Eight Reed Smith Partners Named DC-Area's Best - Three Have Earned Recognition For At Least A Decade
Publication Date: September 17, 2007
(September 17, 2007, Washington, D.C.) – Eight partners practicing in the Washington, D.C., legal community at Reed Smith LLP—one of the 15 largest law firms in the world—have been named “The Best Lawyers in America 2008.”
“We are extremely pleased that the outstanding contributions of these members of our firm has earned them this recognition,” said Greg Jordan, Reed Smith’s firmwide Managing Partner. “It is a well-deserved honor and we congratulate each of them on this notable achievement.”
The five Reed Smith partners based in Washington, D.C., earning recognition are John P. Feldman, advertising law; Thomas C. Fox, health care law; Areta Kupchyk, biotechnology law; Donald J. Myers, employee benefits law; and, Eugene Tillman, health care law. The partners based in Falls Church, Virginia, are Bruce L. Christman, real estate law; Grayson P. Hanes, eminent domain and condemnation law, land use and zoning law, and real estate law; and Julia Krebs-Markrich, health care law.
Ms. Krebs-Markrich, Mr. Hanes, and Mr. Fox have each been selected among the “Best Lawyers in America” for at least 10 years.
The Reed Smith partners included in 2008 Best Lawyers were chosen through an exhaustive peer-review process developed and refined for nearly 25 years by independent publishers Woodward and White, Inc. The 2008 edition is based on more than two million confidential evaluations by the top attorneys in the country, as well as on extensive telephone interviews with leading attorneys, throughout the balloting process. Best Lawyers, in partnership with American Lawyers Media and The Washington Post, will publish the full list of 2008 Best Lawyers list in the Washington, D.C. area in a special section of The Washington Post Magazine, Sept. 30.
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