Highest number of banking and corporate lawyers listed in Cleveland area
Twenty-six Calfee attorneys were selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2006 (Copyright 2005 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, S.C.). Calfee’s total number of honored attorneys saw an increase of seven from the previous year’s edition.
In addition, Calfee had the highest number of Best Lawyers in the areas of banking law and corporate law for the Cleveland area.
The Best Lawyers in America is a legal resource for both lawyers and consumers in search of legal talent nationwide. The following are Calfee’s Cleveland and Columbus attorneys selected for the 2006 edition (those denoted by a “10” have been listed in Best Lawyers for at least 10 years):
CLEVELAND
- Brent D. Ballard, real estate law
- Virginia D. Benjamin, public finance law
- Karl S. Beus, banking law
- Mitchell G. Blair, commercial litigation
- Thomas A. Cicarella (10), banking law
- Shelly D. Dedmon, banking law
- Lynn M. Gattozzi, real estate law
- Guy F. Guinn (10), banking law
- Thomas A. Jorgensen (10), employee benefits law
- Stephen P. Kresnye, tax law
- Donald E. Lampert (10), workers’ compensation law
- Dale C. LaPorte (10), corporate law
- James M. Lawniczak, bankruptcy and creditor-debtor rights law
- Charles B. Lyon (10), intellectual property law
- Thomas F. McKee (10), corporate law
- JoEllen M. Minchak, banking law
- Ronald H. Neill, tax law
- William M. Phillips, real estate law
- William L. S. Ross, workers’ compensation law
- Lawrence N. Schultz, corporate law
- Ronald C. Stansbury, employee benefits law
- Thomas E. Wagner, corporate law
- Mark I. Wallach (10), commercial litigation
- Marcia J. Wexberg, trusts and estates
- Scott R. Wilson, corporate law
COLUMBUS
About Best Lawyers in America
The 2006 edition is the twelfth edition of The Best Lawyers in America. Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which 18,000 leading attorneys throughout the country cast more than a half million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their areas of practice. Lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed.
