily majored in business management and minored in ecosystem science and policy with the goal of merging these two areas in her legal career. In law school, she focused on oral advocacy and local government law. Emily voluntee...
Jerry Cedrone is an associate in the firm’s Litigation Department and a member of its Appellate Litigation practice. Mr. Cedrone’s work focuses on appellate matters and complex commercial litigation; he has experience in a range of areas, including administrative law, constitutional law, and patent litigation. Mr. Cedrone has argued before the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second and Ninth Circuits, and has drafted and contributed to briefs in numerous state and federal appellate...
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