Rhode Island – August 17, 2023 – Pannone Lopes Devereaux & O’Gara LLC (PLDO) is proud to announce that 15 attorneys have been named to the 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® and six (6) Attorneys were named Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America. In addition, Gary R. Pannone, Managing Principal, Matthew “Matty” A. Lopes, Jr, Principal, and Joseph M. DiOrio, Chairman, Banking & Creditor’s Rights, have been recognized by Best Lawyers as a 2024 Lawyer of the Year in their respective practice areas.
Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers® has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Best Lawyers compiles its lists of Best Lawyers in America and Best Lawyers: Ones To Watch by practice area and geographic location by conducting peer reviews in which hundreds of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. The Best Lawyers: Ones To Watch attorneys are those lawyers recognized for their “outstanding professional excellence” who have been practicing for less than 10 years. Only a single lawyer in each practice area and designated metropolitan area is honored as the “Lawyer of the Year.” Receiving this designation reflects the high level of respect a lawyer has earned among other leading attorneys in the same communities and the same practice areas for their abilities, their professionalism and their integrity.
The list of all PLDO lawyers and their practice areas who were selected by their peers for recognition by Best Lawyers® in the 2024 edition includes:
- Katherine B. Dunn – Commercial Litigation (Best Lawyers: Ones To Watch)
- Joshua J. Butera – Corporate Law (Best Lawyers: Ones To Watch)
- Gene M. Carlino – Trusts and Estates (Best Lawyers in America)
- Kas R. DeCarvalho– Banking and Finance Law; Corporate Law (Best Lawyers in America)
- William P. Devereaux – Criminal Defense: General Practice; Defense: White-Collar (Best Lawyers in America)
- Joseph M. DiOrio – Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law (“Lawyer of the Year”) and Banking and Finance Law, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law, and Litigation – Bankruptcy (Best Lawyers in America)
- Allan W. Fung – Corporate Law and Economic Development Law (Best Lawyers in America)
- Joel K. Goloskie – Health Care Law (Best Lawyers in America)
- John R. Gowell, Jr. – Corporate Law (Best Lawyers in America)
- Bernard A. Jackvony – Litigation – Trusts and Estates (Best Lawyers in America)
- Brian J. Lamoureux – Employment Law – Management, Litigation – Labor and Employment, and Privacy and Data Security Law (Best Lawyers in America)
- Matthew A. Lopes Jr. – Mediation (“Lawyer of the Year”) and Government Relations Practice and Mediation (Best Lawyers in America)
- Patrick J. McBurney – Commercial Litigation (Best Lawyers: Ones To Watch)
- LaTri-c-ea McClendon-Hunt – Alternative Dispute Resolution (Best Lawyers: Ones To Watch)
- William E. O’Gara – Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law, Employment Law – Management, Labor Law – Management, Litigation – Labor and Employment, and Workers’ Compensation Law – Employers (Best Lawyers in America)
- Gary R. Pannone – Administrative / Regulatory Law and Securities / Capital Markets Law (“Lawyer of the Year”) and Administrative / Regulatory Law, Corporate Compliance Law, Corporate Governance Law, Corporate Law, Health Care Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, and Securities / Capital Markets Law (Best Lawyers in America)
- Amanda M. Perry – Banking and Finance Law, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law, and Litigation – Bankruptcy (Best Lawyers: Ones To Watch)
- Benjamin L. Rackliffe – Cannabis Law (Best Lawyers in America)
- Matthew C. Reeber –Litigation – Labor and Employment (Best Lawyers in America)
- Michael F. Ryan, Jr. – Alternative Dispute Resolution (Best Lawyers: Ones To Watch)
Since its first publication in 1983, Best Lawyers® has become regarded as the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice. Based on exhaustive peer-review evaluation, its methodology is designed to capture, as accurately as possible, the consensus opinion of leading lawyers about the professional capabilities of their colleagues in the same geographical and legal practice areas.
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