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Best Lawyers in America Recognizes 54 Butler Snow Attorneys

Fifty-four attorneys from Butler, Snow, O’Mara, Stevens & Cannada, PLLC (Butler Snow) have been named to Best Lawyers in America® 2010. In addition, the firm ranked first in Mississippi, received 77 total listings, and was honored in 29 practice areas.

“I am truly proud that each year, the firm continues to rank highly and increases the number of Butler Snow attorneys on the Best Lawyers in America list, a distinction that carries with it an unmatched level of prestige and merit,” said Don Clark, Chair of Butler Snow.

Butler Snow ranks highest in the state of Mississippi with the most attorneys on the Best Lawyers in America 2010 list and also first statewide in banking law, commercial litigation, employee benefits law, government relations, intellectual property law, mergers and acquisitions law, product liability litigation, public finance law and water law. 

The list includes the following attorneys from Butler Snow: Phil Abernethy, Paula Ardelean, Jeb Bailey, Lucien Bourgeois, Denise Burke, Don Campbell, Michael Caples, Don Cannada, R. Barry Cannada, Tommie Cardin, Don Clark, Mike Coury, Charles Crawford, John Crawford, Paul Davis, John England, William Gage, Jim Galloway, John Galloway, Robert Galloway, Mark Garriga, John Harral, Chuck Harrell, Cliff Harrison, Johnny Healy, John Henegan, Dan Hise, Frank Holbrook, Donna Jacobs, David Jaqua, Charles Johnson, Christy Jones, Sam Keyes, Ronny Loeb, Gene Magee, Hal Miller, Bobby Miller, Meade Mitchell, Bob Morris, Randy Noel, Orlando (Rod) Richmond, Barney Robinson, Steve Rosenblatt, Lee Davis Thames, Tim Threadgill, Jay Travis, James Tucker, Gilbert Van Loon, Paul Varner, Thad Varner, Jeff Walker, Josh Wiener, Tommy Williams and Ed Wilmesherr.

Thames and Henegan were named in the category of Bet-the-Company Litigation, a prestigous honor that Best Lawyers reserves for a small percentage of exceptional trial lawyers.  Thames has been named in the category since it was first added to Best Lawyers in the 2007 edition.

Best Lawyers compiles lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. In the U.S., Best Lawyers publishes an annual referral guide, The Best Lawyers in America, which includes 39,766 attorneys in 80 specialties, covering all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Best Lawyers is widely regarded within the legal profession as a signal honor, conferred on a lawyer by his or her peers.


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Hudson Featured Presenter at ACI Mass Tort Conference

Butler Snow attorney Eric E. Hudson will co-present "Minimizing the Threat of Medical Monitoring Damages and Plaintiff Recruitment" at the upcoming American Conference Institute's seminar Managing and Resolving Mass Tort Products Liability Claims.  Hudson, a member of Butler Snow's Commercial Litigation Group, has extensive experience as counsel for a number of large corporations in various mass tort cases.

The two-day seminar is scheduled for Wednesday, September 29 through Thursday, September 30, 2010 at the Helmsley Park Lane Hotel in New York, New York.  To register or obtain more information, visit http://www.americanconference.com/MASSTORT/agenda.htm.

Butler Snow to Present The Physician Payment Sunshine Act: A Legal Overview

Machelle D. Shields and Denise D. Burke are featured presenters in the upcoming Q1 Productions conference Medical Device and Diagnostics Corporate Compliance and Ethics Conference.  The program will focus on reimbursement, clinical affairs, legal challenges and corporate compliance and ethics.  Shields and Burke will participate as members of a distinguished panel of experts who will discuss mistakes, setbacks, adjustments and victories while outlining the "next steps" for companies of all sizes.  Shields and Burke, both members of the firm's Pharmaceutical, Medical Device and Healthcare Industry Group will present The Physician Payment Sunshine Act: A Legal Overview.

The conference will be held Thursday, September 30, 2010, in Chicago, Ill.  For registration and additional information, contact Brigitte Durnwald at bdurnwald@q1productions.com. The event brochure is available by clicking here.