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Seventy-Five Day Pitney Lawyers Named to Best Lawyers List for 2013

Publisher: Day Pitney Press Release

August 23, 2012

Seventy-five lawyers at Day Pitney LLP have been selected for inclusion in the 2013 edition of The Best Lawyers in America? 2013 (Copyright 2012 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, S.C.). Fourteen lawyers were named Lawyers of the Year in their respective practice areas, and seven attorneys were ranked for the first time.

Best Lawyers ranks lawyers through peer-review surveys, and has been published annually since 1983. The following Day Pitney lawyers, listed alphabetically by city with their corresponding ranked practice areas, were named to this year's Best Lawyers list:

Boston:
Kenneth L. Grinnell, Trusts and Estates
Leiha Macauley, Trusts and Estates
Ken W. Shulman, Elder Law
Stephen Ziobrowski, Trusts and Estates

Greenwich, CT.:
R. Scott Beach, Corporate Law
Amy K. Wilfert, Non-Profit / Charities Law and Trusts and Estates

Hartford, CT.:
Rosemary G. Ayers, Real Estate Law
Elizabeth C. Barton, Environmental Law and Litigation - Environmental
Paul N. Belval, Energy Law
David T. Doot, Energy Law
Gerald Garfield, Energy Law
Thomas J. Groark, Jr., Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Insurance Law and Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants
Charles H. Lenore, Tax Law
Ernest J. Mattei, Insurance Law and Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants
James A. McGraw, Real Estate Law
Kathleen D. Monnes, Insurance Law
John B. Nolan, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law and Commercial Litigation
Edmund M. See, Public Finance Law
Michael P. Shea, Appellate Practice and Litigation - Antitrust
James Sicilian, Antitrust Law
Robert G. Siegel, Corporate Governance Law, Corporate Law and Mergers & Acquisitions Law
Felix J. Springer, Employment Law - Management and Litigation - Labor & Employment
James J. Tancredi, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law and Litigation - Bankruptcy
Robert M. Taylor III, Banking and Finance Law
Albert Zakarian, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Employment Law - Management, Labor Law - Management, Litigation - ERISA and Litigation - Labor and Employment

New Haven, CT.:
Keith Bradoc Gallant, Elder Law, Litigation?- Trusts & Estates and Trusts and Estates
Joseph L. Hammer, Litigation - Real Estate

New York:
William T. Baker, Jr., Energy Law
James R. DeVita, Criminal Defense: White-Collar
Ronald H. Janis, Corporate Law
Sabino (Rod) Rodriguez, Tax Law
Dina Kapur Sanna, Trusts and Estates
G. Warren Whitaker, Trusts and Estates

Parsippany, NJ:
Michael T. Bissinger, Employment Law - Management, Labor Law - Management and Litigation - Labor & Employment
Lori J. Braender, Corporate Law
Warren J. Casey, Corporate Governance Law, Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law and Securities Regulation
Hope S. Cone, Family Law
Colleen R. Donovan, Environmental Law and Real Estate Law
David P. Doyle, Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
Michael J. Dunne, Commercial Litigation and Information Technology Law
Michael James Guerriero, Tax Law
Benjamin E. Haglund, Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants
Paul J. Halasz, Commercial Litigation and Litigation - Construction
Robert L. Hollingshead, Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants and Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants
Richard Kahn, Litigation - Trusts & Estates and Trusts and Estates
Dennis T. Kearney, Commercial Litigation and Criminal Defense: White-Collar
Theresa A. Kelly, Employment Law - Management and Litigation - Labor & Employment
Robert A. Klausner, Real Estate Law
Dennis R. LaFiura, Franchise Law
Murray J. Laulicht, Legal Malpractice Law - Defendants, Legal Malpractice Law - Plaintiffs and Litigation - Antitrust
Kathy A. Lawler, Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
Edward P. Lynch, Employment Law - Management, Labor Law - Management and Litigation - Labor & Employment
Anthony J. Marchetta, Commercial Litigation
Henry Nelson Massey, Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law and Securities Regulation
Patrick J. McCarthy, Employment Law - Management, Labor Law - Management and Litigation - Labor & Employment
Deirdre E. Moore, Real Estate Law
John J. O'Reilly, Criminal Defense: White-Collar
Mary Lou Parker, Trusts and Estates
Gregory C. Parliman, Employment Law - Management and Litigation - Labor & Employment
Mary B. Rogers, Employment Law - Management, Labor Law - Management and Litigation - Labor & Employment
Robert G. Rose, Arbitration, Commercial Litigation, Litigation - Construction, Litigation - Environmental and Mediation
Elizabeth J. Sher, Commercial Litigation
Joy Harmon Sperling, Litigation - Banking & Finance

Stamford, CT.:
Jerome Berkman, Real Estate Law
Michael P. Byrne, Real Estate Law
Gregory A. Hayes, Litigation - Trusts & Estates and Trusts and Estates
Robert J. Miller, Trusts and Estates
Kenneth W. Ritt, Antitrust Law
Daniel L. Schwartz, Employment Law - Individuals, Employment Law - Management and Labor Law - Management
David A. Swerdloff, Corporate Governance Law, Corporate Law, Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law and Securities / Capital Markets Law
Stanley A. Twardy, Jr., Criminal Defense: White-Collar

West Hartford, CT:
B. Dane Dudley, Trusts and Estates
Steven M. Fast, Litigation - Trusts & Estates and Trusts and Estates
Martin Wolman, Trusts and Estates

The following individuals from Day Pitney were also named Best Lawyers' 2013 Lawyers of the Year in their respective areas of practice:

Gregory A. Hayes, Litigation - Trusts & Estates, Stamford
Murray J. Laulicht, Litigation - Antitrust, Newark
Ernest J. Mattei, Insurance Law, Hartford
David A. Swerdloff, Corporate Law and Mergers & Acquisitions Law, Stamford
James J. Tancredi, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law and Litigation - Bankruptcy, Hartford
Albert Zakarian, Employment Law - Management and Bet-the-Company Litigation, Hartford
Rosemary G. Ayers, Real Estate Law, Hartford
Warren J. Casey, Corporate Governance Law, Newark
Thomas J. Groark, Jr., Insurance Law, Hartford
Richard Kahn, Litigation - Trusts & Estates, Newark
Daniel L. Schwartz, Labor Law - Management, Stamford
Robert G. Siegel, Corporate Governance Law, Hartford
Felix J. Springer, Employment Law - Management, Hartford

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Day Pitney LLP is a full-service law firm with more than 300 attorneys in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Boston and Washington, DC. The firm offers clients strong corporate and litigation practices, with experience on behalf of large national and international corporations as well as emerging- and middle-market companies and individuals.

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