Goodell DeVries is pleased to announce that 21 of its attorneys have been named to the 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in America©, and another five have been selected for Best Lawyers Ones to Watch 2024.
Additionally, the following attorneys were named Baltimore "Lawyers of the Year" for 2024 in these practice areas:
- Craig B. Merkle: Litigation - Health Care
- Thomas V. Monahan, Jr.: Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants
- Derek M. Stikeleather: Appellate Practice
The Best Lawyers "Lawyer of the Year" honors are awarded annually to only one lawyer per practice area in each region with extremely high overall feedback from their peers, making it an exceptional distinction.
Recognition in Best Lawyers is based on a peer review and voting process. The results are analyzed as to professional abilities within geographic regions. This publication is used by in-house counsel to research options for outside legal expertise. Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence.
Goodell DeVries congratulates the following attorneys named to the 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in America:
James B. Astrachan
- Advertising Law
- Communications Law
- Copyright Law
- Litigation - Intellectual Property
- Trademark Law
Richard M. Barnes
- Commercial Litigation
- Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants
- Product Liability Litigation - Defendants
Bonnie J. Beavan
- Product Liability Litigation - Defendants
Malcolm S. Brisker
- Insurance Law
- Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants
- Product Liability Litigation - Defendants
Janet A. Forero
- Medical Malpractice Law - Defendants
Terri L. Goldberg
- Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants
- Product Liability Litigation - Defendants
Amy B. Heinrich
- Medical Malpractice Law - Defendants
Jeffrey J. Hines
- Legal Malpractice Law - Defendants
- Litigation - Labor and Employment
- Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants
- Product Liability Litigation - Defendants
- Professional Malpractice Law - Defendants
Kamil Ismail
- Insurance Law
- Product Liability Litigation - Defendants
Kelly Hughes Iverson
- Medical Malpractice Law - Defendants
- Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants
- Product Liability Litigation - Defendants
Shannon M. Madden
- Medical Malpractice Law - Defendants
George S. Mahaffey
- Product Liability Litigation - Defendants
Craig B. Merkle
- Health Care Law
- Litigation - Health Care (also named Baltimore "Lawyer of the Year" 2024 in this practice area)
- Medical Malpractice Law - Defendants
- Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants
Thomas V. Monahan, Jr.
- Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants
- Medical Malpractice Law - Defendants
- Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants (also named Baltimore "Lawyer of the Year" 2024 in this practice area)
- Product Liability Litigation - Defendants
K. Nichole Nesbitt
Marianne DePaulo Plant
- Health Care Law
- Litigation - Health Care
- Medical Malpractice Law - Defendants
Derek M. Stikeleather
- Appellate Practice (also named Baltimore "Lawyer of the Year" 2024 in this practice area)
- Medical Malpractice Law - Defendants
Donna M.D. Thomas
- Copyright Law
- Trademark Law
Thomas J. S. Waxter III
- Litigation - Construction
- Product Liability Litigation - Defendants
Carrie J. Williams
Linda S. Woolf
- Bet-the-Company Litigation
- Commercial Litigation
- Litigation - Insurance
- Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants
- Product Liability Litigation - Defendants
Best Lawyers Ones to Watch 2024
Kaitlin D. Corey
- Corporate Law
- Intellectual Property Law
- Litigation - Intellectual Property
Jhanelle A. Graham Caldwell
- Health Care Law
- Medical Malpractice Law - Defendants
- Product Liability Litigation - Defendants
Jared M. Green
- Medical Malpractice Law - Defendants
James Phelan Robinson
- Medical Malpractice Law - Defendants
Kira E. Zuber
- Medical Malpractice Law - Defendants