Super Lawyers

A Super Lawyer is a lawyer recognized by his or her peers as being outstanding in their profession. Super Lawyers comprise the top five percent of legal practitioners in the country.

• Nathaniel Lampley Jr. Profile
  
  Nathaniel Lampley Jr is a partner at Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease. Mr. Lampley has been with Vorys since 1992. During that time, his work as a trial lawyer has helped build the firm’s litigation practice and its reputation for excellence. Mr. Lampley has worked on contract and commercial litigation as well as on labor and employment litigation, representing corporate interests in both individual and class action cases.
• Ralph Martin Profile
  
  Ralph Martin is a partner at Bingham McCutchen and managing principal of Bingham Consulting Group. He is the former Suffolk County district attorney, having served as the elected prosecutor for Boston, Chelsea, Revere and Winthrop from 1992-2002. Ralph has more than 20 years of experience as a trial lawyer and state and federal prosecutor. He practices in the areas of corporate investigations, white collar defense and general civil litigation.
• Alan Cason Profile
  
  Mr. Cason is managing partner at McGuireWoods. He has served as bond counsel and counsel to issuers, underwriters, borrowers, developers and trustees in connection with numerous tax-exempt and taxable bond issues and private financings in Maryland and elsewhere. Mr. Cason has extensive experience in municipal law, state and local government relations and economic development matters.
• Edward Diggs Profile
  
  Mr. Diggs is a partner at K&L Gates and concentrates his practice in the areas of commercial litigation with emphasis in commercial, construction and asbestos. He has litigation experience in both federal and state courts representing corporations and individuals in the defense and prosecution of claims. Mr. Diggs also has vast experience in negotiating and drafting construction and procurement contracts for various types of industrial and...
• Aasia Mustakeem Profile
  
  Aasia Mustakeem is a partner at Powell Goldstein. Aasia Mustakeem is the Practice Group Leader for the Atlanta Real Estate Finance and Development Practice Group of Powell Goldstein. Ms. Mustakeem practices in the area of commercial real estate, including the representation of developers, purchasers and sellers in connection with the acquisition, disposition and development of office, hotel, retail, industrial and mixed-use projects.
• Thomas G. Sampson Jr. Profile
  
  Thomas G. Sampson Jr. is a partner with Thomas, Kennedy, Sampson and Patterson, Georgia’s oldest minority-owned law firm. A trial lawyer, Woody regularly represents Fortune 500 companies, individuals and governmental entities in various types of complex legal matters. Mr. Sampson is a graduate of Morehouse College and holds a Doctorate of Law degree from the University of Georgia. Mr. Sampson is a member of the State Bar of Georgia, is currently President-Elect of the Gate City Bar Association.
• H. Jesse Arnelle Profile
  
  Mr. Arnelle was a senior partner in the law firm of Arnelle & Hastie, San Francisco, which later became Arnelle, Hastie, McGee, Willis & Greene, with which he had been associated from 1985 through his retirement in 1996. Following his retirement, he was Of Counsel to the North Carolina law firm of Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice until his retirement in December 2005. Mr. Arnelle is a director of URS Corporation and Metropolitan Life Series Fund.
• Nolan Atkinson Proflie
  
  Nolan Atkinson is a partner in the law firm of Duane Morris. Mr. Atkinson has had trials in both the state and federal courts in a variety of commercial and personal injury matters. He is an experienced litigator in commercial matters representing banks, insurance companies and other businesses in major disputes. He has an extensive background in defending major corporations in product and toxic tort matters. He has also represented numerous hospitals and physicians in complex health-related matters.
• Audrey Tolson Profile
  
  Audrey Tolson is a partner in The Cochran Firm’s Atlanta office. Her practice is concentrated primarily in the areas of wrongful death, catastrophic personal injury and medical malpractice. Audrey received her undergraduate degree from Georgia Institute of Technology where she was a founding member of the university’s Pre-Law Society. She then obtained her Juris Doctor from Georgia State University. Prior to joining The Cochran Firm, Audrey owned and managed her private law practice.
• Hezekiah Sistrunk, Jr. Profile
  
