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)
• Judy D. Thompson (Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law)
• Thomas R. West (Administrative Law)
• Joseph E. Zeszotarski (Criminal Defense: Non-White-Collar & Criminal Defense: White-Collar)