‎140 Locke Lord Lawyers Named to The Best Lawyers in ‎America® ‎‎2022 List‎, 37 Recognized as Ones to Watch

August 19, 2021 – Locke Lord is pleased to announce 140 lawyers from 14 U.S. offices have been recognized in the 2022 edition of The Best Lawyers in America^®, and 37 lawyers from 10 offices were recognized in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch. In addition, nine of the Firm’s lawyers were recognized under the special designation of Lawyer of the Year, an honor earned by just one lawyer in each practice area and metropolitan area.

Lawyer of the Year Recipients:

Paul E. Coggins (Dallas) – Litigation - Regulatory Enforcement (SEC, Telecom, Energy)
L. Jeffrey Hubenak (Austin) – Real Estate Law
John G. Igoe (West Palm Beach) – Corporate Law
Omer F. "Rick" Kuebel III (New Orleans) – Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
Elizabeth E. Mack (Dallas) – Environmental Law
Jennifer Capasso Mendonça (Boston) – Public Finance Law
George Ticknor (Boston) – Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law
Bradley C. Weber (Dallas) – Antitrust Law

The full list of Locke Lord lawyers listed in the 2022 editions of The Best Lawyers in America^® and Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch follows below.

Atlanta

• Brian T. Casey – Mergers and Acquisitions Law
   

Austin

• Cynthia Bast – Real Estate Law
• Jerry K. Clements – Commercial Litigation
• Nicole Olvera Cook – Ones to Watch: Real Estate Law
• Daniel Durell – Ones to Watch: Commercial Litigation, Litigation - Banking and Finance
• Brad Hawley – Real Estate Law
• L. Jeffrey Hubenak – Real Estate Law
• Stephen J. Humeniuk – Ones to Watch: Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Commercial Litigation
• Susan A. Kidwell – Appellate Practice
• John K. Schwartz – Commercial Litigation
• Tai C. Tran – Mortgage Banking Foreclosure Law, Real Estate Law  

Boston

• Christopher M. Flanagan – Tax Law
• Megan Foscaldi – Ones to Watch: Corporate Law
• Richard D. Glovsky – Employment Law - Management, Litigation - Labor and Employment
• Stanley Keller – Corporate Compliance Law, Corporate Governance Law, Corporate Law
• Daryl J. Lapp – Education Law, Employment Law - Management, Litigation - Labor and Employment
• Richard A. Manley Jr. – Public Finance Law
• Stephanie H. Massey – Public Finance Law
• Jennifer Capasso Mendonça – Public Finance Law
• David L. Ruediger – Banking and Finance Law
• Walter J. St. Onge III – Public Finance Law
• Jeffrey Swope – Commercial Litigation, Education Law
• David S. Szabo – Health Care Law
• George Ticknor – Banking and Finance Law, Corporate Law, Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law
• Adrienne K. Walker – Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
• John L. Whitlock– Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
• Jonathan W. Young– Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
   

Chicago

• Christopher R. Barth – Insurance Law
• Jon Biasetti – Insurance Law
• Tom Bohac – Ones to Watch: Corporate Law
• Nick J. DiGiovanni – Insurance Law, Reinsurance Law
• Matthew T. Furton – Insurance Law
• Kevin D. Kelly – Employment Law - Management
• Jennifer A. Kenedy – Commercial Litigation, Product Liability Litigation - Defendants
• Michael B. Kind – Ones to Watch: Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
• Keith D. Parr – Litigation - Intellectual Property
• Timothy F. Peterson – Ones to Watch: Intellectual Property Law
• Samuel Stempel – Real Estate Law
• Jonathan B. Turpin – Ones to Watch: Litigation - Intellectual Property
• Nina Vachhani – Ones to Watch: Litigation - Intellectual Property
• Steven T. Whitmer – Commercial Litigation, Insurance Law
   

