Awards

Verrill Dana is honored to have received the award for Most Hours on Completed Volunteer Lawyers Project (VLP) Cases by a Law Firm at the Maine State Bar Association’s Annual Meeting. The award was presented at the MSBA Annual Meeting’s Pro Bono luncheon on Thursday, January 26.

Harrisburg, PA – McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC is pleased to announce that attorney Stephen A. Moore has been recognized as the Gary Yenkowski Award recipient for 2011. The Yenkowski Award is given to a Member each year in honor of deceased McNees Partner, Gary Yenkowski.

Duane Morris LLP is pleased to announce that client Cisco Systems, Inc., a leading global provider of networking products and services, has announced that the firm has been designated the winner of its Litigation Counsel of the Year Award for 2011 as a result of Duane Morris' work for Cisco on patent litigation matters.

Southern California Super Lawyers® has selected seven attorneys from Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP, a prominent California law firm with a national reputation, for inclusion in its 2012 edition.

The South Carolina Supreme Court has certified Jamie Hedgepath as a Specialist in Employment and Labor Law. Hedgepath, a Member (Partner) in the firm’s Greenville office, is the eighth Nexsen Pruet attorney to earn the designation.

Adams and Reese ranked fourth among the top bankruptcy law firms in Florida, according to the Tampa Bay Business Journal’s annual list of Bankruptcy Law Firms, ranked by number of local bankruptcy attorneys. Adams and Reese has 14 bankruptcy attorneys in Florida among its three offices in Sarasota, St. Petersburg and Tampa.

Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP announced today that the Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journal has selected Business and Insurance Litigation attorney Theona Zhordania as one of California’s “Top Five Associates to Watch in 2012.” This prestigious and very short list recognizes young attorneys throughout the state who have demonstrated extraordinary capabilities, and have gone a

Scott Chinn of Faegre Baker Daniels LLP was sworn in by U.S. Circuit Judge David F. Hamilton as the 134th president of the Indianapolis Bar Association (IndyBar) at a reception on Jan. 12, 2012. With his installation, Chinn continues a tradition of bar association leadership by Faegre Baker Daniels attorneys.

Amalie Tuffin Honored by Business North Carolina as Legal Elite Whitmeyer Tuffin PLLC (www.whit-law.com), a Raleigh-based law firm serving emerging technology companies and entrepreneurs, announces today that partner Amalie Tuffin has been selected as a 2012 Legal Elite business law practitioner by Business North Carolina magazine.

Fenwick & West LLP corporate partners Gregory Roussel and Kris Withrow have been selected as two of the top 20 lawyers in California under the age of 40 by the Daily Journal. The annual list honors the best and brightest in California’s legal industry. Fenwick was the only firm to have two of its attorneys on the list this year.