Harrisburg, PA – McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC is pleased to announce that attorneys Richard W. Stevenson and David E. Lehman have been named “Harrisburg Best Lawyers Corporate Lawyer of the Year” for 2010. The selection was made by The Best Lawyers in America, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession.
Mr. Stevenson is a member of the firm's Business Counseling and Asset Planning and Federal Taxation practice groups. He has previously been named to The Best Lawyers in America® in the areas of Corporate and Tax Law.
Mr. Lehman is an attorney in the firm's Litigation, Appellate and Post Trial, and Injunction practice groups. He has also previously been named to The Best Lawyers in America®, in the areas of Bet-the-Company Litigation and Commercial Litigation. Lehman plans to retire from McNees at the end of 2009.
After more than a quarter of a century in publication, Best Lawyers is designating “Lawyers of the Year” in high-profile legal specialties in large legal communities. Only a single lawyer in each specialty in each community is being honored as the “Lawyer of the Year.” The lawyers being honored as “Lawyers of the Year” have received particularly high ratings in the surveys by earning a high level of respect among their peers for their abilities, professionalism, and integrity.
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 current, 16th edition of The Best Lawyers in America (2010), is based on more than 2.8 million detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers.
McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC is a full-service law firm representing corporations, associations, institutions, and individuals, and it is a long-standing member of the American Law Firm Association. Offices are located in Harrisburg, State College, Lancaster, and Hazleton, PA; Columbus, OH; and Washington, D.C. The Web site is www.mwn.com.
If you would like additional information, contact Fina Wert at 717-237-5224 / or Jenna Handy at 717-237-5444 / .
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