Six Hall Estill Attorneys Named Lawyer of the Year
October 4, 2011
Best Lawyers, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession today named six Hall Estill attorneys as Lawyer of the Year in their specialty areas:
- J. Patrick Cremin - Best Lawyers’ 2012 Tulsa Labor Law - Management Lawyer of the Year.
- Phillip L. Free, Jr. - Best Lawyers’ 2012 Oklahoma City Litigation - Intellectual Property Lawyer of the Year.
- James C. T. Hardwick - Best Lawyers’ 2012 Tulsa Oil & Gas Law Lawyer of the Year.
- Michael T. Keester - Best Lawyers’ 2012 Tulsa Litigation - Construction Lawyer of the Year.
- Stephen W. Ray - Best Lawyers’ 2012 Tulsa Securities / Capital Markets Law Lawyer of the Year.
- Andrew M. Wolov - Best Lawyers’ 2012 Tulsa Trusts and Estates Lawyer of the Year.
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.
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, 18th edition of The Best Lawyers in America (2012) is based on more than 3.9 million detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers.
The lawyers being honored as “Lawyers of the Year” have received particularly high ratings in our surveys by earning a high level of respect among their peers for their abilities, professionalism, and integrity.
