ATLANTA (July 31, 2009) — Smith, Gambrell & Russell is pleased to announce that twelve of its attorneys have been named to the 2010 edition of Best Lawyers®.

First published in 1983, Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive annual peer-review survey. For the new U.S. edition, more than 24,126 leading attorneys cast more than 2.8 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in the same and related specialties.

Because of the rigorous and transparent methodology used by Best Lawyers, 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 has called Best Lawyers “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.”

Firm members included in Best Lawyers are:

Atlanta Office:

Thomas H. Asselin, Construction Law
Stephen M. Forte, Commercial Litigation
J. Rodgers Lunsford III, Intellectual Property Law
James H. Morgan, Jr., Trusts and Estates
Stephen E. O’Day, Environmental Law
Mark G. Pottorff, Timber Law
Thomas W. Rhodes, Antitrust Law
Robert C. Schwartz, Banking Law
Douglas W. Stein, Trusts and Estates
Kathryn M. Zickert, Land Use & Zoning Law

Jacksonville Office:

Adam J. Buss, Corporate Law
Douglas G. Stanford, Real Estate Law