NEW ORLEANS – Fisher & Phillips LLP announced that seven attorneys in the New Orleans office have been selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2016®, including Keith M. Pyburn, Jr. as “Lawyer of the Year” for Labor Law Management practice in the regional area.
The attorneys, who specialize in labor and employment law, labor and employment litigation, employee benefits law, or immigration law were honored for their labor and/ or employment work unless otherwise noted.
Recognitions include:
• Keith M. Pyburn, Jr., Labor Law – Management “Lawyer of the Year” (15 years listed)
• Sandra Mills Feingerts, Employee Benefits Law (20 years listed)
• Edward F. Harold
• Robert K. McCalla (30 years listed)
• Michael S. Mitchell
• Scott D. Schneider
• Timothy H. Scott
The local lawyers are among the 84 Fisher & Phillips attorneys in this year’s publication, representing 25 regional offices nationwide.
Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers® has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey. More than 79,000 leading attorneys are eligible to vote, and Best Lawyers received more than 6.2 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas. 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."
Fisher & Phillips LLP is a national law firm committed to providing practical business solutions for employers’ workplace legal problems. Labor and employment law is all the firm does, offering deep and broad knowledge and experience in the area of the law the attorneys know best. Fisher & Phillips has more than 300 attorneys in 31 offices. In addition to New Orleans, the offices are in Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Cleveland, Columbia, Columbus, Dallas, Denver, Fort Lauderdale, Gulfport, Houston, Irvine, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Louisville, Memphis, New Jersey, Orlando, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, San Antonio, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Tampa, and Washington, D.C.
Sandra Mills Feingerts
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Edward F. Harold
Robert K. McCalla
Michael S. Mitchell
Scott D. Schneider
Timothy H. Scott