COLUMBIA, S.C. (Aug. 31, 2012) – Ninety-six Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough attorneys in more than 40 practices areas have been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2013 (Copyright 2012 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, S.C.).  

Lawyers are selected for inclusion based on a peer-review survey. Lawyers are not allowed to pay a fee to be listed. Best Lawyers is based on confidential evaluations by and interviews of the top attorneys in the country.

The Atlanta lawyers listed are:  

• Taylor T. Daly, Mediation
• Richard B. Herzog, Jr., Commercial Litigation
• Richard K. Hines V, Personal Injury Litigation, Product Liability Litigation - Defendants
• Stanley S. Jones, Jr., Government Relations Law, Healthcare Law
• S. Wade Malone, Commercial Litigation
• Richard B. North, Jr., Product Liability Litigation
• Sara S. Turnipseed, Environmental Law, Litigation - Environmental

The Boston lawyers listed are:

• Juliane Balliro, Civil Rights Law, Criminal Defense: Non-White Collar, and Criminal Defense, White Collar.
• Jeffrey S. Patterson, Commercial Litigation

The Charleston, S.C., lawyers listed are:

• Bill Bobo, Real Estate Law
• Michael T. Cole, Product Liability Litigation - Defendants
• Jennifer Davis, Tax Law
• John B. Hagerty, Corporate Law
• Cynthia B. Hutto, Healthcare Law
• John McElwaine, Trademark Law
• Elizabeth Scott Moise, Insurance Law
• Thomas F. Moran, Tax Law
• Charles R. Norris, Insurance Law
• G. Mark Phillips, Product Liability Litigation- Defendants
• Newman Jackson Smith, Environmental Law, Government Relations, Environmental Litigation, Water Law
• John C. von Lehe, Jr., Appellate Law, Tax Law

The Charlotte, N.C., attorneys listed are

• John Nicholas (Jay) Suhr, Jr., Securitization and Structured Finance

The Columbia, S.C., lawyers listed are:

• Stuart M. Andrews, Jr., Health Care Law
• George S. Bailey, Trusts and Estates Litigation, Tax Law, Trusts and Estates
• Edward D. Barnhill, Jr., Real Estate Law, Real Estate Litigation
• C. Mitchell Brown, Appellate Law, Commercial Litigation
• George B. Cauthen, Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Bankruptcy Litigation
• Karen Aldridge Crawford, Environmental Law, Environmental Litigation
• Christopher J. Daniels, Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants, Product Liability Litigation - Defendants
• Clarence Davis, Commercial Litigation, Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants
• Travis Dayhuff, Healthcare Law
• Gus M. Dixon, Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law, Securities/Capital Markets Law
• Dwight F. Drake, Government Relations Law
• David E. Dukes, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Patent Litigation, Securities Litigation, Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants, Product Liability Litigation - Defendants
• Mark C. Dukes, Intellectual Property Litigation, Technology Law
• Debbie Durban, Litigation – Labor & Employment
• Carl B. Epps III, Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants
• Robert W. Foster, Jr., Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants
• Daniel J. Fritze, Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law, Securities/Capital Markets Law, Securities Regulation
• James C. Gray, Jr., Administrative Law, Insurance Law
• Sue Erwin Harper, Employment Law – Management, Litigation – Labor & Employment
• Alice V. Harris, Healthcare Law
• Bernard F. Hawkins, Jr., Environmental Law, Environmental Litigation
• P. Mason Hogue, Jr., Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Litigation, Securities/Capital Markets Law
• William C. Hubbard, Commercial Litigation, Banking & Finance Litigation, Mass Tort Litigation /Class Actions - Defendants
• S. Keith Hutto, Commercial Litigation, Franchise Law, Banking & Finance Litigation
• Kenneth Allan Janik, Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law, ERISA Litigation, Tax Law
• J. Mark Jones, Commercial Litigation
• Craig Killen, Intellectual Property Litigation
• Frank B.B. Knowlton, Litigation – Bankruptcy, Mortgage Banking Foreclosure Law, Product Liability Litigation - Defendants
• D. Larry Kristinik III, Commercial Litigation, Securities Litigation
• John F. Kuppens, Commercial Litigation, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants
• James K. Lehman, Commercial Litigation, Environmental Litigation, Mergers & Acquisitions Litigation,  Securities Litigation
• Steven A. McKelvey, Jr., Franchise Law
• John T. Moore, Financial Services Regulation Law
• Stephen G. Morrison, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Product Liability Litigation - Defendants
• Edward W. Mullins, Jr., Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants
• Edward Poliakoff, Government Relations
• James Rogers, Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions - Defendants
• R. Bruce Shaw, Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions - Defendants, Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants, Product Liability Litigation - Defendants
• B. Rush Smith III, Commercial Litigation, Banking & Finance Litigation, Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Defendants, Bet-the-Company Litigation
• Stacy Taylor, Environmental Law
• David G. Traylor, Jr., Mass Tort/Class Actions – Defendants, Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants
• Ralston B. Vanzant II, Real Estate Law
• Daniel J. Westbrook, Healthcare Law
• George B. Wolfe, Government Relations Law

