Charlotte - Eighteen attorneys from the law firm Horack Talley in Charlotte were selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© 2016.

Honorees include:

Family Law: Thomas R. Cannon, Elizabeth T. Hodges, Elizabeth J. James, K. Mitchell Kelling, Gena G. Morris, Tate K. Sterrett (family law and family law mediation)

Real Estate Law: Clayton S. Curry Jr., Henry N. Pharr III, H. David Powell, Cheryl D. Steele, James M. Talley, Jr., G. Robert Turner, III, Amy P. Hunt (real estate litigation)

Mergers and Acquisitions Law: Robert M. Donlon

Insurance Law: Robert B. McNeill, Kimberly Sullivan (insurance litigation)

Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law: Kristin Decker Ogburn

Appellate Practice: John W. Bowers

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. Over 79,000 leading attorneys globally are eligible to vote, and we have received more than 12 million votes to date on the legal abilities of other lawyers based on their specific practice areas around the world. For the 2016 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America©, 6.7 million votes were analyzed, which resulted in more than 55,000 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.”