Awards
Dinse Receives Top Rankings in Chambers USA 2014
The 2014 edition of Chambers USA, a leading directory of American lawyers and law firms, recognized 11 Dinse attorneys in their practice areas. The new guide, released May 23, also recognizes the firm as among Vermont’s best in every category of practice.
The firm’s Labor & Employment group was described as a “Deep bench with a broad range of technical expertise, covering all employment law bases”, with Chambers’ sources describing Dinse as “extremely well qualified, responsive and high caliber across the board.”
The firm’s Litigation group received the highest possible rating and clients agreed that Dinse’s Litigation group is “outstanding; thorough, completely proactive, able to be reactive when dealing with immediate matters, open and direct.”
The firm’s Real Estate group also received the highest ranking and was described by Chambers as a “Standout practice representing developers of solar, wind, and biomass energy in permitting and real estate matters.”
And the firm’s Corporate/Commercial group was top-ranked, Chambers’ sources saying Dinse is “a top firm. They have a group of people with knowledge in different areas so they are comfortable no matter what the concern.”
Corporate/Commercial (Band 1)
Afi Ahmadi (Band 3)
David Gurtman (Up and Coming)
Brian R. Murphy (Band 1)
Jeffrey J. McMahan (Band 1)
Intellectual Property
Jeffrey J. McMahan (Band 2)
Labor & Employment (Band 1)
Amy M. McLaughlin (Band 2)
Jeffrey J. Nolan (Band 2)
Karen McAndrew (Band 1)
Sophie Zdatny (Associate to Watch)
Litigation: General Commercial (Band 1)
Ritchie Berger (Band 1)
Ritchie Berger (Spotlight Table)
Karen McAndrew (Band 1)
Real Estate (Band 1)
Austin Hart (Band 1)
Molly Langan (Band 1)
Dinse, Knapp & McAndrew, P.C., with offices in Burlington, Vermont and Plattsburgh, New York, is one of the largest law firms serving Vermont and the northern tier of New York.
New England Super Lawyers Recognizes Karen McAndrew Among the Top 100 Attorneys and Top 50 Women Attorneys in New England
Dinse, Knapp & McAndrew is pleased to announce that Karen McAndrew has been included by Super Lawyers in the Top 100 Attorneys and the Top 50 Women Attorneys in New England. Karen is senior litigation counsel at Dinse focusing on Complex Litigation, Employment and Higher Education Law.
Dinse, Knapp & McAndrew, P.C., with offices in Burlington, Vermont and Plattsburgh, New York, is one of the oldest and largest law firms serving Vermont and the Adirondack Region of upstate New York. For over 95 years, the firm has served its clients in important cases, transactions and legal developments.
New England Super Lawyers Recognizes Eleven Dinse, Knapp & McAndrew Attorneys
Dinse, Knapp & McAndrew announces that ten attorneys have been selected for inclusion on the New England Super Lawyers 2013 list in seven different classes, and one attorney has been selected for inclusion on the Rising Stars 2013 list. Attorneys are identified as “Super Lawyers” based on extensive nomination and polling among New England attorneys aimed at identifying New England’s top attorneys in each class. Attorneys are identified as being “Rising Stars” based on extensive nomination and polling among New England attorneys who are asked to nominate the best attorneys who are 40 or under, or who have been practicing for 10 years or less.
The practice areas and the attorney(s) listed in each area for the New England Super Lawyers 2013 list are as follows:
- Business Litigation: Ritchie Berger, W. Scott Fewell, Karen McAndrew
- Civil Litigation Defense: Samuel Hoar, Jr.
- Employment & Labor Law: Jeffrey Nolan
- Estate Planning & Probate: Mark Langan
- Health Care Law: Spencer Knapp, Linda Cohen
- Real Estate Law: Molly Lebowitz, Austin Hart
- David Gurtman has been selected for inclusion on the Rising Stars 2013 list in the practice area of Business/Corporate Law.
Dinse, Knapp & McAndrew, P.C., with offices in Burlington, Vermont and Plattsburgh, New York, is one of the oldest and largest law firms serving Vermont and the Adirondack Region of upstate New York. For over 95 years, the firm has served its clients in important cases, transactions and legal developments.
