105 total attorneys recognized including nine Best Lawyers® “Lawyer of the Year” recipients, 75 of the Best Lawyers® 2026 in America recognized and 21 named Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America
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LEXINGTON, Ky (Aug. 21, 2025) – On August 21, 2025, 105 Stoll Keenon Ogden (SKO) attorneys were named to Best Lawyers’ 2026 lists which showcases internationally recognized attorneys and their specialties.
The Best Lawyers in America® is one of the most credible and definitive guides to the legal industry in the U.S. and recognition is based entirely on peer review. The process is designed to capture the consensus opinion of leading lawyers about the professional abilities of their colleagues within the same geographical area and legal practice area.
The “Lawyer of the Year” recognition is presented annually to a single lawyer in each practice area and designated metropolitan area. Those who earned “Ones to Watch” are attorneys with outstanding professional excellence who have typically been practicing for five to nine years.
Best Lawyers® “Lawyer of the Year” Recipients
Louisville, KY
Adam T. Goebel
- Litigation – Environmental
Thomas E. Rutledge
- Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)
Timothy J. Eifler
- Tax Law
William Duncan Crosby III
- Administrative / Regulatory Law
Lexington, KY
Adam M. Back
- Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
Kif H. Skidmore
- Labor Law – Management
Todd S. Page
- Appellate Practice
Evansville, IN
Krista B. Lockyear
- Land Use and Zoning Law
Indianapolis, IN
Sally Franklin Zweig
- Litigation – Health Care
Best Lawyers® 2026 in America Recipients
Evansville, IN
John P. Broadhead
- Banking and Finance Law
- Closely Held Companies and Family Businesses Law
- Commercial Finance Law
- Commercial Transactions / UCC Law
- Corporate Law
- Trusts and Estates
Michele S. Bryant
- Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants
William E. Cartwright
- Corporate Law
- Real Estate Law
J. Herbert Davis
- Real Estate Law
Raymond P. Dudlo
- Real Estate Law
Krista B. Lockyear
- Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)
- Land Use and Zoning Law
- Real Estate Law
Kelly A. Lonnberg
- Family Law
D. Andrew Nestrick
- Closely Held Companies and Family Businesses Law
- Elder Law
- Trusts and Estates
John A. Thomason
- Natural Resources Law
Christopher C. Wischer
- Land Use and Zoning Law
- Municipal Law
- Real Estate Law
Ted C. Ziemer IV
- Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)
- Closely Held Companies and Family Businesses Law
- Corporate Law
- Municipal Law
- Real Estate Law
Frankfort, KY
Paul C. Harnice
- Commercial Litigation
Hodgenville, KY
Damon R. Talley
- Utilities Law
Indianapolis, IN
Taylor Bonacorsi
- Litigation – Health Care
Glenn D. Bowman
- Environmental Law
- Insurance Law
- Litigation – Insurance
Dennis F. Cantrell
- Environmental Law
- Insurance Law
- Litigation – Insurance
Norris Cunningham
- Arbitration
- Health Care Law
- Litigation – Health Care
Tricia Freije
- Health Care Law
- Litigation – Health Care
John P. Higgins
- Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)
- Construction Law
- Litigation – Real Estate
Timothy Hurlbut
- Banking and Finance Law
- Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)
- Commercial Finance Law
- Construction Law
- Real Estate Law
Brock Jordan
- Commercial Litigation
- Litigation – Real Estate
Ronald M. Katz
- Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)
- Nonprofit / Charities Law
- Real Estate Law
- Trusts and Estates
Offer Korin
- Litigation — Labor and Employment
- Commercial Litigation
- Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)
Jason P. Lueking
- Land Use and Zoning Law
- Real Estate Law
Dwight L. Miller
- Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)
- Closely Held Companies and Family Businesses Law
Joel T. Nagle
- Commercial Litigation
Cassandra A. Nielsen
- Construction Law
- Litigation – Construction
Gary L. Stage
- Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)
Donn H. Wray
- Environmental Law
- Litigation – Insurance
Sally Franklin Zweig
- Art Law
- Health Care Law
- Litigation – Health Care
Lexington, KY
Adan M. Back
- Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
- Bet-the-Company Litigation
- Commercial Litigation
- Commercial Transactions / UCC Law
- Litigation – Bankruptcy
Charles R. Baesler Jr.
