Saul Ewing LLP, a full service law firm with more than 270 lawyers in 11 East Coast offices, today announced that thirty-eight attorneys from the firm received the distinguished honor of being recognized for legal excellence and client service by Chambers USA 2016: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business – the most ever named from the firm.
Chambers is one of the most respected lawyer directories in the U.S. and worldwide. It uses a team of more than 140 researchers to rank lawyers on the basis of their legal knowledge, experience, ability, effectiveness and client-service. Top firms are ranked and their merits described, often in the words of clients who were interviewed. Several of the firm’s practice areas also earned high rankings. For more information on methodology used by Chambers for its rankings, click here.
This year, attorneys from the firm’s Baltimore, MD office selected to the list are Harriet E. Cooperman and Gary B. Eidelman for their labor and employment work; James E. Goodrich for his real estate practice; Eric G. Orlinsky for corporate/M&A; Maria Ellena Chavez-Ruark for her bankruptcy/restructuring practice; Sherry H. Flax and Gianna J. Arnold for intellectual property; and Charles O. Monk, II for his bankruptcy litigation and commercial litigation practices.
Michael S. Burg, who practices in the firm's Chesterbrook, PA office, was named for his real estate practice; and Gregory Davis, who also practices in Chesterbrook, was named for his real estate/zoning and land use practice. Joel R. Burcat, in the Harrisburg, PA office, was recognized for his environmental work.
Attorneys from the Philadelphia, PA office named to the list are Stephen S. Aichele for his real estate work; Bruce D. Armon for his health practice; Stephen J. Driscoll and Kathryn R. Doyle for their intellectual property practices; Monique Bair DiSabatino, Jeffrey C. Hampton, Adam H. Isenberg for their bankruptcy/restructuring practices; Christopher R. Hall for his white-collar crime and government investigations work; James A. Keller and Joseph F. O’Dea, Jr. for their commercial litigation practices; Anthony P. Forte for his real estate/zoning and land use work; George E. Rahn, Jr. for his construction practice; John P. Pierce, Frederick D. Strober and Erik F. Williams for their real estate practices.
In the Newark, NJ office, Charles M. Lizza was named for intellectual property; and from the Princeton, NJ office, Steven J. Picco was selected for his environmental work.
Attorneys in the Washington, D.C. office named to the list are Jeffrey H. Gelman for his real estate practice and Mark I. Gruhin and Michael A. Gold for their corporate/M&A and private equity work.
Seven out of nine partners from the firm’s Wilmington, DE office were named to the list. They are Mark Minuti for bankruptcy/restructuring law; James D. Taylor, Jr. for labor and employment; Richard A. Forsten, William E. Manning and Wendie C. Stabler for their real estate/zoning and land use practices; and William E. Gee and Daniel H. Krapf for their real estate practices.
In addition, several of Saul Ewing’s practice areas ranked in the directory, including the firm’s practices in bankruptcy/restructuring, construction, corporate/M&A, intellectual property, labor and employment, real estate, zoning and land use, environmental law and commercial litigation.
