September 5, 2006 – Portland, ME – Twenty-eight attorneys from Preti
Flaherty’s offices in Portland, Augusta and Concord, NH have been selected by
their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2007
(Copyright 2006 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, S.C.). Since its
inception in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the
definitive guide to legal excellence in the United States. Of the seventeen
attorneys chosen, eleven reside in the Greater Portland area.
The 28 selected attorneys are:
Augusta Office:
Severin M. Beliveau (Administrative, Corporate and Government Relations
Law)
Anthony W. Buxton (Communications and Energy Law)
Charles F. Dingman
(Administrative Law)
Joseph G. Donahue (Energy
Law)
Michael J. Gentile (Real Estate Law)
Bruce C. Gerrity
(Administrative and Franchise
Law)
James C. Pitney (Public Finance Law)
Ann R. Robinson
(Administrative
Law)
Donald J. Sipe (Energy
Law)
Concord Office:
John M. Sullivan (Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law; Corporate Law)
Portland Office:
Timothy J. Bryant (Franchise Law)
Peter S. Carlisle (Sports Law)
John
P. Doyle, Jr. (Health Care Law)
Gregory P. Hansel (Commercial
Litigation)
Evan M. Hansen (Workers’ Compensation Law)
Michael Kaplan
(Maritime
Law)
Susan
E. LoGiudice (Corporate Law)
Michael G. Messerschmidt
(Labor and Employment
Law)
Robert O. Newton (Personal Injury
Litigation)
Christopher
D. Nyhan (Personal Injury
Litigation)
Harold C. Pachios (Corporate
Law)
Jonathan S. Piper – (First Amendment Law)
Daniel
Rapaport (Personal Injury
Litigation)
Dennis C. Sbrega (Real
Estate Law)
Sigmund D. Schutz (First Amendment
Law)
Michael L. Sheehan (Tax
Law)
Eric P. Stauffer –
(Corporate
Law)
David
B. Van Slyke - (Environmental Law)
One
of Northern New England’s largest law firms, Preti Flaherty has built a
sophisticated practice, with an international reach, dedicated service and
multi-state litigation experience. Because Best Lawyers is based on an
exhaustive peer-review survey in which 18,000 leading attorneys throughout the
country cast more than a half 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
Preti Flaherty has offices in Portland, Bath and Augusta, Maine, Concord,
N.H., and Boston, Mass. 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. For more information
please visit www.preti.com.
