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42 Ward and Smith Attorneys Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® 2018
Ward and Smith, P.A. attorneys recognized in the 2018 edition of Best Lawyers® include:
Derek Allen
- Land Use and Zoning Law
- Litigation – Land Use and Zoning
Tom Babel
- Commercial Litigation
Al Bell
- Employment Law – Management
- Labor Law – Management
- Commercial Litigation
- Litigation – Securities
- Litigation – Trusts and Estates
- Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs
Wes Camden
- Criminal Defense: White-Collar
John Cella
- Trusts and Estates
- Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)
- Litigation – Construction
Jim Creekman (Retired)
- Banking and Finance Law
Bob Crouse
- Patent Law
- Family Law
Don Eglinton
- Commercial Litigation
- Copyright Law
- Litigation – Construction
- Litigation – Intellectual Property
- Litigation – Patent
- Patent Law
- Trademark Law
- Medical Malpractice Law – Plaintiffs
- Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs
- Commercial Litigation
- Litigation – Construction
- Medical Malpractice Law – Plaintiffs
- Banking and Finance Law
- Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
- Litigation – Bankruptcy
- Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
Mike Flanagan
- Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
- Litigation – Bankruptcy
- Litigation – Labor and Employment
- Workers’ Compensation Law – Employers
Benji Jones
- Securities / Capital Markets Law
- Corporate Law
- Banking and Finance Law
- Financial Services Regulation Law
Shawna Lemon, Ph.D.
- Biotechnology Law
- Patent Law
- Family Law
- Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs
- Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
- Real Estate Law
Michael Miller
- Arbitration
- Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
- Mediation
- Tax Law
- Trusts and Estates
- Litigation – Trusts and Estates
- Trusts and Estates
C. H. Pope
- Land Use and Zoning Law
- Real Estate Law
- Timber Law
- Administrative / Regulatory Law
- Banking and Finance Law
- Corporate Law
- Financial Services Regulation Law
Gary Rickner
- Bet-the-Company Litigation
- Commercial Litigation
Clint Routson
- Real Estate Law
Jerry Sayre
- Litigation – Labor and Employment
- Trusts and Estates
- Bet-the-Company Litigation
- Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)
- Commercial Litigation
- Corporate Law
Liz Stanek
- Patent Law
- Bet-the-Company Litigation
- Commercial Litigation
- Construction Law
- Litigation – Construction
- Litigation – Real Estate
Jim Verdonik
- Corporate Law
- Technology Law
- Venture Capital Law
Ben Waller
- Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
- Banking and Finance Law
- Corporate Law
- Financial Services Regulation Law
- International Trade and Finance Law
- Litigation – Antitrust
- Health Care Law
Bill Wolcott
- Real Estate Law
Ken Wooten
- Bet-the-Company Litigation
- Commercial Litigation
- Litigation – Construction
Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers® has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Best Lawyers lists are compiled based on an exhaustive peer-review evaluation. Over 83,000 leading attorneys globally are eligible to vote, and we have received more than 13 million votes to date on the legal abilities of other lawyers based on their specific practice areas around the world. For the 2018 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America©, 7.3 million votes were analyzed, which resulted in almost 55,000 leading lawyers being included in the new edition. Lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed, therefore 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.”
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