Porter Wright once again is named as a leading law firm in the country by Chambers USA. In the Chambers USA Guide 2023, 15 of the firm’s attorneys and 10 of its practice areas are ranked according to independent and in-depth research by the Chambers and Partners research team.

For the first time, Porter Wright’s chief operating partner, Deborah Boiarsky, is ranked in the area of Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation and Holly Kozlowski, partner-in-charge of the firm’s Cincinnati and Washington, D.C. offices, is ranked in Intellectual Property Band 1, the highest level of ranking. In total, 15 firm attorneys are named as "Leaders in Their Field" in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Illinois.

Porter Wright’s ranked attorneys include:

• Ira Belcove, Insurance: Dispute Resolution: Reinsurance – Illinois
• Deborah Boiarsky, Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation – Ohio
• Robert Brubaker, Environment – Ohio
• Rob Cohen, Immigration – Ohio (Band 1, highest ranking)
• Timothy Grady, Banking & Finance – Ohio (Band 1, highest ranking)
• Richard Helmreich, Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation – Ohio
• Holly Kozlowski, Intellectual Property – Ohio (Band 1, highest ranking)
• Curtis Loveland, Corporate/M&A – Ohio: South & Central
• John McIntyre, Litigation: General Commercial – Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh & Surrounds
• Fred G Pressley Jr, Labor & Employment – Ohio
• Christopher Schraff, Environment – Ohio
• Edmund Searby, Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations – Ohio
• Teresa Snider, Insurance: Dispute Resolution: Reinsurance – Illinois
• Robert Trafford, Litigation: General Commercial – Ohio
• Charles Warner, Labor & Employment – Ohio

Ten of the firm's practice areas are ranked among top levels in Ohio and Illinois in the 2023 guide. Ranked practice areas include:

• Banking & Finance – Ohio
• Bankruptcy/Restructuring – Ohio
• Corporate/M&A – Ohio: South & Central
• Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation – Ohio
• Environment – Ohio
• Insurance: Dispute Resolution: Reinsurance – Illinois
• Intellectual Property – Ohio
• Labor & Employment – Ohio
• Litigation: General Commercial – Ohio
• Real Estate – Ohio

About Chambers USA

Chambers and Partners is an independent research company operating across 200 jurisdictions delivering detailed rankings and insight into the world's leading lawyers. Chambers conducts tens of thousands of interviews a year with in-house counsel and third-party experts, such as barristers and accountants, delivering detailed insight into providers of legal services. Rankings are based on these lawyer and client interviews, among other criteria, and aspects such as technical legal ability, professional conduct, client service, commercial awareness and astuteness, diligence, commitment, and other qualities that clients consider relevant.