Dinsmore & Shohl is pleased to announce substantial year-over-year increases in its attorneys and practice groups that received top rankings in the 2021 Edition of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business. The 19 percent jump in attorneys ranked as well as the extra Band 1 practice group (real estate) can be attributed to Dinsmore’s nationwide growth, particularly its expansion into Indiana, where the firm merged with Wooden McLaughlin earlier this year, adding 47 attorneys and three offices across the state. Altman Weil research showed in April that the merger was the largest in the legal industry thus far in 2021.

In compiling the current directory, a team of 150 full-time researchers conducted interviews throughout the United States. Law firms and attorneys are ranked in bands from one to six, with one being the best.

Dinsmore was ranked Band 1 in Indiana for real estate and Kentucky for environmental, natural resources, and utilities law. Seven attorneys were ranked first in their respective fields, including Clifford Ashburner (real estate), Chauncey Curtz, (natural resources), Mark Carter (labor and employment) Kim Martin Lewis (bankruptcy/restructuring), Greg Adams (Immigration), Barbara Edelman (Litigation: General Commercial) and Thomas Dinwiddie (Real Estate).

Dinsmore Rankings

Indiana

Real Estate (Band 1)

Kentucky

Environment, Natural Resources & Utilities (Band 1)

Labor & Employment (Band 2)

Litigation: General Commercial (Band 2)

Real Estate (Band 3)

Ohio

Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (Band 3)

Intellectual Property (Band 3)

Labor & Employment (Band 4)

Litigation: General Commercial (Band 4)

West Virginia

Corporate/Commercial (Band 3)

Energy & Natural Resources (Band 3)

Labor & Employment Band 2)

Individual Rankings

Indiana

LITIGATION: GENERAL COMMERCIAL

Douglas King (Band 3)

REAL ESTATE

E. Joseph Kremp (Band 3)

John Hamilton (Band 3)

Thomas Dinwiddie (Band 1)

Kentucky

ENVIRONMENT, NATURAL RESOURCES & UTILITIES: NATURAL RESOURCES

Chauncey Curtz (Band 1)

LABOR & EMPLOYMENT

Donna Perry (Band 2)

Kathryn Quesenberry (Band 2)

LITIGATION: GENERAL COMMERCIAL

Barbara Edelman (Band 1)

REAL ESTATE: ZONING/LAND USE

Clifford Ashburner (Band 1)

Ohio

BANKRUPTCY/RESTRUCTURING

Kim Martin Lewis (Band 1)

CONSTRUCTION

Donald Leach (Band 4)

EMPLOYEE BENEFITS & EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION

Ben Wells (Band 2)

IMMIGRATION

Gregory Adams (Band 1)

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

James Dimitrijevs (Band 4)

Joshua Lorentz (Band 4)

Karen Kreider Gaunt Band 3)

Lynda Roesch (Band 4)

LABOR & EMPLOYMENT

Jan Hensel (Band 4)

Michael Hawkins (Band 4)

LITIGATION: GENERAL COMMERCIAL

Mark Vander Laan (Senior Statespeople)

NATURAL RESOURCES & ENVIRONMENT

Timothy Hoffman (Band 4)

West Virginia

CORPORATE/COMMERCIAL

Christopher Plybon (Band 3)

ENERGY & NATURAL RESOURCES

Richard Bolen (Band 2)

Thomas Rubenstein (Band 2)

LABOR & EMPLOYMENT

Anna Dailey (Band 2)

Ashley Pack (Band 3)

Brian Moore (Band 3)

Forrest Roles (Senior Statespeople)

Kevin Nelson (Band 2)

Mark Carter (Band 1)

REAL ESTATE

Christopher Plybon (Band 3)

About Chambers USA

Chambers & Partners is a publishing group based out of London, England, that specializes in legal publishing.  Since 1990, Chambers USA has been researching the US legal profession.  Chambers & Partners employs a team of 150 highly qualified researchers who conduct thousands of interviews with lawyers and their clients worldwide.  For more information, please visit www.chambersandpartners.com