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Oklahoma Super Lawyers honors 93 McAfee & Taft attorneys in 2020 edition

Sixty McAfee & Taft attorneys were recognized in the recently released 2020 edition of Oklahoma Super Lawyers, with another 33 honored as “Oklahoma Rising Stars.”
Rachel Blue and John A. Kenney were recognized as “Top 10 Oklahoma Lawyers,” with Timothy J. Bomhoff, Mary Quinn Cooper, Robert W. Dace, Michael F. Lauderdale, William S. Leach, Kathy R. Neal, Drew Neville, Ross Plourde, Charles S. Plumb, Susan B. Shields, and Nathan Whatley additionally being named as “Top 50 Oklahoma Lawyers.”
Rachel Blue, Mary Quinn Cooper, Elizabeth L. Dalton, Roberta B. Fields, Kathy R. Neal, Patricia A. Rogers, and Susan B. Shields were named to the list of “Top 25 Women Lawyers.”
Also named to the 2020 “Oklahoma Super Lawyers” list are: Courtney Bru, J. Craig Buchan, Brandon L. Buchanan, Steven W. Bugg, Jennifer H. Callahan, Brita H. Cantrell, W. Chris Coleman, Richard D. Craig, Cheryl Vinall Denney, Bradley K. Donnell, Clifford C. Dougherty III, S. Gregory Frogge, Robert L. Garbrecht, Charles Greenough, Lloyd T. Hardin, Jr., Frank D. Hill, Alan G. Holloway, Henry D. Hoss, Michael E. Joseph, Robert J. Joyce, Garry L. Keele II, Michael J. LaBrie, Myrna Schack Latham, Joe C. Lewallen, Jr., Ronald W. Little, Brandon P. Long, Robert T. Luttrell III, Michael D. McClintock, M. Richard Mullins, Tony G. Puckett, Anthony L. Rahhal, Natalie K. Ramsey, Andrew L. Richardson, Richard A. Riggs, Paul A. Ross, Ronald T. Shinn Jr., Michael F. Smith, Spencer F. Smith, Jeff L. Todd, W. Kirk Turner, Erin M. Van Laanen, Drew D. Webb, J. Todd Woolery and Harold C. Zuckerman.
McAfee & Taft attorneys named to the 2020 “Oklahoma Rising Stars” list are: Michael Avery, Sasha L. Beling, Elizabeth Bowersox, Matthew K. Brown, Philip R. Bruce, Emily Wilson Bunting, Brian Burget, Kaitlyn S. Chaney, Jodi C. Cole, Jacob S. Crawford, Jessica L. Dickerson, Paige Hoster Good, Danae V. Grace, Sean S. Hunt, Barbara Klepper, Laura J. Long, H. Cole Marshall, Jason McVicker, Brett P. Merritt, Isai Molina, Zachary A.P. Oubre, Julia A. Palmer, Terra Lord Parten, Micah J. Petersen, Melissa Revell, Christopher M. Scaperlanda, Kristin M. Simpsen, Joshua D. Smith, Patrick L. Stein, Alison A. Verret, Jeffrey L. Vogt, Chase C. Webb, and Anna E. Wolfe.
Oklahoma Super Lawyers recognizes the state’s top 5 percent of Oklahoma attorneys in nearly 60 practice areas as “Super Lawyers” and the top 2.5 percent of up-and-coming attorneys as “Rising Stars.” Selections for these esteemed lists are made by the research team at Super Lawyers, which is a service of the Thomson Reuters legal division. Each year, the research team undertakes a rigorous multi-phase selection process that includes a statewide survey of lawyers, independent evaluation of candidates on 12 indicators of professional achievement and peer recognition, a blue ribbon panel review of candidates by practice area, and a good-standing and disciplinary check.