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Achievements

We are proud of our achievements, mostly because of the benefit they provide to our clients. We are committed to providing clients with the right representation that can only be achieved through experience and hard work. Our accomplishments show that we know how to obtain the right result.

Carlock, Copeland & Stair Attorneys named to Best Lawyers®
Carlock, Copeland & Stair congratulates the following attorneys on selection by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2012.

Our lawyers ranked in the 2012 edition are:

Thomas S. Carlock
Commercial Litigation (Atlanta, GA)
Medical Malpractice Law (Atlanta, GA)
Personal Injury Litigation (Atlanta, GA)
Best Lawyer® Since 1991

Kent T. Stair
Construction Law (Atlanta, GA)
Legal Malpractice Law (Atlanta, GA)
Best Lawyer® Since 2006

Wayne D. McGrew, III
Personal Injury Litigation (Atlanta, GA)
Best Lawyer® Since 2008

Johannes S. Kingma
Legal Malpractice Law (Atlanta, GA)
Best Lawyer® Since 2009

"We have known for a long time that these gentlemen are great lawyers who provide excellent service to their clients, but it is always gratifying to see them being honored by organizations such as Best Lawyers," said Greg Wheeler, the Managing Partner of CCS and the Chair of the firm's Construction Practice Group.  "The fact that this recognition is based on the opinions of other members of the legal community makes it even more satisfying.  We are very proud of their accomplishments."

Since its inception in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Because Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which more than 41,000 leading attorneys cast almost 3.9 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas, and because lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.”

Carlock Copeland is proud to announce 20 of our lawyers have been selected for inclusion on the Georgia Super Lawyers® and Rising Stars lists for 2011.
Super Lawyers
Thomas S. Carlock
Wade K. Copeland
Kent T. Stair
Douglas W. Smith
David F. Root
W. Dan McGrew
Fred M. Valz, III
Johannes S. Kingma
D. Gary Lovell, Jr.
Scott D. Huray
Adam L. Appel
Gregory H. Wheeler
Eric J. Frisch

Only five percent of the lawyers in the state are named by Super Lawyers. The selections for this esteemed list are made by the research team at Super Lawyers, which is a service of the Thomson Reuters, Legal division based in Eagan, MN. Each year, the research team at Super Lawyers undertakes a rigorous multi-phase selection process that includes a statewide survey of lawyers, independent evaluation of candidates by the attorney-led research staff, a peer review of candidates by practice area, and a good-standing and disciplinary check.

Rising Stars
Shannon M. Sprinkle
Renee Y. Little 
Peter Werdesheim 
Heather H. Miller
Spencer A. Bomar
Ryan B. Wilhelm
Marquetta J. Bryan

Rising Stars is a listing of exceptional lawyers who are 40 years or under, or who have been practicing for 10 years or less and have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. Only 2.5 percent of the total lawyers in the state are honored on the Rising Stars list.

Top 25 Law Firms
For the seventh consecutive year, Carlock, Copeland & Stair has been named by the Atlanta Business Chronicle as a "Top 25 Law Firm" in Atlanta. The 2010 - 2011 Book of Lists was published on December 24, 2010.  

Carlock Copeland Recognized as Go-To Law Firm
Carlock, Copeland & Stair, LLP has been recognized as a Go-To Law Firm of leading financial services companies. Incisive Media, formerly known as ALM, surveyed the General Counsel of leading financial service companies to identify their primary outside law firm in each of nine practice areas: banking and finance, corporate transactions/mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property, labor and employment, litigation, regulatory affairs and compliance, securities, Canadian and international matters. Carlock Copeland appreciates the confidence in our Firm expertise by AFLAC and American Family Insurance in naming us as their Go-To law firm in litigation.