Cranfill Sumner & Hartzog Attorneys Selected for Inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2013

Aug. 27, 2012 - PRLog -- RALEIGH, N.C. (Aug. 27, 2012) –Twenty-three lawyers from Cranfill Sumner & Hartzog LLP (CSH) were recently selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2013 (Copyright 2012 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, SC).

“Our attorneys work hard every day to provide excellent services to our clients, and to have these efforts acknowledged by their peers is an honor,” said Managing Partner Dan Hartzog. “We are also pleased to have five attorneys in our firm included in Best Lawyers for the first time.”

The twenty-three CSH attorneys recognized represent thirteen different practice areas.  The CSH attorneys recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2013 edition include:

Bet-the-Company Litigation
•   Dan M. Hartzog - Raleigh

Commercial Litigation
•   Dan M. Hartzog - Raleigh
•   Lee Poole* - Charlotte

Education Law
•   Donna R. Rascoe - Raleigh

Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law
•   George B. Autry, Jr. - Raleigh
•   Stephanie Hutchins Autry - Raleigh

Employment Law – Management
•   Paul H. Derrick - Raleigh

Insurance Law
•   Susan K. Burkhart - Raleigh

Litigation – Labor & 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
•   Michael C. Allen* - Raleigh
•   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
•   Robert W. Sumner - Raleigh
•   David D. Ward - Raleigh

Product Liability Litigation – Defendants
•   Robert W. Sumner - Raleigh

Workers’ Compensation Law – Employers
•   M. Andrew Avram - Wilmington
•   P. Collins Barwick III - Raleigh
•   Paul L. Cranfill - Raleigh
•   W. Scott Fuller - Raleigh
•   Kirk D. Kuhns - Raleigh
•   C.D. Taylor Pace - Raleigh
•   David A. Rhoades* - Raleigh
•   Robin H. Terry – Raleigh

*Attorneys who are listed for the first time in The Best Lawyers in America®.

About Best Lawyers
Since it was first published 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 36,000 leading attorneys cast almost 4.4 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.”

About Cranfill Sumner & Hartzog LLP (CSH)
Founded in 1992, CSH is consistently ranked as one of the largest law firms in North Carolina with more than 100 attorneys serving individuals and businesses across the state from offices in Raleigh, Charlotte, and Wilmington.  CSH clients benefit from the firm’s 20-year history representing clients in the federal, state, and local courts of North Carolina.  To learn more about CSH visit www.cshlaw.com.