August 4, 2009 More than 100 Barnes & Thornburg LLP Attorneys Listed in The Best Lawyers in America 2010 A national guide of the country's top attorneys has listed 115 attorneys from Barnes & Thornburg LLP The Best Lawyers in America 2010 (Copyright 2009 by Woodward/White, Inc, of Aiken, SC) recognized attorneys from eight of the firm's 10 offices in 166 listings, which was an increase from 134 listings last year The firm ranked No 1 in several specialty areas, including antitrust, banking, bankruptcy and creditor-debtor rights, commercial litigation, corporate governance and compliance, elder law, employee benefits, energy law, first amendment law, government relations, immigration, information technology, insurance, intellectual property, labor and employment, municipal law, private funds law, product liability litigation, public finance law, real estate law, securities law, tax law, trusts and estates, water law, white-collar criminal defense, and workers compensation law Barnes & Thornburg had a total of 91 attorneys listed from the firm's four Indiana offices, while 12 attorneys from the firm s Chicago office, 10 attorneys from the firm's Grand Rapids, Mich office, and 1 attorney from each of the Columbus, Ohio and Minneapolis, Minn offices were also listed The Barnes & Thornburg attorneys who made this year s list, including the area in which they are listed, are: Chicago Fredric P Andes (*) Environmental Law, Water Law Stephen M Fatum Health Care Law Paula Cozzi Goedert Non-Profit/Charities Law William M Lee, Jr (*) Intellectual Property Law Alan J Martin Insurance Law Alice O Martin Biotechnology Law William M McErlean Franchise Law Donald J McNeil Labor and Employment Law Dennis M McWilliams - Intellectual Property Law Lee T Polk - Employee Benefits Law Mark E Rust - Health Care Law Clifford J Shapiro Construction Law
Columbus William A Nolan Education Law, Labor and Employment Law Elkhart Glenn E Killoren Corporate Governance and Compliance Law Eric H J Stahlhut (*) Labor and Employment Law Samuel S Thompson Trusts and Estates Timothy A Weaver Elder Law Fort Wayne Kathleen M Anderson Commercial Litigation, Labor and Employment Law Dennis C Becker Tax Law D Randall Brown Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Intellectual Property Law Stephen L Fink (*) Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law Bobby B Gillenwater (10) Intellectual Property Law William T Hopkins, Jr (10) Labor and Employment Law Grand Rapids Michael G Campbell Corporate Law Charles M Denton II (10) Environmental Law Daniel R Gravelyn Antitrust Law R Paul Guerre Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law Tracy T Larsen (10) Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law Donald P Lawless Labor and Employment Law Patrick E Mears (10) Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law Robert W Sikkel (10) Labor and Employment Law Michael A Snapper (10) Labor and Employment Law Robert R Stead Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law, Private Funds Law Indianapolis Bradford G Addison Intellectual Property Law Dean T Barnhard (*) Product Liability Litigation John B Baxter Real Estate Law John W Boyd (10) Tax Law Wendy D Brewer (*) Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law Catherine L Bridge Corporate Law Brian L Burdick Government Relations Law, Municipal Law Jan M Carroll (10) Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, First Amendment Law Joseph C Chapelle Commercial Litigation Richard D Conard (10) Intellectual Property Law Michael R Conner (10) Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Personal Injury Litigation, Product Liability Litigation Anne N DePrez (10) Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Securities Law
Andrew J Detherage Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Personal Injury Litigation, Product Liability Litigation Bruce D Donaldson Public Finance Law Stephen J Dutton Corporate Governance and Compliance Law, Corporate Law, Information Technology Law Joseph G Eaton Product Liability Litigation Stanley C Fickle Appellate Law, Energy Law Daniel H FitzGibbon (20) Tax Law Kristin G Fruehwald (20) Trusts and Estates Michael R Fruehwald Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation Robert T Grand Government Relations Law, Municipal Law E Sean Griggs Environmental Law Kenneth H Inskeep Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation Paul Jefferson (*) Appellate Law Dennis A Johnson Real Estate Law Nicholas K Kile Energy Law, Water Law Donald E Knebel (10) Antitrust Law, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Intellectual Property Law Wayne C Kreuscher Commercial Litigation, Product Liability Litigation John M Kyle III Environmental Law Lawrence E Lawhead (*) Trusts and Estates Stephen W Lee Real Estate Law Alan A Levin (10) Employee Benefits Law Joseph E Loftus Gaming Law, Government Relations Law Michael P Lucas Public Finance Law Dwight D Lueck Intellectual Property Law Robert D MacGill Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation Larry A Mackey White-Collar Criminal Defense John R Maley Appellate Law, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Labor and Employment Law Michael K McCrory Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law Daniel W McGill (10) Energy Law Jeffrey A Michael Intellectual Property Law David B Millard (10) Corporate Law, Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law, Venture Capital Law D William Moreau, Jr Education Law Peter A Morse, Jr Labor and Employment Law Teresa E Morton Communications Law, Energy Law Eric R Moy Corporate Governance and Compliance Law, Corporate Law, Securities Law, Structured Finance Law Patricia L Ogden Workers' Compensation Law Christine E M Orich (*) Information Technology Law, Intellectual Property Law, Technology Law Benjamin Pecar Real Estate Law Mariana Richmond Immigration Law
Timothy J Riffle (10) Tax Law Michael Rosiello (10) Commercial Litigation Peter J Rusthoven Gaming Law Michael T Scanlon Environmental Law Richard C Starkey Public Finance Law Neal W Steinbart Public Finance Law P Jason Stephenson Energy Law Larry J Stroble Tax Law Anthony C Sullivan Environmental Law James R Sweeney II Intellectual Property Law Claudia V Swhier (10) Banking Law Steven W Thornton Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law Lynn C Tyler Commercial Litigation David R Warshauer Real Estate Law Donald E Williams (*) Real Estate Law Kenneth J Yerkes (10) Labor and Employment Law Minneapolis Jude Anne Carluccio Employee Benefits Law South Bend Timothy J Abeska Commercial Litigation Robert G Devetski Insurance Law Douglas K Dieterly Personal Injury Litigation, Product Liability Litigation Phillip J Faccenda, Jr Government Relations Law Alan B Feldbaum Public Finance Law Joseph R Fullenkamp Product Liability Litigation Timothy D Hernly (10) Tax Law George E Horn, Jr White-Collar Criminal Defense Nancy L Ickler (10) Trusts and Estates Brian J Lake (20) Employee Benefits Law Greta Roemer Lewis Trusts and Estates Gerald F Lutkus Commercial Litigation, First Amendment Law Richard L Mintz (10) Banking Law, Corporate Law, Real Estate Law Nelson J Vogel, Jr (25) Corporate Law, Tax Law Michael B Watkins (10) Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law (*) Lawyers who are listed for the first time in Best Lawyers (10) Lawyers who have been listed in Best Lawyers for at least 10 years (20) Lawyers who have been listed in Best Lawyers for at least 20 years (25) Lawyers who have been listed in Best Lawyers for at least 25 years Since its inception in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as a definitive guide to legal excellence in the United States Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which more than 24,126 leading attorneys throughout the country cast more than 28 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their specialties Because of the rigorous and
transparent methodology employed by the publication, 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 With nearly 540 attorneys and other legal professionals, Barnes & Thornburg is one of the largest law firms in the country The firm serves clients worldwide from its offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Indiana, Michigan, Minneapolis, Ohio and Washington, DC ###