Doerner, Saunders, Daniel & Anderson, LLP is pleased to announce that 17 Doerner lawyers have been included in the 2021 edition of The Best Lawyers in America©. First published in 1983, Best Lawyers® has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence.  

Lawyers named to the Best Lawyers® lists are recognized through compiled information based on an exhaustive peer-review evaluation. For this year’s edition, 11 million votes were analyzed, which resulted in the inclusion of nearly 94,000 industry leading lawyers. Lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed.

Doerner attorneys selected for the 2021 Best Lawyers® list include: 

William C. Anderson: Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation
Jon E. Brightmire: Appellate Practice, Commercial Litigation, Litigation – ERISA, Litigation – Labor and Employment
N. Lance Bryan: Employment Law – Management, Litigation – Construction
James R. Bullard: Family Law
Lewis N. Carter: Commercial Litigation
Lawrence T. Chambers: Corporate Law
H. Wayne Cooper: Corporate Law
Nathan S. Cross: Land Use and Zoning Law
S. Douglas Dodd: First Amendment Law, Litigation – First Amendment
Tom Q. Ferguson: Commercial Litigation
D. Benham Kirk, Jr.: Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Real Estate Law
Michael S. Linscott: Commercial Litigation
Linda Crook Martin: Environmental Law, Litigation – Environmental
William F. Riggs: Corporate Law
Moura A.J. Robertson: Collective Law – Family Law, Family Law, Family Law Mediation
Harry V. Rouse: Trusts and Estates
Varley H. Taylor, Jr.: Tax Law

In addition, two Doerner attorneys were exclusively recognized by Best Lawyers® as a 2021 “Lawyer of the Year.” Included were Jon E. Brightmire for Litigation – ERISA in Tulsa and Varley H. Taylor, Jr. for Tax Law in Tulsa. Only a single lawyer in each practice area and designated metropolitan area is honored as the “Lawyer of the Year,” making this accolade particularly significant.