  Hezekiah Sistrunk, Jr. is the managing partner of the Atlanta, Georgia office of The Cochran Firm, Cochran, Cherry, Givens, Smith & Sistrunk. He has prosecuted and defended hundreds of litigated matters before state and federal courts and various administrative agencies. He has litigated matters involving a broad array of substantive areas of practice, but with special focus on litigation of complex litigation matters, common law and statutory and contract cases, physician and hospital liability cases...
• Jerome C. Carter Profile
  
  Jerome C. Carter is one of the managing partners in the Mobile office of the Cochran Firm. Mr. Carter graduated from Baker High School in Mobile, Alabama. He earned a scholarship to attend Marion Military Institute and later received his Bachelors Degree from the University of South Alabama in 1991. In 1995, he graduated from the Jones School of Law in Montgomery, Alabama.
• William E. Cook, Jr. Profile
  
  William E. Cook, Jr. is a partner in the Washington, DC, office of Arnold & Porter where he has specialized in telecommunications and cable television law since 1988. Mr. Cook has assisted a FORTUNE 100 company and other commercial clients in the negotiation of multi-million dollar contracts for telecommunications services. He has advised clients on the regulatory implications of various telecommunications transactions.
• Theresa Edwards Profile
  
  Ms. Brown-Edwards is a partner in the law firm of Potter Anderson & Corroon. She concentrates her practice in bankruptcy and corporate reorganization, and has significant experience representing Chapter 11 debtors and debtors-in-possession. She also focuses her attention on the protection of creditors' rights, including the representations of creditors' committees, second lien holders committees, lenders, landlords, equipment and aircraft lessors, and trade creditors, among others.
• Joshua Martin Profile
  
  Mr. Martin is a partner in the law firm of Potter Anderson & Corroon. He concentrates his law practice on mediation and arbitration and on business counseling, particularly in the areas of telecommunications, public utilities and governmental relations. He serves as Chair of Potter Anderson's Diversity Committee, charged with enhancing the firm's ongoing diversity efforts.
• H. Ron White Profile
  
  H. Ron White is the Founder and Managing Partner of Adorno Yoss White & Wiggins, L.L.P. He has more than 30 years experience as a litigator and is a respected mediator and arbitrator in the Dallas legal community. Though his experience is extensive, Mr. White’s principal area of practice is commercial litigation, including suits that involve premises liability defense and personal injury, contract disputes, labor and employment matters,
• Christopher S. Campbell Profile
  
  Christopher S. Campbell is a partner in the law firm of Harris Shelton Hanover & Walsh. He concentrates his practice in the areas of general civil litigation and insurance defense. He is a member of the Memphis, Tennessee and American Bar Associations. Mr. Campbell is a Member of the Board of Directors of the Ronald McDonald House of Memphis.
• Kevin B. Wiggins Profile
  
  Kevin B. Wiggins is the Co-Founder and General Partner of Adorno Yoss White & Wiggins, L.L.P. His principal areas of practice are antitrust, business torts, complex commercial litigation, labor/employment litigation and counseling, real estate litigation and civil appeals. He has been a mediator in Dallas County since 1993 and mediated matters involving personal injury, race and sex discrimination, breach of contract and commercial claims.
• Tracey Wallace Profile
  
  Tracey Wallace is a partner in the law firm of Adorno Yoss White & Wiggins. Her principal area of practice is corporate defense in the area of employment/labor law, specializing in claims brought pursuant to Title VII, Sections 1981, 1983, 1985 and 1986, Workers’ Compensation, FMLA, Age Discrimination and the Fair Labor Standards Act. Ms. Wallace also performs EEO audits, sexual harassment investigations, and practices commercial litigation.
• Tonya Parker Profile
  
