PHOENIX – Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie LLP announces that 12 partners are named Lawyer of the Year in The Best Lawyers in America® 2018. A total of 85 the firm’s attorneys are included in the new edition of Best Lawyers.
Best Lawyers lists are compiled annually by conducting peer-review surveys in which leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. Lawyer of the Year awards are presented to a single outstanding lawyer in each practice area and designated metropolitan area.
Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie attorneys named Lawyer of the Year in their respective cities and practice areas include:
Albuquerque
- Jeffrey H. Albright - Environmental Law
Denver
- Fred Baumann – Bet-the-Company Litigation
Las Vegas
- Anthony Cabot – Gaming Law
Phoenix
- Bruce Samuels - Copyright Law and Trademark Law
- Bryant Barber – Municipal Law
- Stephen Bressler – Mass Tort Litigation/Class Action-Defendants
- Thomas Campbell – Energy Law
Reno
- Michael Alonso – Government Relations Practice
Tucson
- Rob Charles – Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law
- John Iurino – Bet-the-Company Litigation
- Roy Kyle – Banking and Finance Law
- Matt Sweger – Corporate Law
The complete list of Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie attorneys recognized by Best Lawyers for 2018 includes:
Albuquerque
- Jeffrey H. Albright - Administrative/Regulatory Law, Communications Law, Environmental Law, Litigation-Environmental
- Ross L. Crown - Construction Law, Government Contracts
- Dennis Jontz - Commercial Litigation, Corporate Law, Litigation-Real Estate, Real Estate Law
Colorado Springs
- Edward A. Gleason - Commercial Litigation
- Eric Hall - First Amendment Law
- William Mahaffey - Tax Law
- Martin Nussbaum - Non-Profit/Charities Law
Denver
- Frederick J. Baumann - Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Litigation-Regulatory Enforcement (SEC, Telecom, Energy), Litigation - Securities
- Thomas J. Dougherty II - Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law
- Charles Goldberg - Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Litigation-First Amendment
- Tennyson W. Grebenar - Banking and Finance Law, Financial Services Regulation Law
- William P. Johnson - Litigation-Banking and Finance
- Gregory B. Kanan - Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Litigation-Banking and Finance
- Kevin M. Kelly - Banking and Finance Law
- James M. Lyons - Arbitration, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Criminal Defense: White-Collar, Mediation
- Ben M. Ochoa - Litigation-Real Estate
- Franklin D. O'Loughlin - Insurance Law
- James R. Walker - Litigation-Trusts and Estates, Litigation and Controversy-Tax, Non-Profit/Charities Law, Tax Law, Trusts and Estates
Las Vegas
- Anthony Cabot - Gaming Law, Information Technology Law
- Howard Cole - Employment Law-Management, Labor Law-Management, Litigation-Labor and Employment
- Von S. Heinz - Commercial Litigation, Litigation-ERISA, Litigation-Labor and Employment
- Joel Henriod - Appellate Practice
- Scott MacTaggart - Corporate Law
- Donald Martin – Real Estate Law
- Michael McCue - Copyright Law, Litigation-Intellectual Property, Litigation-Patent, Trademark Law
- Dan Polsenberg - Appellate Practice, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation
- Karl Rutledge - Gaming Law
- Dan R. Waite - Litigation-Banking and Finance
Los Angeles
- John Carson - Trademark Law
Phoenix
- Amy E. Altshuler - Real Estate Law
- Ann-Martha Andrews - Insurance Law
- Bryant D. Barber - Municipal Law, Public Finance Law
- Edwin Barkel - Commercial Litigation, Litigation-Securities
- Emily A. Bayton - Copyright Law
- Stephen M. Bressler - Insurance Law, Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions-Defendants, Product Liability Litigation-Defendants
- Scott K. Brown - Appellate Practice, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law
- Thomas Campbell - Administrative/Regulatory Law, Energy Law
- Carla Consoli - Environmental Law, Litigation-Environmental
- Dale Danneman - Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Litigation-Antitrust, Litigation-Intellectual Property, Litigation-Patent, Litigation-Securities
- Kimberly Demarchi - Appellate Practice
- Scott DeWald - Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Securities/Capital Markets Law
- Glenn Forcucci - Tax Law
- Susan Freeman - Appellate Practice, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Litigation-Bankruptcy
- Richard Goldsmith – Arbitration, Mediation
- Joshua Grabel - Construction Law, Litigation-Construction
- Michael Hallam - Administrative /Regulatory Law, Communications Law
- Gregory Harris - Administrative /Regulatory Law, Government Relations Practice, Healthcare Law
- Stephen Hart - Gaming Law, Native American Law
- Frances Haynes - Construction Law, Litigation-Construction
- Steven Hulsman - Insurance Law, Personal Injury Litigation-Plaintiffs
- Lawrence Kasten - Appellate Practice
- Peter Larson - Native American Law
- Robert McKirgan - Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Litigation-Bankruptcy, Litigation-Intellectual Property, Litigation-Real Estate
- Linda Mitchell - Real Estate Law
- Randy Papetti - Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Litigation-Antitrust, Litigation-Banking and Finance, Litigation-Real Estate, Litigation-Regulatory Enforcement (SEC, Telecom, Energy)
- Michael Phalen - Land Use and Zoning Law, Real Estate Law
- Craig Phillips - Commercial Litigation, Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions-Defendants, Product Liability Litigation-Defendants
- Foster Robberson - Product Liability Litigation-Defendants
- Robert Roos - Construction Law, Litigation-Construction
- Bruce E. Samuels - Commercial Litigation, Copyright Law, Litigation-Intellectual Property, Litigation-Real Estate, Trade Secrets Law, Trademark Law
- Robert Schaffer - Antitrust Law, Appellate Practice, Litigation-Antitrust
- Heidi Short - Land Use and Zoning Law, Real Estate Law
- Mary Ellen Simonson - Education Law
- Jesse B. Simpson - Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Litigation-Regulatory Enforcement (SEC, Telecom, Energy), Litigation-Securities
- Jennifer Van Kirk - Copyright Law, Trademark Law
- Kenneth Van Winkle Jr. - Real Estate Law
- Jon Weiss - Commercial Litigation, Litigation-Real Estate
- John West - Commercial Litigation, Healthcare Law
Reno
- Michael Alonso - Gaming Law, Government Relations Practice
- Sean McGuinness - Gaming Law
- David Mousel - Gaming Law
- E. Leif Reid - Commercial Litigation, Litigation-Real Estate
- Richard Trachok II - Gaming Law
Tucson
- Anne Aikman-Scalise – Trademark Law
- Rob Charles - Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Litigation-Bankruptcy
- John C. Hinderaker - Commercial Litigation, Litigation-Land Use and Zoning, Litigation-Real Estate
- John Iurino - Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Litigation-Intellectual Property, Litigation-Mergers and Acquisitions, Litigation-Real Estate
- Roy Kyle - Banking and Finance Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law
- Linda McNulty – Litigation-Real Estate, Real Estate Law
- Mark Patton – Real Estate Law
- Andrew Schorr - Real Estate Law
- Lewis Schorr - Real Estate Law
- S.L. Schorr - Land Use and Zoning Law, Litigation-Land Use and Zoning, Litigation-Real Estate, Real Estate Law
- Matthew Sweger - Corporate Law
- Pilar Thomas - Native American Law