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"I find I am required to wear many “hats” and am constantly called upon to use my background and experience in tax, business, real estate, and family law in connection with my estate planning practice. Although it may require some additional work on my part to stay current on several different areas of the law, I think it makes me a better lawyer for my clients."

Chalk Broughton, Partner

"It's a common approach for Poyner Spruill attorneys because we appreciate that most business decisions are made outside of a courtroom, and the law should inform those decisions but not dictate them in most cases."

Lisa Sumner, Partner

"He was right. In an era of large firms, we're a unique place: where so-called "old fashioned" virtues - like providing clients with personal attention, and having a connection to our community - are the anchor of our practice."

Drew Erteschik, Associate

"We give personal attention on every matter that comes through the door."

Randy Adams, Partner

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The Best Lawyers In America® 2010

Twenty-eight Poyner Spruill Attorneys Selected by Their Peers for Inclusion

07.30.2009

RALEIGH, NC -- Poyner Spruill today announced that 28 of its attorneys have been named to the 2010 edition of Best Lawyers®, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession.

First published in 1983, Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive annual peer-review survey. For the new U.S. edition, more than 24,126 leading attorneys cast more than 2.8 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in the same and related specialties.

Because of the rigorous and transparent methodology used by Best Lawyers, 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.”

The Poyner Spruill attorneys named to the list and the areas in which they have been recognized are as follows:

Randall R. Adams (Insurance Law)
William T. Belcher (Trusts and Estates)
Kenneth L. Burgess (Health Care Law)
William S. Cherry, Jr. (Banking & Real Estate Law)
Robin Tatum Currin (Land Use & Zoning Law)
Joseph B. ”Bo” Dempster, Jr. (Corporate & Real Estate Law)
David Dreifus (Commercial Litigation)
H. Glenn Dunn (Administrative Law, Environmental Law & Water Law)
Thomas D. “Del” Eatman, Jr. (Real Estate Law)
J. Nicholas Ellis (Bet-the-Company Litigation & Commercial Litigation)
George K. Freeman, Jr. (Construction Law)
Lemuel H. “Chip” Gibbons III (Tax Law)
Susanna K. Gibbons (Labor and Employment Law)
Meg D. Goldstein (Trusts and Estates)
Eugene S. Griggs (Employee Benefits Law)
Cecil W. Harrison (Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, and Labor and Employment Law)
Keith H. Johnson (Environmental Law)
T. Richard Kane (Environmental Law)
David W. Long (Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Criminal Defense: Non-White-Collar, and Criminal Defense: White-Collar)
Frank P. Meadows, Jr. (Tax Law)
E. Fitzgerald “Jerry” Parnell III (Criminal Defense: White-Collar & Legal Malpractice Law)
Steven M. Shaber (Administrative Law & Health Care Law)
John L. Shaw (Construction Law)
William R. Shenton (Health Care Law)
Timothy P. Sullivan (Environmental Law)
Thomas R. West (Administrative Law)
Joseph E. Zeszotarski (Criminal Defense: Non-White-Collar & Criminal Defense: White-Collar)