ATLANTA (August 15) -- Kilpatrick Townsend announced today that Best Lawyers^®, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession, has named nine Kilpatrick Townsend attorneys as “2018 Lawyers of the Year” in their respective practice areas.

Best Lawyers ^® notes that the lawyers being honored as "Lawyers of the Year" have received particularly high ratings in their surveys by earning a high level of respect among their peers for their abilities, professionalism, and integrity. Only a single lawyer in each specialty in each community is being honored as the “Lawyer of the Year.”

The following individuals are named Best Lawyers^®’ 2018 Lawyers of the Year along with the practice area and city for which they were chosen:

• Randall D. Avram - Raleigh Labor Law - Management “Lawyer of the Year”
• Stephen R. Berlin - Greensboro Environmental Law “Lawyer of the Year”
• Susan H. Boyles - Greensboro Litigation - Insurance “Lawyer of the Year”
• Charles W. Calkins - Greensboro Patent Law “Lawyer of the Year”
• Randall F. Hafer - Atlanta Litigation - Construction “Lawyer of the Year”
• Richard J. Keshian - Greensboro Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law “Lawyer of the Year”
• Tina W. McKeon - Atlanta Biotechnology Law “Lawyer of the Year”
• David E. Sipiora – Denver Litigation - Patent “Lawyer of the Year”
• Daniel R. Taylor, Jr. - Greensboro Litigation - Banking and Finance “Lawyer of the Year”

Best Lawyers ^® compiles its lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. The 2018 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America^® is based on more than 7.4 million detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers.

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