More Than 100 Vorys Attorneys Named to 2019 Best Lawyers in America® List

One hundred and thirteen lawyers from Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP were recently selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America^® 2019.

Since its inception in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Because Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer–review survey in which more than 39,000 leading attorneys cast almost 3.1 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas, 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.”

Best Lawyers from the Vorys Columbus office are:

• Timothy Bechtold – Government Relations Practice
• Theodore Boggs – Environmental Law, Litigation – Environmental
• Adam Brandt – Corporate Law
• Robin Canowitz – Health Care Law
• Nelson Cary – Employment Law – Management, Labor Law – Management, Litigation – Labor and Employment
• David Cook – Immigration Law
• Perry Doran – Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants
• Victor Ferguson – Trusts and Estates
• Shawn Flahive – Corporate Compliance Law, Corporate Governance Law, Corporate Law
• John Furniss – Trusts and Estates
• Thomas Fusonie – Commercial Litigation
• Sheila Nolan Gartland – Real Estate Law
• Russell Gertmenian – Corporate Compliance Law, Corporate Governance Law
• Rick Grady – Litigation – Construction
• Robert Harris – Employment Law – Management
• Herbert Hedden – Franchise Law
• Kimberly Herlihy – Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Labor and Employment
• Reginald Jackson – Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
• Dan Jaffe – Tax Law
• Allen Kinzer – Employment Law – Management, Labor Law – Management, Litigation – Labor and Employment
• William Kloss, Jr. – Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants
• Mark Knueve – Employment Law – Management, Litigation – Labor and Employment
• John Kulewicz – Appellate Practice, Civil Rights Law
• John Landolfi – Commercial Litigation
• Judith Marsh– Banking and Finance Law, Commercial Finance Law, Commercial Transactions/UCC Law, Franchise Law
• Michael Martz – Corporate Law
• Douglas Matthews – Commercial Litigation, Employment Law – Management
• Theodore Mattis – Commercial Litigation, Workers' Compensation Law – Employers
• Linda Mendel – Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
• Daniel Minor – Real Estate Law
• Robert Minor – Workers' Compensation Law – Employers
• Karen Moore – Litigation – Trusts and Estates, Trusts and Estates
• Jonathan Norman – Employment Law – Individuals, Employment Law – Management, Labor Law – Management, Litigation – Labor and Employment
• Bruce Paige – Corporate Law
• William Porter – Commercial Litigation, Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law
• Scott Powell – Tax Law
• Frederick Ransier – Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/ Insolvency and Reorganization Law
• Nicholas Ray – Tax Law
• Lisa Pierce Reisz – Health Care Law, Litigation – Health Care
• Russell Rosler – Corporate Law
• Ronald Rowland – Tax Law, Trusts and Estates
• Gregory Russell – Energy Law, Oil and Gas Law
• Allen Rutz – Construction Law
• Michael Schira – Real Estate Law
• Richard Schuster – Commercial Litigation,  Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs
• Suzanne Scrutton –  Health Care Law
• Michael Settineri – Energy Law
• Bradley Sinnott – Workers' Compensation Law – Employers
• Carl Smallwood – Appellate Practice, Commercial Litigation, Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Defendants, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants, Workers' Compensation Law – Employers
• Andrew Smith – Employment Law – Management, Labor Law – Management
• Elizabeth T. Smith – Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants
• Theodore Smith – Construction Law, Real Estate Law
• Jeffery Smith – Corporate Law
• Evelyn Lundberg Stratton ­– Appellate Practice
• David Swift – Trusts and Estates
• Thomas Szykowny – Insurance Law
• Jill Tangeman – Land Use and Zoning Law
• Mark Vannatta – Non–Profit/Charities Law, Tax Law, Trusts and Estates
• Jonathan Vaughn – Employment Law – Management, Labor Law – Management, Litigation – Labor and Employment
• Webb Vorys – Corporate Law
• Travis Wahl – Banking and Finance Law
• Kristin Watt – Environmental Law, Litigation – Environmental
• John Weimer – Banking and Finance Law, Commercial Finance Law, Commercial Transactions/UCC Law, Equipment Finance Law
• Anthony Weis – Mergers and Acquisitions Law
• James Wilson – Antitrust Law, Litigation – Antitrust
• Scott Ziance – Public Finance Law

