Forty-Eight Jones Walker Lawyers Named in The Best Lawyers in America(R) 2006

BATON ROUGE, La., Oct. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Forty-eight lawyers from Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre L.L.P. were recently selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America(R) 2006 (Copyright 2005 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, S.C.). The 2006 edition is the twelfth edition of The Best Lawyers in America(R).

Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which 18,000 leading lawyers throughout the country cast more than a half million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practices. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers "the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice."

This year, Jones Walker lawyers were listed in 20 practice areas, some being honored in multiple categories. The following Jones Walker lawyers are included in The Best Lawyers in America(R) 2006 edition:

  Antitrust Law
   Charles W. Lane, III
   David G. Radlauer

  Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law
   Elizabeth J. Futrell
   R. Lewis McHenry
   R. Patrick Vance

  Commercial Litigation
   Edward H. Bergin
   Leon Gary, Jr.
   Harry S. Hardin, III
   Pauline F. Hardin
   Grady S. Hurley
   Charles W. Lane, III
   Andrew R. Lee
   Thomas K. Potter, III
   R. Patrick Vance
   Edward Dirk Wegmann

  Corporate Law
   Curtis R. Hearn
   William H. Hines
   William B. Masters
   L. Richards McMillan, II
   Kenneth J. Najder
   Dionne M. Rousseau
   Richard P. Wolfe

  Employee Benefits Law
   John C. Blackman, IV
   Edward F. Martin
   Rudolph R. Ramelli

  Energy Law
   John C. Reynolds
   Robert W. Scheffy, Jr.

  Financial Institutions Law
   William H. Hines
   J. Marshall Page, III

  Gaming Law
   J. Kelly Duncan

  Intellectual Property Law
   Robert C. Tucker

  International Trade and Finance Law
   William H. Hines
   Richard P. Wolfe

  Labor and Employment Law
   H. Mark Adams
   Cornelius R. Heusel
   Clyde H. Jacob, III
   Sidney F. Lewis, V
   Robert B. Worley, Jr.

  Legal Malpractice Law
   Robert B. Acomb, Jr.

  Maritime Law
   Robert B. Acomb, Jr.
   John J. Broders
   J. Kelly Duncan
   Glenn G. Goodier
   Grady S. Hurley
   Edward J. Koehl, Jr.
   Robert T. Lemon, II

  Natural Resources Law
   Robert W. Scheffy, Jr.

  Personal Injury Litigation
   Robert B. Acomb, Jr.
   Grady S. Hurley

  Public Finance Law
   Fred L. Chevalier

  Railroad Law
   Harry S. Hardin, III

  Real Estate Law
   William H. Hines
   Charles A. Landry
   R. Lewis McHenry
   Louis S. Quinn, Jr.

  Tax Law
   William M. Backstrom, Jr.
   Edward B. Benjamin, Jr.
   John C. Blackman, IV
   Robert R. Casey
   Rudolph R. Ramelli
   Alex P. Trostorff

  Trusts and Estates
   Alton E. Bayard, III
   Edward B. Benjamin, Jr.
   John C. Blackman, IV
   Robert R. Casey
   David F. Edwards
   Edward F. Martin
   B. Michael Mauldin

Jones Walker, with over 210 lawyers, provides a full range of legal services to a sophisticated national and international corporate client base through offices in Florida, Louisiana, Texas and Washington, D.C. For more information, visit http://www.joneswalker.com/