18 Coats Rose Attorneys Named to 2015 Best Lawyers® in America List

HOUSTON, Aug. 19, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Coats Rose Law Firm is pleased to announce 18 attorneys in the firm have been selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© 2015 (Copyright 2013 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, SC).

The guide honored firm lawyers in Austin, Dallas Houston, League City, New Orleans and San Antonio in 15 areas of practice including: real estate law, construction law, litigation, litigation-construction, commercial litigation, government relations, employment law and litigation-environmental. They include:

AUSTIN
John M. Joseph* – Government Relations Practice

DALLAS 
William B. Short, Jr.* – Arbitration, Collaborative Law: Civil, Construction Law, Litigation-Construction, Mediation

HOUSTON
John G. Cannon – Real Estate Law
Barry J. Palmer – Real Estate Law
Richard L. Rose* – Real Estate Law
Ian P. Faria – Construction Law
Patrick E. Gaas* – Construction Law
Byron G. Lee – Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants
Chris E. Ryman* – Construction Law, Litigation-Construction
Daniel F. Shank* – Commercial Litigation, Construction Law, Personal Injury Litigation-Defendants

LEAGUE CITY
Thomas R. Barber* – Construction Law
Barry S. Rabon* – Construction Law

NEW ORLEANS
Walter W. Christy – Employment Law-Management, Labor Law-Management, Litigation-Labor and Employment
Clyde H. Jacob III** – Employment Law-Management, Labor Law-Management, Litigation-Labor and Employment
A. Kelton Longwell** – Real Estate Law
Daniel Lund III – Construction Law, Litigation-Construction
Elizabeth Haecker Ryan* – Litigation-Environmental, Product Liability Litigation-Defendants, Professional Malpractice Law-Defendants

SAN ANTONIO
Richard L. Reed* – Construction Law

*Listed in Best Lawyers in America for five years
**Listed in Best Lawyers in America for ten years

Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers® has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Because Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which almost 50,000 leading attorneys cast nearly five million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas, and because lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor. 

Coats Rose is a business transaction and litigation law firm based in Houston, Texas. For more than 25 years, Coats Rose attorneys have worked with clients in construction/surety law, real estate law, commercial litigation of all types, municipal law, public finance, affordable housing, insurance law, labor and employment law, and governmental relations.  Coats Rose is comprised of more than 90 attorneys, with offices in Houston, Clear Lake, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, and New Orleans.

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