Morris Nichols Attorneys Named to 2014 Best Lawyers in America – 60 Practice Specialty Selections; 22 Top-Listed Practice areas; 5 Delaware Lawyers of the Year
Morris Nichols is pleased to announce that two thirds of the firm’s partnership have been selected for inclusion in the 2014 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. The firm was noted for 60 individual specialty selections, 22 “Top-Listed” practice specialties, and five individual 2014 Delaware Lawyers of the Year recognitions.
Morris Nichols lawyers were selected based on a confidential peer-review survey of the leading attorneys in the country, according to Best Lawyers.
Morris Nichols Attorney Recognitions – (Year) is the first year the lawyer was listed:
§ Derek C. Abbott (2007) – Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law
§ Jon E. Abramczyk (2007) – Commercial Litigation, Corporate Law
§ Frederick H. Alexander (2006) – Mergers & Acquisitions Law, Corporate Law, Commercial Litigation
§ Jack B. Blumenfeld (1995) – Litigation – Intellectual Property, Litigation – Patent
§ Donna L. Culver (2013) – Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law
§ Robert J. Dehney (2013) – Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law
§ Todd A. Flubacher (2014) – Trusts and Estates
§ Mary B. Graham (2005) – Litigation – Intellectual Property, Patent Law, Trademark Law, Copyright Law; 2014 Delaware Lawyer of the Year – Litigation-Intellectual Property, Copyright Law
§ Thomas C. Grimm (2010) – Litigation – Intellectual Property, Litigation-Patent, Patent Law, Trademark Law, Copyright Law
§ David Ley Hamilton (2009) – Corporate Law
§ Louis G. Hering (2007) – Corporate Law
§ Michael Houghton (2009) – Administrative/Regulatory Law, Government Relations Practice, Banking and Finance Law, Financial Services Regulation Law
§ S. Mark Hurd (2010) – Litigation – Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law
§ Donald Nelson Isken (1991) – Real Estate Law; 2014 Delaware Lawyer of the Year – Real Estate Law
§ Karen Jacobs Louden (2010) – Litigation – Intellectual Property, Litigation – Patent
§ Andrew M. Johnston (2007) – Corporate Law
§ John F. Johnston* (2006) – Mergers & Acquisitions Law, Corporate Law; 2014 Delaware Lawyer of the Year – Corporate Law
§ William M. Lafferty (2007) – Bet-the-Company Litigation, Litigation – Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law
§ Kenneth J. Nachbar (2001) – Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Mergers & Acquisitions, Litigation – Securities, Corporate Law
§ Maryellen Noreika (2009) – Patent Law
§ Thomas R. Pulsifer (1995) – Trusts and Estates; 2014 Delaware Lawyer of the Year – Trusts and Estates
§ Donald E. Reid (2007) – Commercial Litigation
§ R. Judson Scaggs, Jr. (2007) – Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Environmental
§ Rodger D. Smith II (2009) – Litigation – Patent
§ A. Gilchrist Sparks III (1983) – Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Mergers & Acquisitions, Mergers & Acquisitions Law, Corporate Law, Securities/Capital Markets Law
§ William H. Sudell, Jr.* (2006) – Litigation – Bankruptcy
§ David J. Teklits (2008) – Commercial Litigation, Corporate Law
§ Walter C. Tuthill (2001) – Corporate Law, Banking and Finance Law
§ Jeffrey R. Wolters (2010) – Corporate Law
* Retired partner
ABOUT MORRIS NICHOLS: Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP combines a broad national practice of corporate, intellectual property, business reorganization and restructuring, and commercial law, and litigation with a general business, tax, estate planning and real estate practice within the State of Delaware. The firm is regularly involved as lead counsel or co-counsel in matters of national and international significance, as well as those affecting its immediate community. www.morrisnichols.com
ABOUT BEST LAWYERS: 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 39,000 leading attorneys cast almost 3.1 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. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.”