PORTLAND, Maine (August 6, 2010) — Thirty-four Preti Flaherty attorneys from its offices in Portland and Augusta, Maine, and Concord, N.H., have been selected by their peers for inclusion in the soon-to-be-released new edition of The Best Lawyers in America®, universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence in the United States.
Inclusion in the 2011 edition of The Best Lawyers in America is considered a top honor as less than three percent of the nation's lawyers are listed in the guide, which are chosen by their peers and organized by practice area.
The 34 selected attorneys include:
From the Augusta, Maine office:
Severin M. Beliveau for Administrative Law and Government Relations Law; Anthony W. Buxton for Energy Law; Virginia E. Davis for Land Use & Zoning Law; Charles F. Dingman for Administrative Law & Health Law; Joseph G. Donahue for Administrative Law, Communications Law and Energy Law; Michael J. Gentle for Real Estate Law; Bruce C. Gerrity for Franchise Law and Administrative Law; James C. Pitney, Jr., for Public Finance Law; Ann R. Robinson for Administrative Law; and Donald J. Sipe for Energy Law.
From the Concord, New Hampshire office:
Simon C. Leeming for Real Estate Law; Daniel P. Luker for Corporate Law; Mark H. Puffer for Municipal Law; and John M. Sullivan for Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law, and Corporate Law.
From the Portland, Maine office:
Timothy J. Bryant for Franchise Law; Peter S. Carlisle for Sports Law; John P. Doyle, Jr. for Health Care Law; Alfred C. Frawley III for Intellectual Property Law; Gregory P. Hansel for Commercial Litigation, Antitrust Law and Mass Tort Litigation; Evan M. Hansen for Workers' Compensation Law; Michael Kaplan for Maritime Law; Nelson J. Larkins for Workers' Compensation Law; Susan E. LoGuidice for Corporate Law; Michael G. Messerschmidt for Labor and Employment Law; Christopher D. Nyhan for Medical Malpractice Law and Personal Injury Litigation; Harold C. Pachios for Corporate Law; Jonathan S. Piper for Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation and First Amendment Law; Neal F. Pratt for Construction Law; Daniel Rapaport for Alternative Dispute Resolution, Medical Malpractice Law and Personal Injury Litigation; Dennis C. Sbrega for Banking Law and Real Estate Law; Sigmund D. Schutz for First Amendment Law; Michael L. Sheehan for Corporate Law and Tax Law; Eric P. Stauffer for Corporate Law; and David B. Van Slyke for Environmental Law and Randall B. Weill for Antitrust Law.
The nationally recognized list, which as been published since 1983, is now published each year by Woodward/White, Inc. of Aiken, South Carolina.
Because Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which more than 25,000 leading attorneys cast almost two million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their specialties, and because lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed, 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."
About Preti Flaherty
Preti Flaherty has offices in Portland and Augusta, Maine, Concord, N.H., Boston, Mass , Bedminster, N.J. and Washington, D.C. With more than 85 attorneys, the firm counsels clients in the areas of business law, energy, environmental, estate planning, health care, intellectual property, labor and employment, legislative and regulatory, litigation, technology and telecommunications. More information about the firm is available at www.preti.com.
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