From immigration to intellectual property, congratulations to the 170 locals who made this year’s list of Little Rock’s Best Lawyers.
For information on how we put together this list, read our methodology and disclaimers at the bottom of this page.
Agriculture
Seth Hampton
Rose Law Firm
Cal McCastlain
Wright Lindsey Jennings
Alternative Dispute Resolution
David Fuqua
Fuqua Campbell
Bruce Munson
Barber Munson
J. Don Overton
The Overton Firm
Joanna Whittaker
Punchwork Employment Lawyers
Appellate
John Adams
Fuqua Campbell
John Wesley Hall
John Wesley Hall, Attorney
David Kamps
Kamps & Griffis
Erin Lewis
Erin W. Lewis Law
Michael Thompson
Wright Lindsey Jennings
Kimberly Young
Friday, Eldredge & Clark
Banking & Finance
C. David McDaniel
Kutak Rock
Walter McSpadden
Wright Lindsey Jennings
Jennifer Wilson-Harvey
The Wilson Law Group
Bankruptcy & Workout
Vanessa Cash Adams
Law Office of Vanessa Cash Adams
William Allison
Allison Law Firm
Betsy Baker
Rose Law Firm
Aaron Caldwell
Mickel Law Firm
Charles Coleman
Wright Lindsey Jennings
Lyndsey D. Dilks
Dilks Law Firm
Frank H. Falkner
Dilks Law Firm
Branch Fields
Lax, Vaughan, Fortson, Rowe & Threet
Randy Grice
Hilburn & Harper
Jessica Hall
WH Law
Sarah Holden
Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull
Chris McNulty
Rose Law Firm
Lance Miller
Wright Lindsey Jennings
Mary Musselman
WH Law
Business Litigation
Ryan J. Applegate
The Applegate Firm
Ryan J. Caststeel
Hopkins Caststeel
Matthew Finch
Gill Ragon Owen
Eric Gribble
Fuqua Campbell
Judy Henry
Wright Lindsey Jennings
Scott Hilburn
Hilburn & Harper
Gregory M. Hopkins
Hopkins Caststeel
Patrick James
James, House, Swann & Downing
Lauren McCauley
McDaniel Wolff
David Mitchell
Rose Law Firm
Randy Murphy
Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins
Scott Richardson
McDaniel Wolff
Nicholas Rogers
Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull
Bob Sexton
Rainwater, Holt & Sexton
Shane Strabala
Barber Munson
Sam Strange
Hyden, Miron & Foster
Charley Swann
James, House, Swann & Downing
Construction Litigation
Sam Baber
Fuqua Campbell
Mike Emerson
Barber Munson
Randy Grice
Hilburn & Harper
Patrick Wilson
Wright Lindsey Jennings
Corporate Law: Mergers & Acquisitions
David Bingham
Rose Law Firm
Chad Cumming
Gill Ragon Owen
Michael Goswami
Rose Law Firm
Nicole Lovell
Mitchell Williams
Chase Waters
Kutak Rock
Corporate Securities & Capital Markets
Eli Bauer
Wright Lindsey Jennings
Paul Parnell
Rose Law Firm
Criminal Defense: DUI/DWI
Toney Brasuell
Brasuell Law Firm
David Cannon
The Cannon Law Firm
John Collins
CCR Law Firm
David Parker
Dodds, Kidd & Ryan
Brad Williams
Bennett & Williams
Criminal Defense: General
Eugene Clifford
Zenith Law Group
Annie Depper
Fuqua Campbell
Bobby Forrest Jr.
Chosen Law Firm
George “Birc” Morledge
Morledge Law Firm
Jimmy Morris Jr.
