141 Ogletree Deakins Attorneys Named to Best Lawyers List

ATLANTA, GA – September 8, 2011 – Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. (Ogletree Deakins), one of the nation’s largest labor and employment law firms representing management, announced today that 141 of the firm’s attorneys across 32 of the firm’s offices have been named to the peer-review publication, The Best Lawyers in America 2012® (Copyright 2011 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, S.C.).

Ogletree Deakins attorneys appearing on the 2012 Best Lawyers list include:

Atlanta, Georgia
John K. Anderson • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management
Margaret H. Campbell • Litigation – Labor and Employment
Patrick F. Clark • Employment Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment
A. Craig Cleland • Litigation – Labor and Employment
Homer L. Deakins, Jr. • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management
Dara L. DeHaven • Employment Law – Management
William A. Gray • Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
Kevin Hishta • Labor Law – Management
Robert O. Sands • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management
Rebecca L. Sigmund • Immigration Law
 
Austin, Texas
Scott A. Brutocao • Employment Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment
Michael W. Fox • Employment Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment
Bruce A. Griggs • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management

Birmingham, Alabama
Beverly P. Baker • Employment Law – Management
Richard Carrigan • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment
Alysonne Hatfield • Litigation – Labor and Employment
Harry L. Hopkins • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment
Peyton Lacy, Jr. • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment
Timothy A. Palmer • Employment Law; Litigation – Labor and Employment
James C. Pennington • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management; Education Law
J. Trent Scofield  • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment
David Warren • Litigation – Labor and Employment 

Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Margaret Carroll Alli • Employment Law – Management; Education Law; Litigation – Labor and Employment
Thomas A. Cattel • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management
Richard Hurford • Litigation – Labor and Employment
Richard M. Tuyn • Employment Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment

Boston, Massachusetts
Joshua M. Davis • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management
Danielle Y. Vanderzanden • Litigation – Labor and Employment

Charleston, South Carolina
Eric C. Schweitzer • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management; Environmental Law; Litigation – Environmental

Charlotte, North Carolina
James B. Spears, Jr. • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management

Chicago, Illinois
Robert P. Casey • Labor Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment
Michael H. Cramer • Litigation – Labor and Employment
Thomas E. Deer • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management
Randolph E. Ruff • Construction Law; Litigation – Construction
Arthur B. Smith, Jr. • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management

Cleveland, Ohio
Michelle R. Arendt • Employment Law – Management
Thomas H. Barnard • Labor Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment
Wade M. Fricke • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management
Bruce G. Hearey • Commercial Litigation; Litigation – Labor and Employment
Stanley Dan Pace • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management 
Kurt Smidansky • Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
Ellen Toth • Litigation – Labor and Employment

Columbia, South Carolina
Stephen K. Benjamin • Government Relations Practice
James Fowles • Employment Law – Management
Katherine Dudley Helms • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment
Leigh M. Nason • Employment Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment
Elizabeth B. Partlow • Environmental Law; Litigation – Environmental
Charles T. Speth, II • Employment Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment
 
Dallas, Texas
Rodolfo R. Agraz • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management
Michael R. Buchanan • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management
Ron Chapman, Jr. • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment
Dan C. Dargene • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment
Bryant S. McFall • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment
John E. McFall • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment
Denise Cotter Villani • Employment Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment

Denver, Colorado
John T. Combs • Immigration Law
David D. Powell, Jr. • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment
 
Greenville, South Carolina
Thomas M. Christina • Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law; Litigation – ERISA
Donald A. Cockrill • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management
John G. Creech • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment
J. Howard Daniel • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management
Joel A. Daniel • Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
L. Gray Geddie, Jr. • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management; Commercial Litigation; Bet-the-Company Litigation; Litigation – Labor and Employment; Litigation Environmental
Thomas G. Greaves, III • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management
Knox L. Haynsworth, Jr. • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management
Phillip A. Kilgore • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management
Robert O. King • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management
R. Allison Phinney • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment
Michael M. Shetterly • Employment Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment
Lewis T. Smoak • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management
J. Hamilton Stewart, III • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment
Mark M. Stubley • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment
Fred W. Suggs, Jr. • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment
Penny C. Wofford • Employment Law – Management
Stephen R. Woods  • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment
M. Baker Wyche, III • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment

