PHILADELPHIA, August 15, 2016 – Sixty-two Cozen O’Connor lawyers from 13 of the firm’s national offices have been selected for inclusion in the 2017 edition of The Best Lawyers in America© (Copyright 2016 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, SC). This award is conferred by Best Lawyers. A description of the selection methodology can be found here. No aspect of this advertisement has been approved by the Supreme Court of New Jersey. Lawyers were selected for inclusion in the 2017 edition based on a rigorous peer-review that has been developed and defined for nearly 25 years. The current edition is based on more than seven million votes by the top lawyers in the country.
Additionally, Robert I. Friedman, Mark H. Gallant, Samuel A. Lewis, Jeffrey I Pasek, and Joseph E. Tilson were singled out as Best Lawyers® 2017 “Lawyer of the Year” (Copyright 2016 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, SC); Friedman in Philadelphia for Trusts and Estates, Gallant in Philadelphia for Health Care Law, Lewis in Miami for Technology Law, Pasek in Philadelphia for Employment Law – Management, and Tilson in Chicago for Labor Law – Management.
The full list of lawyers by office with practice area indicated is:
Atlanta
Kenan G. Loomis (Insurance Law)
Cherry Hill
Ira G. Megdal (Energy Law)
Chicago
Brian W. Bulger (Employment Law – Management, Labor Law – Management)
Jack J. Carriglio (Commercial Litigation)
Richard A. Devine (Commercial Litigation)
Bruce R. Meckler (Insurance Law, Professional Malpractice Law – Defendants)
Steven D. Pearson (Commercial Litigation, Insurance Law)
Joseph E. Tilson (Employment Law – Management, Labor Law – Management, Litigation – Labor and Employment)
Denver
Brad W. Breslau (Insurance Law, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants)
Houston
A. Martin Wickliff, Jr. (Employment Law – Management, Labor Law – Management)
Joseph A. Ziemianski (Insurance Law, Litigation – Insurance)
Miami
Richard M. Dunn (Commercial Litigation, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants)
Thomas A. Dye (Commercial Litigation)
Susan N. Eisenberg (Employment Law – Management, Litigation – Labor and Employment)
Jeffrey D. Feldman (Commercial Litigation, Copyright Law, Litigation – Intellectual Property)
James A. Gale (Litigation – Intellectual Property, Patent Law)
Jeffrey Gilbert (Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Bankruptcy, Litigation – Real Estate)
Samuel A. Lewis (Information Technology Law, Technology Law)
Martin T. Schrier (Corporate Law)
Jennifer T. Williams (Employment Law – Management)
New York
David Y. Loh (Admiralty and Maritime Law)
J. Bruce Maffeo (Criminal Defense: General Practice, Criminal Defense: White-Collar)
Christopher Raleigh (Admiralty and Maritime Law)
Philadelphia
Joseph C. Bright (Tax Law)
Leonard J. Cooper (Trusts and Estates)
Stephen A. Cozen (Insurance Law)
H. Robert Fiebach (Commercial Litigation, Legal Malpractice Law – Defendants, Litigation – Real Estate, Litigation – Securities)
Brian P. Flaherty (Commercial Litigation)
Robert I. Friedman (Trusts and Estates)
Thomas J. Gallagher III (Tax Law)
Mark H. Gallant (Health Care Law)
Henry A. Gladstone (Corporate Law)
Edward M. Glickman (Trusts and Estates)
David R. Glyn (Trusts and Estates)
Michael J. Heller (Corporate Law, Venture Capital Law)
F. Warren Jacoby (Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Construction)
Matthew H. Kamens (Trusts and Estates)
Sarah A. Kelly (Employment Law – Management, Litigation – Labor and Employment)
Raymond A. Kresge (Employment Law – Management, Labor Law – Management, Litigation – Labor and Employment)
Bernard Lee (Real Estate Law)
Jeffrey A. Leonard (Real Estate Law)
Deborah M. Minkoff (Insurance Law)
Jeffrey I. Pasek (Employment Law – Management, Labor Law – Management, Litigation – Labor and Employment)
James R. Potts (Insurance Law)
Jason M. Shargel (Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law)
Robert A. Silverman (Real Estate Law)
Jeffrey G. Weil (Commercial Litigation)
James R. Williams (Real Estate Law-Commercial)
San Francisco
Julia A. Molander (Insurance Law)
Seattle
Thomas M. Jones (Insurance Law)
Washington, D.C.
Barry Boss (Criminal Defense: White Collar)
Robert Fallon (Energy Law)
Marc J. Fink (Admiralty and Maritime Law)
Jeffrey F. Lawrence (Admiralty and Maritime Law)
Bernard Nash (Administrative/Regulatory Law)
Stanley O. Sher (Admiralty and Maritime Law)
Barbara Van Gelder (Criminal Defense: White Collar)
West Conshohocken
Patrick J. O’Connor (Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation)
Margaret Gallagher Thompson (Litigation – Trusts and Estates, Trusts and Estates)
William J. Winning (Commercial Litigation, Criminal Defense: White Collar)
Wilmington
John T. Carroll III (Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law)
Mark E. Felger (Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/ Insolvency and Reorganization Law)
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