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More Than 70 Vorys Attorneys Included on 2015 Ohio Super Lawyers and Rising Stars List

Vorys is pleased to announce that 74 attorneys from the firm have been named 2015 Ohio Super Lawyers and Rising Stars.

Super Lawyers Magazine distinguishes the top five percent of attorneys in Ohio in more than 70 practice areas, and recognizes those who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement as Super Lawyers.  Forty-nine Vorys attorneys were named 2015 Ohio Super Lawyers.

Rising Stars are chosen by their peers as being among the most recognizable up-and-coming lawyers in Ohio. Twenty-five Vorys attorneys were named 2015 Ohio Rising Stars.

The Vorys Super Lawyers and Rising Stars are listed by office with their practice area below.

Columbus Super Lawyers:

  • G. Ross Bridgman - Health Care
  • Perry Doran – General Litigation
  • Mary Ellen Fairfield - Employment and Labor
  • David Hardymon (retired) - Business Litigation
  • Robert Harris - Employment and Labor
  • Reginald Jackson - Bankruptcy and Creditor/Debtor Rights
  • Benita Kahn - Technology Transactions
  • John Keller - Energy and Natural Resources
  • Allen Kinzer - Employment and Labor
  • William Kloss, Jr. - General Litigation
  • Mark Knueve - Employment and Labor
  • John Landolfi - Business Litigation
  • Michael Long - Business Litigation
  • Theodore Mattis - Personal Injury Defense: Medical Malpractice Litigation
  • Daniel Minor - Real Estate
  • Robert Minor - Workers' Compensation
  • William Porter, II - General Litigation
  • Thomas Ruby - Banking
  • Richard Schuster - Class Action/Mass Torts
  • Bradley Sinnott - Workers' Compensation
  • Carl Smallwood - Civil Litigation Defense
  • Andrew Smith - Employment and Labor
  • Elizabeth T. Smith – General Litigation
  • David Swift - Estate Planning and Probate
  • Brent Taggart - Personal Injury Defense: Products
  • Robert Tait - Civil Litigation Defense
  • Thomas Tarpy - Employment and Labor
  • Kristin Watt – Environmental
  • Nina Webb-Lawton – General Litigation
  • Bob Webner – General Litigation

Columbus Rising Stars:

  • Daniel Clark – Employment and Labor
  • Jonathan Corwin - General Litigation
  • Thomas Fusonie - Eminent Domain
  • Rick Grady – Construction
  • John Kuhl - Eminent Domain
  • Timothy McGranor - Business Litigation
  • Natalie McLaughlin - Employment and Labor
  • Martha Brewer Motley - General Litigation
  • Bruce Paige - Corporate
  • Tyler Pensyl - General Litigation

Cincinnati Super Lawyers:

  • Kent Britt - General Litigation
  • Daniel Buckley - Business Litigation
  • Nathaniel Lampley - Employment and Labor
  • Mark Norman - Environmental
  • Eric Richardson - General Litigation
  • Michael Schwartz - Estate Planning & Probate
  • Victor Walton, Jr. - Business Litigation
  • Glenn Whitaker - Business Litigation

Cincinnati Rising Stars:

  • Colleen Devanney - General Litigation
  • Whitney Gibson - Business Litigation
  • Joseph Harper - General Litigation
  • Jacob Mahle - Litigation
  • Mark Noel - Trusts and Estate
  • Emily Pan - Estate Planning
  • Elizabeth Weinewuth – General Litigation
  • Kristin Woeste – Real Estate

Cleveland Super Lawyers:

  • Barton Bixenstine - Employment and Labor
  • Michael Garvin – Intellectual Property Litigation
  • James McMonagle – Corporate
  • Anthony O'Malley - Business Litigation
  • Drew Parobek - Bankruptcy and Creditor/Debtor Rights
  • David Tocco - Business Litigation

Cleveland Rising Stars:

  • Rajeev Adlakha – General Litigation
  • Blake Beachler – Corporate Law
  • Jennie Church – Real Estate
  • Liana Hollingsworth - Labor and Employment
  • Heather Lutz- General Litigation

Akron Super Lawyers:

  • F. Daniel Balmert - Employment and Labor
  • Thomas Crookes - Employment and Labor
  • Philip Downey - General Litigation
  • Jay Porter - Real Estate
  • Mark Watkins – Intellectual Property

Akron Rising Stars:

  • Erin Dickinson - General Litigation
  • Elia Woyt - Bankruptcy and Creditor/Debtor Rights

About Vorys: Vorys was established in 1909 and has grown to be one of the largest Ohio-based law firms with nearly 375 attorneys in seven offices in Columbus, Cincinnati, Cleveland and Akron, Ohio; Washington, D.C.; Houston, Texas; and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Vorys currently ranks as one of the 200 largest law firms in the United States according to American Lawyer magazine. 

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