Michael M. Beal McNair Law Firm, P.A. is pleased to announce that 36 of its attorneys, 33 in South Carolina and three in North Carolina, have been selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in A merica®2009 (copyright 2008 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, SC). Of the South Carolina lawyers 17 are in McNair's Columbia office.

With their area(s) of practice, the Columbia attorneys selected are Michael M. Beal, bankruptcy and creditor- debtor rights law; Robert T. Bockman, energy law; M. John Bowen Jr., energy law; Carl B. Carruth, labor and employment law; O. Wayne Corley, public finance law; M. Elizabeth Crum, health care law; John W. Currie, banking law, corporate law, securities law; Robert W. Dibble Jr., commercial litigation; Erik P. Doerring, tax law; James P. Fields Jr., government relations law; M. Craig Garner Jr., banking law, health care law; Celeste T. Jones, commercial litigation, health care law, white- collar criminal defense; Richard J. Morgan, labor and employment Law; William M. Musser, corporate law, mergers and acquisitions law; Jonathan H. Nason, tax law; Sara S. "Sally" Rogers, environmental law; and Joseph D. Walker, employee benefits law, tax Law.

Robert T. Bockman McNair Law Firm had the most Columbia lawyers listed in Best Lawyers and is ranked first by that publication in the following areas of practice: banking, energy, and health care law.

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