One hundred and fifty-three Alston & Bird attorneys have been selected by their peers for inclusion in the 2016 edition of The Best Lawyers in America©. The lawyers span the firm’s eight U.S. offices and represent more than 60 practice areas.
In addition, Best Lawyers honored seven Alston & Bird attorneys as “Lawyers of the Year”:
| John Hickman | Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law (Atlanta) | |
| Joe Liebeschuetz | Patent Law (Silicon Valley) | |
| Teri Lynn McMahon | Securities/Capital Markets Law (Atlanta) | |
| William Scott Ortwein | Securities Regulation (Atlanta) | |
| Mark Rusche | Real Estate Law (Atlanta) | |
| John Spangler | Construction Law (Atlanta) | |
| David Teske | Information Technology Law (Atlanta) |
Fifteen Alston & Bird attorneys earned first-year rankings:
| Chris Baugher | Mergers & Acquisition Law (Atlanta) | |
| Willa Cohen Bruckner | Private Funds/Hedge Funds Law (New York) | |
| Duncan Douglass | Mergers & Acquisition Law (Atlanta) | |
| Scott Elder | Mass Tort Litigation/Class Action – Defendants (Atlanta) | |
| Brian Ellsworth | Patent Law (Charlotte) | |
| Christopher Gegg | Patent Law (Charlotte) | |
| Darren Hauck | IT Outsourcing Law (Dallas) | |
| Peter Kazon | Health Care Law (Washington, D.C.) | |
| Christopher Marquardt | Litigation – Labor & Employment (Atlanta) | |
| Michael Newton | Litigation – Patent (Dallas) | |
| Jason Rosenberg | Litigation – Intellectual Property (Atlanta) | |
| Dominique Shelton | Privacy and Data Security Law (Los Angeles) | |
| George Taulbee | Patent Law (Charlotte) | |
| Julie Tibbets | FDA Law (Washington, D.C.) | |
| Jonathan Wells | Environmental Law (Atlanta) |
First published in 1983, Best Lawyers is based on a peer-review survey in which more than 50,000 leading attorneys cast more than 5.5 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas. Best Lawyers lists are re-published in top-tier business and legal publications such as The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The American Lawyer.