The Best Lawyers in America® announced a record 23 Bell Nunnally attorneys are recognized on its 2024 list.
“The Best Lawyers in America is one of the most respected peer-driven legal guides, trusted by businesses and the legal community alike. It is a high-honor and deeply gratifying to see our client-first philosophy yielding such broad and deep results and setting a firm high-water mark,” said Christopher Trowbridge, Bell Nunnally managing partner. “Our guiding ethos of being ‘Behind Every Great Company’ and the faith our clients place in us underpins these results.”
Lawyers named to The Best Lawyers in America®and their respective areas of recognition are:
- Alana K. Ackels – Litigation – Labor and Employment
- Mikel J. Bowers – Litigation – Construction
- Jean Pierre Boyea – Real Estate Law
- R. Heath Cheek – Commercial Litigation
- Nikki Hurst Gibson – Commercial Finance Law
- Karen L. Hart – Commercial Litigation
- Krisopher D. Hill – Commercial Litigation
- Brent D. Hockaday – Litigation – Labor and Employment
- Heather H. Lindley– Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
- Randall K. Lindley – Commercial Litigation
- Danica L. Mathes – Entertainment Law – Motion Pictures and Television; Entertainment Law – Music
- Kassandra G. McLaughlin – Real Estate Law
- Russell W. Mills – Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
- Mark A. Shoffner – Litigation – Labor and Employment
- John D. Smart – Employment Law – Management
- Saba F. Syed – Litigation – Labor and Employment
- Jeff A. Tinker – Trademark Law
- Christopher B. Trowbridge – Commercial Litigation
- Jay M. Wallace – Litigation – Labor and Employment
- David A. Walton – Commercial Litigation
- David G. Webster – Commercial Litigation
- Beverly A. Whitley – Appellate Practice; Commercial Litigation
- Tammy S. Wood – Commercial Litigation
Mathes has been listed for more than 15 consecutive years (since 2007) and Bowers for 10 or more consecutive years (since 2013).
The following have been listed for five or more years: Ackels (since 2019), Boyea (since 2018), Gibson (since 2017), Hart (since 2017), Lindley, H. (since 2020), McLaughlin (since 2018), Mills (since 2020), Smart (since 2018), Trowbridge (since 2017), Whitley (since 2016) and Wood (since 2016).
In addition to those recognized in The Best Lawyers in America®, 18 other Bell Nunnally attorneys have been named to the Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America 2024 list.