Firmwide, 42 attorneys from Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck were selected by their peers for inclusion in the 2012 edition of The Best Lawyers in America, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession.
Honored attorneys from the firm’s Albuquerque office are: Perry E. Bendicksen III, banking and finance law, corporate law, leveraged buyouts and private equity law, mergers and acquisitions law, and public finance law; David P. Buchholtz, banking and finance law, corporate law, mergers and acquisitions law, municipal law, and public finance law; Bonnie J. Paisley, corporate law, mergers and acquisitions law, and securities/capital markets law; Jill K. Sweeney, public finance law; and Timothy R. Van Valen, tax law, and litigation and controversy - tax. Bendicksen and Buchholtz each have been listed in Best Lawyers for more than 15 years.
Honored attorneys from the firm’s Denver office are: Steven E. Abelman, litigation - bankruptcy; Edward N. Barad, real estate law; Gregory W. Berger, tax law; William C. Berger, employment law - management; Timothy R. Beyer, commercial litigation; Michael F. Feeley, government relations practice; Catherine C. Gale, real estate law; Irene F. Gallagher, employee benefits (ERISA) law; Neil M. Goff, tax law; Lisa Hogan, litigation - labor and employment; Bruce A. James, real estate law; Robert Kaufmann, real estate law; Mark F. Leonard, family law; John V. McDermott, commercial litigation, litigation - banking and finance, and litigation - securities; Michael J. Pankow, banking and finance law, and bankruptcy and creditor debtor rights law/insolvency and reorganization law; James A. Pinto, patent law; Steven O. Sims, water law; and Lawrence W. Treece, bet-the-company litigation, commercial litigation and litigation - securities. Both Goff and Leonard have been listed in Best Lawyers for more than 15 years.
Honored attorneys from the firm’s Las Vegas office are: David R. Arrajj, gaming law; Andrew S. Brignone, litigation - ERISA; Kirk B. Lenhard, bet-the-company litigation and commercial litigation; Angela Turriciano Otto, real estate law; Frank A. Schreck, gaming law; Ellen Schulhofer, corporate law; Adam P. Segal, litigation - ERISA; and Sonia Church Vermeys, corporate law. Brignone and Lenhard have each been listed in Best Lawyers for more than 15 years.
Honored attorneys from the firm’s Phoenix office are: Jeffrey W. Crockett, communications law, energy law, natural resources law and water law; Janna B. Day, government relations practice; Michael Preston Green, government relations practice; Carlos D. Ronstadt, energy law, mining law, natural resources law and water law; John C. West, commercial litigation and health care law. Ronstadt has been listed in Best Lawyers for more than 15 years.
Honored attorneys from the firm’s Santa Barbara office are: Steven A. Amerikaner, land use and zoning law, natural resources law and real estate law; Christopher A. Jacobs, real estate law; Barry Langberg, litigation - first amendment; and Robert J. Saperstein, water law.
Additionally, two attorneys from the firm’s Los Angeles office — Barry Langberg, litigation - first amendment, and Scott S. Slater, water law — were honored by Best Lawyers. Stephen A. Best of the firm’s Washington, D.C. office was honored for criminal defense: white-collar.
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.”