Honors & Awards

60 Whiteford, Taylor & Preston Attorneys Listed in Best Lawyers in America Five Named as "Lawyers of the Year"

Date: October 17, 2012

Baltimore -- Sixty lawyers from Whiteford, Taylor & Preston have been selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2013 (copyright 2012 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken S.C.).

This represents an increase of seven over last year.  The lawyers selected are based in the firm’s Maryland, Washington and Virginia offices.

In addition, five lawyers were selected as “Lawyers of the Year” in their jurisdictions and areas of practice.  They are:

  • Bradford F. Englander - 2013 Washington DC Litigation - Bankruptcy "Lawyer of the Year."
  • Howard R. Feldman - 2013 Baltimore Information Technology Law "Lawyer of the Year."
  • Jonathan Z. May - 2013 Baltimore Non-Profit / Charities Law "Lawyer of the Year."
  • Steven E. Tiller -2013 Baltimore Patent Law "Lawyer of the Year."
  • William B. Whiteford - Baltimore Arbitration "Lawyer of the Year."

Martin Fletcher, the firm’s Managing Partner, commented, “To be recognized by a national rating group in so many areas and with so many lawyers speaks extraordinarily well of the firm’s reputation and the high quality of service we deliver to our clients on a daily basis. We are very gratified to receive this recognition.”

The individual lawyers named, and the area(s) of practice in which they were recognized are listed below:

Baltimore, MD

  • Thomas C. Barbuti, Real Estate Law
  • Edward M. Buxbaum, Commercial Litigation 
  • John F. Carlton, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law; Litigation - Bankruptcy 
  • Robert F. Carney, Construction Law; Litigation - Construction 
  • Mary Claire Chesshire, Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law; Non-Profit / Charities Law 
  • Jonathan E. Claiborne, Commercial Litigation 
  • Robert B. Curran, Corporate Law; Tax Law 
  • Deborah H. Diehl, Mergers & Acquisitions Law; Public Finance Law 
  • Gardner M. Duvall, Commercial Litigation; Insurance Law; Litigation - Trusts & Estates 
  • Howard R. Feldman, Information Technology Law 
  • Martin T. Fletcher, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
  • Stephen F. Fruin, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law 
  • Peter Guattery, Employment Law - Management 
  • Harry S. Johnson, Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants; Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants; Product Liability Litigation - Defendants 
  • Frank S. Jones, Jr., Copyright Law; Corporate Law; Mergers & Acquisitions Law; Patent Law; Trademark Law; Venture Capital Law 
  • Robert Kalinoski, Corporate Law 
  • Alexander Koff, International Arbitration - Commercial; International Arbitration - Governmental 
  • Edward U. Lee III, Land Use & Zoning Law; Real Estate Law 
  • Dana O. Lynch, Technology Law; Trademark Law 
  • Paul W. Madden, Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law 
  • Richard J. Magid, Commercial Litigation; Litigation - Securities 
  • Rose M. Matricciani    2008     Health Care Law 
  • Albert Mezzanotte, Jr., Commercial Litigation; Education Law; Insurance Law 
  • Paul M. Nussbaum, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law; Litigation - Bankruptcy 
  • Kenneth Oestreicher, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law; Litigation - Bankruptcy 
  • Gary S. Posner, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law; Litigation - Bankruptcy 
  • Dennis Robinson, Jr., Commercial Litigation 
  • Herman B. Rosenthal, Tax Law 
  • William F. Ryan, Jr., Commercial Litigation; Litigation - Environmental; Litigation - Intellectual Property; Litigation - Mergers & Acquisitions; Litigation - Securities 
  • Joseph N. Schaller, Real Estate Law 
  • Dennis J. Shaffer, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law 
  • Robert Sloan III, Trusts and Estates 
  • Dwight W. Stone II, Commercial Litigation; Insurance Law; Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants 
  • Gregory M. Stone, Litigation - Intellectual Property; Litigation - Patent; Patent Law; Technology Law; Trademark Law
  • Brent C. Strickland, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law; Litigation - Bankruptcy 
  • Steven E. Tiller, Litigation - Intellectual Property; Litigation - Patent; Patent Law; Technology Law 
  • Daniel J. Vorsteg, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law 
  • Warren N. Weaver, Product Liability Litigation - Defendants 
  • Thomas Whiteford, Commercial Litigation; Litigation - Real Estate 
  • William B. Whiteford, Arbitration; Mediation; Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants 
  • Robert M. Wright, Arbitration; Litigation - Construction; Mediation 
  • Thurman W. Zollicoffer, Jr., Product Liability Litigation - Defendants 


Columbia, MD

  • Jonathan Z. May, Litigation & Controversy - Tax; Non-Profit / Charities Law; Tax Law


Towson, MD

  • G. Scott Barhight, Land Use & Zoning Law; Litigation - Land Use & Zoning; Real Estate Law
  • Jennifer R. Busse, Land Use & Zoning Law 
  • Edwin G. Fee, Jr., Trusts and Estates 
  • John B. Gontrum, Land Use & Zoning Law; Litigation - Land Use & Zoning 
  • John A. Hayden III, Corporate Law 
  • Dino C. La Fiandra, Land Use & Zoning Law 
  • George S. Lawler, Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law; Venture Capital Law 
  • Jennifer Ryan Lazenby, Insurance Law 


Falls Church, VA

  • Raymond J. Diaz, Litigation - Real Estate; Real Estate Law 
  • Bradford F. Englander, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law; Litigation - Bankruptcy 
  • Christopher A. Jones, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law; Litigation - Bankruptcy 
  • Thomas P. Kimmitt, Jr., Corporate Law 
  • Andrew J. Terrell, Litigation - Construction; Litigation - Real Estate


Washington, DC

  • Jefferson C. Glassie, Non-Profit / Charities Law
  • Kenneth J. Ingram, Education Law 
  • Bruce A. Lehman, Copyright Law; Litigation - Intellectual Property; Litigation - Patent; Patent Law; Trademark Law 
  • Barry S. Neuman, Environmental Law; Litigation - Environmental

About Best Lawyers: Since its inception in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as a definitive guide to legal excellence. Because Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which more than 36,000 leading attorneys cast almost 4.4 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their specialties, 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.”

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