Best Lawyers Recognizes Two Dinse Attorneys as Burlington Best Lawyers Lawyer of the Year
Best Lawyers has named Ritchie Berger and Mark Langan of Dinse, Knapp & McAndrew as the Commercial Litigation “Lawyer of the Year” and Trust & Estates “Lawyer of the year”, respectively, for 2014 in the Burlington area. Only a single lawyer in each specialty in each community is being honored as the “Lawyer of the Year.” Best Lawyers compiles its lists of outstanding attorneys through exhaustive peer-review assessments they conduct with thousands of leading lawyers each year.
Dinse, Knapp & McAndrew, P.C., with offices in Burlington, Vermont and Plattsburgh, New York, is one of the oldest and largest law firms serving Vermont and the Adirondack Region of upstate New York. For over 95 years, the firm has served its clients in important cases, transactions and legal developments.
Best Lawyers Recognizes Fourteen Dinse Attorneys
The Best Lawyers in America® 2014 (Copyright 2012 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, S.C.) in twenty different practice areas. Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Because Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which more than 36,000 leading attorneys cast almost 4.4 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas, and because lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed, 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.”
The practice areas and the attorney(s) listed in each area are as follows:
- Commercial Litigation: Ritchie E. Berger, Samuel Hoar, Jr., Karen McAndrew
- Corporate Compliance: David Gurtman
- Corporate Governance Law: Brian Murphy
- Corporate Law: Jeffrey J. McMahan, Brian R. Murphy
- Employment Law – Management: Amy M. McLaughlin, Jeffrey J. Nolan
- Immigration Law: Leigh Polk Cole
- Insurance Law: Barbara E. Cory
- Litigation – Construction: Karen McAndrew
- Litigation – Environmental: Samuel Hoar, Jr.
- Litigation – Intellectual Property: Shapleigh Smith, Jr.
- Litigation – Labor & Employment: Amy M. McLaughlin
- Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants: Ritchie E. Berger, Samuel Hoar, Jr.
- Mergers & Acquisitions Law: Brian R. Murphy
- Non-Profit / Charities Law: Brian R. Murphy
- Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants: Ritchie E. Berger, Samuel Hoar, Jr., Karen McAndrew
- Product Liability Litigation – Defendants: Shapleigh Smith, Jr.
- Real Estate Law: Austin D. Hart, Molly K. Lebowitz
- Tax Law: Mark A. Langan
- Technology Law: Jeffrey J. McMahan
- Trusts and Estates: Mark A. Langan
Dinse, Knapp & McAndrew, P.C., with offices in Burlington, Vermont and Plattsburgh, New York, is one of the oldest and largest law firms serving Vermont and the Adirondack Region of upstate New York. For over 95 years, the firm has served its clients in important cases, transactions and legal developments.
Benchmark Litigation Recognizes Karen McAndrew as one of the Top 250 Women in Litigation
Dinse is pleased to announce that Karen McAndrew has been included among Benchmark Litigation’s Top 250 Women in Litigation. This distinction is given based primarily on targeted research completed during the US Benchmark Litigation review process and is dedicated to honoring America’s leading female trial lawyers. Important elements during this research were peer review and overall depth of their litigation careers. Top 250 Women in Litigation features female litigators from all 50 states.
Karen McAndrew has had an active litigation practice for more than 30 years, and is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. She has tried numerous cases to verdict in both state and federal courts, has handled appeals to the Vermont Supreme Court as well as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and has represented clients in arbitrations and mediations.
Ritchie Berger named as BTI Client Service All-Star 2013
Dinse, Knapp & McAndrew, P.C. is pleased to announce that Ritchie E. Berger has been selected for inclusion in BTI Consulting’s list of The 2013 BTI Client Service All-Stars, in the area of Complex Litigation. The BTI Consulting Group (BTI) is a leading provider of strategic research to the legal community.
BTI Client Service All-Stars are selected from reviews by corporate counsel at the world’s largest business organizations, including the Global 500 and Fortune 1000. General Counsel at those organizations and their direct reports are asked by BTI to identify those attorneys who drive superior client relationships. Mr. Berger is one of only 307 attorneys nationwide and the only Vermont attorney selected.
