Phelps Dunbar Louisiana Partners Recognized by Super Lawyers Magazine

December 29, 2009

Phelps Dunbar partners in the firm's New Orleans and Baton Rouge offices were recently recognized in the 2010 Louisiana Super Lawyers publication. Louisiana Super Lawyers recognizes attorneys as outstanding lawyers in Louisiana for attaining a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. Super Lawyers magazine names attorneys in each state who received the highest point totals, as chosen by their peers and through the independent research of Law & Politics, who performs a complex and thorough polling, research and selection process from which the top five percent are identified.

The following Phelps Dunbar partners were named on the "Louisiana Super Lawyers 2010" list:

NEW ORLEANS, LA

• M. Nan Alessandra - Employment & Labor
• Jane E. Armstrong - Employee Benefits/ERISA
• Brent B. Barriere - Business Litigation
• John A. Bolles - Transportation/Maritime
• Kim M. Boyle - Employment & Labor
• Patrick J. Butler, Jr. - Mergers & Acquisitions
• Philip deV. Claverie, Sr. - Banking
• Mark A. Fullmer - Mergers & Acquisitions
• George M. Gilly - Transportation/Maritime
• George B. Hall, Jr. - Insurance Coverage
• Sessions Ault Hootsell, III - Business Litigation
• David B. Lawton - Personal Injury Plaintiff: General
• John P. Manard, Jr. - Class Action/Mass Torts
• Robert P. McCleskey, Jr. - Transportation/Maritime
• William J. Riviere - Transportation/Maritime
• Harry Rosenberg - Business Litigation
• Mary Ellen Roy - First Amendment/Media/Advertising
• Hugh R. Straub - Transportation/Maritime
• James A. Stuckey - Real Estate
• Brian D. Wallace - Transportation/Maritime

BATON ROUGE, LA

• Michael D. Hunt - Construction Litigation
• H. Alston Johnson, III - Appellate
• Thomas H. Kiggans - Employment & Labor
• Jeffery W. Koonce - Tax
• Steven J. Levine - Environmental
• Richard E. Matheny - Tax
• Randy P. Roussel - Real Estate

Phelps Dunbar is a regional law firm of approximately 250 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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