- Immigration Law
P. Douglas Barr
- Bet-the-Company Litigation
- Commercial Litigation
- Corporate Law
- Litigation – Intellectual Property
Perry M. Bentley
- Arbitration
- Insurance Law
Monica Braun
- Commercial Litigation
Allison Cooke
- Employment Law – Individuals
- Employment Law – Management
- Labor Law – Management
Allison J. Donovan
- Banking and Finance Law
- Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)
- Real Estate Law
- Securities Regulation
Connor Egan
- Commercial Litigation
Benjamin Fiechter
- Health Care Law
Richard G. Griffith
- Employment Law – Management
- Labor Law – Management
- Litigation – Labor and Employment
W. Chapman Hopkins
- Commercial Litigation
- Corporate Law
- Litigation – Banking and Finance
Dana Howard
- Commercial Litigation
Lindsey W. Ingram III
- Administrative / Regulatory Law
- Energy Law
Rebecca Ann Krefft
- Commercial Litigation
William M. Lear, Jr.
- Land Use and Zoning Law
- Litigation – Land Use and Zoning
- Litigation – Real Estate
R. David Lester
- Corporate Compliance Law
- Corporate Governance Law
- Corporate Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Steven B. Loy
- Antitrust Law
- Commercial Litigation
- Litigation – Banking and Finance
Elizabeth S. Muyskens
- Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
- Employment Law – Management
- Labor Law – Management
Nick Nicholson
- Animal Law
- Commercial Litigation
- Construction Law
- Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law
- Land Use and Zoning Law
Richard A. Nunnelley
- Real Estate Law
Todd S. Page
- Appellate Practice
- Litigation – Insurance
Matthew R. Parsons
- Commercial Litigation
- Litigation – Real Estate
Gregory D. Pavey
- Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
Adam C. Reeves
- Appellate Practice
- Commercial Litigation
Sarah Sloan Reeves
- Antitrust Law
- Commercial Transactions / UCC Law
- Corporate Law
- Real Estate Law
Douglas P. Romaine
- Tax Law
- Trusts and Estates
Kenneth R. Sagan
- Corporate Law
Shannon “AJ” Singleton
- Commercial Litigation
Kif H. Skidmore
- Commercial Litigation
- Employment Law – Individuals
- Employment Law – Management
- Labor Law – Management
- Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants
Palmer G. Vance II
- Commercial Litigation
- Product Liability Litigation – Defendants
Frank L. Wilford
- Banking and Finance Law
- Commercial Finance Law
- Commercial Transactions / UCC Law
- Corporate Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
- Real Estate Law
Timothy R. Wiseman
- Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
- Commercial Litigation
Gerald E. Wuetcher
- Utilities Law
Louisville, KY
Douglas C. Ballantine
- Bet-the-Company Litigation
- Commercial Litigation
- Information Technology Law
- Litigation – Intellectual Property
John W. Bilby
- Commercial Litigation
- Litigation – Real Estate
- Litigation – Securities
- Litigation – Trusts and Estates
- Product Liability Litigation – Defendants
Jeffrey A. Calabrese
- Employment Law – Management
- Labor Law – Management
- Litigation – Labor and Employment
William Duncan Crosby III
- Administrative / Regulatory Law
Craig C. Dilger
- Commercial Litigation
- Litigation – Labor and Employment
Timothy J. Eifler
- Tax Law
Mary C. Garris
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Adam T. Goebel
- Commercial Litigation
- Environmental Law
- Litigation – Environmental
Lea Pauley Goff
- Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
- Litigation – Banking and Finance
- Litigation – Bankruptcy
Culver V. Halliday
- Commercial Litigation
Chadler M. Hardin
- Commercial Litigation
C. Kent Hatfield
- Administrative / Regulatory Law
- Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)
- Communications Law
- Energy Law
Karen L. Keith
- Litigation – Health Care
Katherine P. Langan
- Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)
- Trusts and Estates
Matthew R. Lindblom
- Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
- Commercial Litigation
Emily Mattingly Lillard
- Commercial Litigation
Sharon A. Mattingly
- Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
Beth Hendrickson McMasters
- Litigation – Health Care
- Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants
- Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants
- Professional Malpractice Law – Defendants
Emily L. Pagorski
- Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
Laura H. Pulliam
- Closely Held Companies and Family Businesses Law
Kendrick R. Riggs
- Administrative / Regulatory Law
- Communications Law
- Energy Law
- Utilities Law
Thomas E. Rutledge
- Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)
- Commercial Litigation
- Corporate Compliance Law
- Corporate Governance Law
- Corporate Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Christopher E. Schaefer
- Commercial Litigation
- Construction Law
- Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants
- Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs
Anthony L. Schnell
- Real Estate Law
John O. Sheller
- Employment Law – Management
- Labor Law – Management
- Litigation – Labor and Employment
Robert J. Shilts
- Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants
John G. Treitz Jr.
- Banking and Finance Law
- Closely Held Companies and Family Businesses Law
- Corporate Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
- Real Estate Law
Thomas M. Williams
- Employment Law – Management
- Litigation – Labor and Employment
Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch®
Evansville, IN
Hannah M. Dill
- Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)
- Family Law
- Trusts and Estates
Alyssa Freeman Ricker
- Commercial Litigation
- Litigation – Labor and Employment
- Trusts and Estates
Kristen E. Hahn
- Appellate Practice
- Commercial Litigation
Jordan M. Saner
- Commercial Litigation
- Construction Law
- Litigation – Trusts and Estates
Conner J. Voegel
- Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)
- Closely Held Companies and Family Businesses Law
- Corporate Law
- Real Estate Law
- Trusts and Estates
Frankfort, KY
Joseph B. Gabbard
- Commercial Litigation
- Government Relations Practice
Indianapolis, IN
Cameron J. Bosak
- Transportation Law
Kaylee Conley
- Banking and Finance Law
- Real Estate Law
Gavin P. Hunter
- Health Care Law
- Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants
Haozhen “David” Ma
- Corporate Governance and Compliance Law
- Corporate Law
- Real Estate Law
Zachary James Reichle
- Insurance Law
- Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants
- Real Estate Law
Lexington, KY
Jamila M. Carter
- Immigration Law
Evelyn T. Latta
- Corporate Law
- Trusts and Estates
Felisa S. Moore
- Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
- Commercial Litigation
- Litigation – Bankruptcy
Lillian Williams Ball
- Commercial Litigation
Mary Ellen Wimberly
- Energy Law
Louisville, KY
Allison P. Dempsey
- Labor and Employment Law – Management
- Litigation – Labor and Employment
Andrew T. Hagerman
- Appellate Practice
- Closely Held Companies and Family Businesses Law
- Commercial Litigation
- Construction Law
Cameron F. Myers
- Tax Law
- Trusts and Estates
Natalie M. Nassar
- Corporate Governance and Compliance Law
- Corporate Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Virginia Leigh Schell
- Commercial Litigation
- Health Care Law
- Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants
Stoll Keenon Ogden PLLC celebrates the attorneys recognized in the 2026 edition of Best Lawyers®. This honor not only reflects the listed attorneys’ legal knowledge, but also demonstrates how they are seen by peer attorneys in the communities they practice in. Each attorney recognized underscores the firm’s commitment to legal excellence and the trust that clients place in Stoll Keenon Ogden.
