Super Lawyers

The 2024 edition of Mid-South Super Lawyers magazine is now live! Featuring Super Lawyers and Rising Stars listees from Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee. This year’s cover story is on Carey Acerra of Jehl Law Group in Memphis, a PI-plaintiff attorney who who fights nursing home abuse and neglect. https://lnkd.in/gwYcVuXx

The great lesson her famous father taught her, says Tracey L. Brown, is stick-to-itiveness. “I do a lot of mediation,” says Tracey, a former deputy DA in LA who practices employment litigation in NY for The Cochran firm, “and it really helps to stick with it and not give up.” https://lnkd.in/gAFfQCqM

In the work-from-home era, which has been supercharged by the COVID pandemic, what to do about all those towering glass office buildings in the center of cities? Place like New York are converting them to residences, and real estate attorneys Daniel M. Bernstein, Jonathan Mechanic, and Ross Moskowitz do what they can to ease the transition. “It can make the difference between a failing office building and a successful rental building,” Bernstein says. https://lnkd.in/gYJ-gz-m

The 20th anniversary edition of Wisconsin Super Lawyers is here, featuring a cover story with five perennial listees reflecting on how far they’ve come and an inside story with three Rising Stars predicting the challenges of the future. Check it out here: https://lnkd.in/gDzqF8X3

The 2024 issue—and 20th anniversary—of Missouri & Kansas is live! To mark the occasion, we had five former cover subjects reflect on the last two decades of life and law: https://lnkd.in/ghba5EC3

In our latest New York issue, we also feature Anna Mercado Clark, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CIPM, FIP, a business litigator at Phillips Lytle who is an expert in security, crypto and AI law. “I feel like I spend most of my time, when I’m talking about AI, calming people down,” she says. “People are very alarmed, partly because news coverage has sensationalized it a bit and also because there’s so much unknown.” https://lnkd.in/ga9TGej3

Most successful attorneys are client-focused but Ben Rubinowitz takes it to another level. “The client’s plight is everything, and if you’re not going to do it that way, don’t do it all,” he says. “That means weekends, pulling all-nighters, no holidays. It’s part of the business.” https://lnkd.in/gcCUmMcb

A 33-year-old Texas man left permanently paralyzed was awarded $59.7 million by a state jury in Beaumont, Texas. The suit said Kiet “Ricky” Tuan Do was experiencing severe neck pain on Aug. 13, 2019, when he went to a clinic, where his legs collapsed. He was transferred to Baptist Hospital in Beaumont, where the suit alleges his medical assessments were delayed. By the time a mass or bleeding was discovered on his cervical spine, it alleges, it was too late for the possibility of a healthy recovery. PI attorney Cody Dishon, with The Ferguson Law Firm in Beaumont, handled the suit against Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas and a doctor who treated Do there. https://lnkd.in/g-vNg2dC

Daniel Gomez of Conner & Winters, LLP marries facts with storytelling as counsel for his Native American clients, including the family of Jim Thorpe and the Quapaw Nation of Oklahoma. https://lnkd.in/gQtxrB7B

Jennifer De Angelis made "good law" and a little history in her U.S. Supreme Court argument. "You’re right there, in front of the most brilliant legal minds there are, to present an argument. I just felt like there was a lot on the line here." https://lnkd.in/grbqnDQz