Cole Schotz P.C. is pleased to announce that attorneys across the firm have been recognized in the 2027 editions of The Best Lawyers in America® and Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America. The firm also received several 2027 Best Lawyers “Lawyer of the Year” awards.

The recognitions span a wide range of practice areas, including bankruptcy and creditor debtor rights / insolvency and reorganization law, commercial litigation, construction law, corporate law, environmental law, real estate law, trusts and estates, and several litigation categories.

Independently produced by Best Lawyers, The Best Lawyers in America and Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America are widely recognized benchmarks of professional excellence in the legal industry. Best Lawyers’ recognition process is based entirely on peer review, with attorneys evaluated by their colleagues within the same geographic region and practice area. The “Lawyer of the Year” designation is awarded to attorneys who receive the highest overall peer feedback for a specific practice area and metropolitan region.

Additional information regarding the methodology is available here. The 2027 Best Lawyers rankings can be viewed in their entirety by visiting www.bestlawyers.com.

The full list of Cole Schotz recognitions in the 2027 Best Lawyers is as follows:

2027 Best Lawyers “Lawyer of the Year” Awards

Hackensack, NJ

Gary M. Albrecht, Real Estate

Roger M. Iorio, Corporate Transactions

Adam J. Sklar, Construction

Warren A. Usatine, Bankruptcy & Corporate Restructuring, Litigation

2027 The Best Lawyers in America

Washington, DC

William Zapf, Ethics and Professional Responsibility Law

Wilmington, DE

Justin R. Alberto, Bankruptcy & Corporate Restructuring, Litigation

G. David Dean, Bankruptcy & Corporate Restructuring, Litigation

James S. Green, Jr., Litigation, Intellectual Property

Pamela L. Millard, Corporate Transactions

Patrick Reilley, Bankruptcy & Corporate Restructuring

Boca Raton, FL

Christopher Gagic, Tax, Trusts & Estates

Miami, FL

Jennifer D. Llano, Corporate Transactions

Lorenzo Lorenzo, Jr., Litigation

Luis Salazar, Bankruptcy & Corporate Restructuring, Litigation

Baltimore, MD

Andrew L. Cole, Litigation

Brian A. Flank, Real Estate

H.C. Jones III, Bankruptcy & Corporate Restructuring

Gary H. Leibowitz, Bankruptcy & Corporate Restructuring, Litigation

Irving E. Walker, Bankruptcy & Corporate Restructuring, Litigation

Hackensack, NJ

Mitchell W. Abrahams, Real Estate

Richard W. Abramson, Real Estate

Gary M. Albrecht, Real Estate

Joseph Barbiere, Construction, Litigation, Real Estate

Wendy M. Berger, Real Estate

Marc R. Berman, Litigation, Tax, Trusts & Estates

Elizabeth A. Carbone, Construction, Litigation

Christopher J. Caslin, Real Estate

Jamie P. Clare, Employment, Litigation

Robert M. DiPisa, Real Estate

Richard J. Ericsson, Environmental

Jason R. Finkelstein, Litigation

Jacob S. Frumkin, Bankruptcy & Corporate Restructuring

David S. Gold, Intellectual Property, Litigation

Jennifer Horowitz, Corporate Transactions

Roger M. Iorio, Corporate Transactions

Ryan Jareck, Bankruptcy & Corporate Transactions

Glenn R. Kazlow, Environmental, Litigation, Tax, Trusts & Estates

James T. Kim, Litigation

Steven L. Klepper, Litigation, Real Estate

Randi W. Kochman, Employment, Litigation

Stuart Komrower, Bankruptcy & Corporate Restructuring, Litigation

Steven D. Leipzig, Tax, Trusts & Estates

Jan Alan Lewis, Real Estate

Leo V. Leyva, Bankruptcy & Corporate Restructuring, Construction, Litigation, Real Estate

Lauren M. Manduke, Litigation

Christopher Massaro, Litigation

Jason R. Melzer, Litigation

Donald A. Ottaunick, Litigation

W. John Park, Real Estate

Matteo Percontino, Bankruptcy & Corporate Restructuring, Litigation

Arnold P. Picinich, Litigation

Carl A. Rizzo, Litigation, Real Estate

Alan Rubin, Corporate Transactions

Jeffrey H. Schechter, Litigation, Tax, Trusts and Estates

Michael D. Sirota, Bankruptcy & Corporate Restructuring, Litigation

Adam J. Sklar, Construction, Litigation

John S. Stewart, Real Estate

William W. Stroever, Intellectual Property, Litigation

Susan Usatine, Litigation

Warren A. Usatine, Bankruptcy & Corporate Restructuring, Litigation

Samuel Weiner, Tax, Trusts & Estates

Cameron A. Welch, Construction, Litigation

Lori I. Wolf, Tax, Trusts & Estates

Felice R. Yudkin, Bankruptcy & Corporate Restructuring

New York, NY

Aaron S. Brotman, Construction, Litigation

Brian L. Gardner, Construction, Litigation

Gary A. Phillips, Tax, Trusts & Estates

David Rubenstein, Real Estate

Tishya M. Signorelli, Tax, Trusts & Estates

Dallas, TX

Brian A. Carpenter, Intellectual Property, Litigation

Timothy J. Craddock, Intellectual Property, Litigation

Aaron D. Davidson, Intellectual Property, Litigation

Vishal H. Patel, Intellectual Property, Litigation

Gary R. Sorden, Intellectual Property, Litigation

2027 Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America

Wilmington, DE

Jack Dougherty, Bankruptcy & Corporate Restructuring

Michael Fitzpatrick, Bankruptcy & Corporate Restructuring

Nathaniel Klepser, Litigation

Baltimore, MD

Rebekah Nickerson, Litigation

J. Michael Pardoe, Bankruptcy & Corporate Restructuring, Litigation

Hackensack, NJ

Marian Bekheet, Tax, Trusts & Estates

Haley Brescia, Environmental

Sean Carey, Employment, Litigation

Toni Gallo, Construction, Corporate Transactions

Marta Paczkowska, Tax, Trusts & Estates

Patrick Parrish, Real Estate

Jeffrey Sauer, Bankruptcy & Corporate Restructuring, Litigation

Andrew Weiss, Employment, Litigation

New York, NY

Matthew Barish, Construction, Litigation, Real Estate

Drew Barone, Construction, Real Estate

David Borsack, Corporate Transactions

Jasleen Chandhoke, Corporate Transactions

Wendy Chavez, Construction, Litigation

Nicole Dlugosz-Howard, Real Estate

Jonathan Friedman, Bankruptcy & Corporate Restructuring

Justin Mei, Real Estate

Arielle Wasserman, Litigation

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