LeClair Ryan P.C. (Richmond, Virginia)

LeClair Ryan is one of the largest and fastest growing firms in Virginia.  Established in 1988, the firm has attracted many of the best lawyers in Virginia and has grown to more than 135 lawyers, with offices in Richmond, Alexandria, Glen Allen, Charlottesville, Roanoke, Blacksburg, Norfolk, and Washington, D.C.  LeClair Ryan has been recognized as one of the 50 fastest growing companies in Virginia by Virginia Business Magazine, and its recent merger with the Roanoke based law firm of Flippen, Densmore, Morse & Jessee has enhanced the firm’s capacity to provide statewide presentation to regional and national clients in areas of commercial litigation, bankruptcy, employment, construction, professional liability, product liability, healthcare, environmental litigation, including mass torts, public financing, and corporate transactions.  The growth of the firm and its clients has made LeClair Ryan one of Virginia’s most recognized legal brands in just over a decade and has enhanced the firm’s ability to provide superior legal services to its clients.  LeClair Ryan’s highly quality of practice was recognized in 1999 edition of The Top 100 Places to Work with Law Degree in America. 

A principle engine of the firm’s explosive growth over the past few years is the continued statewide, regional, and national success of its litigation department.  LeClair Ryan fields the largest securities litigation practice group in Virginia; the largest bankruptcy and creditors rights practice group in the state; and among the largest labor and employment, professional liability, and product liability teams in Virginia.  These and other litigation practice groups have developed a statewide and national reputation for taking tough cases to verdict and producing excellent results for local, regional, and Fortune 100 clients.  In the May 17, 2004 edition of the Virginia Lawyers Weekly, an article surveying the results of the most significant defense verdicts in Virginia for 2003 reported that seven of the ten “top” defense verdicts in 2003 were achieved by LeClair Ryan litigators.  LeClair Ryan has become the law firm of choice for clients facing high exposure litigation.  As one of the original member firms of the USLAW Network, LeClair Ryan is proud of its association with USLAW and of the shared vision held by USLAW Network firms for the enhancement of client service and the successful defense of our clients’ interest in litigation matters across the country.

Wicker, Smith, O'Hara, McCoy, Graham & Ford (Miami, Florida)

Wicker, Smith is known for its litigation experience in both state and federal courts. Since its formation in 1952, the firm has grown to over 100 attorneys with seven offices located in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, Orlando, Tampa, and Naples.

Wicker, Smith’s attorneys have expertise in a wide range of practice areas. Wicker, Smith is not only known as one of Florida’s preeminent medical malpractice law firms, it is also nationally recognized for its excellence in the defense of aviation claims. The firm’s reputation for handling complex litigation has also led to its selection as national or regional counsel by a number of corporations. Wicker Smith routinely represents clients in lawsuits that raise allegations of defective products, medical negligence, catastrophic aviation accidents, professional negligence, nursing home abuse, automobile accidents, slips and falls, improper construction practices, sexual abuse or harassment, negligent security, and a variety of other claims. Wicker, Smith’s reputation for handling complex litigation has also led to its selection as national or regional counsel by a number of corporations.

Wicker, Smith not only successfully defends its clients in trial, it preserves these victories and reverses adverse rulings through its appellate department. In its fifty-plus years of existence, Wicker, Smith has appeared as appellate counsel in more than eight hundred reported decisions including several landmark opinions issued by the Florida Supreme Court.

Hall Booth Smith & Slover, P.C. (Atlanta, Georgia)

Top tier service is at the heart of the mission of Hall, Booth, Smith & Slover (“HBSS”).  With offices throughout Georgia, as well as in Nashville, Tennessee, HBSS strongly believes that its active participation in the USLAW Network has greatly enhanced its ability to serve its strong base of national clients.  The HBSS Mission Statement is as follows:

To ethically and professionally serve our clients by providing the highest quality legal representation in a personally satisfying firm environment.

Offering full litigation services, among other things, HBSS is now in its seventh (7th) year of living its everyday life by this Mission Statement.  The Firm takes great comfort in the notion that participation in the USLAW Network has indeed greatly enhanced its ability to serve its clients.  Its history with USLAW Network firms has proven time and again that when one of its clients requires legal expertise in another state, a USLAW sister firm in that state will provide expert, proficient, efficient, and zealous legal services to that client. 

Believing that all service begins right at home, HBSS takes great pride in its ability to provide its employees with a “personally satisfying firm environment” from which to provide the service it finds so rewarding.  Firm employees are encouraged and rewarded by being proactive in creating this environment.  From computer and power point training, to strategic placement of water coolers, HBSS employees with ideas are continuously empowered to take matters into their own hands to create and shape the landscape of their everyday lives.  Happy and fulfilled employees create the environment from which HBSS Serves to Achieve Excellence.

HBSS is continuously auditing itself from within through its numerous service oriented committees.  The Firm is also quite committed to listening to its clients on the issues of client needs, expectations, and historical performance issues.  The Firm recently engaged the services of Altman Weil to assist it in its “listening process.”  At press time, the Firm is in the process of capitalizing on these results in an effort to continue its efforts to meet the individualized and particularized need of each individual client.