Phelps Dunbar Partners Recognized by Super Lawyers Magazine

January 18, 2008

Over the past year, 42 attorneys in six of the firm's offices were recognized as outstanding lawyers by Super Lawyers magazine for attaining a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The publication Super Lawyers lists attorneys in private practice, prosecutors, in-house counsel and public service. Selected attorneys are chosen by Law & Politics, the parent company publication, who performs a complex polling, research, and selection process to identify the top five percent in each state.

The following 25 Louisiana attorneys were recognized in the January 2008 issue:

NEW ORLEANS, LA

Lee R. Adler	Real Estate
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	Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights
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
James A. Stuckey	Real Estate
Harvey Wagar	Real Estate
Brian D. Wallace	Transportation/Maritime
Alan C. Wolf	Administrative Law

BATON ROUGE, LA

H. Alston Johnson, III	Appellate
Thomas H. Kiggans	Employment & Labor
Richard E. Matheny	Tax
Randy P. Roussel	Real Estate

The following 11 Mississippi attorneys were recognized in the December 2007 issue:

JACKSON, MS

Reuben V. Anderson	Business Litigation
Fred L. Banks, Jr.	Business Litigation
Ross F. Bass, Jr.	Business Litigation
Stratton Bull	Real Estate
Gary E. Friedman	Employment & Labor
Jerome C. Hafter	Business/Corporate
Luther T. Munford	Appellate
James W. O'Mara	Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights
W. Thomas Siler, Jr.	Employment & Labor
Frank W. Trapp	Criminal Defense: White Collar

TUPELO, MS

F.M. Bush, III

Securities & Corporate Finance

The following Texas attorney was recognized in the October 2007 issue:

HOUSTON, TX

Patricia Hair

Business Litigation

The following 5 Florida attorneys were recognized in the June 2007 issue:

TAMPA, FL

Karl J. Brandes	General Litigation
Lawrence P. Ingram	Business Litigation
Dennis M. McClelland	Employment & Labor
John D. Mullen	Employment & Labor
John E. Phillips, Jr.	Employment & Labor

Phelps Dunbar is a regional law firm of approximately 270 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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