Twenty-four attorneys from Cranfill Sumner & Hartzog LLP were recently selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© 2015 (Copyright 2014 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, SC).

The attorneys selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© 2015 include:

Bet-the-Company Litigation:  Dan M. Hartzog, Raleigh; Theodore B. Smyth, Raleigh

Commercial Litigation:  Dan M. Hartzog, Raleigh; Samuel H. Poole JR., Charlotte; Theodore B. Smyth, Raleigh

Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law:  George B. Autry, Jr., Raleigh; Stephanie Hutchins Autry, Raleigh

Employment Law – Management:  Paul H. Derrick, Raleigh; Patrick H. Flanagan, Charlotte

Insurance Law:  Susan K. Burkhart, Raleigh; Theodore B. Smyth, Raleigh

Litigation – Labor and Employment:  Paul H. Derrick, Raleigh; Patrick H. Flanagan, Charlotte; Dan M. Hartzog, Raleigh

Litigation – Municipal:  Dan M. Hartzog, Raleigh

Mediation:  Richard T. Boyette, Raleigh

Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants:  H. Lee Evans, Jr., Raleigh; John D. Martin, Wilmington; Pankaj K. Shere, Raleigh; David D. Ward, Raleigh

Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants:  Dan M. Hartzog, Raleigh; John D. Martin, Wilmington; Theodore B. Smyth, Raleigh; Robert W. Sumner, Raleigh; Emerson M. Thompson III, Charlotte; David D. Ward, Raleigh

Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs: Theodore B. Smyth, Raleigh

Product Liability Litigation – Defendants:  Robert W. Sumner, Raleigh

Workers’ Compensation Law – Employers:  M. Andrew Avram, Charlotte; P. Collins Barwick III; Raleigh; Paul L. Cranfill, Raleigh; Leanne Livengood Dale*, Raleigh; W. Scott Fuller, Raleigh; Kirk D. Kuhns, Raleigh; C.D. Taylor Pace, Raleigh; David A. Rhoades, Raleigh; Robin H. Terry, Raleigh

*Attorney listed for the first time in The Best Lawyers in America©.

ABOUT THE BEST LAWYERS IN AMERICA©

Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers® has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey. Over 50,000 leading attorneys cast more than 5.5 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas. 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.”

*For more information about Best Lawyers honors and methodology, please visit www.bestlawyers.com.