The Best Lawyers in America® Recognizes 18 Manning Fulton Partners
Manning, Fulton & Skinner, P.A. is pleased to announce that 18 of its attorneys have been named to the 2017 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession. In addition, we are delighted to congratulate colleague, John B. McMillan for his well-deserved recognition as Best Lawyers 2017’s regional “Lawyer of the Year” in the field of Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law.
Best Lawyers, established in 1983, is universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Best Lawyers ratings are based exclusively on exhaustive peer-review surveys through which thousands of leading attorneys cast more than 7 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.”
The 18 Manning Fulton attorneys listed in Best Lawyers’ 23rd edition (2017), and the practice areas for which they received the honor, are:
James H. Clarke – Corporate Law
William B. Gwyn, Jr. – Corporate Law
Deborah L. Hildebran-Bachofen – Trusts and Estates
Barry D. Mann – Real Estate Law
John B. McMillan – Commercial Litigation; Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law; Government Relations
Michael T. Medford – Antitrust Law; Bet-the-Company Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Litigation: Antitrust; Litigation: Labor and Employment
Kevin A. Prakke – Corporate Law; Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Robert S. Shields, Jr. – Medical Malpractice Law: Defendants
William C. Smith, Jr. – Litigation: Construction
Charles L. Steel, IV – Litigation and Controversy: Tax; Tax Law
Jennifer L. Weaver – Corporate Law; Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Judson A. Welborn – Commercial Litigation; Construction Law; Litigation: Construction; Litigation: Land Use and Zoning; Litigation: Real Estate
Reich L. Welborn – Commercial Litigation; Corporate Law; Health Care Law; Real Estate Law
Ritchie W. Taylor – Franchise Law
W. Gerald Thornton – Corporate Law; Tax Law
About Manning Fulton
Founded in 1955 by Howard E. Manning, Sr. (1914-2002), Charles L. Fulton (retired) and William P. Skinner Jr. (1929-2013), Manning, Fulton & Skinner, P.A. is a leading law firm in North Carolina. With offices in Raleigh and Durham, the firm focuses on business law, commercial real estate, complex commercial litigation, condemnation/eminent domain, employment and employee benefits law and litigation, estate planning /wealth transfer, franchise law and litigation, franchise & product distribution, government relations, health care, insurance litigation, intellectual property, mergers & acquisitions, professional liability defense, real property litigation, tax, and wealth preservation / protection law. For more information please visit www.manningfulton.com.