Twenty HeplerBroom lawyers have been named as "Leading Lawyers" and 11 as "Emerging Lawyers" in 2015.
Those designations of private practitioners by the Law Bulletin Publishing Company’s Leading Lawyers division include, respectively, less than five percent and two percent of registered Illinois lawyers.
Of the Leading Lawyers at HeplerBroom, six have continuously retained their status since 2003 when the honors began. Also, 11 of the firm’s attorneys have been named Emerging Lawyers in that program’s inaugural year.
The following HeplerBroom lawyers have been named Leading Lawyers:
Beth A. Bauer (Edwardsville): Class Action/Mass Tort Defense Law
Brenda G. Baum (Edwardsville): Products Liability Defense Law; Toxic Torts Defense Law
Troy A. Bozarth (Edwardsville): Class Action/Mass Tort Defense Law; Commercial Litigation; Personal Injury Defense Law: General; Transportation Defense Law: Including Aviation/FELA/Maritime
Gordon R. Broom (Edwardsville): Class Action/Mass Tort Defense Law; Personal Injury Defense Law: General Products Liability Defense Law; Professional Malpractice Defense Law: Including Legal/Technical/Financial; Toxic Torts Defense Law
Daniel W. Farroll (Edwardsville): Personal Injury Defense Law: General; Products Liability Defense Law; Toxic Torts Defense Law
Jeffrey S. Hebrank (Edwardsville): Class Action/Mass Tort Defense Law; Personal Injury Defense Law: General Products Liability Defense Law; Toxic Torts Defense Law
Larry E. Hepler (Edwardsville): Class Action/Mass Tort Defense Law; Personal Injury Defense Law: General Products Liability Defense Law; Toxic Torts Defense Law
Lance T. Jones (Springfield): Commercial Litigation; Employment Law: Management; Governmental, Municipal, Lobbying & Administrative Law
Stephen R. Kaufmann (Edwardsville and Springfield): Class Action/Mass Tort Defense Law; Insurance, Insurance Coverage & Reinsurance Law; Personal Injury Defense Law: General; Products Liability Defense Law; Toxic Torts Defense Law
Gregg A. Kinney (Edwardsville): Products Liability Defense Law; Transportation Defense Law: Including Aviation/FELA/Maritime; Toxic Torts Defense Law
Theodore J. MacDonald, Jr. (Edwardsville and St. Louis): Commercial Litigation; Criminal Defense Law: White Collar; Medical Malpractice Defense Law; ADR Law: Personal Injury
Steven J. Martin (Chicago): Medical Malpractice Defense Law; Products Liability Defense Law; Professional Malpractice Defense Law: Including Legal/Technical/Financial
Gary A. Meadows (Edwardsville): Professional Malpractice Defense Law: Including Legal/Technical/Financial
W. Jason Rankin (Edwardsville): Class Action/Mass Tort Defense Law; Products Liability Defense Law
Michael Reda (Edwardsville): Personal Injury Defense Law: General
Catherine Coyne Reiter (Chicago): Medical Malpractice Defense Law
Robert H. Sands (Chicago): Personal Injury Defense Law: General; Products Liability Defense Law; Transportation Defense Law: Including Aviation/FELA/Maritime Toxic Torts Defense Law
Anne B. Schmidt (Edwardsville): Products Liability Defense Law; Toxic Torts Defense Law
Anthony J. Tunney (Chicago): Commercial Litigation; Insurance, Insurance Coverage & Reinsurance Law; Personal Injury Defense Law: General; Professional Malpractice Defense Law: Including Legal/Technical/Financial
Thomas H. Wilson (Springfield): Civil Appellate Law; Commercial Litigation
The following HeplerBroom lawyers have been named Emerging Lawyers:
Andrew K. Carruthers (Edwardsville): Election, Political & Campaign Law; Governmental, Municipal, Lobbying & Administrative Law; Real Estate Law: Tax
Matthew B. Champlin (Edwardsville): Personal Injury Defense Law: General; Products Liability Defense Law
Jennifer A. Heydemann (Chicago): Medical Malpractice Defense Law
Jason D. Johnson (Edwardsville): Commercial Litigation; Construction Law; Products Liability Defense Law
Daniel C. Lytle (Edwardsville): Commercial Litigation; Personal Injury Defense Law: General
Edna L. McLain (Chicago): Personal Injury Defense Law: General Products Liability Defense Law; Toxic Torts Defense Law
Michael P. Murphy (Springfield): Insurance, Insurance Coverage & Reinsurance Law; Personal Injury Defense Law: General; Products Liability Defense Law
Gregory W. Odom, II (Edwardsville): Toxic Torts Defense Law
Benjamin W. Powell (Edwardsville): Personal Injury Defense Law: General; Products Liability Defense Law; Transportation Defense Law: Including Aviation/FELA/Maritime
Noel L. Smith, Jr. (Edwardsville): Toxic Torts Defense Law
Patrick W. Stufflebeam (Edwardsville): Products Liability Defense Law; Toxic Torts Defense Law