Morris Law Firm
Criminal Defense: White Collar
Erin Cassinelli
Lassiter & Cassinelli
Blake Hendrix
Fuqua Campbell
Michael Kaiser
Lassiter & Cassinelli
Marjorie Rogers
LaCerra, Dickson, Hoover & Rogers
Employment Law
Phil Campbell
Fuqua Campbell
Energy & Natural Resources
Michele Allgood
Mitchell Williams
Mark Allison
Wright Lindsey Jennings
Alan Perkins
PPGMR Law
Forrest Stobaugh
PPGMR Law
Environmental Law
Tim Giattina
McMath Woods
Julie Greathouse
PPGMR Law
Richard Mays
Richard Mays Law Firm
Brian Rosenthal
Rose Law Firm
Walter Wright
Mitchell Williams
Family Law
Kayla M. Applegate
The Applegate Firm
John Butler
AR Family Law
Katherine Blackmon Carroll
Law Offices of Katherine Blackmon
Charlie Cunningham
ARlaw Partners
Natalie Dickson
LaCerra, Dickson, Hoover & Rogers
Beth Echols
Gill Ragon Owen
Sara Lingo
Law Offices of Katherine Blackmon
SaraCate Moery
PPGMR Law
Gary Rogers
Hilburn & Harper
Sidney Stewart
Taylor & Taylor
Megan Wells
Hilburn & Harper
Jacob Wickliffe
Dodds, Kidd & Ryan
Richard Worsham
Worsham Law Firm
Health Care
Tim Ezell
Friday, Eldredge & Clark
Scott Provencher
Wright Lindsey Jennings
Jenny Teeter
Gill Ragon Owen
Immigration Law
Misty Borkowski
Hall Booth Smith
Robert Tellez
Tellez Law Firm
Insurance
Mark Breeding
Barber Munson
Kelly McNulty
Gill Ragon Owen
Derrick Smith
Mitchell Williams
Richard Smith
Smith Williams
Intellectual Property: Patent Prosecution
Charles Dougherty
Wright Lindsey Jennings
Intellectual Property: Trademark & Copyright
Whitney Bower
Bower Legal
Meredith Lowry
Wright Lindsey Jennings
Labor & Employment
Amber Bagley
Rose Law Firm
Chris Burks
Punchwork Employment Lawyers
Missy Duke
Rose Law Firm
Sarah Keith-Bolden
Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull
Jane Kim
Wright Lindsey Jennings
Samuel McLelland
PPGMR Law
Abtin Mehdizadegan
Hall Booth Smith
Randy Murphy
Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins
Amanda Orcutt
Shults Law Firm
Danielle Whitehouse Owens
Gill Ragon Owen
Jim Robertson
Barber Munson
Abbie Rucker
Fuqua Campbell
Brian Vandiver
Cox, Sterling, Vandiver & Botteicher
Nonprofit
Peter Shults
Shults Law Firm
Gordon Wilbourn
Kutak Rock
Personal Injury, Product & Medical Liability
Neil Chamberlin
McMath Woods
Randy Hall
Little Rock Trial Lawyers
Julie Hancock
Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins
Denise Hoggard
Rainwater, Holt & Sexton
Mariam Hopkins
Anderson, Murphy & Hopkins
Anthony Johnson
Johnson Firm
Judson Kidd
Dodds, Kidd & Ryan
Mike Rainwater
Rainwater, Holt & Sexton
Catherine Ryan
Dodds, Kidd & Ryan
Carter Stein
McMath Woods
Professional & Medical Malpractice
Will Bond
McMath Woods
Tyler Bone
Friday, Eldredge & Clark
Cotten Cunningham
Barber Munson
David Jung
Wright Lindsey Jennings
Real Estate
Melissa Bandy
Mitchell Williams
Jason Bolden
Jason Bolden, Attorney
William Changose
Natural State Law
Keith Pike
Pike Law Firm
Patrick Spivey
Fuqua Campbell
Nicole Soulsby
Rose Law Firm
Shellie Wallace
The Wilson Law Group
Robert Wilson III
The Wilson Law Group
Tax: ERISA & Employee Benefits
Bryant Cranford
Rose Law Firm
Jamie Jones Walsworth
Friday, Eldredge & Clark
Tax: General
Jennie Stewart
Kutak Rock
Jessica Witherspoon
JW Law
Tax: Trusts & Estates
Katie Watson Bingham
Friday, Eldredge & Clark
Matthew House
James, House, Swann & Downing
Laura Johnson
Rose Law Firm
Sarah Patterson
Friday, Eldredge & Clark
John Peace
Wright Lindsey Jennings
Ashley Stepps
Rippy, Stepps & Associates
Dan Young
Rose Law Firm
BEST LAWYERS METHODOLOGY & DISCLAIMERS
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.