Nineteen of Baker Donelson’s Chattanooga attorneys have been selected for inclusion in the 2020 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. They include:
Kenneth Beckman: Banking and finance law; corporate law; mergers and acquisitions law; public finance law; real estate law; securitization and structured finance law
Joe Conner: Commercial litigation; construction law; eminent domain and condemnation law; energy law; litigation – construction; litigation – real estate
J. Wayne Cropp: Environmental law
Robert Divine: Immigration law
Richard Faulkner, Jr.: Real estate law
Richard Gossett: Banking and finance law; bankruptcy and creditor debtor rights/insolvency and reorganization law; business organizations; litigation – bankruptcy; litigation – real estate
Russell Gray: Employment law – management; labor law – management; litigation – labor and employment
Carl Hartley: Corporate law; economic development law; litigation and controversy – tax; nonprofit law; tax law
Thomas Helton: Bet-the-company litigation; commercial litigation; litigation – intellectual property; litigation – patent; mass tort litigation/class actions – defendants; medical malpractice law – defendants; product liability litigation – defendants
Cameron Hill: Construction law; litigation – construction
Misty Kelley: Eminent domain and condemnation law
James Levine: Business organizations; commercial finance law
Virginia Love: Business organizations; closely held companies and family businesses law; nonprofit law; trusts and estates
Joshua Powers: Litigation – health care; medical malpractice law – defendants
K. Stephen Powers: Bet-the-company litigation; commercial litigation; personal injury litigation – defendants; product liability litigation – defendants; transportation law
Susan Elliott Rich: Banking and finance law; real estate law; securitization and structured finance law
William Robinson: Employee benefits (ERISA) law
Ross Schram III: Real estate law
Philip Whitaker: Commercial litigation; real estate law; trusts and estates
Five of the Firm’s Chattanooga attorneys were also named Best Lawyers’ 2020 Lawyers of the Year, a designation given to a select group of individuals in high-profile specialties in large legal communities. Only one attorney in each community for each specialty is honored:
Kenneth Beckman
Chattanooga Banking and Finance Law Lawyer of the Year
Carl Hartley
Chattanooga Tax Law Lawyer of the Year
Virginia Love
Chattanooga Business Organizations Lawyer of the Year
K. Stephen Powers
Chattanooga Bet-the-Company Litigation Lawyer of the Year
Ross Schram III
Chattanooga Real Estate Law Lawyer of the Year
The 2020 Best Lawyers list is based on exhaustive peer-review surveys in which almost 94,000 eligible attorneys cast more than 11 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas.
The publication now covers over 75 countries and 146 practice areas, and Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.”
Source: Baker Donelson