Press Release
108 Ice Miller Attorneys Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® 2023 Edition
Ice Miller LLP is pleased to announce 108 lawyers were selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2023. Four Ice Miller partners were also recognized byBest Lawyers® in the 2023 “Lawyer of the Year” Awards.
In addition, 28 lawyers were selected by their peers for inclusion in the 2023 edition of The Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch®. These awards recognize attorneys who are earlier in their careers for outstanding professional excellence in private practice in the United States. These recipients typically have been in practice for five to nine years.
“The firm congratulates all of the talented lawyers recognized in this year’s edition of Best Lawyers®,” said Michael Millikan, chief managing partner at Ice Miller LLP. “The fact that such a wide variety of practice areas are represented in the rankings demonstrates that the firm truly has a diverse client base and that our lawyers are deeply committed to excellence within each of those practice areas.”
A list of the Ice Miller attorneys recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® and their relevant practice areas follow below:
Chicago
- Commercial Litigation
Thomas W. Dimond
- Environmental Law
- Litigation – Environmental
- Health Care Law
- Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
James M. Snyder
- Public Finance Law
Columbus, Ohio
- Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
- Litigation – Bankruptcy
- Employment Law – Management
- Employment Law – Management
- Labor Law – Management
- Government Relations Practice
Tyson A. Crist
- Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
- Litigation – Bankruptcy
James E. Davidson
- Commercial Litigation
- Litigation – Labor and Employment
- Commercial Litigation
- Health Care Law
Gregory J. Dunn
- Communications Law
- Municipal Law
- Litigation – Securities
- Securities Regulation
Roger A. Gilcrest
- Litigation – Intellectual Property
- Trademark Law
John P. Gilligan
- Bet-the-Company Litigation
- Commercial Litigation
- Government Relations Practice
- Litigation – Banking and Finance
- Litigation – Construction
- Litigation – Intellectual Property
- Real Estate Law
- Corporate Governance Law
- Tax Law
- Corporate Law
- Copyright Law
- Litigation – Intellectual Property
- Litigation – Patent
Michael J. Melliere
- Education Law
- Public Finance Law
Diane Menashe
- Commercial Litigation
- Criminal Defense: General Practice
- Criminal Defense White-Collar
Christopher L. Miller
- Energy Regulatory Law
- Tax Law
- Trusts and Estates
- Corporate Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
- Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
Hansel H. Rhee
- Commercial Litigation
- Litigation – Construction
Alan G. Starkoff
- Commercial Litigation
- Litigation – Labor and Employment
- Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
- Litigation – Bankruptcy
Indianapolis
- Corporate Law
Mark R. Alson
- Energy Law
- Commercial Litigation
- Litigation – Intellectual Property
- Litigation – Patent
Michael A. Blickman
- Employment Law – Management
- Labor Law – Management
- Litigation – Labor and Employment
- Trusts and Estates
- Employment Law – Management
- Labor Law – Management
- Litigation – Labor and Employment
James T. Burns
- Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs
- Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants
- Employment Law – Individuals
- Employment Law – Management
- Labor Law – Management
- Litigation – Labor and Employment
- Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)
- Commercial Finance Law
- Corporate Governance Law
- Corporate Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
- Information Technology Law
- Patent Law
- Technology Law
- Trademark Law
- Municipal Law
- Public finance Law
Michael B. Cracraft
- Communications Law
- Energy Law
Brian C. Crist
- Real Estate Law
- Environmental Law
- Litigation – Environmental
- Real Estate Law
- Real Estate Law
- Real Estate Law
- Litigation – Intellectual Property
- Employment Law – Individuals
- Nonprofit / Charities Law
- Tax Law
Sherry A. Fabina-Abney
- Health Care Law
- Commercial Litigation
- Product Liability Litigation – Defendants
- Commercial Litigation
- Commercial Litigation
