NORFOLK, VA. – Vandeventer Black LLP is pleased to announce that the following attorneys were selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2014:
Stephan F. Andrews – Construction Law, Litigation – Construction
R. John Barrett, Workers’ Compensation Law – Employers
Thomas S. Berkley, Admiralty and Maritime Law
F. Nash Bilisoly, Workers’ Compensation Law – Employers
Dean T. Buckius, Employment Law – Management, Labor Law – Management
Mark T. Coberly – Admiralty and Maritime Law, Transportation Law
William E. Franczek – Arbitration, Construction Law, Litigation – Construction, Mediation
Patrick A. Genzler – Construction Law, Environmental Law, Litigation – Construction, Litigation – Environmental
James R. Harvey III – Construction Law
Patrick W. Herman – Tax Law
Arlene F. Klinedinst – Employment Law – Management, Labor Law – Management
Walter B. Martin, Jr. – Admiralty and Maritime Law
Bryant C. McGann – Banking and Finance Law, Commercial Finance Law, Financial Services Regulation Law, Litigation – Banking and Finance, Mortgage Banking Foreclosure Law, Project Finance Law
Robert L. O’Donnell – Commercial Litigation
Richard H. Ottinger – Admiralty and Maritime Law
Anita O. Poston – Corporate Law, Health Care Law, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants
Edward J. Powers – Admiralty and Maritime Law
John M. Ryan – Admiralty and Maritime Law, Commercial Litigation, Employment Law – Management, Labor Law – Management
Arthur Serratelli – Immigration Law
Norman W. Shearin, Jr. – Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law
Michael L. Sterling – Construction Law
James W. Walker – Litigation – Construction
Daniel R. Weckstein – Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law

Since it was first published 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 36,000 leading attorneys cast almost 4.4 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.”

Vandeventer Black attorneys have provided legal services to businesses nationally and internationally since 1883. The firm has offices in Norfolk and Richmond, Virginia; Kitty Hawk and Raleigh, North Carolina; Pasadena, California; and Hamburg, Germany.