RALEIGH – Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business has ranked seven practice areas and sixteen Poyner Spruill LLP attorneys as leaders in their respective fields. Poyner Spruill received rankings, which identify the firm as a leader in North Carolina, for outstanding work in the following practice areas:
- Banking & Finance
- Bankruptcy/Restructuring
- Corporate/M&A
- Environment
- Healthcare
- Labor & Employment
- Litigation: General Commercial
Chambers USA was launched in 2003 as a means of ranking attorneys and practice groups in tiers that serve as an annual comparison with other firms across the state. Interviews with thousands of peers and clients are conducted across the country each year to compile the rankings.
Sources contacted about Poyner Spruill’s attorneys offered compliments such as:
“They are unusually focused on the final outcome and provide advice not just focused on reducing risk, but on identifying all options and working through the risks and benefits of each.”
“They are very professional and yet also accessible, from both a time and an interpersonal perspective. They provide big-firm quality with a small-firm attitude and approach.”
“It’s a very business-oriented firm. They don’t get caught up in the legal weeds or do cases just for the sake of it. They work on cases in order to resolve them.”
“top-notch firm that gives the best advice.”
The complete list of Poyner Spruill attorneys listed in Chambers USA in 2017 includes:
Kenneth L. Burgess Healthcare
Kevin Ceglowski Labor & Employment
Brian F. Corbett Banking & Finance
H. Glenn T. Dunn Environment
Andrew H. Erteschik Litigation: General Commercial
Chad Essick Real Estate: Zoning/Land Use – Up and Coming
Susanna K. Gibbons Labor & Employment
Timothy Griffin Banking & Finance
Wilson Hayman Healthcare
Todd Hemphill Healthcare
Bradley J. Herring Banking & Finance
Keith H. Johnson Environment
James S. Livermon III Bankruptcy/Restructuring
Steven M. Shaber Healthcare
Timothy P. Sullivan Environment
David Woodard Labor & Employment