The Best Lawyers in America© 2021 Recognizes 27 Sherrard Roe Attorneys
August 20, 2020 | Trish Gordon
Sherrard Roe Voigt & Harbison is pleased to announce 27 of the firm’s attorneys are listed in The Best Lawyers in America© 2021. The Best Lawyers in America© is widely regarded as the preeminent guide to legal excellence in the United States. Additionally, ten young attorneys have been listed in the The Best Lawyers in America©: Ones to Watch 2021 edition.
“We are extremely proud that so many Sherrard Roe attorneys are recognized among the nation’s best lawyers,” said Tom Sherrard, a founding member of the firm. “Our attorneys and our staff continue to be devoted to providing the highest level of professional service to our clients.”
Sherrard Roe Voigt & Harbison attorneys selected to be included in the 2021 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® are: Mike Abelow, Albert J. Bart, C. Dewey Branstetter, Jr., Kim A. Brown, L. Webb Campbell II, C. Mark Carver, Phillip F. Cramer, John L. Farringer IV, Scott W. Fielding, William L. Harbison, Lisa K. Helton, J. Scott Hickman, Ryan T. Holt, Mark Ison, Carla L. Lovell, Robert J. Mendes, Elizabeth E. Moore, Todd E. Panther, Gregory J. Pease, Tracy A. Powell, Michael D. Roberts, John H. Roe Jr., Carolyn W. Schott, Thomas J. Sherrard III, Mark T. Smith, John R. Voigt, and Christopher C. Whitson.
Among these attorneys, five received additional recognition as “Lawyer of the Year” in specific practice areas in the city of Nashville. Mike Abelow is listed for Litigation – Bankruptcy, John L. Farringer IV is listed for Litigation – Banking and Finance, J. Scott Hickman is listed for Employment Law – Management, Robert J. Mendes is listed for Bet-the-Company Litigation and Elizabeth E. Moore is listed for Corporate Governance Law.
The ten young attorneys who were recognized in 2021 edition are: Mary N. Balthrop, Hunter Branstetter, Lauren Z. Curry, Cornell H. Kennedy, Christina R.B. Lopez, Amy Rao Mohan, Eric Osborne, Andrea J. Sinclair, Hannah J. Smith, and Talley K. Wood. “Ones to Watch” attorneys are selected based on peer review, and have typically have been in practice for 5-9 years.
Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers® has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Best Lawyers lists are compiled based on an exhaustive peer-review evaluation. Almost 94,000 industry leading lawyers are eligible to vote (from around the world), and we have received over 11 million evaluations on the legal abilities of other lawyers based on their specific practice areas around the world. For the 2021 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America©, 8.3 million votes were analyzed, which resulted in more than 62,000 leading lawyers being included in the new edition. Lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a feBest Lawyers: Ones to Watche to be listed; therefore, 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.”