Chambers USA Lists SHB as a Leading Firm in Products Liability

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. is listed as a leading firm nationally in products liability in the 2004 edition of Chambers USA America’s Leading Lawyers for Business.

Chambers and Partners (www.chambersandpartners.com), the London-based publisher of the renowned guides to the legal profession worldwide — Chambers Global and Chambers UK — employed a team of 43 researchers to compile this second edition of Chambers USA America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. Researchers investigated the top firms and lawyers through more than 7,500 interviews with in-house counsel and private practitioners, in every U.S. state in all the main areas of commercial law.

In addition to the firm’s overall honor, the following SHB practice areas listed by each state were chosen by Chambers USA:

  • Florida — Environmental
  • Florida — Litigation: General Commercial
  • Kansas — Corporate/M&A
  • Kansas — Litigation: General Commercial
  • Louisiana — Employment: Defendant
  • Missouri — Corporate/M&A
  • Missouri — Employment: Defendant
  • Missouri — Litigation: General Commercial

The following SHB attorneys were selected as “Leading Individuals” in their fields of specialty in the 2004 edition of Chambers USA:

  Robert T. Adams, Partner in the Tort Section, Kansas City
  John M. Barkett, Partner in the Environmental Law Section, Miami
  David R. Erickson, Chairman of the Environmental Law Section, Kansas City
   

Craig L. Evans, Chairman of the Business Law Section and the Corporate Finance and Banking Practice Group, Kansas City

  Kirk J. Goza, Chairman of the Tort Section, Kansas City
Harvey L. Kaplan, Chairman of the Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Litigation Division, Kansas City

 

William C. Martucci, Practice Group Leader of the National Employment Litigation & Policy Group, Kansas City

 

Edward A. Moss, Partner in the Tort Section, Miami

Joseph M. Rebein, Chairman of the General Litigation Division, Kansas City

William R. Sampson, Partner in the Business Litigation Section, Kansas City

Howard Shapiro, Practice Group Leader of the ERISA Group, New Orleans
Gene E. Voigts, Vice Chair of the Firm and Partner in the Products Liability Litigation Division, Kansas City