BUSINESS & TRANSACTIONS
TOP LAW FIRMS
FIRM SIZE TIERS
LARGE: more than 50 attorneys
Top firms were chosen based on the number of firm attorneys who have
been selected to the 2011 Super Lawyers list in business practice areas, as
well as a combination of metrics indicating the quality of those attorneys.
Quality factors that were considered included the number of years selected
to the list, inclusion on a top list and average blue ribbon panel score.
MEDIUM: 11-50 attorneys
SMALL: 2-10 attorneys
SOLO: 1 attorney
ALABAMA
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings
Helmsing Leach Herlong Newman
& Rouse
Silver Voit & Thompson
Ted Stuckenschneider
ALASKA
Davis Wright Tremaine
Birch Horton Bittner & Cherot
Hughes Gorski Seedorf Odsen
& Tervooren
David H. Bundy
ARIZONA
Greenberg Traurig
Engelman Berger
Weiss Brown
ARKANSAS
Friday Eldredge & Clark
Barrett & Deacon
Hopkins Law Firm
James F. Dowden
CONNECTICUT
Day Pitney
Zeisler & Zeisler
Coan Lewendon Gulliver & Miltenberger
Law Offices of Barbara H. Katz
DELAWARE
Richards Layton & Finger
Prickett Jones & Elliott
Abrams & Bayliss
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr
Schwartz & Ballen
FLORIDA
Holland & Knight
Stichter Riedel Blain & Prosser
Devine Goodman Rasco & Wells
Specie Law Firm
FIRM SPOTLIGHT
GEORGIA
King & Spalding
Bodker Ramsey Andrews Winograd
& Wildstein
Ledbetter Wanamaker Glass
HAWAII
Goodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel
Case Lombardi & Pettit
Wagner Choi & Verbrugge
IDAHO
Holland & Hart
Racine Olson Nye Budge & Bailey
Cosho Humphrey
Craig W. Christensen
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CALIFORNIA
Latham & Watkins
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Klee Tuchin Bogdanoff & Stern
Felderstein Fitzgerald Willoughby
& Pascuzzi
Alan D. Pedlar
BUTLER, SNOW, O’MARA, STEVENS & CANNADA
JACKSON, MISS.
COLORADO
Holland & Hart
Krendl Krendl Sachnoff & Way
Appel & Lucas
Anthony van Westrum
Butler, Snow, O’Mara, Stevens & Cannada’s regulatory compliance group has been
sought out by banking institutions since 1989, as it provides guidance for a variety
of legal issues. “We conduct a quarterly seminar aimed primarily for the benefit
of financial institution compliance officers and senior management, covering the
most important current events, changes in laws and regulations, [implementation
of] compliance programs,” says firm attorney Cliff Harrison. Butler Snow helps
clients with ongoing issues and prepares them for others that may arise later.
Membership in the regulatory compliance group is especially beneficial for
community banks, which may not have an extensive compliance staff. Butler Snow
also covers a wide array of other practice areas, including commercial transactions,
mergers and acquisitions, and tax and corporate law. Greg Smithers, president of
IBERIABANK’s Tennessee Market, says the attorneys at Butler Snow are “extremely
competent, extremely professional and extremely detail-oriented.”
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