Best Lawyers, a national legal ranking service, has recognized 17 Barnes & Thornburg attorneys as Lawyers of the Year in their respective areas of practice and geographic locations. The honorees include:
Grand Rapids
- Patrick E. Mears, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
- Tracy T. Larsen, Corporate Law
Indianapolis
- Anne N. DePrez, Bet-the-Company Litigation
- Robert T. Grand, Municipal Law
- Donald E. Knebel, Intellectual Property
- Wayne C. Kreuscher, Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants
- John R. Maley, Litigation - Labor & Employment
- Thomas M. Maxwell, Banking and Finance Law
- Daniel W. McGill, Energy Law
- Mariana Richmond, Immigration Law
- Timothy J. Riffle, Litigation & Controversy - Tax
- James R. Sweeney II, Litigation - Patent
- Claudia V. Swhier, Financial Services Regulation Law
South Bend
- Philip J. Faccenda, Jr., Public Finance Law
- Gerald F. Lutkus, Labor Law - Management
- Richard L. Mintz, Corporate Law
Washington, D.C.
- D. William Moreau, Jr., Education Law
Best Lawyers designates "Lawyers of the Year" in high-profile legal specialties in large legal communities. Only a single lawyer in each specialty in each community is being honored as the "Lawyer of the Year." The lawyers being honored as "Lawyers of the Year" have received particularly high ratings in Best Lawyers surveys by earning a high level of respect among their peers for their abilities, professionalism, and integrity.
Best Lawyers compiles its lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers.
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