Pittsburgh, PA, September 26, 2008 — Sixty-nine Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney attorneys have been selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2009. Best Lawyers ranked Buchanan first in Pennsylvania for Government Relations Law and Health Care Law, and first in Pittsburgh in both Corporate Law and Real Estate Law. The firm was also ranked first in Government Relations Law in Harrisburg.

Honored for making the list for 20 years or more in Pittsburgh are George L. Cass in Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law; Calvin R. Harvey in both Banking Law and Real Estate Law; Robert A. Johnson in both Employee Benefits Law and Non-Profit/Charities Law; and Larry E. Phillips in Tax Law; in Harrisburg, Eugene E. Dice in Environmental Law; in Philadelphia, Alfred J. D'Angelo, Jr. in Labor and Employment Law; and in Washington, D.C., Stuart M. Lewis in both Employee Benefits Law and Tax Law.

Honored for making the list at least 10 years in Harrisburg are Bradley J. Gunnison in both Corporate Law and Tax Law and Jonathan Vipond, III in Health Care Law; in Pittsburgh, Thomas E. Boyle in Health Care Law; David B. Fawcett, III in Commercial Litigation; Robert T. Harper in the categories of Corporate Law, Health Care Law, Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law and Mergers & Acquisitions Law; Edwin L. Klett in Commercial Litigation; Charles G. Knox in Real Estate Law; and Thomas M. Thompson in both Corporate Law and Mergers & Acquisitions Law.

In the category of Government Relations Law, four attorneys in the Harrisburg office were honored, Daniel E. Beren, Laura J. Kuller, Thomas G. Paese and John M. Quain (also honored in the Energy Law category). Also on the list in Harrisburg were P. Kevin Brobson in Insurance Law; Brian J. Clark in both Environmental Law and Water Law; Michael Hund in both Corporate Law and Securities Law; Jack M. Stover in both Bet-the-Company Litigation and Commercial Litigation; and Jayson R. Wolfgang in Commercial Litigation.

In addition to D'Angelo, 10 Philadelphia attorneys were honored: John Barrett, Jr. in Personal Injury Litigation; Steven E. Bizar in Antitrust Law; William A. DeStefano in White-Collar Criminal Defense; Rudolph Garcia in both Commercial Litigation and Construction Law; Robert S. Hawkins and Vincent J. Pentima in Labor and Employment Law; Frances P. Rayer in Immigration Law; Howard D. Scher in Commercial Litigation; William H. Schorling in Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law; and Thomas M. Tammany in Health Care Law.

In addition to those previously mentioned, 28 Pittsburgh attorneys were honored: Lynn J. Alstadt in Intellectual Property Law; Margaret B. Angel in Public Finance Law; John A. Barbour in Real Estate Law; Ronald Basso in both Corporate Law and Securities Law; Peter H. Beaman in Public Finance Law; Bruce I. Booken in both Banking Law and Corporate Law; Maureen B. Cohon in Family Law Mediation; Rosemary L. Corsetti in Health Care Law; Lewis U. Davis, Jr., in Securities Law; Thomas S. Galey in Banking Law; Jeremiah G. Garvey in the categories of Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law, and Securities Law; Eugene A. Giotto in Workers' Compensation Law; Thomas S. Giotto in Labor and Employment Law; Craig S. Heryford in Banking Law; Mark R. Hornak in Labor and Employment Law; Scott W. Irmscher in Real Estate Law;  Rebecca Livingston Lando in Real Estate Law; David J. Laurent in both Labor and Employment Law and Natural Resources Law; E. David Margolis in Trusts and Estates; Paul S. Mazeski in Workers' Compensation Law; Terrence H. Murphy in Labor and Employment Law; Wendelynne J. Newton in Antitrust Law; Carl E. Rothenberger, Jr. in Corporate Law; Thomas L. VanKirk in both Antitrust Law and Commercial Litigation; Howard J. Wein in Environmental Law; Jeffrey R. Wilson in Workers' Compensation Law; John H. Wilson in Employee Benefits Law; and Susan Yohe in Commercial Litigation.

In Tampa, attorneys James J. Kennedy and R. Andrew Rock were both honored in the Health Care Law category.

In addition to Lewis, three Washington, D.C., attorneys were honored Michael J. Grace in both Commercial Litigation and Personal Injury Litigation; David I. Kempler in Non-Profit/Charities Law; and Aen Walker Webster in Trusts and Estates.

In the Wilmington office, two attorneys were honored in the Land Use & Zoning category, Richard A. Forsten and William E. Manning (also honored in the Real Estate Law category).

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