Best Lawyers has named 12 attorneys at Friday, Eldredge & Clark as Best Lawyers 2013 Lawyers of the year. Those honored and the areas for which they are recognized are: James A. Buttry - Public Finance Law
Kevin A. Crass - Litigation-Securities
Michael S. Moore - Labor Law-Management
Elizabeth Robben Murray - Employment Law-Individuals
A. Wyckliff Nisbet, Jr. - Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
Clifford W. Plunkett - Bet-the-Company Litigation
J. Shepherd Russell III - Project Finance Law
Robert S. Shafer - Appellate Practice
James M. Simpson - First Amendment Law
Bruce B. Tidwell - Health Care Law
Frederick S. Ursery - Employment Law-Management
William A. Waddell, Jr. - Litigation-Banking & Finance Because only a single lawyer in each specialty in each community is being honored as the Lawyer of the Year, this award is a high honor. Best Lawyers compiles its lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. The lawyers being honored as Lawyers of the Year have received particularly high ratings in the surveys by earning a high level of respect among their peers for their abilities, professionalism, and integrity.