Houston, Texas
Jeffrey C. Londa • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment
Michael D. Mitchell • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management
J. Alfred Southerland  • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management

Indianapolis, Indiana
Charles B. Baldwin • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management
Kim F. Ebert • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment
Todd J. Kaiser • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management; Commercial Litigation; Litigation – Labor and Employment
Brian L. McDermott • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment
Danuta Bembenista Panich • Labor Law – Management
Kenneth B. Siepman • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management
 
Kansas City, Missouri
Donald S. Prophete • Employment Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment

Las Vegas, Nevada
Stephen C. Yohay • Construction Law

Memphis, Tennessee
Donna K. Fisher • Employment Law – Management
Thomas L. Henderson • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment
Charles V. Holmes • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management
Frederick J. Lewis • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment
 
Miami, Florida
David M. DeMaio • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management
Christopher P. Hammon • Employment Law – Management
William R. Radford • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management

Morristown, New Jersey
David A. Copus • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management
Mark Diana • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management
Carmen J. DiMaria • Employment Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment
Peter O. Hughes • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment
Sharon P. Margello • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment
Richard C. Mariani • Employment Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment
Cheryl M. Stanton • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management
Patrick M. Stanton • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment

Nashville, Tennessee
Keith D. Frazier • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management
Richard R. Parker • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management

New Orleans, Louisiana
Steven Hymowitz • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment
Mark N. Mallery • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management

Phoenix, Arizona
Joseph T. Clees • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management
L. Eric Dowell • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
John C. Artz • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management
Maria Greco Danaher • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management; Commercial Litigation; Litigation – Labor and Employment
James Glunt • Litigation – Labor and Employment
W. Scott Hardy • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment
Peter D. Post • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment

Portland, Oregon
Jathan W. Janove • Employment Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment
Leah Lively • Employment Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment

Raleigh, North Carolina
John S. Burgin • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment
Gretchen W. Ewalt • Employment Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment
Thomas A. Farr • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management
C. Matthew Keen • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management
Gregory P. McGuire • Employment Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment
Bruce A. Petesch • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management
Robert A. Sar • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management
Phillip J. Strach • Employment Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment
 
Ridgeland, Mississippi
Herbert C. Ehrhardt • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment
Timothy W. Lindsay • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management
 
San Antonio, Texas
Robert E. Bettac • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment
E. Burke Huber • Employment Law – Management
Lawrence D. Smith • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management

St. Louis, Missouri
Rodney A. Harrison • Litigation – Labor and Employment
James M. Paul • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment

Tampa, Florida
Tony B. Griffin • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment
William Grob • Employment Law – Management
Edmund J. McKenna • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment
Tampa, Florida (con’t)
Karen Morinelli • Labor Law – Management
Grant D. Petersen • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment
Phillip B. Russell • Litigation – Labor and Employment
Kevin D. Zwetsch • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment

Tucson, Arizona
James K. Mackie • Labor – Management; Employment Law – Management
Tibor Nagy, Jr. • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment

Washington, DC
Harold P. Coxson, Jr. • Labor Law – Management; Employment Law – Management
Michael T. Heenan • Litigation – Labor and Employment 

About Ogletree Deakins
Ogletree Deakins is the nation’s third-largest labor and employment law firm, representing management in all types of employment-related legal matters. The firm has more than 550 lawyers located in 40 offices from Miami to Los Angeles. In addition to handling labor and employment law matters, the firm has thriving practices focused on business immigration, employee benefits, and workplace safety and health law. Ogletree Deakins represents a diverse range of clients, including more than half of the Fortune 50 corporations in the United States. For more information, please contact Ryan King, public relations manager, at (404) 870-1742.

About Best Lawyers in America
The Best Lawyers in America was first published in 1983 and is the oldest and most respected legal referral guide in the United States. Best Lawyers surveys thousands of top attorneys in the United States, who confidentially evaluate the legal abilities of their professional peers. The guide includes more than 41,000 attorneys covering all 50 states and the District of Columbia.