Twenty-five Goodell DeVries Attorneys Honored by Best Lawyers in America 2023

By: GDLD | 8.18.22 | Honors

Goodell DeVries is pleased to announce that 19 of its attorneys have been named to the 2023 edition of The Best Lawyers in America©, and another six have been selected for Best Lawyers Ones to Watch 2023.

Additionally, the following attorneys were named Baltimore "Lawyers of the Year" for 2023 in these practice areas:

  • Linda S. Woolf: Product Liability Litigation - Defendants
  • Donna M.D. Thomas: Copyright Law and Trademark Law

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. Lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed; therefore, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers "the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice."

Goodell DeVries congratulates the following attorneys named to 2023 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

  • 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

Craig B. Merkle

  • Health Care Law
  • Litigation - Health Care
  • 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
  • Product Liability Litigation - Defendants

K. Nichole Nesbitt

  • Commercial Litigation

Marianne DePaulo Plant

  • Litigation - Health Care
  • Medical Malpractice Law - Defendants

Derek M. Stikeleather

  • Appellate Practice

Donna M.D. Thomas

  • Copyright Law (also named Baltimore "Lawyer of the Year" 2023 in this practice area)
  • Trademark Law (also named Baltimore "Lawyer of the Year" 2023 in this practice area)

Thomas J. S. Waxter III

  • Litigation - Construction 
  • Product Liability Litigation - Defendants

Linda S. Woolf

  • Bet-the-Company Litigation
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Litigation - Insurance 
  • Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants
  • Product Liability Litigation - Defendants (also named Baltimore "Lawyer of the Year" 2023 in this practice area)

 

Best Lawyers Ones to Watch 2023

Jessica Ayd

  • Construction Law
  • Insurance Law
  • Transportation Law

M. Peggy Chu

  • Medical Malpractice Law - Defendants
  • Product Liability Litigation - Defendants

Jhanelle A. Graham Caldwell

  • Health Care Law
  • Medical Malpractice Law - Defendants
  • Product Liability Litigation - Defendants

Jared M. Green

  • Medical Malpractice Law - Defendants

Patrick F. Toohey

  • Commercial Litigation

Justin E. Tepe

  • Commercial Litigation