Dinse, Knapp & McAndrew, P.C., with offices in Burlington, Vermont and Plattsburgh, New York, is one of the oldest and largest law firms serving Vermont and the Adirondack Region of upstate New York. For over 90 years, the Firm has served its clients in important cases, transactions and legal developments.
New England Super Lawyers Recognizes Thirteen Dinse Attorneys
Dinse, Knapp & McAndrew announces that eleven attorneys have been selected for inclusion on the New England Super Lawyers 2012 list in ten different classes, and two attorneys have been selected for inclusion on the Rising Stars 2012 list. Attorneys are identified as “Super Lawyers” based on extensive nomination and polling among New England attorneys aimed at identifying New England’s top attorneys in each class. Attorneys are identified as being “Rising Stars” based on extensive nomination and polling among New England attorneys who are asked to nominate the best attorneys who are 40 or under, or who have been practicing for 10 years or less.
The practice areas and the attorney(s) listed in each area for the New England Super Lawyers 2012 list are as follows:
- Business Litigation: Ritchie Berger, W. Scott Fewell, Karen McAndrew
- Business/Corporate Law: Jeffrey McMahan
- Civil Litigation Defense: Samuel Hoar, Jr.
- Employment & Labor Law: Jeffrey Nolan, Robert McKearin
- Estate Planning & Probate: Mark Langan
- Health Care Law: Spencer Knapp
- Personal Injury Defense: Medical Malpractice: John Monahan
- Real Estate Law: Molly Lebowitz
Afi Ahmadi and David Gurtman have been selected for inclusion on the Rising Stars 2012 list in the practice area of Business/Corporate Law.
Dinse, Knapp & McAndrew, P.C., with offices in Burlington, Vermont and Plattsburgh, New York, is one of the oldest and largest law firms serving Vermont and the Adirondack Region of upstate New York. For over 90 years, the firm has served its clients in important cases, transactions and legal developments.
Dinse Attorneys Recognized by Best Lawyers
Dinse, Knapp & McAndrew announces that sixteen of its attorneys were recently selected by their peers for inclusion in the The Best Lawyers in America® 2013 (Copyright 2012 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, S.C.) in nineteen different practice areas. Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Because Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which more than 36,000 leading attorneys cast almost 4.4 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas, and because lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed, 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.”
The practice areas and the attorney(s) listed in each area are as follows:
- Commercial Litigation: Ritchie E. Berger, Samuel Hoar, Jr., Karen McAndrew
- Copyright Law: Brian R. Murphy
- Corporate Law: Jeffrey J. McMahan, Brian R. Murphy
- Employment Law – Management: Robert R. McKearin, Amy M. McLaughlin, Jeffrey J. Nolan
- Health Care Law: Spencer R. Knapp
- Immigration Law: Leigh Polk Cole
- Insurance Law: Barbara E. Cory
- Litigation – Environmental: Samuel Hoar, Jr.
- Litigation – Intellectual Property: Shapleigh Smith, Jr.
- Litigation – Labor & Employment: Amy M. McLaughlin
- Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants: Ritchie E. Berger, Samuel Hoar, Jr.
- Mergers & Acquisitions Law: Spencer R. Knapp, Brian R. Murphy
- Non-Profit / Charities Law: Brian R. Murphy
- Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants: Ritchie E. Berger, Samuel Hoar, Jr., Karen McAndrew, John D. Monahan, Jr.
- Product Liability Litigation – Defendants: Shapleigh Smith, Jr.
- Real Estate Law: Austin D. Hart, Molly K. Lebowitz
- Tax Law: Mark A. Langan
- Technology Law: Jeffrey J. McMahan
- Trusts and Estates: Mark A. Langan
Dinse, Knapp & McAndrew, P.C., with offices in Burlington, Vermont and Plattsburgh, New York, is one of the oldest and largest law firms serving Vermont and the Adirondack Region of upstate New York. For over 90 years, the firm has served its clients in important cases, transactions and legal developments.