Eight members of Davenport, Evans, Hurwitz & Smith, LLP, are named in the 2009 edition of Great Plains Super Lawyers. For the second consecutive time, Ed Evans was among the 25 lawyers who received the highest point total in the review process.
The publication is a listing of outstanding lawyers in in Iowa, Nebraska and North and South Dakota and includes more than 60 practice areas. The DEHS lawyers and their fields of practice considered by Super Lawyers are:
P. Daniel Donohue – Estate Planning & Probate, Real Estate, Business/Corporate
Edwin E. Evans – Personal Injury Defense: Medical Malpractice, Professional Liability: Defense, Business Litigation
Mark W. Haigh – Personal Injury Defense: Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury Defense: General
Robert E. Hayes – Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights, Real Estate, Schools & Education
Melissa C. Hinton - Employment & Labor
David L. Knudson – Banking, Health Care, Mergers & Acquisitions
Sarah Richardson Larson – Estate Planning & Probate, Elder Law
Susan Brunick Simons – Employment & Labor, Schools & Education
Super Lawyers uses a multi-step process to identify the top attorneys that combines peer nominations and evaluations with third party research. Each candidate is evaluated on 12 indicators of peer recognition and professional achievement. Selections are made on a state-by-state basis and the final list represents no more than five percent of the total lawyers in a state.