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14 Bonelaw Attorneys Selected to The Best Lawyers in America© 2017 List
Bone McAllester Norton is pleased to announce that 14 of its lawyers were selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© 2017 list including Anne C. Martin, named Best Lawyers© “Lawyer of the Year” for Litigation – Labor and
Anne C. MartinEmployment. Anne Martin has been a member of Best Lawyers since 2007 and a “Lawyer of the Year” since 2013. Only one attorney in the Nashville area is named “Lawyer of the Year” for Labor and Employment. Anne advocates for employees wrongly treated by employers and also advises employers how to comply with complex federal and state employment laws.
“We are pleased to have so many of our attorneys named to Best Lawyers in their areas of practice” said Charles W. Bone, Chairman, Bone McAllester Norton.
Best Lawyers is the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession. The attorneys included in the 2017 The Best Lawyers in America list are:
| Trace Blankenship | Banking and Finance Law Mergers and Acquisitions Law Non-Profit / Charities Law |
| Charles Robert Bone | Administrative / Regulatory Law Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships) Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs |
| Charles W. Bone | Administrative / Regulatory Law |
| John P. Branham | Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs |
| William T. Cheek III | Food and Beverage Law Non-Profit / Charities Law |
| Glen A. Civitts | Corporate Law Healthcare Law Mergers and Acquisitions Law Real Estate Law Securitization and Structured Finance Law |
| William J. Haynes III | Employment Law - Individuals |
| Sharon O. Jacobs | Environmental Law |
| Paul W. Kruse | Copyright Law Trademark Law |
| Anne C. Martin Best Lawyers© Lawyer of the Year 2017 |
Employment Law – Individuals Employment Law – Management Litigation – Labor and Employment |
| Sam J. McAllester III | Banking and Finance Law Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law |
| Jack F. Stringham II | Banking and Finance Law Real Estate Law |
| Edward M. Yarbrough | Criminal Defense: General Practice Criminal Defense: White-Collar DUI/DWI Defense |
| Stephen J. Zralek | Commercial Litigation Copyright Law Litigation – Intellectual Property |
Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Best Lawyers lists are compiled based on an exhaustive peer-review evaluation. Over 83,000 leading attorneys globally are eligible to vote, and we have received more than 13 million votes to date on the legal abilities of other lawyers based on their specific practice areas around the world. For the 2017 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America, 7.3 million votes were analyzed, which resulted in almost 55,000 leading lawyers being included in the new edition. Lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed; therefore inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor.
