Best Lawyers Recognition Reflects Firm’s Commitment to Excelling in Key Client Industries

Sept. 11, 2012 - PRLog -- Polsinelli Shughart congratulates 134 of our attorneys from Los Angeles, Ca. to St. Louis, Mo. who are among those included in The Best Lawyers in America® 2013. Our attorneys strive to work on behalf of their clients' businesses as passionately as if they were their own. We are proud to be recognized by our peers for this prestigious ranking which is one of the oldest and most respected peer-review publications in the legal profession. There were 28 attorneys from the St. Louis office named to the 2013 list.

What’s New?
Twenty Polsinelli Shughart lawyers were included in The Best Lawyers in America® for the first time increasing our total amount of lawyers ranked to 134 or approximately 20 percent of our firm. Polsinelli Shughart has 12 lawyers who have been included in Best Lawyers® for at least 10 years, three lawyers who have been included in Best Lawyers® for at least 20 years, and one lawyer has been ranked in Best Lawyers® for 25 years.

Best Lawyers® compiles lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers.

The following is the list of St. Louis Polsinelli Shughart attorneys chosen as Best Lawyers® for 2013.

St. Louis
Jane E. Arnold
Health Care Law
Scot W. Boulton
Litigation - Trusts & Estates
Trusts and Estates
Thomas Campbell (2013)
Gaming Law
John M. Challis
Litigation - Trusts & Estates
T. Jack Challis
Trusts and Estates
Ruben K. Chuquimia
Corporate Law
Mergers & Acquisitions Law
Securities / Capital Markets Law
Kathryn J. Doty (2013)
Patent Law
Jeffrey E. Fine
Copyright Law
Corporate Law
Technology Law
Trademark Law
James A. Fredericks (2013)
Real Estate Law
Randy S. Gerber
Health Care Law
Mark H. Goran (2003) (10 years)
Health Care Law
Keith J. Grady
Litigation - Intellectual Property
Kenneth E. Hand (1995) (10 years)
Trusts and Estates
Janice E. Hetland
Real Estate Law
Andrew T. Hoyne (2003) (10 years)
Biotechnology Law
Technology Law
Venture Capital Law
Joan B. Killgore
Health Care Law
Paul G. Klug
Corporate Law
Jamie Zveitel Kwiatek
Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
Lisa D. McLaughlin (1995) (10 years)
Trusts and Estates
Sanford S. Neuman (1995) (10 years)
Tax Law
Trusts and Estates
Joseph T. Porter, Jr.
Banking and Finance Law
Corporate Law
Scot J. Seabaugh (2013)
Banking and Finance Law
Financial Services Regulation Law
Robert J. Selsor
Commercial Litigation
Litigation Trusts & Estates
Helmut Starr
Land Use & Zoning Law
Litigation - Land Use & Zoning
Litigation - Municipal
Municipal Law
Kenneth H. Suelthaus (1995) (10 years)
Banking and Finance Law
Corporate Law
Financial Services Regulation Law
Mergers & Acquisitions Law
Eric M. Trelz (2013)
Employment Law - Management
Stuart H. Zimbalist (2001) (10 years)
Real Estate Law

For information, contact Public Relations Manager Heather McMichael, 816-223-8780, hmcmichael@polsinelli.com

About Polsinelli Shughart
With more than 600 attorneys, Polsinelli Shughart (www.polsinelli.com) is a national law firm and recognized leader in the areas of  health care, financial services, real estate, life sciences, energy and business litigation.  Serving corporate, institutional and individual clients, the firm builds enduring relationships by creating value through our legal services - with passion, ingenuity and a sense of urgency. The firm has offices in Chicago; Dallas; Denver; Kansas City; Los Angeles; New York; Phoenix; St. Louis; Washington, D.C.; and Wilmington, DE. In California, Polsinelli Shughart LLP.

About Best Lawyers®
Since its inception in 1983, Best Lawyers® has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Because Best Lawyers® is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which more than 39,000 leading attorneys cast over three million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their specialties, and because lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed, 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.” 

It is important to note that the lawyers listed in Best Lawyers® have no say in deciding which specialties they are included in. They are voted into specialties entirely as a result of the votes they receive from their peers. The subspecialties listed after their names are based on information from a variety of sources. Since many state bar associations have a board certification process and rules governing legal specialties, please be aware that the specialties and subspecialties listed in our publications are based on information from the general legal community and that a listed lawyer may or may not be board certified in a specialty or subspecialty. Clients are urged to check a lawyer’s firm web page to determine whether he or she is board certified in the specialty or subspecialty.