Tucker Ellis LLP is proud to announce that Best Lawyers® has named six of the firm’s partners 2014 “Lawyers of the Year” in five individual practice areas in both the Cleveland and Los Angeles markets. Only a single lawyer in each practice area and designated metropolitan area is honored as the “Lawyer of the Year,” making this accolade particularly significant.

The Tucker Ellis attorneys honored as 2014 Lawyers of the Year are:

• Harry D. Cornett, Jr. – Legal Malpractice Law – Defendants (Cleveland)
• Curtiss L. Isler – Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Defendants (Los Angeles)
• Joseph J. Morford – Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Defendants (Cleveland)
• Brian M. O’Neill – Mergers & Acquisitions Law (Cleveland)
• Hugh M. Stanley – Litigation – Banking & Finance (Cleveland)
• Robert C. Tucker – Bet-the-Company Litigation (Cleveland)

Best Lawyers conducts exhaustive peer-review assessments with thousands of leading lawyers each year and bestows the “Lawyer of the Year” honor on those attorneys with particularly impressive voting averages. Receiving this designation reflects the high level of respect a lawyer has earned among other leading lawyers in the same communities and the same practice areas for their abilities, their professionalism, and their integrity.