Cincinnati

• Todd L. Cooper – Public Finance Law, Tax Law
   

Dallas

• Thomas P. Arnold – Real Estate Law
• J. Mitchell Bell – Real Estate Law
• Bryan E. Bishop – Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law
• Stuart Bumpas – Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law, Nonprofit / Charities Law, Tax Law, Trusts and Estates
• E. Philip Bush – Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law, Tax Law
• Paul E. Coggins – Criminal Defense: White-Collar, Litigation - Regulatory Enforcement (SEC, Telecom, Energy)
• Michael H. Collins – Arbitration, Commercial Litigation, Energy Law
• Thomas A. Connop – Commercial Litigation, Litigation - Bankruptcy
• Don M. Glendenning – Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law
• Vicky Gunning – Real Estate Law
• Roy W. Hardin – Litigation - Intellectual Property
• W. Scott Hastings – Appellate Practice, Litigation - Intellectual Property
• Van M. Jolas – Corporate Law
• C. Scott Jones – Commercial Litigation
• Christopher J. Larson – Ones to Watch: Real Estate Law 
• Janis Loegering – Banking and Finance Law, Real Estate Law
• Thomas F. Loose – Appellate Practice
• Elizabeth E. Mack – Environmental Law
• John B. McKnight – Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law
• Kip Mendrygal – Criminal Defense: White-Collar 
• Elizabeth Lang Miers – Appellate Practice, Commercial Litigation
• Harriet Miers – Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Government Relations Practice
• Brandan Montminy – Ones to Watch: Commercial Litigation
• Robert T. Mowrey – Commercial Litigation, Litigation - Banking and Finance
• Paul G. Nason – Employment Law - Management, Litigation - Labor and Employment
• Charles E. Phipps – Litigation - Intellectual Property, Litigation - Patent
• Geoffrey Polma – Tax Law
• Michael V. Powell – Appellate Practice, Commercial Litigation
• Charles C. Reeder – Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law
• Robin G. Shaughnessy – Employment Law - Management, Litigation - Labor and Employment
• Frank E. Stevenson II – Litigation - Securities
• Robb P. Stewart – Real Estate Law
• Cynthia Timms – Appellate Practice
• Kevin L. Twining – Corporate Law
• Bradley C. Weber – Antitrust Law
• Thomas G. Yoxall – Commercial Litigation
   

Houston

• John K. Arnold – Energy Law
• Charles S. Baker – Commercial Litigation, Litigation - Intellectual Property
• M. Benjamin Cowan – Environmental Law
• Akilah F. Craig – Ones to Watch: Labor and Employment Law - Management, Litigation - Labor and Employment
• Lauren Doughty – Trusts and Estates
• Chris Dove – Appellate Practice
• Rachel Fitzgerald – Ones to Watch: Corporate Law
• David M. Gregory – Employment Law - Management, Litigation - Labor and Employment 
• David E. Harrell Jr. – Arbitration, Commercial Litigation
• Gerald D. (Jerry) Higdon – Environmental Law
• Mark Jacob – Trusts and Estates
• Stephen C. Jacobs – Real Estate Law
• Tim Johnson – Criminal Defense: White-Collar
• Paul Kjelsberg – Corporate Law
• Brandon Lobb – Derivatives and Futures Law
• Christopher L. Martin – Insurance Law
• Mark Miller – Derivatives and Futures Law
• Robert D. Miller – Government Relations Practice
• Ryan Morgan – Banking and Finance Law, Real Estate Law
• Tammi S. Niven – Banking and Finance Law
• Hanna Norvell – Employment Law - Management, Litigation - Labor and Employment
• Chelsea H. Overhuls – Ones to Watch: Trusts and Estates
• Sagar Patel – Ones to Watch: Commercial Litigation
• David Patton – Energy Law, Oil and Gas Law
• Jonathan Pelayo – Commercial Litigation
• Gerald J. Pels – Environmental Law
• Joe Perillo – Corporate Law
• Mike Peters – Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law
• Paul M. Pruett – Real Estate Law
• Elizabeth Corey Raber – Ones to Watch: Administrative / Regulatory Law, Energy Law
• Terry Radney – Oil and Gas Law
• Edward A. Razim III – Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
• Andrew Reed – Ones to Watch: Labor and Employment Law - Management, Litigation - Labor and Employment
• Ann Ryan Robertson – Arbitration, International Arbitration - Governmental
• J. Michael Rose – Litigation - Labor and Employment
• Shannon Collins Schroeder – Ones to Watch: Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)
• Bill Swanstrom – Energy Law, Oil and Gas Law
• David Taylor – Corporate Law
• Chris Verducci – Litigation - Construction
• Deanna Markowitz Willson – Ones to Watch: Commercial Litigation, Construction Law, Environmental Law
    

Los Angeles

• Alfred M. Clark – Real Estate Law
• Jonevin Sabado – Ones to Watch: Labor and Employment Law - Management
    

New Orleans

• Victoria M. de Lisle – Real Estate Law
• Brad C. Knapp – Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
• Omer F. "Rick" Kuebel III – Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
• Peyton C. Lambert – Ones to Watch: Commercial Litigation
• Robert W. Mouton– Real Estate Law
    

New York

• Rob Evans – Securities / Capital Markets Law, Securities Regulation
• Alan J. Levin – Insurance Law, Reinsurance Law
• Eric C. Strain – Product Liability Litigation - Defendants
• Stephanie Wickouski – Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
    

Providence

• Lori A. Basilico – Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
• Mark W. Freel – Commercial Litigation
• Christopher D. Graham – Banking and Finance Law, Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law
• Karen S. D. Grande – Public Finance Law
• Douglas G. Gray – Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law
• Susan Kiernan – Banking and Finance Law
• Paul M. Mahoney Jr. – Corporate Law, Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law
• Michael L. Newquist – Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law
• Michael V. Serra – Ones to Watch: Corporate Law, Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law
• Richard G. Small – Corporate Law, Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law
    

Washington, D.C.

• Denise Hanna – Health Care Law
    

West Palm Beach

• Thomas J. Cunningham – Commercial Litigation
• John G. Igoe – Corporate Law, Venture Capital Law
• Richard J. Miller – Public Finance Law   

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