Super Lawyers Recognizes 58 Robinson Bradshaw Attorneys for 2017

Super Lawyers named 58 Robinson Bradshaw attorneys Super Lawyers and Rising Stars for 2017. This accounts for almost half the attorneys at the firm.

Robinson Bradshaw’s additional 2017 Super Lawyers accolades include:

• Robinson Bradshaw had more attorneys included in the Top 25 Charlotte Super Lawyers than any other firm; honorees are Robert W. Fuller, Robert E. Harrington, Angelique R. Vincent-Hamacher, John R. Wester and David C. Wright III.
• Caroline Wannamaker Sink and Vincent-Hamacher were named to the Top 50 Women North Carolina Super Lawyers.
• Fuller, Harrington, Vincent-Hamacher, Wester and Wright were also named to the Top 100 North Carolina Super Lawyers.

Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement among more than 70 practice areas. Lawyers are selected through independent research, peer nominations and peer evaluations.

The 39 Robinson Bradshaw attorneys selected as 2017 Super Lawyers are:

• Martin L. Brackett Jr. – Criminal Defense: White Collar
• Patrick S. Bryant – Securities & Corporate Finance
• Peter C. Buck – Mergers & Acquisitions
• Stokely G. Caldwell Jr. – Entertainment & Sports
• Garland S. Cassada – Business Litigation
• Stephen M. Cox – Business Litigation
• Steven DeGeorge – Insurance Coverage
• John M. Fogg – Securities & Corporate Finance
• Robert W. Fuller – Business Litigation (Top 25 in Charlotte)
• John B. Garver III – Health Care
• Julie Zydron Griggs – Estate & Probate
• Robert E. Harrington – Business Litigation (Top 25 in Charlotte)
• Edward F. Hennessey IV – Business Litigation
• Thomas P. Holderness – Business Litigation
• Graham D. Holding Jr. – Estate & Probate
• Douglas M. Jarrell – Business Litigation
• Charles E. Johnson – Employment & Labor
• Jonathan C. Krisko – Business Litigation
• Haynes P. Lea – Business/Corporate
• Christopher W. Loeb – Real Estate
• Edwin F. Lucas III – Government Finance
• Stephen M. Lynch – Securities & Corporate Finance
• A. Ward McKeithen – Business Litigation
• Lawrence C. Moore III – Antitrust Litigation
• J. Dickson Phillips III – Business Litigation
• Jane S. Ratteree – Real Estate
• Allen K. Robertson – Government Finance
• Russell M. Robinson II – Business/Corporate
• S. Graham Robinson – Banking
• D. Blaine Sanders – Business Litigation
• David M. Schilli – Bankruptcy: Business
• Caroline Wannamaker Sink – Real Estate (Top 50 Women in North Carolina)
• Herman Spence III – Tax
• William W. Toole – Environmental
• Brent A. Torstrick – Real Estate
• Angelique R. Vincent-Hamacher – Employment & Labor (Top 25 in Charlotte)
• John R. Wester – Business Litigation (Top 25 in Charlotte)
• David C. Wright III – Business Litigation (Top 25 in Charlotte)
• Julian H. Wright Jr. – Employment & Labor

The following 19 Robinson Bradshaw attorneys were named Rising Stars for 2017, which recognizes top lawyers who are 40 years old or younger, or who have been practicing law for 10 or fewer years. No more than 2.5 percent of the lawyers in a state are recognized.

• Fitz E. Barringer – Business Litigation
• Carl S. Beattie – Business/Corporate
• Glen E. Caplan – Business/Corporate
• James R. Cass – Banking
• Brian L. Church – Business Litigation
• Cary B. Davis – Business Litigation
• Ashley C. Durbin – Mergers & Acquisitions
• Jessica Mering Hardin – Estate & Probate
• Pearlynn G. Houck – Business Litigation
• Susan M. Huber – Employment & Labor
• Jennifer Csik Hutchens – Health Care
• David C. Kimball – Business Litigation
• Brandon M. Lofton – Government Finance
• Henry E. Riffe III – Business/Corporate
• Ty E. Shaffer – Business Litigation
• Emily S. Sherlock – Environmental
• Andrew W.J. Tarr – Creditor Debtor Rights
• Matthew F. Tilley – Business Litigation
• Jason L. Wright – Securities & Corporate Finance