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The Best Lawyers In America® 2012
Twenty-five Poyner Spruill Attorneys Selected by Their Peers for Inclusion

09.01.2011

RALEIGH, NC -- Poyner Spruill today announced that 25 of its attorneys have been named to The Best Lawyers in America® 2012 (Copyright 2011 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, S.C.), the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession.
 
Since its inception in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Because Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which more than 41,000 leading attorneys cast almost 3.9 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas, and because lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor.
 
The Poyner Spruill attorneys named to the 2012 list and the areas in which they have been recognized are as follows:
 
William T. Belcher (Trusts and Estates)
Kenneth L. Burgess (Health Care Law)
William S. Cherry, Jr. (Banking & Finance Law, Financial Services Regulation Law and Real Estate Law)
Joseph B. ”Bo” Dempster, Jr. (Corporate Law and Real Estate Law)
David Dreifus (Commercial Litigation and Litigation – Banking & Finance)
H. Glenn T. Dunn (Administrative/Regulatory Law, Environmental Law, Litigation – Environmental and  Water Law)
J. Nicholas Ellis (Bet-the-Company Litigation, Litigation - Municipal, Litigation – Real Estate and Commercial Litigation)
David R. Fricke (Real Estate Law)
Susanna K. Gibbons (Employment Law – Management, Labor Law – Management and Litigation – Labor & Employment)
Eugene S. Griggs (Employee Benefits Law)
Cecil W. Harrison, Jr. (Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Employment Law – Litigation – Management and Labor & Employment)
Keith H. Johnson (Environmental Law and Litigation - Environmental)
T. Richard Kane (Environmental Law and Litigation - Environmental)
David W. Long (Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Criminal Defense: Non-White-Collar, Criminal Defense: White-Collar, Litigation - Antitrust, Litigation - Securities, and Litigation - Trusts & Estates)
E. Fitzgerald “Jerry” Parnell III (Criminal Defense: White-Collar and Legal Malpractice Law - Defendants)
Steven M. Shaber (Administrative/Regulatory Law and Health Care Law)
John L. Shaw (Construction Law and Litigation - Construction)
William R. Shenton (Health Care Law)
Timothy P. Sullivan (Environmental Law and Litigation - Environmental)
Cynthia L. Van Horne (Legal Malpractice Law)
Thomas R. West (Administrative/Regulatory Law)
Joseph E. Zeszotarski (Criminal Defense: Non-White-Collar & Criminal Defense: White-Collar)
 
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