Sedgwick Included in Top Tier of Mass Tort Firms in the Nation

San Francisco, CA (I-Newswire) November 2, 2011 - Sedgwick was ranked by Best Lawyers in the Tier 1 national rankings in the category of Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants. Sedgwick San Francisco product liability and class action partner Kevin J. Dunne was designated “San Francisco Best Lawyers Product Liability Litigation Lawyer of the Year,” and 13 Sedgwick attorneys were named to the 2012 list:

Ralph A. Campillo, Los Angeles, Product Liability Litigation - Defendants
Bruce D. Celebrezze, San Francisco, Insurance Law
David M. Covey, New York, Mass Tort / Class Actions - Defendants
Kevin J. Dunne, San Francisco, Bet-the-Company, Commercial and Product Liability Litigation
Michael F. Healy, San Francisco, Product Liability Litigation - Defendants
Christina J. Imre, Los Angeles, Appellate Practice
Gordon James III, Fort Lauderdale, Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants
Kirk C. Jenkins, Chicago, Appellate Practice
James H. Keale, Newark, Product Liability Litigation - Defendants
Elliot D. Olson, Los Angeles, Mass Tort / Class Actions - Defendants
Gregory C. Read, San Francisco, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants and Product Liability Litigation - Defendants
Lillian G. Stenfeldt, San Francisco, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law, and Litigation - Bankruptcy
Michael A. Tanenbaum, Newark, Mass Tort / Class Actions - Defendants

Best Lawyers, one of the oldest peer-review publications in the legal profession, compiles its lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. The current, 18th edition of The Best Lawyers in America (2012) is based on more than 3.9 million detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers.

Only a single lawyer in each specialty in each community was honored as a “Lawyer of the Year.” Lawyers with this designation received particularly high ratings in Best Lawyers’ surveys by earning a high level of respect among their peers for their abilities, professionalism and integrity.

In addition to Sedgwick’s Tier 1 national ranking in mass tort and class action litigation, the firm was also included in various Tier 1 regional rankings for mass tort, product liability and personal injury defense representation.

The international trial firm of Sedgwick LLP provides trial, appellate, litigation management, counseling, risk management and transactional legal services to the world’s leading companies. With more than 370 attorneys in offices in Austin, Chicago, Dallas, Fort Lauderdale, Houston, London, Los Angeles, New York, Newark, Orange County (California), Paris, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C., and an affiliated office in Bermuda, Sedgwick's collective experience spans the globe and virtually every industry. For more information about Sedgwick, its attorneys and services, visit www.sedgwicklaw.com.

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