Stites & Harbison, PLLC

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind.—Stites & Harbison announced today that for the fifth consecutive year, Robert W. Lanum of the Jeffersonville, Ind., office was named in the 2008 Indiana Super Lawyers magazine.  He is listed under the practice area of Estate Planning & Probate.

Super Lawyers is a guide compiled by Law & Politics Magazine that honors exceptional attorneys, representing a wide range of practice areas, firm sizes and geographic locations.  Candidates are nominated by peers in their state or region and evaluated by an expert panel system.  Only 5% of the lawyers in each state or region are named in Super Lawyers.  Stites & Harbison has a total of 43 attorneys listed in Super Lawyers.

Lanum is of counsel with Stites & Harbison.  Formerly partner in charge of the Jeffersonville, Ind., office, he is active in corporate, trusts, estates and tax law.  He currently is a member of the Regional Leadership Coalition, chairman of the Paul Ogle Foundation, Inc., and Fellow of the American College of Trust & Estate Counsel.  Additionally, he is the director of the Louisville Public Library Foundation, serves on the board of advisors of both Junior Achievement and Jeffersonville Carnegie Library Foundation, and serves on the board of directors of Indiana University Foundation.

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.; and Nashville and Franklin, Tenn.  Tracing its origins to 1832, Stites & Harbison is one of the oldest law practices in the nation and among the largest law firms in the Southeast.  Sixty-three Stites & Harbison lawyers are named in the current edition of The Best Lawyers in America®, and 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 and 43 attorneys are listed in the current Super Lawyers magazine.

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