Best Lawyers in America Selects 82 Baker & Daniels Attorneys

INDIANAPOLIS (September 1, 2010) - Eighty-two Baker & Daniels LLP attorneys have been named to the 2011 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession.

The firm's recognized lawyers represent 34 different practice areas and four offices — two in Indianapolis and one in Fort Wayne and South Bend. Selected Best Lawyers in more than one area of practice were 30 of Baker & Daniels' attorneys.

Among Indiana firms, Baker & Daniels has the most listed lawyers in 11 areas of practice, including corporate law with 18 attorneys, labor and employment law with seven, banking law with five, bankruptcy and creditor-debtor rights law with five, administrative law with four and nonprofit/charities law with four. Baker & Daniels also is the Indiana leader with the most Fort Wayne (13) attorneys named to Best Lawyers.

Other areas of practice where Baker & Daniels had the most lawyers or was tied for the most lawyers listed among Indiana firms were antitrust law, education law, eminent domain and condemnation law, international trade and finance law, and leveraged buyouts and private equity law.

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 almost 3.1 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas 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." The lawyers in Best Lawyers have no say in deciding the practice areas where they are listed. They are voted into practice areas entirely as a result of the votes they receive from their peers.

The 2011 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® is a registered trademark of Woodward/White, Inc. of Aiken, S.C. Baker & Daniels attorneys named to the 2011 edition are:

INDIANAPOLIS
Terrill D. Albright — alternative dispute resolution and construction law
James A. Aschleman — corporate law and securities law
Donald P. Bennett — tax law
Ben W. Blanton — nonprofit/charities law
Daniel L. Boeglin — biotechnology law and corporate law
J. Jeffrey Brown — corporate law, leveraged buyouts & private equity law, mergers & acquisitions law and venture capital law
Brian K. Burke — bet-the-company litigation and commercial litigation
H. Patrick Callahan — corporate law
James M. Carr — bankruptcy & creditor-debtor rights law
R. Trevor Carter — intellectual property law
M. Angella Castille — international trade & finance law
A. Scott Chinn — appellate law and commercial litigation
Stephen A. Claffey — banking law and bankruptcy & creditor-debtor rights law
J. Murray Clark — administrative law and government relations law
Shaun Healy Clifford — administrative law
Patrick S. Cross — corporate law and health care law
Gregory N. Dale — labor & employment law
Francina A. Dlouhy — administrative law and tax law
Robert W. Elzer — trusts & estates
Kevin R. Erdman — intellectual property law
Brian S. Fennerty — corporate law and venture capital law
David A. Foster — banking law
Richard T. Freije Jr. — administrative law
Thomas C. Froehle — corporate law, gaming law and public finance law
John A. Gardner — trusts & estates
David A. Given — eminent domain & condemnation law and labor & employment law
Eric J. Groen — intellectual property law
Paul Lowell Haines — nonprofit/charities law
Terry E. Hall — bankruptcy & creditor-debtor rights law
David R. Hamer — banking law
David K. Herzog — bet-the-company litigation and commercial litigation
Jennett M. Hill — nonprofit/charities law
Jay Jaffe — bankruptcy & creditor-debtor rights law
Jerry R. Jenkins — antitrust law
David L. Johnson — corporate law and leveraged buyouts & private equity law
John S. Keeler — government relations law
Tibor D. Klopfer — corporate law and mergers & acquisitions law
Scott M. Kosnoff — corporate law and insurance law
Jon B. Laramore — appellate law
Mary Katherine Lisher — real estate law
Joseph E. Miller Jr. — education law and nonprofit/charities law
John T. Neighbours — labor & employment law
Timothy E. Niednagel — intellectual property law
Stephen H. Paul — real estate law
Hudnall A. Pfeiffer — labor & employment law
John W. Purcell — employee benefits law
Rebecca A. Richardson — banking law
Kent A. Rollison — trusts & estates
Christopher G. Scanlon — bet-the-company litigation and commercial litigation
Joseph M. Scimia — land use & zoning law and real estate law
Regina M. Sharrow — corporate law and mergers & acquisitions law
Jacqueline A. Simmons — environmental law
Gayle L. Skolnik — employee benefits law
Joseph L. Smith Jr. — government relations law
Andrew Z. Soshnick — family law
Cynthia K. Springer — labor & employment law
Robert K. Stanley — bet-the-company litigation and commercial litigation
Thomas G. Stayton — alternative dispute resolution, bet-the-company litigation, commercial litigation and product liability litigation
John Joseph Tanner — product liability litigation
Gregory J. Utken — labor & employment law
Mark A. Voigtmann — commercial litigation and construction law
David C. Worrell — banking law and corporate law
Robert S. Wynne — corporate law and mergers & acquisitions law
Joseph H. Yeager Jr. — bet-the-company litigation and commercial litigation

FORT WAYNE
Jon A. Bomberger — real estate law
John R. Burns — bankruptcy & creditor-debtor rights law
Timothy J. Haffner — corporate law and mergers & acquisitions law
Steven H. Hazelrigg — corporate law
John F. Hoffman — intellectual property law
David P. Irmscher — intellectual property law
Steven L. Jackson — commercial litigation and health care law
Michael L. James — construction law
David J. Kuker — mergers & acquisitions law
David W. Miller — labor & employment law
Michael J. Nader — employee benefits law
Thomas M. Shoaff — corporate law
N. Reed Silliman — corporate law

SOUTH BEND
Thomas J. Brunner — commercial litigation
Richard L. Hill — corporate law and public finance law
Randolph R. Rompola — public finance law
Edward A. Sullivan — education law
Robert A. Wade — health care law

ABOUT BAKER & DANIELS
Baker & Daniels LLP provides advice and counsel to regional, national and international clients with legal and business needs. With more than 370 attorneys and legal professionals, the full-service law firm has offices in Indiana, Chicago, Washington, D.C. and Beijing. B&D Consulting, a national advisory and advocacy firm focused on key sectors of the economy and based in Washington, D.C., is a division of Baker & Daniels. For more information about Baker & Daniels or B&D Consulting, visit www.bakerdaniels.com or www.bakerdconsulting.com.