Porter Wright is proud to announce that 18 attorneys of the firm have been named to the 2012 Ohio Super Lawyers^® Rising Stars list. Attorneys are chosen through the independent research of the publishers at Super Lawyers^®, a Thomson Reuters business.

Rising Stars are age 40 or younger or have been practicing law for 10 years or less, and represent the top up-and-coming attorneys in the state. Less than 2.5 percent of lawyers are selected for Rising Star status.

The Porter Wright attorneys included in Ohio Super Lawyers^® Rising Stars 2012 are:

Location	Attorney	Primary Practice Area
Cincinnati	Kendall Verrett Shaw	Civil Litigation Defense
	Kyle T. Shaw	Business Litigation
Cleveland	Rebecca Kucera Fischer	Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights
Columbus	Karim A. Ali	Business/Corporate
	John P. Carney	Health Care
	Molly S. Crabtree	Civil Litigation Defense
	Bryan R. Faller	Business Litigation
	Heather N. Forry	Business/Corporate
	Jack J. Gravelle	Securities & Corporate Finance
	Brad Hughes	Business Litigation
	Jamie A. LaPlante	Employment Litigation: Defense
	Anthony R. McClure	Business Litigation
	Daniel B. Miller	Intellectual Property Litigation
	Robert J. Morgan	Intellectual Property
	Andrew R. Post	Business/Corporate
	Ryan P. Sherman	Business Litigation
	Brett P. Thornton	Business/Corporate
	Jay A. Yurkiw	Business Litigation

The 2012 Ohio Super Lawyers^® Rising Stars list will appear in Cincinnati Magazine, Columbus Monthly, Cleveland Magazine and Inside Business magazine. Together, these publications will reach an audience of more than half a million readers. The listing also can be found at www.superlawyers.com where lawyers can be searched by practice area and location.