Soirée Presents Little Rock’s Best Lawyers 2022

From commercial litigation to criminal defense, congratulations to the 111 locals who made this year’s list of Little Rock’s Best Lawyers. Before you dive into the profiles linked below, learn more about our process:

How do you determine which lawyers make the list?
Best Lawyers is a two-component voting system: peer-review voting and voting by readers of Little Rock Soirée and our sister publication Arkansas Business. We rely on lawyers’ expertise to determine who deserves to be on the list and on our readers to tell us how their experiences with individual lawyers rank.

This year, we emailed local lawyers from our online directory, inviting them to vote via online ballot. We also solicited votes from readers through our e-newsletter, social media pages and websites. Our research editor then tallied the votes, and we examined the list to confirm Arkansas Bar status and practice specialty for each lawyer.

How do you pick the categories?
We included categories that would be helpful to both business and personal clients.

Do lawyers pay to be on the list?
No, a lawyer cannot pay to be on this list. After the editorial staff finalizes the list, it is given to our sales department, which invites lawyers to buy profiles. Those profiles are on the following pages and are paid advertising. Whether lawyers choose to advertise in the magazine has no bearing on this list.


Alternative Dispute Resolution

Charsie Gordon
Taylor King Law

Kevin O’Dwyer
Hamlin Dispute Resolution

Sheila Campbell
Sheila Campbell Law

David Fuqua
Fuqua Campbell

Appellate

Tim Cullen
Cullen & Co.

Benjamin McCorkle
Beacon Legal Group

Catherine A. Ryan
Dodds, Kidd, Ryan & Rowan

Tasha C. Taylor
Taylor & Taylor Law Firm

Andy Taylor
Taylor & Taylor Law Firm

Lee Short
Short Law Firm

Bankruptcy

Lyndsey D. Dilks
Dilks Law Firm

Chris McNulty
Mitchell Williams

Danyelle Walker
Law Office of Danyelle Walker

Business Law

Bart Calhoun
McDaniel Wolff

Ryan J. Caststeel
Hopkins Caststeel

Gregory M. Hopkins
Hopkins Caststeel

Vince Ward
McDaniel Wolff

Business Litigation

John Adams
Fuqua Campbell

Michelle Browning
Wright Lindsey Jennings

Phil Campbell
Fuqua Campbell

Julie DeWoody Greathouse
PPGMR Law

Stephen Gershner
Davidson Law Firm

Stephen A. Hester
Spicer Rudstrom

Johnathan Horton
Wright Lindsey Jennings

David Jones
Wright Lindsey Jennings

Jaimie Moss
Wright Lindsey Jennings

Chris Stevens
Fuqua Campbell

Kent Walker
Walker Law Firm

Commercial Litigation

Patrick James
James, House, Swann & Downing

Staci Carson
Watts, Donovan, Tilley & Carson

Commercial Real Estate

Robyn Allmendinger
Rose Law Firm

Melissa Bandy
Mitchell Williams

Charles “Skip” Davidson
Davidson Law Firm

Tim Grooms
Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull

Patrick Spivey
Fuqua Campbell

Corporate Finance Mergers & Acquisitions

Nathan Coulter
Mitchell Williams

Paul Parnell
Rose Law Firm

Paula Storeygard
Hilburn Harper

Corporate Law

Nicole Lovell
Mitchell Williams

Danielle Owens
Gill Ragon Owen

Charley Swann
James, House, Swann & Downing

Rufus Wolff
McDaniel Wolff

Criminal Defense

Patrick Benca
The Law Office of Patrick J. Benca

Erin Cassinelli
Lassiter & CassInelli

Annie Depper
Fuqua Campbell

Bobby Digby
Digby Law Firm

Pamela Epperson
Epperson Panasiuk Law

Michael Kaiser
Lassiter & CassInelli

Erin Lewis
Erin W. Lewis Law

Scott Richardson
McDaniel Wolff

Kelly Ward
Kamps Ward & Griffis

Elder

Mack Ivy
Pinnacle Legacy Law

Ledly Jennings
Pinnacle Legacy Law

Environmental

Richard H. Mays
Richard Mays Law FIRM

G. Alan Perkins
PPGMR Law

Jordan Wimpy
Mitchell Williams

Family Law

Kayla Applegate
James, House, Swann & Downing

Katherine Blackmon Carroll
Law Offices of Katherine E. Blackmon

Beth Echols
Gill Ragon Owen

Haley Heath
Fuqua Campbell

Sam Hilburn
Hilburn Harper

Judson Kidd
Dodds, Kidd, Ryan & Rowan

Sara K. Lingo
Davidson Law Firm

Bonnie Robertson
Robertson Oswalt & Nony

Lucas Rowan
Dodds, Kidd, Ryan & Rowan

Jalen Toms
Law Offices of Katherine E. Blackmon

Megan Wells
Hilburn Harper

Megan Wooster
M.W. Law

Paul Young
Hale & Young

Labor & Employment

David Donovan
Watts, Donovan, Tilley & Carson

Audra Hamilton
Mitchell Williams

Denise Hoggard
Rainwater, Holt & Sexton

Shelby Howlett
Wright Lindsey Jennings

Jane Kim
Wright Lindsey Jennings

Samuel S. McLelland
PPGMR Law, PLLC

Dylan Potts
Gill Ragon Owen

Abbie Rucker
Fuqua Campbell

Jenny Teeter
Gill Ragon Owen

Danna Young
Law Office of Danna Young

Litigation

Betsy Baker
Rose Law Firm

Robert Cossio
Law Office of Robert M. Cossio

Matt Finch
Gill Ragon Owen

Eric Gribble
Fuqua Campbell

Adrienne Griffis
Kamps Ward & Griffis

Judy Henry
Wright Lindsey Jennings

Scott Hilburn
Hilburn Harper

David Kamps
Kamps Ward & Griffis

Amy C. Markham
Spicer Rudstrom

Dustin McDaniel
McDaniel Wolff

Randy P. Murphy
Anderson Murphy & Hopkins

Bob Sexton
Rainwater, Holt & Sexton

Personal Injury

Will Bond
McMath Woods

Hal Cook
Cook & Cossio

Whitney Cossio
Cook & Cossio

Michael J. Crowe
The Crowe Firm & Alexander Shunnarah Trial Attorneys

Randy Hall
Little Rock Trial Lawyers

Jay Neal
Taylor King Law

John Rainwater
Rainwater, Holt & Sexton

Mike Rainwater
Rainwater, Holt & Sexton

James D. Rankin III
PPGMR Law

Carter C. Stein
McMath Woods

Real Estate

Ernest H. Harper, Jr.
Hilburn Harper

Taxation

Taylor King
Taylor King Law

Rusty Mitchell
Taylor King Law

Trust & Estate Planning

R. Scott Morgan
PPGMR Law

John Peace
Wright Lindsey Jennings

Jennifer Pierce 
Mitchell Williams

Bethany Pike
The Elrod Firm

Chad Taylor
WH Law

John Tisdale
Wright Lindsey Jennings

Dan Young
Rose Law Firm

White Collar Defense

Blake Hendrix
Fuqua Campbell

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