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May 27, 2009
Six Frost Brown Todd Attorneys Recognized in Benchmark Litigation Publication
Frost Brown Todd is pleased to announce that Theresa Canaday, Charles Cassis, Winston Miller, Sheryl Snyder, Tanya Bowman, and Erwin Roberts have all been recognized in the 2009 edition of Benchmark Litigation. Canaday, Cassis, Miller and Snyder were all acknowledged as “Local Litigation Stars” and Bowman and Roberts were recognized as “Rising Stars”.
Theresa Canaday - Ms. Canaday has litigated complex business matters, including business torts, securities and unfair competition cases. She has represented several Fortune 500 corporations, as well as start up businesses and entrepreneurs. She has a wide-range of experience in trying cases in federal and state courts, as well as prosecuting and defending complex matters through arbitration. Ms. Canaday has tried many civil cases to judgment or verdict, including commercial contract, dealership and securities related cases.
Charles Cassis - Mr. Cassis is a member in the Firm's Litigation Department and his practice involves general trial litigation and appellate practice. He has had over one hundred trials and presented approximately seventy appellate arguments. Mr. Cassis has handled cases in several federal and state courts, and has argued before the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Circuit Courts of Appeals. He has also been before the U.S. Supreme Court for Marathon Pipeline Company in which the Court declared parts of the 1984 Bankruptcy Code unconstitutional. Mr. Cassis served as Special Justice to the Supreme Court of Kentucky on three separate cases during 2007 and 2008.
Winston Miller - Mr. Miller has a diverse background in civil litigation with experience in products liability and mass tort litigation, fire and explosion litigation, employment litigation, toxic tort litigation, and business litigation. A substantial portion of his practice relates to complex multi-party cases arising out of catastrophic losses and serial litigation. Mr. Miller has represented clients in state and federal courts located in at least 14 states plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. He has also represented clients on appellate matters before the Third, Fourth, Sixth, and Eleventh Federal Circuits, the U.S. Temporary Court of Appeals as well as the Kentucky Court of Appeals and the Kentucky Supreme Court. The client service team that he chairs has been selected as "The Outstanding Law Firm of the Year" by a Fortune 100 Company. In the San Juan Dupont Plaza Hotel Fire litigation, the Firm served as lead counsel for 30 different major products manufacturers in one of the largest cases ever filed or tried.
Sheryl Snyder – Mr. Snyder represents businesses in complex litigation. He has litigated several significant antitrust, securities, RICO, contract, fraud, trademark, copyright and trade secrets cases for a variety of businesses. He is also "the state's premier appellate lawyer" according to Chambers USA®. Mr. Snyder has made the appellate oral argument in more than 50 reported decisions, including the Oklahoma City bombing civil litigation. He has argued in the Third, Fourth, Sixth, Seventh, Tenth and Eleventh Circuits, and is a Life Member of the Sixth Circuit Judicial Conference. Mr. Snyder is co-author (with two FBT colleagues) of the treatise Kentucky Appellate Practice (West). He is often engaged after an adverse jury verdict to candidly assess the prospects on appeal and negotiate a settlement.
Tanya Bowman – Mrs. Bowman joined the Complex Commercial Litigation group in May 2003. Prior to joining the Firm, Ms. Bowman worked for a litigation firm in Chicago, Illinois, where she specialized in a range of commercial and premises liability matters in both state and federal courts. Immediately after graduating from law school, Ms. Bowman worked for a telecommunications boutique firm in Austin, Texas, where she was involved in a range of telecommunications and public utility regulation matters before state public utility commissions.
Erwin Roberts – Mr. Roberts has litigated cases in both state and federal courts in Kentucky. He has extensive trial experience as a former state and federal prosecutor. He has handled a broad spectrum of cases, including general business disputes, construction matters, contract disputes, arbitration, and white collar crime. He has prepared briefs and presented oral arguments for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Mr. Roberts also has significant experience at the highest level of state government in Kentucky, having served as a Cabinet Secretary, Cabinet Deputy Secretary, and Executive Director of Homeland Security. His state government experience includes policy, legislative and regulatory issues in Kentucky.
About Benchmark Litigation
The Benchmark Litigation publication focuses exclusively on the US litigation market, with a research team based in the US conducting extensive face-to-face interviews around the country over a year-long period. It is also the only guide that does not force litigation attorneys into strict practice area categorizations, instead pinpointing the best all-around "bet-the-company" trial attorneys at both the local and national levels.
About Frost Brown Todd LLC
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