Butler Snow is pleased to announce Chambers USA 2025, the prestigious, independent legal industry referral guide, has ranked 66 of the firm's attorneys as leaders in their fields. Butler Snow has also been ranked in 33 categories.
"We are honored to be recognized once again by Chambers for the strength and depth of our attorneys across a wide range of practices," said Christopher R. Maddux, chair of Butler Snow. "We appreciate the acknowledgement of our work reflected in this year's rankings."
Chambers USA ranks the top attorneys and law firms across the United States. Rankings for individual attorneys are based on their practice area(s) and evaluation of their legal knowledge and experience, ability, effectiveness and client service. A law firm's ranking relates to a department of the firm and the qualities of the ranked attorneys within that department. Factors and considerations are judged by interviews with those active in the market – mainly clients and other attorneys with whom they work – and by assessing recent work done.
Chambers USA 2025 ranked the firm in the following categories:
- Gaming & Licensing
- USA – Nationwide (Band 2)
- Product Liability & Mass Torts: The Elite
- USA – Nationwide (Band 3)
- Public Finance
- USA – Nationwide (Band 2)
- Banking & Finance
- Louisiana (Band 3)
- Tennessee (Band 3)
- Bankruptcy/Restructuring
- Mississippi (Band 1)
- Construction
- Mississippi (Band 2)
- Tennessee (Band 1)
- Corporate/Commercial
- Alabama (Band 3)
- Mississippi (Band 1)
- Corporate/Mergers & Acquisitions
- Louisiana (Band 3)
- Energy & Natural Resources
- Mississippi (Band 2)
- Environment
- Mississippi (Band 1)
- Tennessee (Band 3)
- Healthcare
- Tennessee (Band 3)
- Labor & Employment
- Mississippi (Band 1)
- Tennessee (Band 2)
- Litigation: Appellate
- Texas (Band 3)
- Litigation: General Commercial
- Alabama (Band 4)
- Mississippi (Band 1)
- Tennessee (Band 2)
- Texas: Austin & Surrounds (Band 3)
- Product Liability & Toxic Torts
- Virginia (Band 3)
- Public Finance
- Colorado (Band 1)
- Florida (Band 2)
- Georgia (Band 1)
- Louisiana (Band 2)
- Mississippi (Band 1)
- Real Estate
- Alabama (Band 3)
- Mississippi (Band 2)
- Tennessee (Band 3)
- Tax
- Alabama (Band 3)
- Mississippi (Band 2)
Chambers USA 2025 ranked Butler Snow attorneys in the following categories:
Nationwide Leader Listings
- Alyson Bustamante Jones – Product Liability & Mass Torts
- William M. Gage – Product Liability & Mass Torts
- Sean M. McGuinness – Gaming & Licensing
- Ryan J. O'Beirne – Gaming & Licensing
- Orlando R. Richmond, Sr. – Product Liability & Mass Torts
Alabama: Individual Leader Listings
- Christopher S. Berdy – Litigation: General Commercial
- Caitlyn Smith Burchfield – Public Finance
- Russell L. Irby – Corporate/Commercial
- Alan D. Mathis – Litigation: General Commercial
- Randall D. McClanahan – Corporate/Commercial; Tax
- Angie Godwin McEwen – Real Estate
- E. Alston Ray – Public Finance
Colorado: Individual Leader Listings
- Kimberley K. Crawford – Public Finance
Florida: Individual Leader Listings
- Emily F. Magee – Public Finance
Georgia: Individual Leader Listings
- Kenneth B. Pollock – Public Finance
- Blake C. Sharpton – Public Finance
Louisiana: Individual Leader Listings
- Thomas G. Hessburg – Public Finance
- Jacob M. Kantrow – Corporate/Mergers & Acquisitions
- Lee C. Kantrow – Corporate/Mergers & Acquisitions
- W. Scott Keaty – Healthcare
- Jim Letten – Litigation: White Collar Crime & Government Investigations
- Adam C. Parker – Public Finance
- David S. Rubin – Bankruptcy/Restructuring
Mississippi: Individual Leader Listings
- Phil B. Abernethy – Construction; Litigation: General Commercial
- P. Ryan Beckett – Litigation: General Commercial
- John A. Brunini – Environment
- R. Barry Cannada – Corporate/Commercial
- John A. (Jack) Crawford, Jr. – Litigation: General Commercial
- Andrea La'Verne Edney – Litigation: General Commercial
- John F. England – Public Finance
- Sue Hicks Fairbank – Public Finance
- Trudy D. Fisher – Environment
- William M. Gage – Litigation: General Commercial
- J. Clifford Harrison – Corporate/Commercial: Banking & Finance
- Steven M. Hendrix – Real Estate
- Laura D. Heusel – Environment
- Jetson G. Hollingsworth – Public Finance
- Robert C. Hutchison – Real Estate
- Selby A. Ireland – Corporate/Commercial
- Christopher R. Maddux – Bankruptcy/Restructuring
- R. Wilson Montjoy II – Energy & Natural Resources
- Ryan J. O'Beirne – Gaming & Licensing
- Orlando R. Richmond, Sr. – Litigation: General Commercial
- Gary C. Rikard – Environment
- Benjamin W. Roberson – Corporate/Commercial
- E. Barney Robinson III – Litigation: General Commercial
- Stephen W. Rosenblatt – Bankruptcy/Restructuring
- W. Michael Russ – Public Finance
- Phillip S. Sykes – Litigation: General Commercial
- Robin Banck Taylor – Labor & Employment
- Timothy M. Threadgill – Labor & Employment
- J. Paul Varner – Tax
- Thad W. Varner – Public Finance
- Rebecca Lee Wiggs – Litigation: General Commercial
South Carolina: Individual Leader Listings
- Bradish J. Waring – Litigation: General Commercial
Tennessee: Individual Leader Listings
- Dan H. Elrod – Healthcare: Regulatory
- David L. Johnson – Labor & Employment
- B. Hart Knight – Environment
- Michael I. Less – Construction
- Jones Wilson Luna – Environment
- Ann E. Lundy – Healthcare: Regulatory
- Todd P. Photopulos – Immigration
- Kara E. Shea – Labor & Employment
Texas: Individual Leader Listings
- Andrew Kever – Energy: State Regulatory & Litigation (Electricity)
- Bill Moore – Energy: State Regulatory & Litigation (Electricity)
- Eric J.R. Nichols – Litigation: General Commercial
- Martin A. Sosland – Bankruptcy/Restructuring
- Amanda G. Taylor – Litigation: Appellate
Virginia: Individual Leader Listings
- Kevin A. White – Public Finance