ATLANTA (October 10) – Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton announced today that Best Lawyers, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession, has named six Kilpatrick Townsend attorneys as “Atlanta Lawyers of the Year” in their respective practice areas.
Best Lawyers notes that the lawyers being honored as "Lawyers of the Year" have received particularly high ratings in their surveys by earning a high level of respect among their peers for their abilities, professionalism, and integrity. Only a single lawyer in each specialty in each community is being honored as the “Lawyer of the Year.”
The following individuals are named “2012 Atlanta Lawyers of the Year” along with the practice area for which they were chosen:
• Miles Alexander – Corporate Law Lawyer of the Year • Joe Beck – Litigation – Intellectual Property Lawyer of the Year • Tom Biafore – Securitization and Structured Finance Law Lawyer of the Year • Jamie Graham – Biotechnology Law Lawyer of the Year • Virginia S. Taylor – Trademark Law Lawyer of the Year • William J. Vesely, Jr. – Litigation – ERISA Lawyer of the Year
Best Lawyers compiles its lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. The current, 18th edition of The Best Lawyers in America (2012) is based on more than 3.9 million detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers.
About Kilpatrick Townsend
Kilpatrick Townsend has 18 offices extending into the four corners of the continental United States; Asia; and Europe, including: Atlanta, GA; Augusta, GA; Charlotte, NC; Denver, CO; Menlo Park, CA; New York, NY; Oakland, CA; Raleigh, NC; San Diego, CA; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; Walnut Creek, CA; Washington, DC; Winston-Salem, NC; Dubai; Stockholm; Taipei, and Tokyo. For more information, please visit: www.kilpatricktownsend.com.
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