More than 39,000 attorneys participated in this year’s survey. Lawyers are selected for the list based on votes received in a survey of their peers.
Thompson Hine is the top-listed firm in Ohio in construction law, and is one of the top Ohio firms in employee benefits law and tax law. Additionally, 25 Thompson Hine partners have now been included on the Best Lawyers list for 10 years or longer, which is indicated below.
The Thompson Hine lawyers included in 2011 are:
Atlanta
Joseph M. Rigot
Cincinnati
Paul Allaer
Christopher M. Bechhold
Timothy R. Brown*
Stephen J. Butler
Louis K. Ebling
Stephen M. King
Andrew L. Kolesar
Earle Jay Maiman
Robert A. Selak
Patricia Mann Smitson
Louis F. Solimine*
Keith P. Spiller
J. Shane Starkey
David J. Willbrand
Cleveland
Thomas A. Aldrich
Jeffrey R. Appelbaum*
James B. Aronoff
Heather Aley Austin
Mal Bank*
Richard C. Binzley*
Stephen L. Buescher*
Thomas J. Callahan
Dianne S. Coscarelli
Thomas J. Coyne
Andrew L. Fabens, III*
Robert C. Folland
Robert B. Ford*
Heidi B. Goldstein
Michael L. Hardy*
Harold W. Henderson
David J. Hooker
Leslie W. Jacobs
Steven S. Kaufman
James C. Koenig
Brian J. Lamb
Alan R. Lepene*
Craig R. Martahus*
Donald H. Messinger*
Leslee W. Miraldi
David J. Naftzinger
Deborah Z. Read
James D. Robenalt
Robyn Minter Smyers
Linda A. Striefsky*
Patrick J. Sweeney
Elizabeth B. Wright
Karen D. Youngstrom
Thomas F. Zych
Columbus
Jim Balthaser
Michael W. Currie
Daniel F. Edwards
O. Judson Scheaf, III
John T. Sunderland
Peter D. Welin
Anthony C. White
William C. Wilkinson
Dayton
Stephen J. Axtell
Wray Blattner*
Robert J. Brown*
Lawrence T. Burick*
Richard F. Carlile*
Mark A. Conway
Robert M. Curry*
Thomas E. DeBrosse*
Francesco A. Ferrante
John L. Green
Timothy J. Hackert*
J. Michael Herr*
Teresa D. Jones
Mark P. Levy*
Theodore D. Lienesch
Crofford J. Macklin, Jr.*
David A. Neuhardt*
Sharen Swartz Neuhardt
Joan H. Roddy*
Arik A. Sherk*
New York
Norman A. Bloch
Douglas E. Grover
Mario J. Suarez
Washington, D.C.
Nicholas J. DiMichael
*Included on the Best Lawyers in America list for 10 years or longer
Established in 1911, Thompson Hine is a business law firm with offices in Atlanta, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, New York and Washington D.C.