Eleven BR&G Attorneys Recognized as 2011 Best Lawyers in Peer Review

Partner Ronald P. Weiss Named Community’s 2011 Lawyer of the Year in Corporate Law

December 2010

BR&G is pleased to announce 11 of its lawyers have been recognized as Best Lawyers in the Springfield, MA region by Best Lawyers®, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession.

Additionally, Ronald P. Weiss, partner, was named Lawyer of the Year for 2011 in Corporate Law for the Springfield area. After more than a quarter of a century in publication, Best Lawyers® has designated Lawyers of the Year in high-profile legal specialties in large legal communities. Only a single lawyer in each specialty in each community was honored as the Lawyer of the Year.

In addition to Weiss’ honor, eleven of the firm’s lawyers were recognized as Best Lawyers in the Springfield region by Best Lawyers®, which compiles its lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers.

The following BR&G lawyers will be included in the 2011 edition of The Best Lawyers in America:

BR&G Lawyer

Practice Category

Michael H. Burke

Medical Malpractice Law and Personal Injury Litigation

Mark D. Cress

Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law and Corporate Law

Francis D. Dibble, Jr.

Commercial Litigation and Criminal Defense: White-Collar – Litigation

Daniel J. Finnegan

Construction Law

Robert A. Gelinas

Personal Injury Litigation

Kevin C. Maynard

Commercial Litigation

Christopher B. Myhrum

Environmental Law

David A. Parke

Corporate Law

Melinda M. Phelps

Medical Malpractice Law and Personal Injury Litigation

Ellen M. Randle

Family Law

Ronald P. Weiss

Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law and Tax Law