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22 August 2025

Sixty-Five FordHarrison Attorneys Listed In The 2026 Best Lawyers In America And Thirty Listed In Ones To Watch

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Ford & Harrison LLP

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FordHarrison is a labor and employment firm with attorneys in 29 offices, including two affiliate firms. The firm has built a national legal practice as one of the nation's leading defense firms with an exclusive focus on labor law, employment law, litigation, business immigration, employee benefits and executive compensation.
FordHarrison LLP is pleased to announce that 65 lawyers were selected by their peers for inclusion in the 2026 Best Lawyers in America.
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NATIONAL - FordHarrison LLP is pleased to announce that 65 lawyers were selected by their peers for inclusion in the 2026 Best Lawyers in America. This list includes attorneys from 24 offices nationwide, recognized in several specialties, including: Commercial Litigation; Employment Law – Management; Immigration Law; Labor Law – Management; Labor and Employment Law – Management; and Litigation – Labor and Employment. Some attorneys are named in multiple categories.

30 attorneys were selected as Ones To Watch in their respective areas. The recognition is given to attorneys who are earlier in their careers for outstanding professional excellence in private practice in the United States. Ones to Watch recipients typically have been in practice for five to nine years.

The FordHarrison attorneys selected for 2026 Best Lawyers in America are:

Atlanta, GA
Paul R. Beshears
Patricia G. Griffith
C. Lash Harrison
Jill M. Harrison
Andrew D. McClintock
Jeffrey D. Mokotoff
John L. Monroe, Jr.
Frederick L. Warren III
Lavern J. Wilson
Sarah Pierce Wimberly

Berkeley Heights, NJ
Heather R. Boshak
Mark A. Saloman

Birmingham, AL
Wesley C. Redmond

Charlotte, NC
Benjamin P. Fryer

Chicago, IL
Craig R. Thorstenson

Dallas, TX
Buena Vista Lyons
Rachel Z. Ullrich

Hartford, CT
Proloy K. Das
Michael C. Harrington
Michael J. Spagnola
Johanna G. Zelman

Houston, TX
Sarah Morton

Jacksonville, FL
Michael G. Prendergast
Amy R. Turci

Los Angeles, CA
Stephen Lueke

Melbourne, FL
R. Michelle Tatum-Bush
Louis D. Wilson

Memphis, TN
Louis P. Britt, III
Frank L. Day, Jr.
Russell W. Jackson

Miami, FL
Rodolfo (Rudy) Gomez
Elizabeth M. Rodriguez

Minneapolis, MN
Charles Roach

Nashville, TN
Howard B. Jackson
Mark E. Stamelos

New York, NY
Shawndra G. Jones

Orlando, FL
Mark E. Levitt
Marilyn G. Moran
Marc Sugerman
Jessica Walberg
Aaron L. Zandy

Richmond, VA
Karen S. Elliott
Jay Fries

Spartanburg, SC
Wade E. Ballard
Matthew Gilley
Kristin Gray
Thomas H. Keim, Jr.
Jeffrey A. Lehrer

St. Louis, MO
Corey L. Franklin
Karen E. Milner

Tampa, FL
Todd S. Aidman
Nicholas S. Andrews
Edward Carlstedt
Joseph H. Harris
Tracey K. Jaensch
Christopher C. Johnson
Cullan E. Jones
David M. Kalteux
Tammie L. Rattray
Luis A. Santos
Dawn Siler-Nixon

Washington, D.C.
Anessa Abrams
David A. Rosenberg
Jacquelyn L. Thompson

West Palm Beach, FL
David M. Gobeo

The FordHarrison attorneys selected for 2026 Ones To Watch are:

Atlanta, GA
Abed H. Fakhoury
Charles Hoffman
Kadale Lubin
Christine F. Rodriguez

Berkeley Heights, NJ
Stephen A. Oliwa, III

Chicago, IL
Douglass R. Nolan
Joel M. Zeid

Dallas, TX
Meron S. Squires

Hartford, CT
Julianne S. Brown
Ciarra J. Lofstrom

Jacksonville, FL
Andrew E. Underkofler

Los Angeles, CA
Julie A. Bachert
Min K. Kim
Caleb Y. Lee
Jason Shon

Memphis, TN
Mollie K. Wildmann

Nashville, TN
Meredith A. Box
Paige M. Lyle

New York, NY
Steven Balken

Orlando, FL
Sara K. Finnigan
Madonna M. Snowden
Howard M. Waldman

Richmond, VA
Victoria L. Creta

San Diego, CA
Lawrence J. Geist

Spartanburg, SC
Briana L. Schill

St. Louis, MO
Dohen Q. Gallagher
Rebecca L. James

Tampa, FL
Ivan Ayala-Garcia
Melany Hernandez

Washington, D.C.
Rachel Saady-Saxe

About Best Lawyers
Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Because Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which more than 52,000 leading attorneys cast over 5.5 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas, and because lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor. Corporate Counsel magazine called Best Lawyers “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.”

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FordHarrison is a labor and employment firm with attorneys in 29 offices, including two affiliate firms. The firm has built a national legal practice as one of the nation's leading defense firms with an exclusive focus on labor law, employment law, litigation, business immigration, employee benefits and executive compensation.

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