Paul Derrick of Cranfill Sumner & Hartzog LLP Makes List for 2012 Best Lawyers in America

    RALEIGH, NC, October 20, 2011 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Cranfill Sumner & Hartzog LLP (www.cshlaw.com) attorney Paul H. Derrick was recently included in The Best Lawyers in America 2012 edition in the practice area of Litigation - Labor and Employment. Derrick is one of 18 attorneys from Cranfill, Sumner & Hartzog to receive recognition from their peers in Best Lawyers.

A partner in the firm's Raleigh office, Derrick has successfully represented employers across the country before federal and state courts, administrative and investigative agencies, and arbitration tribunals concerning a broad range of employment law and constitutional issues. At CSH, he continues to offer advice and litigate individual and multi-plaintiff claims for breaches of restrictive covenants, unfair competition and theft of trade secrets, discrimination of all types, retaliation, employment-related torts, wage-hour, and more.

"Paul has always been a model attorney for this firm," said Dan Hartzog, managing partner of Cranfill Sumner & Hartzog LLP, "and we are proud of the fact that he has been extended this honor by his peers as a testament to his work ethic and experience."

Since its inception 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 more than 41,000 leading attorneys cast almost 3.9 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. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers "the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice."

Best Lawyers also reaches the largest and most-targeted audience of any peer review publication in the legal profession, reaching more than 88,000 general counsel. It is regularly excerpted in publications such as Corporate Counsel Magazine, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, New York Magazine, and more than 85 other regional and city magazines around the world, reaching more than 17 million readers.

Founded in 1992, Cranfill Sumner & Hartzog LLP is a law firm that concentrates its practice in the defense of civil claims and lawsuits, representing individuals and businesses of all types. Consistently ranked as one of the largest in North Carolina, the firm has more than 90 attorneys and three locations: Raleigh, Charlotte and Wilmington. The firm handles cases in a variety of practice areas, including medical and professional negligence, products liability, construction defects, police and municipal law, premises liability and security, trucking/transportation law, education law, employment law, workers' compensation claims, commercial litigation, environmental and toxic torts and land condemnation. With its experienced litigators and support personnel utilizing the latest technology available, Cranfill Sumner & Hartzog LLP is generally recognized as one of the most creative and innovative litigation firms in the state today. For more information, visit www.cshlaw.com, or call 919-828-5100.

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