Best Lawyers in America® Includes 53 Tonkon Torp Attorneys on 2022 List

Fifty-three Tonkon Torp lawyers representing 39 practice areas have been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2022A majority of the attorneys have been named to the peer-review list in past years, and most have been listed for more than 10 years.

Karen Hobson, Blerina Kotori, Drea Schmidt, Anna Sortun, and Michael Willes have been included on the Best Lawyers list for the first time.

“It’s an honor to have so many of our attorneys recognized for their contributions and legal expertise,” said Kurt Ruttum, Managing Partner. “Businesses across all industries are faced with ever more complicated challenges. We are proud that our expertise in helping clients meet those challenges with efficiency and creativity is acknowledged by our peers.”

The full list of Tonkon Torp’s 2022 “Best Lawyers” is below.

Administrative/Regulatory Law
Jeanette Schuster

Arbitration 
Dan Skerritt 

Bankruptcy & Creditor Debtor Rights Law/Insolvency & Reorganization Law 
Timothy J. Conway 
Michael W. Fletcher 
Albert N. Kennedy 
Ava Schoen

Bet-the-Company Litigation 
Albert N. Kennedy 
Dan Skerritt 

Business Organizations (including LLCs & Partnerships)
Justin Denton 
Mark LeRoux 
Brenda Meltebeke 

Closely Held Companies & Family Businesses Law 
Jeffrey Cronn 
Justin Denton 

Commercial Litigation 
Paul Conable
Caroline Harris Crowne
Parna Mehrbani
Steven Olson
Christopher Pallanch
Dan Skerritt
Anna Sortun
Darian Stanford
Jon Stride
Frank Weiss
Michael Willes
Steven Wilker
Zachary Wright

Corporate Compliance Law
Sherrill Corbett
Jeffrey Cronn

Corporate Governance Law
Sherrill Corbett
Thomas Palmer

Corporate Law 
Owen Blank
Sherrill Corbett
David Forman
Ronald Greenman
James Hein
Brenda Meltebeke 
Thomas Palmer 
Kurt Ruttum 

Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
Darcy Norville

Employment Law – Management
Kristin Bremer Moore
Bob Carey
Clay Creps

Energy Law 
David J. Petersen 

Environmental Law 
Max M. Miller, Jr.
Jeanette C. Schuster

Government Relations Practice 
Paul Cosgrove
Drew Hagedorn

Immigration Law
Turid Owren
Alan Perkins 

Insurance Law
Frank Weiss 

Labor Law – Management
Kristin Bremer Moore 
Bob Carey 

Land Use & Zoning Law 
Max M. Miller, Jr.
David J. Petersen

Litigation – Banking & Finance
Christopher Pallanch

Litigation – Bankruptcy
Timothy J. Conway 
Albert N. Kennedy
Ava Schoen

Litigation – Environmental
Paul Conable
Zachary Wright

Litigation – First Amendment 
Steven Wilker

Litigation – Insurance
Anna Sortun 

Litigation – Intellectual Property 
Parna Mehrbani
Jon Stride

Litigation – Labor & Employment 
Kristin Bremer Moore 
Bob Carey 
Clay Creps
Blerina Kotori
Haley Morrison

Litigation – Securities 
Paul Conable
Zachary Wright

Litigation – Trusts & Estates 
Ryan M. Bledsoe

Mediation 
Dan Skerritt

Mergers & Acquisitions Law 
Owen Blank 
Justin Denton
David Forman 
Ronald Greenman
James Hein
Brenda Meltebeke 
Thomas Palmer
Kurt Ruttum

Nonprofit/Charities Law
Shouka Rezvani

Product Liability Litigation – Defendants
Anna Sortun

Real Estate Law 
Owen Blank
Ted Herzog
Jeffrey Keeney
David J. Petersen
Kimberlee Stafford
Joseph S. Voboril

Securities/Capital Markets Law
Sherrill Corbett
Ronald Greenman
Brenda Meltebeke 
Thomas Palmer
Drea Schmidt

Securities Regulation 
Thomas Palmer

Tax Law
Gwendolyn Griffith
Mark LeRoux

Trademark Law 
Christopher Erickson 
Parna Mehrbani 

Trusts & Estates 
Gwendolyn Griffith 
Karen Hobson
Shouka Rezvani 
John Rosenfeld 

Water Law 
Janet Neuman 


Best Lawyers was first published in 1983. The annual directory is based on a peer-review survey and highlights the top 6% of private practicing attorneys in the U.S. Lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers “the most respected list of attorneys in practice.”

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