More Than 100 McGuireWoods Attorneys Recognized as ‘Ones to Watch’ By Best Lawyers

August 19, 2021

McGuireWoods has more than 100 lawyers from its U.S. offices selected for inclusion on Best Lawyers’ 2022 “Ones to Watch” list recognizing the nation’s most promising attorneys for professional excellence in private practice. The honor is reserved for lawyers in private practice for fewer than 10 years. Best Lawyers selects honorees based on surveys in which attorneys confidentially evaluate their peers.

The following McGuireWoods lawyers were named to the “Ones to Watch” list.

ATLANTA – M. Laughlin Allen, Commercial Litigation; William B. Bradbury, Banking and Finance Law; Nicholas A. DuPuis, Banking and Finance Law; Joseph Englert, Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Intellectual Property; Nicholas G. Hill, Commercial Litigation;  Jordan Quinley Johnson, Land Use and Zoning Law, Real Estate Law

BALTIMORE Anna C. Horevay, Public Finance Law; Emily M. Patterson, Commercial Litigation; Adam T. Simons, Labor and Employment Law – Management, Litigation – Labor and Employment

CHARLOTTE Luis F. Benavides, Banking and Finance Law; Thomas E. Booms, Banking and Finance Law; Adam S. Coto, Banking and Finance Law; Alec Covington, Commercial Litigation; Matthew L.C. Cox, Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law; J. Porter Durham III, Corporate Law; Jasmine K. Gardner, Commercial Litigation; John B. Hoke, Corporate Law; C. Caroline Grier Kraich, Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Richard V. Lockridge, Real Estate Law; Barlow T. Mann, Corporate Law; Sarah Bosse Martin, Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law; T. Richmond McPherson III, Litigation – Banking and Finance; Ethridge B. Ricks, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law; Allison P. Tanner, Corporate Law, Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Bryan M. Weynand, Criminal Defense: White-Collar

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Benjamin P. Abel, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants; Clare M. Lewis, Mergers and Acquisitions Law

CHICAGO – Jason Leland Chrestionson, Commercial Litigation; Timothy J. Fry, Health Care Law; Daniel J. Goldstein, Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Katharine P. Lennox, Labor and Employment Law – Management; Timothy R. Loveland, Health Care Law; Michael J. Peters, Real Estate Law; Amanda K. Roenius, Health Care Law; Christopher J. Shalvoy, Banking and Finance Law

DALLAS Olga A. Bograd, Labor and Employment Law – Management; Matthew W. Cornelia, Litigation – Intellectual Property; Ryan A. Durham, Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Brian Robertson, Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law

HOUSTON Ashlin C. Aldinger, Tax Law; Ryan J. Frankel, Commercial Litigation; Miles Indest, Commercial Litigation, Oil and Gas Law; Wendy P. Wright, Health Care Law

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Kristen P. Courtney, Land Use and Zoning Law, Real Estate Law; Brittney L. Difato, Commercial Litigation; Kimberly T. Mydock, Commercial Litigation; Litigation – Banking and Finance; Emily Y. Rottmann, Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Real Estate

LOS ANGELESTrey Andrews, Health Care Law; Adam W. Guerrero, Land Use and Zoning Law, Real Estate Law; Daniel A. Valenzuela, Land Use and Zoning Law, Real Estate Law

NEW YORK – Tatiana Z. Pawlowski, Real Estate Law; Scott D. Rader, Land Use and Zoning Law, Real Estate Law;

PITTSBURGH – Susan L. Barrett, Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Holly M. Forsberg, Land Use and Zoning Law, Real Estate Law; Benjamin F. Hantz, Corporate Law, Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Christina Lepore Hinton, Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Kelsey R. Hitchcock, Corporate Governance and Compliance Law, Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Branden P. Moore, Commercial Litigation; Elizabeth M. Thomas, Commercial Litigation; Natalie L. Zagari, Commercial Litigation

RALEIGH, N.C. – Theresa A. Arnold, Corporate Law, Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Lawrence J. Cameron, Criminal Defense: White-Collar; Amanda M. Colley, Banking and Finance Law; Jocelyn Mitnaul Mallette, Commercial Litigation; Aline M. McCullough, Banking and Finance Law, Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law

RICHMOND – Kathryn M. Barber, Appellate Practice, Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Securities; Elissa N. Baur, Criminal Defense: White-Collar; Sarah R. Bennett, Administrative / Regulatory Law; Margaret A. Bowman, Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants; Caroline Schmidt Burton, Appellate Practice, Commercial Litigation; McKenzie Carson, Corporate Law, Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Securities/Capital Markets Law; Alexandria E. Cuff, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law; Gregory J. DuBoff, Litigation – Securities; Claire Hagen Eller, Litigation – Intellectual Property; Abbey L. Farnsworth, Tax Law; Andrew F. Gann, Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants; Nicholas J. Giles, Litigation – Antitrust; James E. Gross, Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Project Finance Law; Travis C. Gunn, Appellate Practice; David N. Gustin, Public Finance Law; Charles C. Harris, Health Care Law; Garrett H. Hooe, Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Securities; C. J. Berkeley Horne, Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Daniel E. Howell, Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Paul A. Kiehl, Health Care Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Lyle D. Kossis, Appellate Practice, Commercial Litigation; Drew Crocker LaFountaine, Real Estate Law; Stephanie A. Martinez, Intellectual Property Law; Emilie J. McNally, Mergers and Acquisitions Law; J. Patrick McNichol, Banking and Finance Law; Ashley P. Peterson, Commercial Litigation; Elizabeth P. Redpath, Labor and Employment Law – Management; David S. Rivard, Corporate Law; Anne Curtis Saunders, Public Finance Law; Heidi E. Siegmund, Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Labor and Employment; Summer L. Speight, Litigation – Labor and Employment; John L. Spilman Jr., Corporate Law, Energy Law; Lauren E. Sutphin, Land Use and Zoning Law, Real Estate Law; Frank Talbott V, Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants; Davis M. Walsh, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants; Robert B. Wynne; Mergers and Acquisitions Law

TYSONS, Va. Heather Britton Chaney, Commercial Litigation; Mohammad S. Imaad, Commercial Litigation; Keith Joseph Minson, Commercial Litigation; Brooks H. Spears, Commercial Litigation; John E. Thomas Jr., Litigation – Labor and Employment; Matthew J. Weinstein, Land Use and Zoning Law, Real Estate Law

WASHINGTON, D.C. R. Andrew Austria, Criminal Defense: White-Collar; Stephanie Jane Bentley, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law; Karlee Starr Blank, Construction Law; Katlyn A. Davis Farrell, Energy Law; Colin B. Francis, Energy Law; Jessica S. Sackin, Labor and Employment Law – Management; Tamara Senikidze, Health Care Law