- Environmental Law
- Public Finance Law
- Nonprofit / Charities Law
- Trusts and Estates
- Agriculture Law
- Corporate Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Jane Neuhauser Herndon
- Project Finance Law
Frank A. Hoffman
• Banking and Finance Law
• Economic Development Law
• Tax Law
Jeffrey A. Hokanson
- Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
- Commercial Litigation
- Litigation – Bankruptcy
- Commercial Litigation
- Insurance Law
- Municipal Law
- Public Finance Law
- Public Finance Law
- Insurance Law
- Litigation – Environmental
- Energy Law
- Public Finance Law
- Municipal Law
- Public Finance Law
- Corporate Law
- Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
- Private Funds / Hedge Funds Law
- Government Relations Practice
- Commercial Litigation
- Product Liability Litigation – Defendants
- Antitrust Law
- Commercial Litigation
- Commercial Litigation
- Litigation – Labor and Employment
- Health Care Law
- Public Finance Law
- Land Use and Zoning Law
- Litigation – Real Estate
- Real Estate Law
Judy S. Okenfuss
- Product Liability Litigation – Defendants
Todd W. Ponder
- Public Finance Law
- Employment Law – Management
- Labor Law – Management
- Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
- Employment Law – Management
- Litigation – ERISA
- Commercial Litigation
- Insurance Law
- Litigation – Insurance
- Litigation and Controversy – Tax
- Tax Law
- Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
- Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
- Construction Law
- Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
- Appellate Practice
- Health Care Law
Paul H. Sinclair
- Employment Law – Management
- Labor Law – Management
- Litigation – Labor and Employment
- Arbitration
Donald M. Snemis
- Commercial Litigation
- Litigation – Environmental
- Corporate Law
- Workers’ Compensation Law – Employers
- Health Care Law
- Commercial Litigation
- Litigation – Labor and Employment
- Corporate Law
- International Mergers & Acquisitions
- Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
- Sports Law
- Venture Capital Law
- Corporate Law
- International Mergers & Acquisitions
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Michael Tirman
- Real Estate Law
- Employment Law – Management
- Labor Law – Management
- Litigation – Construction
- Litigation – Trusts and Estates
- Trusts and Estates
- Copyright Law
- Information Technology Law
- Employment Law – Management
- Litigation – Labor and Employment
- Health Care Law
- International Mergers & Acquisitions
- Commercial Litigation
DuPage County, Illinois
Robert J. Schillerstrom
- Government Relations Practice
Eric L. Singer
- Construction Law
- Litigation – Construction
New York
- Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
Philadelphia
- Patent Law
Washington, DC
- Criminal Defense: White-Collar
The following Ice Miller attorneys were recognized by Best Lawyers® in the 2023 “Lawyer of the Year” Awards:
Indianapolis
- Public Finance Law
- Municipal Law
Columbus, Ohio
Hansel H. Rhee
- Litigation – Construction
- Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
- Litigation – Bankruptcy
The following Ice Miller attorneys were recognized in The Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch®:
Chicago
Austin Anderson
- Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)
- Commercial Litigation – Trusts and Estates
Ryanne Bush Dent
- Construction Law
- Litigation – Trusts and Estates
- Litigation - Patent
Austin C. Root
- Municipal Law
- Public Finance Law
Columbus, Ohio
- Labor and Employment Law – Management
- Litigation – Labor and Employment
- Commercial Litigation
- Litigation – Banking and Finance
Joseph P. Guenther
- Construction Law
- Real Estate Law
Nicole R. Woods
- Commercial Litigation
Indianapolis
- Real Estate Law
- Commercial Litigation
- Environmental Law
- Commercial Litigation
Sean T. Dewey
- Commercial Litigation
- Litigation – Labor and Employment
Samuel B. Gardner
- Insurance Law
- Commercial Litigation
- Public Finance Law
- Corporate Law
- Real Estate Law
- Commercial Litigation
- Commercial Litigation
- Tax Law
- Corporate Law
- Criminal Defense – White Collar
- Litigation – Antitrust
- Real Estate Law
DuPage County, Illinois
- Construction Law
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