The Best Lawyers In America® Includes 58 from Stoel Rives LLP
12/8/2004

CONTACT: Kristen Leis, Business Development Manager, (503) 294-9343

PORTLAND- Stoel Rives LLP is pleased to announce that 58 of its attorneys have been named in 62 categories in The Best Lawyers in America® 2005-06. The honorees include lawyers from the firm's Portland, Seattle, Salt Lake City and Boise offices. Five Stoel Rives lawyers have been added to the publication since Best Lawyers' last edition.

Stoel Rives ranks second among U.S. law firms for the number of attorneys listed in the Public Utility Law category. The firm is ranked 16th nationally for the number of attorneys listed overall.

This is the 11th edition and twenty-first year of publication of the guide, which is widely regarded as the preeminent referral guide to the legal profession in the United States. Eight Stoel Rives lawyers have been included in all previous editions. These lawyers are Paul S. Angello in the category of Intellectual Property Law; Howard M. Feuerstein in Real Estate Law; Gersham Goldstein in Tax Law; Henry H. Hewitt in Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions and Securities Law; Richard C. Josephson in Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law; Charles J. McMurchie in Trusts and Estates; David P. Miller in both Natural Resources Law and Real Estate Law; and Campbell Richardson in Trusts and Estates.

J. Keith Adams, Trusts and Estates (Salt Lake City) John S. Kirkham, Natural Resources Law (Salt Lake City)
Richard E. Alexander, Construction Law (Portland) Christine Kitchel, Labor and Employment Law (Portland)
Paul S. Angello, Intellectual Property Law (20 years, Portland) Charles S. Lewis III, Tax Law (Seattle)
Kevin Beaton, Environmental Law (Boise) Dennis Leybold, Employee Benefits Law (Portland)
Ruth Beyer, Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions and Securities Law (Portland) Gregory H. Macpherson, Employee Benefits Law (Portland)
Phillip D. Chadsey, Business Litigation (Portland) William M. McAllister, Alternative Dispute Resolution (Portland)
Nancy L. Cowgill, Trusts and Estates (Portland) Katherine A. McDowell, Public Utility Law (Portland)
E. Joseph Dean, Intellectual Property Law (Portland) Krista K. McIntyre, Environmental Law (Boise)
Barnes H. Ellis, Business Litigation (Portland) Charles J. McMurchie, Trusts and Estates (20 years, Portland)
Thomas A. Ellison, Real Estate Law (Salt Lake City) David P. Miller, Natural Resources Law and Real Estate Law (20 years, Portland)
Edward L. Epstein, Corporate, Health Care, M&A and Securities Law (10 years, Portland) Gregory B. Monson, Public Utility Law (Salt Lake City)
James F. Fell, Public Utility Law (Portland) J. Mark Morford, Environmental Law (Portland)
Howard M. Feuerstein, Real Estate Law (20 years, Portland) Gregory R. Mowe, Business Litigation (Portland)
Jerry R. Fish, Natural Resources Law (Portland) Barbara L. Nay, Health Care Law (Portland)
George M. Galloway, Public Utility Law (Portland) Mark A. Norby, Natural Resources Law (10 years, Portland)
Gary W. Glisson, Cyber Law (Portland) Margaret H. Noto, Corporate, M&A, and Securities Law (Portland)
Gersham Goldstein, Tax Law (20 years, Portland) Thomas R. Page, Real Estate Law (Portland)
David W. Green, Real Estate Law (Portland) Guy A. Randles, Construction Law (Portland)
Ronald S. Grossmann, Employee Benefits Law (Portland) Campbell Richardson, Trusts and Estates (20 years, Portland)
Henry H. Hewitt, Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions and Securities Law (20 years, Portland) David H. Rockwell, Real Estate Law (Seattle)
Charles F. Hinkle, First Amendment Law (Portland) Jerome L. Rubin, Labor and Employment Law (10 years, Seattle)
Mary S. Hobson, Public Utility Law (Boise) Barbara C. Sherland, Trusts and Estates (Seattle)
Ervin R. Holmes, Real Estate Law (Salt Lake City) Gordon W. Tanner, Real Estate Law (Seattle)
Richard A. Hopp, Employee Benefits Law (10 years, Seattle) James M. Van Nostrand, Public Utility Law (Seattle)
Edward A. Hunter, Real Estate Law (Salt Lake City) Stephen S. Walters, , Business Litigation (Portland)
Richard H. Johnson II, Trusts and Estates (10 years, Salt Lake City) Jere M. Webb, Intellectual Property Law and Cyber Law (10 years, Portland)
David J. Jordan, Business Litigation (Salt Lake City) James N. Westwood, Business Litigation; Natural Resources Law; Personal Injury Litigation (10 years, Portland)
Richard C. Josephson, Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law (20 years, Portland) Marcus A. Wood, Public Utility Law (Portland)
Danny C. Kelly, Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law (Salt Lake City) Steven D. Woodland, Employee Benefits Law (Salt Lake City)

About The Best Lawyers in America®: Best Lawyers lists are compiled through an exhaustive peer-review survey in which thousands of the top lawyers in the United States confidentially evaluate their professional peers. The current edition is based on more than 350,000 detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers. For more details on the rankings, visit www.bestlawyers.com.

About Stoel Rives LLP: Stoel Rives is a multipractice business law firm with operations throughout the western United States. With more than 375 lawyers and a support staff of 500, Stoel Rives is regarded as a regional leader in corporate, litigation, natural resources and environment, energy and intellectual property law. For more information about Stoel Rives and its offices in Oregon, Washington, California, Utah and Idaho, visit www.stoel.com.




 
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