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August 18, 2022 / Press Release

Best Lawyers® recognizes 100 Porter Wright attorneys in 2023 listings

Porter Wright is pleased to announce that 100 attorneys from across the firm’s eight offices located in Florida, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C., have been selected by their peers for inclusion in the 2023 editions of The Best Lawyers in America® and Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America®.

Five Porter Wright attorneys were named to Best Lawyers’ Lawyer of the Year report. The Best Lawyers election process is rigorous and comprehensive, involving detailed evaluations of attorneys by their peers.

The Best Lawyers in America "Lawyers of the Year" 2023

  • David S. Bloomfield, Jr. - Columbus, Ohio
  • Andrew C. Emerson - Columbus, Ohio
  • Rebecca Kopp Levine -  Cleveland
  • Fred J. Pompeani -  Cleveland
  • Brett P. Thornton -  Columbus, Ohio

Porter Wright attorneys included in The Best Lawyers in America 2023

Chicago

  • Ira J. Belcove 
  • Robert N. Hermes 
  • Andrew D. Shapiro 
  • Teresa Snider

Cincinnati

  • Susan K. Cliffel 
  • Holly D. Kozlowski 
  • T. Stephen Phillips 
  • John S. Stith 
  • Carolyn A. Taggart 

Cleveland

  • Rebecca Kucera Fischer 
  • Donald J. Fisher
  • Rebecca Kopp Levine
  • Matthew H. Matheney
  • Hugh E. McKay
  • Jill G. Okun
  • Fred J. Pompeani
  • Edmund W. Searby
  • Michael P. Shuster
  • Nathaniel R. Sinn
  • Tracey L. Turnbull

Columbus

  • Karim A. Ali 
  • John C. Beeler 
  • David S. Bloomfield, Jr. 
  • James P. Botti 
  • Brian L. Buzby 
  • Robert H. Cohen 
  • Molly S. Crabtree 
  • James D. Curphey 
  • Greg M. Daugherty 
  • Joyce D. Edelman 
  • Andrew C. Emerson 
  • Timothy E. Grady 
  • Brian D. Hall 
  • Polly J. Harris
  • Richard J. Helmreich
  • L. Bradfield Hughes 
  • C. Andrew Ireton, Jr.
  • Laura M. Jurcevich
  • Robert J. Karl 
  • Lori-Lou Kimm 
  • James A. King 
  • Curtis A. Loveland 
  • Richard C. McQuown 
  • Dixon F. Miller 
  • Elizabeth L. Moyo
  • Scott North
  • Fred G. Pressley, Jr. 
  • James H. Prior 
  • Diane C. Reichwein 
  • Donna M. Ruscitti 
  • Christopher C. Russell
  • Edward M. Segelken
  • Ryan P. Sherman 
  • David P. Shouvlin 
  • Jeremy D. Siegfried 
  • Mark S. Stemm 
  • John M. Stephen 
  • Robert J. Tannous 
  • Brett P. Thornton 
  • Robert W. Trafford 
  • David A. Tumen 
  • Michael J. Underwood 
  • Charles C. Warner

Dayton

  • John L. Green 
  • Thomas A. Holton 
  • Walter Reynolds 

Naples

  • Marve Ann M. Alaimo 
  • W. Jeffrey Cecil 
  • Anthony R. McClure
  • Javier A. Pacheco
  • Theodore R. Walters 

Pittsburgh

  • Christine Boronyak Bowers
  • Kristen M. Del Sole
  • Megan E. Farrell
  • Ronald L. Hicks, Jr. 
  • Thomas S. Jones 
  • Charles F. Pegher 

Porter Wright attorneys included in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America 2023

Chicago

  • Bide B. Akande

Cincinnati

  • Ana P. Crawford 
  • Christopher J. Dutton
  • Zachary A. El-Sawaf
  • Justin J. Joyce 
  • Liane H. Rousseau

Columbus

  • Allen T. Carter 
  • Jourdan D. Day 
  • Devan K. Flahive
  • Katja Garvey
  • Jason T. Gerken 
  • William D. Gutmann 
  • Steven D. Hoying
  • Ahmad Huda
  • Jared M. Klaus 
  • Sara C. Schiavone
  • Ryan T. Steele 
  • Megan E. West

Dayton

  • Jyllian R. Bradshaw

Naples

  • Michael A. Sneeringer
  • Sara K. White

Pittsburgh

  • David I. Kelch