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Eight Attorneys Selected by Peers in 2012 “Legal Elite”

January 19, 2012

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Carruthers & Roth, P.A. is pleased to announce that eight of the firm’s attorneys were recently selected by their peers for inclusion in Business North Carolina magazine’s “Legal Elite” for 2012. Additionally, Director Kenneth M. Greene has been honored as a “Top Vote-Getter” in the Bankruptcy Law category. As a top vote-getter, Greene will join the Business North Carolina’s Legal Elite Hall of Fame.

To compile the eleventh edition of Business North Carolina’s “Legal Elite,” the magazine distributed nomination ballots to more than 20,000 active members of the North Carolina State Bar. The honorees – which make up less than three-percent of the state’s lawyers – were picked by their peers in 14 mostly business-related categories. The attorney in each category who receives the most votes in his or her respective practice area is deemed a “Top Vote-Getter” and becomes a member of the “Legal Elite” Hall of Fame.

All attorneys receiving this noteworthy recognition and their categories are as listed:

CARRUTHERS & ROTH, P.A. 2012 “Legal Elite”

Michael J. Allen: Intellectual Property

John M. Flynn: Environmental

Kenneth M. Greene:  Bankruptcy (“Top Vote-Getter” for 2012); Business

J. Patrick Haywood: Construction; Young Guns

Kenneth R. Keller: Employment

Norman F. Klick, Jr.: Litigation

Craig A. Taylor: Young Guns

Keith A. Wood: Tax/Estate Planning