Stoel Rives Attorneys Recognized By 2019 Best Lawyers In America

Press Release

08.15.2018

Stoel Rives LLP is pleased to announce that 133 of its attorneys were selected by their peers for inclusion in the 2019 edition of The Best Lawyers in America^© directory. Best Lawyers^® compiles its lists of attorneys by conducting peer-review surveys in which tens of thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers.

Stoel Rives lawyers received rankings in 67 legal practice areas, including litigation, and banking construction, corporate, employee benefits, energy, environmental, health care, intellectual property, labor and employment, land use and zoning, mergers & acquisitions, natural resources, real estate, securities, tax, and water law.

In addition to inclusion in the directory, Best Lawyers^® selects a single lawyer in each practice area and in each community surveyed as a “Lawyer of the Year.” For 2019, 22 Stoel Rives attorneys were named a “Lawyer of the Year”:

Lawyer	Practice Area	Location
James E. Torgerson	Litigation – Mergers and Acquisitions	Anchorage
Joseph J. Perkins, Jr.	Oil and Gas Law	Anchorage
James C. Dale	Employment Law - Management	Boise
Kris J. Ormseth	Mergers & Acquisitions Law	Boise
Richard E. Alexander	Litigation – Construction	Portland
Todd A. Bauman	Venture Capital Law	Portland
Barbara D. Craig	Natural Resources Law	Portland
David E. Filippi	Water Law	Portland
Anne W. Glazer	Copyright Law	Portland
Robert J. Moorman	Corporate Law	Portland
Barbara L. Nay	Health Care Law	Portland
Margaret Hill Noto	Corporate Compliance Law	Portland
Karen L. O’Connor	Employment Law - Management	Portland
Terrence R. Pancoast	Nonprofit / Charities Law	Portland
Jeremy D. Sacks	Litigation – Regulatory Enforcement (SEC, Telecom, Energy)	Portland
Joan P. Snyder	Environmental Law	Portland
David J. Jordan	Administrative / Regulatory Law	Salt Lake City
Kenneth B. Black	Litigation – Securities	Salt Lake City
Mark E. Bonham	Venture Capital Law	Salt Lake City
Thomas A. Ellison	Land Use and Zoning Law	Salt Lake City
John R. Thompson	Trademark Law	Salt Lake City
Timothy J. O’Connell	Communications Law	Seattle

About Best Lawyers^®: First published in 1983, Best Lawyers’ publications have earned the respect of the legal profession, the media, and the public as the most reliable, unbiased source of legal referrals anywhere. Best Lawyers’ peer-reviewed listings are now published in almost 75 countries around the world, and the 24th Edition of The Best Lawyers in America^© (2018) includes 58,507 attorneys in 145 practice areas, covering all 50 states and the District of Columbia.