Thirteen individual LRW attorneys were named “Best Lawyer” by their peers for 2025, including Dennis Ragsdale (Banking and Finance Law; Commercial Finance Law; Project Finance Law; Real Estate Law), John B. Waters III (Real Estate Law); David W. Long (Banking and Finance Law; Real Estate Law; Litigation – Real Estate); Oliver Adams (Banking and Finance Law; Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law); Lee Popkin (Trusts and Estates; Tax Law; Closely Held Companies and Family Businesses Law), Taylor Forrester (Real Estate), Garrett Swartwood (Litigation – Construction; Real Estate Law); Kyle Baisley (Commercial Finance Law; Real Estate Law); J. Michael Ivens (Real Estate Law); W. Michael Baisley (Business Organizations [including LLCs and Partnerships]); William Edwards (Trusts and Estates); Paul Harrison (Commercial Litigation; Litigation – Construction; Litigation – Real Estate), Christopher A. Hall (Tax Law).
In addition, Alexander Waters (Real Estate Law) and Katherine Sanford Goodner (Tax Law; Trusts and Estates; Business Organizations [including LLCs and Partnerships]) were named “Ones to Watch” for 2025 by Best Lawyers.
Per the “Best Lawyers” website, Best Lawyers is “the oldest and most respected peer-review publication company in the legal profession” and its “lists of outstanding lawyers are compiled by conducting exhaustive peer review surveys in which tens of thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. If the votes for a lawyer are positive enough for recognition by Best Lawyers, that lawyer must maintain those votes in subsequent polls to remain in each edition. Lawyers are not permitted to pay any fee to participate in or be recognized by Best Lawyers.”