The Greenville, S.C., attorneys listed are: 

• William S. Brown, Commercial Litigation
• John M. Campbell, Tax Law
• Lane Davis, Commercial Litigation, Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants
• William H. Foster, Employment Law – Management
• Neil E. Grayson, Mergers and Acquisitions, Securities/Capital Markets Law, Securities Regulation
• John M. Jennings, Corporate Governance, Mergers and Acquisitions, Mergers & Acquisitions Litigation, Securities Litigation  
• Neil Jones, Intellectual Property Litigation
• Timothy E. Madden, Family Law
• A. Marvin Quattlebaum, Jr., Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Insurance Law
• Bo Russell, Mergers and Acquisitions, Venture Capital Law
• Rivers S. Stilwell, Commercial Litigation, Construction Litigation

The Huntington, W.Va., attorneys listed are:

• Marc E. Williams, Appellate Law, Banking & Finance Litigation, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Environmental Litigation, Labor & Employment Litigation, Legal Malpractice Law - Defendants, Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions - Defendants, Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants, Product Liability Litigation - Defendants, and Railroad Law. 
• Robert L. Massie, Insurance Law, Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions - Defendants, Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants, Product Liability Litigation - Defendants, and Railroad Law.
• Melissa Foster Bird – Railroad Law

The Myrtle Beach, S.C. attorneys listed are:

• James F. McCrackin, Trusts and Estates  
• John Stewart, Jr., Real Estate Law

The Nashville attorneys listed are:

• Jason I. Epstein, Corporate Law, Information Technology Law, Privacy and Data Security Law, Technology Law
• Laurence M. Papel, Commercial Finance Law, Corporate Law, Land Use & Zoning Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law, Real Estate Law
• David J. White, Banking and Finance Law, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Commercial Finance Law, Public Finance Law, Real Estate Law 

The Raleigh attorneys listed are:

• Barry D. Alexander, Healthcare Law
• David A. Harlow, Intellectual Property Litigation
• Wallace C. "Chuck" Hollowell III, Healthcare Law
• Noah H. Huffstetler III, Administrative Law/Regulatory Law, Appellate Law,  Bet-the-Company Law, Commercial Litigation, Healthcare Law, Antitrust Litigation, Regulatory Enforcement (SEC, Telecom, Energy) Litigation
• Charles H. Mercer, Tax Law
• Ross E. Sallade, Healthcare Law
• George M. Teague, Government Relations Law

The Tallahassee attorney listed is:

• Dean Bunch, Franchise Law  

The Winston-Salem attorneys listed are:

• Denise Gunter, Antitrust, Antitrust Litigation, Healthcare Law
• Richard B. Howington, Corporate, Healthcare Law
• Mark Stafford, Commercial Litigation

Established in 1897, Nelson Mullins has more than 430 attorneys and government relations professionals with offices in Atlanta, Boston, Nashville, Tallahassee, West Virginia, Washington, D.C., and throughout the Carolinas. For more information on the Firm, go to www.nelsonmullins.com, or call 803.255.9794.

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