(August 15, 2018) – More than 200 attorneys from Littler, the world’s largest employment and labor law practice representing management, have been named to the 2019 Best Lawyers in America^© list, the guide’s 25th edition.

Additionally, Best Lawyers designated the following 11 Littler shareholders as “Lawyer of the Year” for 2019, commending their exemplary work within their respective practices and metropolitan regions:

• John T. Bauer (Long Island)
• Daniel B. Boatright (Kansas City)
• Kevin E. Griffith (Columbus)
• Linda O. Headley (Houston)
• G. Mark Jodon (Houston)
• Allan G. King (Austin)
• Kerry E. Notestine (Houston)
• George E. O’Brien Jr. (New Haven)
• Mark Ogden (Phoenix)
• Robert W. Pritchard (Pittsburgh)
• Michael N. Salveson (Washington, D.C.)

The Best Lawyers guide is determined by peer-review evaluations of thousands of lawyers. Published in 75 countries, the esteemed guide has grown considerably in the legal community and internationally.

About Best Lawyers^®

Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers^® has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Best Lawyers lists are compiled based on an exhaustive peer-review evaluation, with 83,000 industry-leading attorneys around the world eligible to vote. For the 2019 edition of The Best Lawyers in America^©, 7.4 million votes were analyzed, which resulted in more than 58,000 leading lawyers being included in the new edition. Lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed; therefore, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.”

About Littler

Littler is the largest global employment and labor law practice, with more than 1,500 attorneys in 80 offices worldwide. Littler represents management in all aspects of employment and labor law and serves as a single-source solution provider to the global employer community. Consistently recognized in the industry as a leading and innovative law practice, Littler has been litigating, mediating and negotiating some of the most influential employment law cases and labor contracts on record for over 75 years. Littler Global is the collective trade name for an international legal practice, the practicing member entities of which are separate and distinct professional firms.