Oct. 6, 2011
DENVER – Oct. 6, 2011 – Holland & Hart LLP is proud to announce that 18 of its attorneys have been named 2012 Lawyers of the Year by Best Lawyers, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession. Only a single lawyer in each specialty in each community is being honored as the "Lawyer of the Year."
"Holland & Hart celebrates the great honor these attorneys have been given for exceptional leadership in their practice areas," said firm Chairman John Husband. "More Holland & Hart attorneys have been singled out as the Lawyer of the Year for their markets than in any previous year, a testament to the culture of client service we value at the firm."
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 current, 18th edition of The Best Lawyers in America (2012) is based on more than 3.9 million detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers.
Steven Naifeh, President of Best Lawyers, says, "We continue to believe – as we have believed for more than 25 years – that recognition by one's peers is the most meaningful form of praise in the legal profession. We would like to congratulate Holland & Hart's Lawyers of the Year for 2012."
The lawyers being honored as "Lawyers of the Year" have received particularly high ratings in our surveys by earning a high level of respect among their peers for their abilities, professionalism, and integrity.
Holland & Hart's 2012 Lawyers of the Year
Colorado
Betty C. Arkell has been named the Best Lawyers' 2012 Denver Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law Lawyer of the Year.
Heidi S. Glance has been named the Best Lawyers' 2012 Denver Tax Law Lawyer of the Year.
Scott Havlick has been named the Best Lawyers' 2012 Denver Trademark Law Lawyer of the Year.
Robert R. Keatinge has been named the Best Lawyers' 2012 Denver Corporate Law Lawyer of the Year.
Jane Michaels has been named the Best Lawyers' 2012 Denver Litigation - Patent Lawyer of the Year.
Idaho
Newal Squyres has been named the Best Lawyers' 2012 Boise Litigation - Labor & Employment Lawyer of the Year.
J. Frederick Mack has been named the Best Lawyers' 2012 Boise Mergers & Acquisitions Law Lawyer of the Year.
Montana
Laurence W. Petersen has been named the Best Lawyers' 2012 Billings Banking and Finance Law Lawyer of the Year.
Nevada
Robert C. Anderson has been named the Best Lawyers' 2012 Las Vegas Tax Law Lawyer of the Year.
David A. Garcia has been named the Best Lawyers' 2012 Reno Corporate Law Lawyer of the Year.
New Mexico
Bradford C. Berge has been named the Best Lawyers' 2012 Santa Fe Litigation - Environmental Lawyer of the Year.
William F. Carr has been named the Best Lawyers' 2012 Santa Fe Natural Resources Law Lawyer of the Year.
Utah
John Davis III has been named the Best Lawyers' 2012 Salt Lake City Energy Law Lawyer of the Year.
George M. Haley has been named the Best Lawyers' 2012 Salt Lake City Litigation - Environmental Lawyer of the Year.
Matthew G. Wells has been named the Best Lawyers' 2012 Salt Lake City Venture Capital Law Lawyer of the Year.
Wyoming
Jack D. Palma has been named the Best Lawyers' 2012 Cheyenne Energy Law Lawyer of the Year.
Teresa Burkett Buffington has been named the Best Lawyers' 2012 Cheyenne Mergers & Acquisitions Law Lawyer of the Year.
Thomas L. Sansonetti has been named the Best Lawyers' 2012 Cheyenne Government Relations Practice Lawyer of the Year.