Stites & Harbison, PLLC

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Oct. 1, 2007)—Stites & Harbison announced today that 63 of its attorneys were recently selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2008 (Copyright 2006 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken S.C.).  Those attorneys include:

Katherine S. Allen (Louisville, Ky.)
Stephen G. Allen (Lexington, Ky.)
Robert M. Beck, Jr. (Lexington, Ky.)
Joel T. Beres (Louisville, Ky.)
Julian L. Bibb (Nashville, Tenn.)
C. Craig Bradley, Jr. (Louisville, Ky.)
Carol Dan Browning (Louisville, Ky.)
Robert N. Buchanan, III (Nashville, Tenn.)
Walter R. Byrne, Jr. (Lexington, Ky.)
A. Stuart Campbell (Nashville, Tenn.)
Bruce F. Clark (Frankfort, Ky.)
Philip W. Collier (Louisville, Ky.)
Robert M. Connolly (Louisville, Ky.)
Janet A. Craig (Lexington, Ky.)
Brian A. Cromer (Louisville, Ky.)
Charles J. Cronan IV (Louisville, Ky.)
W. Blaine Early, III, Ph.D. (Lexington, Ky.)
J. Bryan Echols (Nashville, Tenn.)
John M. Famularo (Lexington, Ky.)
Douglass Farnsley (Louisville, Ky.)
Robert C. Goodrich, Jr. (Nashville, Tenn.)
Anne E. Gorham (Lexington, Ky.)
William T. Gorton III (Lexington, Ky.)
B. Riney Green (Nashville, Tenn.)
Charles A. Grice (Nashville, Tenn.)
Robert W. Griffith (Louisville, Ky.)
Garry K. Grooms (Nashville, Tenn.)
William H. Haden, Jr. (Louisville, Ky.)
W. Thomas Halbleib, Jr. (Louisville, Ky.)
Joseph L. Hamilton (Louisville, Ky.)
T. Kennedy Helm III (Louisville, Ky.)
Alex P. Herrington, Jr. (Louisville, Ky.)
Michael J. Hinchion (Nashville, Tenn.)
Barry A. Hines (Louisville, Ky.)
Buckner Hinkle, Jr. (Lexington, Ky.)
J.D. Humphries, III (Atlanta, Ga.)
Alfred S. Joseph, III (Louisville, Ky.)
J. Clarke Keller (Lexington, Ky.)
Jeffrey R. King (Nashville, Tenn.)
Bradley A. MacLean (Nashville, Tenn.)
James G. Martin, III (Nashville, Tenn.)
Thomas E. Meng (Lexington, Ky.)
Barbara J. Moss (Nashville, Tenn.)
Marc S. Murphy (Louisville, Ky.)
Mark R. Overstreet (Frankfort, Ky.)
Gregory P. Parsons (Lexington, Ky.)
William L. Penny (Nashville, Tenn.)
David B. Ratterman (Louisville, Ky.)
Bruce M. Reynolds (Lexington, Ky.)
Stephen M. Ruschell (Lexington, Ky.)
David E. Saffer (Louisville, Ky.)
Kenneth R. Sagan (Lexington, Ky.)
George B. Sanders, Jr. (Louisville, Ky.)
Robert E. Scully, Jr. (Alexandria, Va.)
James C. Seiffert (Louisville, Ky.)
Gregory D. Smith (Nashville, Tenn.)
W. Patrick Stallard (Louisville, Ky.)
John L. Tate (Louisville, Ky.)
Pamela A. Taylor (Nashville, Tenn.)
Elizabeth L. Thompson (Lexington, Ky.)
Ashley W. Ward (Lexington, Ky.)
Jack A. Wheat (Louisville, Ky.)
Warren H. Wild, Jr. (Nashville, Tenn.)

The Lexington, Ky., office ranked #1 in Construction Law, Energy Law, Environmental Law, Mining Law and Natural Resources Law. The Louisville, Ky., office ranked #1 in Commercial Litigation and Product Liability Litigation.  The Nashville, Tenn., office ranked #1 for Family Law and Land Use & Zoning Law.

The firm ranked #1 in Kentucky for Commercial Litigation, Construction Law, Energy Law, Mining Law, Natural Resources Law and Product Liability Litigation.  The firm also ranked #1 in Tennessee for Family Law and Land Use & Zoning Law.

"This truly is an honor for our attorneys and our firm," said Kennedy Helm III, chairman of Stites & Harbison, PLLC.  "It takes hard work and dedication to be considered a 'best lawyer' and our attorneys exemplify that."

The Best Lawyers in America® is a nationally recognized referral guide to the legal profession that has been published biennially since 1983.  Attorneys selected for the publication are reviewed by professional peers through an extensive survey. 

About Stites & Harbison

Stites & Harbison, PLLC, is a regional business and litigation firm with attorneys in Alexandria, Va.; Atlanta; Jeffersonville, Ind.; Louisville, Frankfort and Lexington, Ky.; Nashville and Franklin, Tenn.; and Washington, DC.  Nearly 70 percent of all members and counsel to the firm are AV®-rated in the current Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory®.  Twenty-two of the firm's attorneys are listed in the current edition of Chambers USA. The firm traces its origins to 1832.

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