Eight Stroud Attorneys Recognized as Best Lawyers® 2018

August 15, 2017

The Best Lawyers in America© 2018 (Copyright 2018 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, SC) recently recognized eight attorneys from Stroud, Willink & Howard, LLC in its 2018 edition. These attorneys were selected for inclusion by their peers.

We proudly recognize the following attorneys and the practice areas for which they were selected:

Joseph P. Bartol

Closely-Held Companies and Family Businesses Law
Construction Law
Corporate Law
Real Estate Law

Norman D. Farnam

Litigation – Real Estate
Mortgage Banking Foreclosure Law

Carolyn A. Hegge

Elder Law
Non-Profit/Charities Law
Trusts and Estates

John J. Laubmeier

Commercial Litigation
Litigation – Construction

H. Dale Peterson

Construction Law
Commercial Litigation
Litigation – Banking and Finance
Litigation – Construction

Peter J. Richter

Commercial Litigation
Employment Law – Management

Robert J. Schwab

Tax Law
Trusts and Estates

Robert R. Stroud

Banking and Finance Law
Closely-Held Companies and Family Businesses Law
Corporate Law
Trusts and Estates

Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers® has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey. Over 55,000 leading attorneys cast more than 6.7 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas. 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.”

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