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June 2005
Phelps Dunbar was listed as a leading law firm in the nation, as well as in Louisiana and Mississippi in the 2005-2006 reference book, Chambers USA, America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. The book is published by Chambers and Partners, an independent research-based company that selects the top law firms and attorneys based on recommendations by clients and peers.
In a new category added for the first time this year, Phelps Dunbar received the #1 national ranking in the practice area Shipping. In addition, the firm received the highest ranking in five state categories, ranked second in five other state categories, and 26 Phelps Dunbar attorneys located in Louisiana and Mississippi were ranked and mentioned in the book, with ten individual practice rankings receiving the highest recognition.
In Louisiana, Phelps Dunbar was ranked first in the Banking & Finance, Litigation: General Commercial, and Real Estate categories, and second in the Corporate/M&A, Employment: Mainly Defendant, Energy & Natural Resources, and Gaming & Licensing categories. The attorneys were also ranked in the categories listed below:
Banking & Finance:
Philip deV. Claverie and James
A. Stuckey
Corporate/M&A:
Patrick J. Butler, Jr. and Mark A. Fullmer
Corporate/M&A: Bankruptcy
Brent B. Barriere
Employment: Mainly Defendant:
M. Nan Alessandra and Thomas
H. Kiggans
Energy & Natural Resources:
Alan C. Wolf
Energy & Natural Resources: Marine Finance
James H. Roussel
Gaming & Licensing:
Brian D. Wallace and Jeffrey M. Barbin
Litigation: General Commercial
Brent B. Barriere and Harry Rosenberg
Real Estate:
Philip deV. Claverie and Randy P. Roussel
In Mississippi, Phelps Dunbar was ranked first in the Employment: Mainly Defendant category as well as the Litigation: General Commercial category, and second in the Corporate/M&A category. The attorneys were also ranked in the categories listed below:
Bankruptcy:
James W. O'Mara
Corporate/M&A:
F.M. Bush, III, Jerome
C. Hafter, and E. Clifton Hodge, Jr.
Employment: Mainly Defendant
Joseph Lee Adams, Gary E. Friedman, and
W. Thomas Siler, Jr.
Gaming & Licensing
Dan M. McDaniel, Jr
Litigation: Appellate
Fred L. Banks, Jr., Luther T. Munford, and Michael B. Wallace
Litigation: General Commercial
Reuben V. Anderson, Ross F. Bass, Jr., E. Clifton Hodge, Jr., and Michael B. Wallace
Selection to the book is based on research conducted and approved by the British Market Research Bureau, which audits the research annually. In-depth interviews with clients and with attorneys are done over the telephone, each one lasting about half an hour. For the current U.S. directory, over 4,500 of these interviews were conducted covering the whole of the U.S.A. A team of 30 full-time researchers carried out research over a period of 12 months. Law firms and individual attorneys are ranked on a scale of 1-6. The qualities on which rankings are assessed include technical legal ability, professional conduct, client service, commercial awareness/astuteness, diligence, commitment, and other qualities most valued by the client. For more information, please visit
www.chambersandpartners.com.