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COLUMBIA, S.C.  -- Integrated Media Publishing, the publisher of Charleston Business, Columbia Business Monthly, and Greenville Business Magazine, has announced the winners of its annual Legal Elite awards in its August edition.

Thirty-two firm attorneys were chosen in 21 practice areas. They are:

In Charleston:

1. Merritt G. Abney, Business Litigation
2. Robert H. Brunson, Business Litigation
3. Bart Daniel, Antitrust
4. John B. Hagerty, Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights, Bankruptcy and Debtors’ Rights
5. John C. McElwaine, Intellectual Property and Innovation
6. Newman Jackson Smith, Government Relations
7. Jennifer Williams Davis, Tax and Estate Planning

In Columbia:

1. Weston Adams, Environmental
2. George B. Cauthen, Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights, Bankruptcy and Debtors’ Rights
3. Dwight F. Drake, Government Finance, Government Relations
4. Edward G. Kluiters, Economic Development
5. Frank B.B. Knowlton, Business Litigation
6. Cory E. Manning, Corporate Investigations

In Greenville:

1. Benjamin A. Barnhill, Banking and Finance
2. Henry M. Burwell, International
3. Miles Coleman, Appellate
4. Lane W. Davis, Business Litigation, Government Finance, Government Relations
5. David C. Dill, Energy and Utilities
6. Eric Graben, International, Mergers and Acquisitions, Securities
7. Neil E. Grayson, Banking and Finance, Securities
8. John Jennings, Mergers and Acquisitions
9. Lee Kiser, Banking and Finance, Business Organizations, Mergers and Acquisitions, Securities
10. Brittany M. McIntosh, Banking and Finance
11. Sam Outten, Business Litigation
12. Richard W. Riley, Education
13. Jay Rogers, International
14. Bo Russell, Mergers and Acquisitions, Securities
15. Brad Rustin, Banking and Finance
16. Giles Schanen, Employment -- Defendant
17. Rivers S. Stilwell, Business Litigation, Energy and Utilities, Government Relations, Product Liability -- Defendant
18. Chuck Verdin, Tax and Estate Planning
19. David H. Wilkins, Government Finance, Government Relations

These 2022 Legal Elite lists honor attorneys based on peer votes from other attorneys in the Lowcountry, Midlands, and Upstate areas. Attorneys must have nominations outside of their own firms to be included and cannot vote for themselves.

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