Best Lawyers from the Vorys Cincinnati office are:

• Melvin Bedree – Banking and Finance Law, Franchise Law
• Charles Bissinger, Jr. – Real Estate Law
• Kent Britt – Commercial Litigation, Litigation – ERISA
• Daniel Buckley – Bet–the–Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants
• Whitney Gibson – Commercial Litigation
• David Groenke – Trusts and Estates
• Hani Kallas – Banking and Finance Law
• Andrew Kaplan – Workers’ Compensation Law – Employers
• Nathaniel Lampley, Jr. – Commercial Litigation
• Roger Lautzenhiser, Jr. – Corporate Law, International Mergers and Acquisitions

• J.B. Lind – Commercial Litigation

• Jeffrey Marks – Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/ Insolvency and Reorganization Law
• Mark Norman – Environmental Law, Litigation – Environmental
• Eric Richardson – Commercial Litigation
• Kimberly Schaefer – Corporate Law
• Michael Schwartz – Commercial Litigation, Tax Law, Trusts and Estates
• Cynthia Shafer – Banking and Finance Law
• Victor Walton, Jr. – Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Banking and Finance, Litigation – Labor and Employment
• Rosemary Welsh – Product Liability Litigation – Defendants

Best Lawyers from the Vorys Cleveland office are:

• Matthew Albers – Health Care Law
• Kari Coniglio – Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Commercial Litigation
• Marcel Duhamel – Commercial Litigation

• Bryan Falk – Real Estate Law
• Bryan Farkas – Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Litigation – Bankruptcy

• Jeffrey Fickes – Corporate Law

• Michael Garvin – Litigation – Intellectual Property, Patent Law, Trademark Law
• Martin Gates – Banking and Finance Law, Financial Services Regulation Law
• James McMonagle – Arbitration, Mediation
• Anthony O'Malley – Commercial Litigation
• Drew Parobek – Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law
• David Tocco – Commercial Litigation

Best Lawyers from the Vorys Akron office are:

• Thomas Crookes – Employment Law Management, Commercial Litigation
• Philip Downey – Bet–the–Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation
• Jay Porter – Real Estate Law
• Bret Treier – Banking and Finance Law, Corporate Governance Law, Corporate Law
• Mark Watkins – Litigation – Intellectual Property, Patent Law, Trademark Law
• Elia Woyt – Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/ Insolvency and Reorganization Law

Best Lawyers from the Vorys Houston office are:

• Stephen Browning – Real Estate Law
• Jacklyn Ford – Employment Law – Management, Employment Law – Individuals, Labor Law – Management
• Carey Jordan – Patent Law
• Iona Kaiser – Patent Law
• Monica Oathout – Employment Law – Management
• Steven Rech – Commercial Litigation
• Richard Schwartz – Arbitration, Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Labor and Employment, Mediation

Best Lawyers from the Vorys Pittsburgh office are:

• Charles Dougherty, Jr. – Biotechnology and Life Sciences Practice, Litigation – Intellectual Property, Litigation – Patent, Patent Law, Trademark Law

• John Thomas – Litigation – Intellectual Property, Patent Law, Trademark Law

Best Lawyers from the Vorys Washington, D.C. office are:

• Pamela Bresnahan – Commercial Litigation, Ethics and Professional Responsibility Law, Legal Malpractice Law – Defendants

In addition, nine Vorys attorneys have been named Best Lawyers’ 2019 Lawyers of the Year. Each year, only a single lawyer in each specialty in each community is honored as the “Lawyer of the Year.”  To learn more about those lawyers, click here.

About Vorys: Vorys was established in 1909 and has grown to be one of the largest Ohio–based law firms with nearly 375 attorneys in seven offices in Columbus, Cincinnati, Cleveland and Akron, Ohio; Washington, D.C.; Houston, Texas; and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  Vorys currently ranks as one of the 200 largest law firms in the United States according to American Lawyer magazine.