Georgia Super Lawyers and Rising Stars 2012
02/2012
Twenty-eight lawyers from Bryan Cave’s Atlanta office have been selected for inclusion in
Georgia Super Lawyers 2012. Several were listed in the Top 100 and Top 50 Women categories.
Super Lawyers lists the top 5 percent of attorneys in a state or region who have attained a high level of recognition and professional achievement. Honorees are identified through peer surveys, independent research and a blue-ribbon panel review.
In addition, 11 lawyers have been named to the Georgia “Rising Stars” list for 2012. “Rising Stars” are chosen by their peers as being among the top up-and-coming lawyers (40 years old or younger, or in practice 10 years or less). Only 2.5 percent of the lawyers in the state were selected.
Bryan Cave’s 2012 “Georgia Super Lawyers” and “Rising Stars,” and the area for which each is recognized, include:
Georgia Super Lawyers
David M. Armitage – Business/Corporate
John R. Bielema – Securities Litigation
Armin G. Brecher – Employee Benefits/ERISA
R. Joseph Burby, IV – Criminal Defense: White Collar
Frank A. Crisafi – Tax
William V. Custer – Business Litigation (Top 100)
Jennifer B. Dempsey – Business Litigation
Christopher Paul Galanek – Business Litigation
C. Scott Greene – Business Litigation
Kathryn L. Knudson – Banking (Top 50 Women)
Jay J. Levin – Real Estate
William Linkous, Jr. – Estate Planning & Probate
James J. McAlpin, Jr. - Banking
Frank S. McGaughey – Estate Planning & Probate
Thomas R. McNeill – Mergers & Acquisitions
Rick Miller – Mergers & Acquisitions
Walter G. Moeling – Banking (Top 100)
Jennifer Devine Odom – Business Litigation
John R. Parks – Real Estate
Thomas S. Richey – Securities Litigation
Eliot W. Robinson – Securities & Corporate Finance
Joan B. Sasine – Environmental
Steven G. Schaffer – Employee Benefits/ERISA
Eric P. Schroeder – Intellectual Property Litigation
William Brown Shearer Jr. – Mergers & Acquisitions
Robert Moore Travis – Civil Litigation Defense
Nicole Jennings Wade – Estate & Trust Litigation
G. Patrick Watson – Antitrust Litigation
Georgia Rising Stars
John C. Bush – Intellectual Property
Kimberly E. Civins – Estate Planning & Probate
Gwendolyn J. Godfrey – Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights
Robert D. Klingler – Banking
Luke A. Lantta – Business Litigation
Karen Neely Louis – Business Litigation
Ryan Tyler Pumpian – Intellectual Property Litigation
Curtis James Romig – Business Litigation
Adwoa Ghartey-Tagoe Seymour – Business Litigation
Louis C. Spelios – Mergers & Acquisitions
Damon J. Whitaker – Intellectual Property Litigation