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The Best Lawyers in America® and Lawyer of the Year Awards

08.17.23 written by

28 KWGD Attorneys Named to Best Lawyers in America® 2024

3 Named “Lawyer of The Year”

Krugliak, Wilkins, Griffiths & Dougherty Co., L.P.A. (KWGD) is pleased to announce that 28 attorneys from the firm have been recognized in the 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® including 3 attorneys named a “Lawyer of the Year”.

Best Lawyers uses an exhaustive peer review process in which more than 36,000 leading attorneys cast almost 4.4 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas.  The “Lawyer of the Year” award goes to the attorney who received the highest overall peer feedback for his or her area of specialty, and only one is recognized in each specialty and location each year.

The 3 KWGD Attorneys recognized to Best Lawyers in America “Lawyer of the Year” 2024 are:

  • James F. Contini II – Trusts and Estates
  • Jason F. Haupt – Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)
  • Scott M. Zurakowski – Litigation – Labor and Employment

The 28 KWGD attorneys named to Best Lawyers in America 2024 are:

  • Randall C. Hunt – Corporate Law and Merger and Acquisitions Law
  • Scott M. Zurakowski – Commercial Litigation, Employment Law – Management, Litigation – Labor and Employment
  • Michael Bogdan – Employment Law – Management, Litigation – Labor and Employment
  • Dianne Blocker Brawn – Trusts and Estates
  • David E. Butz – Commercial Litigation, Family Law
  • Jacqueline Bollas Caldwell – Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships), Environmental Law
  • Richard E. Davis – Elder Law and Trusts and Estates
  • Lisa A. Fike – Workers’ Compensation Law – Employers
  • Fred J. Haupt – Corporate Law
  • Jason F. Haupt – Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships), Closely Held Companies and Family Business Law, Corporate Law
  • Christopher R. Hunt – Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law
  • Leslie Iams Kuntz – Employment Law – Management, Labor Law – Management
  • Jennifer L. Lile – Elder Law
  • Paul H. Malesick II – Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
  • Karen Soehnlen McQueen – Employment Law – Management, Labor Law – Management, Litigation – Labor and Employment
  • Terry A. Moore – Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships), Closely Held Companies and Family Businesses Law, Commercial Litigation, Corporate Law, Merger and Acquisitions Law
  • Edward D. Murray – Workers’ Compensation law – Employers
  • Owen J. Rarric – Commercial Litigation, Oil and Gas Law
  • Sam O. Simmerman – Banking and Finance Law, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law
  • John M. Tucker – Mergers and Acquisitions Law
  • James M. Williams – Commercial Litigation
  • William G. Williams – Litigation – Real Estate, Oil and Gas Law, Real Estate Law
  • Edward V. Buehrle – Real Estate Law
  • John Schomer – Commercial Litigation
  • Kyla A. Williger – Elder Law
  • James F. Contini II – Elder Law, Litigation – Trusts and Estates, Trusts and Estates
  • John P. Maxwell – Commercial Litigation
  • Matthew P. Mullen – Litigation – Insurance

Published since 1983, Best Lawyers in America® is the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession.  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.”  Best Lawyers lists are found in leading publications locally, regionally, nationally and globally.