  Tonya Parker is a partner in the law firm of Adorno Yoss White & Wiggins. Her principal area of practice is commercial business litigation, including suits that involve premises liability, products liability, negligence, business torts, and contract disputes. Her experience further includes drafting, reviewing and negotiating contracts, including employment agreements, non-compete/non-disclosure agreements, and construction contracts.
• Malcolm S. Robinson Profile
  
  Malcolm S. Robinson is the Founder and Managing Partner of Robinson & Hoskins. Malcolm S. Robinson, native of Chicago, Illinois, formerly worked in the Law Department of SCOR Reinsurance Company in Dallas, Texas from 1979 to 1984. SCOR is an American subsidiary of a French reinsurance company. He reached the position of Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary.
• Frederick R. Nance Profile
  
  Frederick R. Nance is Managing Partner for Squire Sanders. Mr. Nance's legal practice focuses on commercial litigation, sports law, client counseling and public-private partnerships. Much of his practice in recent years has included high stakes negotiations involving community interests. He is an experienced jury trial litigator in federal and state courts and a frequent participant in alternative dispute resolution proceedings.
• Leslie Overton Profile
  
  Leslie Overton is a partner in the law firm of Jones Day. She practices exclusively in the antitrust and government regulation areas. Her practice focuses on mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, civil nonmerger investigations, and counseling. She also has litigation experience. Leslie has represented a variety of clients, including media, technology, telecommunications, and consumer products companies, as well as health care organizations.
• Guy Flynn Profile
  
  Guy Flynn is a partner in the law firm of DLA PIPER. He practices in the area of commercial real estate development and finance, representing institutional investors, pension funds, developers, lenders, borrowers, underwriters, and other public and private business entities in various commercial transactions, including joint venture, acquisition and development, leasing, commercial finance, purchase and sale, workout, foreclosure...
• Jaret L. Davis Profile
  
  Jaret L. Davis is a shareholder in the law firm of Greenberg Traurig. Jaret Davis represents corporate clients, both domestically and internationally, with respect to matters concerning mergers and acquisitions, public and private securities offerings (both equity and debt), financings, securities law compliance, venture capital (both issuers and venture capitalists), joint ventures and various other types of general contractual matters.
• John Carr Profile
  
  John Carr is a partner in the law firm of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. He has represented merchant and investment banks and corporate clients on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and private equity funds. He has also provided general corporate, partnership and securities law advice. He has extensive experience in representing merchant banking clients in raising private equity funds and in their investment activities.
• Reuben V. Anderson Profile
  
  Reuben V. Anderson is a partner in the law firm of Phelps Dunbar, LLP in Jackson, Mississippi, and has served in this capacity since 1991. He served as a Mississippi Supreme Court justice from 1985 to 1990. Mr. Anderson was elected a director of AT&T in December 2006. He served as a director of BellSouth Corporation from 1994 until the company was acquired by AT&T in 2006. He is a member of the Finance/Pension Committee and the Public...
• Drew Saunders Days Profile
  
  Drew Saunders Days, III is Alfred M. Rankin Professor of Law at the Yale Law School and of Counsel to the law firm of Morrison and Foerter LLP, specializing in Supreme Court and appellate practice. He is a former Solicitor General of the U.S. (1993-1996) and former Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights (1977-1980).
• A. Wayne Gill Profile
  
  A. Wayne Gill is a Partner in the law firm of Adorno & Yoss and is the Chairman of the Corporate Asset Recovery Department. Mr. Gill represents a wide variety of individuals and businesses, ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies. He is a counselor and litigator of substantial experience, having litigated hundreds of contested legal matters in the State of Florida, over the past fourteen years. Mr. Gill holds a B.A. from Trinity College and a J.D. from George Washington University.
• Willie E. Gary Profile
  
  Willie E. Gary is a Senior Partner in the law firm of Gary, Williams, Finney, Lewis, Watson & Sperando. He was born in Eastman, GA. His family relocated to Canal Point, Fla. and later settled in Indiantown, Fla. After graduating Murray High School in 1967, Gary, received a scholarship to Shaw University in Raleigh, NC and received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in 1971. He received his Juris Doctorate degree....