Super Lawyers Recognizes 46 Louisiana Phelps Lawyers in 2022 Honors
NEW ORLEANS — Dec. 29, 2021 — Forty-six of Phelps’ Louisiana lawyers across 17 practice areas were chosen for the 2022 Super Lawyers and Rising Stars lists. More than one-third of firm lawyers that made the lists are diverse lawyers, and all ranked in the top 5% of nominated lawyers in the state.
Super Lawyers ranks lawyers by weighing them on 12 different factors, including experience, client satisfaction, and pro bono and community service. Their peers also vote for them based on their professional achievements.
The 2022 Louisiana Super Lawyers list included 31 Phelps lawyers from across the state:
Baton Rouge, La.
- Shelton Dennis Blunt – Business Litigation
- Susan W. Furr – Employment and Labor
- Michael D. Hunt – Construction Litigation
- H. Alston Johnson III - Appellate
- Thomas H. Kiggans – Employment and Labor
- Errol J. King Jr. – Health Care
- Steven J. Levine - Environmental
- Randy P. Roussel – Real Estate
New Orleans, La.
- M. Nan Alessandra – Employment and Labor
- Jane E. Armstrong – Employee Benefits
- Kim M. Boyle – Employment and Labor
- Michael M. Butterworth – Transportation/Maritime
- Craig L. Caesar – Health Care
- Miles P. Clements – Energy and Resources
- Brandon E. Davis – Employment and Labor
- Gary A. Hemphill – Transportation/Maritime
- David M. Korn – Employment and Labor
- Kevin J. LaVie – Transportation/Maritime
- Daniel Lund III – Construction Litigation
- Robert P. McCleskey Jr. – Transportation/Maritime
- Evans Martin McLeod – Transportation/Maritime
- Allen C. Miller - Business Litigation
- Thomas Kent L. Morrison – Transportation/Maritime
- David L. Patron - Business Litigation
- Christopher K. Ralston - Business Litigation
- Harry Rosenberg – Business Litigation
- Mary Ellen Roy – Media/Advertising
- Jay Russell Sever – Insurance Coverage
- Rick M. Shelby – Bankruptcy: Business
- James A. Stuckey - Banking
- Michael S. Williams – Employee Benefits
Fifteen lawyers made the 2022 Louisiana Rising Stars list:
Baton Rouge, La.
- Katherine Cicardo Mannino – Health Care
- Madison T. DeWitt – Business/Corporate
- Michael B. Victorian – Employment and Labor
New Orleans, La.
- Bart C. Bacigalupi - Banking
- Taylor Bologna – Transportation/Maritime
- Lauren E. Burk – Insurance Coverage
- Lindsay Calhoun – General Litigation
- Colin B. Cambre – Transportation/Maritime
- Regan M. Canfill – Employee Benefits
- Adam Davis – Transportation/Maritime
- Ashley J. Heilprin – Business Litigation
- Ashley W. Hinton – Insurance Coverage
- Arthur Kraatz – General Litigation
- Rebecca Sha – Employment Litigation: Defense
- Justin Warner – Transportation/Maritime
To qualify for the Louisiana Rising Stars honor, lawyers go through the same selection process as Super Lawyers. They must also have 10 years or less in practice or be 40 years old or younger.
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Phelps is a full-service law firm of more than 350 lawyers. We blend valuable traditions and progressive ideas to foster a culture of collaboration among our lawyers in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, and London. Our six core practice groups — admiralty, business, health care, insurance, labor and employment, and litigation — work together to offer clients a progressive, diverse practice and partnership that handles a broad range of sophisticated business needs regionally, nationally, and internationally.