Soirée Presents Little Rock’s Best Lawyers 2023

From corporate law to criminal defense, congratulations to the 113 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

David Fuqua
Fuqua Campbell

Kevin O’Dwyer
Hamlin Dispute Resolution

Appellate

Andy Ballard
The Ballard Firm

Tasha C. Taylor
Taylor & Taylor Law Firm

Bankruptcy

Vanessa Cash Adams
ARlaw Partners

Charlie Coleman
Wright Lindsey Jennings

Lyndsey D. Dilks
Dilks Law Firm

Branch Fields
Lax, Vaughan, Fortson, Rowe & Threet

Austin Reed
Rose Law Firm

Danyelle Walker
Law Office of Danyelle Walker

Business Law

Bart Calhoun
McDaniel Wolff

Ryan J. Caststeel
Hopkins Caststeel

Gregory M. Hopkins
Hopkins Caststeel

Vincent Ward
McDaniel Wolff

Business Litigation

John Adams
Fuqua Campbell

Michelle Browning
Wright Lindsey Jennings

Phil Campbell
Fuqua Campbell

Julie DeWoody Greathouse
PPGMR Law

Randy Grice
Hilburn & Harper

Ron Hope
Hope, O’Dwyer, Wilson & Arnold

Johnathan Horton
Wright Lindsey Jennings

Jaimie Moss
Wright Lindsey Jennings

Joseph Stepina
Hall Booth Smith

Chris Stevens
Fuqua Campbell

Commercial Real Estate

Melissa Bandy
Mitchell Williams

Charles “Skip” Davidson
Davidson Law Firm

Patrick Spivey
Fuqua Campbell

Robbie Wilson
Attorney’s Title Group

Corporate Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions

Nathan Coulter
Mitchell Williams

Pierce Hunter
Kutak Rock

Nikki Lovell
Mitchell Williams

Corporate Insurance

Derrick Smith
Mitchell Williams

Shane Strabala
Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone

Scott Strauss
Barber Law Firm

Corporate Law

Randy Bynum
Wright Lindsey Jennings

Rufus Wolff
McDaniel Wolff

Criminal Law

David Cannon
Cannon Law Firm

Degen Clow
Clow Law

Annie Depper
Fuqua Campbell

Bobby Digby
Digby Law Firm

Pamela A. Epperson
Epperson Panasiuk Law

Mark Hampton
Mark Hampton Law

Katy Jones
Lassiter & Cassinelli

Michael Kaiser
Lassiter & Cassinelli

Jimmy C. Morris Jr.
Morris Law Firm

David W. Parker
Dodds, Kidd, Ryan & Rowan

Scott Richarson
McDaniel Wolff

Lee Short
Short Law Firm

Environmental law

Sam Ledbetter
McMath Woods

Richard H. Mays
Richard Mays Law Firm

Erisa

Randy Bynum
Wright Lindsey Jennings

Family Law

Katherine Blackmon Carroll
Law Offices of Katherine E. Blackmon

John Butler
wh Law

Charlie Cunningham
ARlaw Partners

Sam Hilburn
Hilburn & Harper

Amanda Kennedy
Hilburn & Harper

H. Keith Morrison
The Wilson Law Group

Sydney Rasch
Rasch, Turner & Martin

Lucas Rowan
Dodds, Kidd, Ryan & Rowan

Jalen Toms
Law Offices of Katherine E. Blackmon

Megan Wells
Hilburn & Harper

Megan E. Wooster
M.W. Law

Paul A. Young
Hale & Young

Immigration Law

Danna J. Young
Law Office of Danna Young

Labor & Employment

Kat Hodge
Friday, Eldredge & Clark

Denise Hoggard
Rainwater, Holt & Sexton

Jane Kim
Wright Lindsey Jennings

Joe Kraska
Hall Booth Smith

Samuel McLelland
PPGMR Law

Jim Robertson
Barber Law Firm 

Abbie Rucker
Fuqua Campbell

Jenny H. Teeter
Gill Ragon Owen

Shelby Shroff
Wright Lindsey Jennings

Emily K. Towe
Gill Ragon Owen

Litigation

Mark Breeding
Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone

Brandon Cole
Anderson Murphy Hopkins

Matthew B. Finch
Gill Ragon Owen

Eric Gribble
Fuqua Campbell

Haley Heath
GRSM50

Scott Hilburn
Hilburn & Harper

Erin Lewis
James & Carter

Dustin McDaniel
McDaniel Wolff

Lance Miller
Wright Lindsey Jennings

SaraCate Moery
Hilburn & Harper

Randy P. Murphy
Anderson Murphy & Hopkins
 

Bob Sexton
Rainwater, Holt & Sexton

Win Wilson
Hope, O’Dwyer, Wilson & Arnold

Personal Injury

Will Bond
McMath Woods

Tim Boone
Munson, Rowlett, Moore & Boone

Michael J. Crowe
The Crowe Firm

Randy Hall
Little Rock Trial Lawyers

Adam Jegley
Rainwater, Holt & Sexton

John Rainwater
Rainwater, Holt & Sexton

Mike Rainwater
Rainwater, Holt & Sexton

Catherine A. Ryan
Dodds, Kidd, Ryan & Rowan

Carter C. Stein
McMath Woods

Andy Taylor
Taylor & Taylor Law Firm

Taxation

Jennie Clark Stewart
Kutak Rock

Tommy Vaughan
Lax, Vaughan, Fortson, Rowe & Threet

Reba Wingfield
Wingfield & Corry

Jessica L. Witherspoon
Davidson Law Firm

Trust & Estate Planning

Chris Arnold
Hope, O’Dwyer, Wilson & Arnold

Robert Beach
Lax, Vaughan, Fortson, Rowe & Threet

Bethany Pike Bibles
The Elrod Firm

Cade Cox
Cox, Sterling, Vandiver & Botteicher

Dustin A. Duke
ARlaw Partners

Mike Hartje
Hilburn & Harper

John Peace
Wright Lindsey Jennings

Chad Taylor
wh Law

Dan Young
Rose Law Firm

White Collar Defense

Erin Cassinelli
Lassiter & Cassinelli

J. Blake Hendrix
Fuqua Campbell

Marjorie Rogers
LaCerra, Dickson, Hoover & Rogers


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