Phelps Dunbar LLP Attorneys Named The Best Lawyers in America® 2008

September 07, 2007

Forty-five Phelps Dunbar attorneys from six of the firm's regional office locations in Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas and Florida have been named in the 2008 issue of The Best Lawyers in America.  Phelps Dunbar attorneys are listed in 28 separate practice areas in the 2008 Best Lawyers publication.

Baton Rouge, LA

• Michael D. Hunt - Commercial Litigation
• H. Alston Johnson III - Appellate Law; Workers' Compensation Law
• F. Scott Kaiser - Commercial Litigation
• Thomas H. Kiggans - Labor and Employment Law
• Marshall M. Redmon - Professional Malpractice Law

New Orleans, LA

• M. Nan Alessandra - Alternative Dispute Resolution; Labor and Employment Law
• Jane E. Armstrong - Employee Benefits Law
• Brent B. Barriere - Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law; Commercial Litigation
• John A. Bolles - Maritime Law
• Philip deV. Claverie, Sr. - Banking Law; Real Estate Law
• Richard N. Dicharry - Insurance Law
• Mark A. Fullmer - Corporate Law; Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Securities Law; Venture Capital Law
• George B. Hall, Jr. - Insurance Law
• Stephen P. Hall - Insurance Law
• Sessions Ault Hootsell III - Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law
• Harry Rosenberg - Commercial Litigation
• Mary Ellen Roy - First Amendment Law
• Bruce V. Schewe - Antitrust Law
• James A. Stuckey - Banking Law; Equipment Finance Law; Real Estate Law
• Harvey D. Wagar III - Banking Law; Real Estate Law
• Brian D. Wallace - Gaming Law
• Alan C. Wolf - Energy Law

Jackson, MS

• Reuben V. Anderson - Alternative Dispute Resolution; Commercial Litigation; Legal Malpractice Law
• Fred L. Banks, Jr. - Alternative Dispute Resolution; Appellate Law; Commercial Litigation
• Ross F. Bass, Jr. - Commercial Litigation; Legal Malpractice Law
• Heather J. Camp - Gaming Law
• Gary E. Friedman - Labor and Employment Law
• Jerome C. Hafter - Corporate Law
• E. Clifton Hodge, Jr. - Banking Law; Commercial Litigation; Corporate Law; Mergers & Acquisitions Law; Securities Law
• Delbert Hosemann, Jr. - Employee Benefits Law
• Dan M. McDaniel, Jr. - Gaming Law
• Luther T. Munford - Appellate Law; Commercial Litigation; First Amendment Law
• Douglas C. Noble - Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law
• James W. O'Mara - Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law
• W. Thomas Siler, Jr. - Labor and Employment Law
• Frank W. Trapp - Non-White-Collar Criminal Defense; White-Collar Criminal Defense
• Stephen M. Wilson - Corporate Law

Tupelo, MS

• F. M. Bush III - Corporate Law; Health Care Law; Mergers & Acquisitions Law; Trusts and Estates
• Mark N. Halbert - Labor and Employment Law
• Jeffrey S. Moore - Health Care Law

Houston, TX

• John L. Schouest - Maritime Law

Tampa, FL

• Harvey S. Kauget - Information Technology Law; Intellectual Property Law
• Barbara H. Luikart - Real Estate Law
• Dennis M. McClelland - Labor and Employment Law
• John E. Phillips - Labor and Employment Law; Commercial Litigation

The 2008 edition of Best Lawyers, which will be released in print in December 2007, is based on more than two million confidential evaluations by the top attorneys in the nation. Best Lawyers also conducted thousands of extensive telephone interviews with leading attorneys throughout its balloting process.

Phelps Dunbar is a regional law firm of approximately 260 attorneys, with offices in New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Jackson, Tupelo, and Gulfport, Mississippi; Houston, Texas; Tampa, Florida; and London, England.

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