Georgia Super Lawyers honors Stites & Harbison attorneys in 2015

ATLANTA—Two Stites & Harbison, PLLC attorneys in the Atlanta office were recently honored in the 2015 Georgia Super Lawyers magazine. Dan Douglass was named to the Super Lawyers list while Walker Entwistle was named to the Rising Stars list.

Douglass is a Member (Partner) of the firm and a member of the Construction Service Group. He has significant experience handling complex construction disputes involving multiple parties and expert consultants. He has represented contractors, subcontractors, owners, design professionals and sureties on public and private construction projects throughout the United States. He is past president of the Initiative for Affordable Housing Inc. board and is a member of the Garden Hills Civic Association.

Entwistle is a Member (Partner) of the firm and a member of the Creditors’ Rights & Bankruptcy Service Group. Walker is primarily a transactional lawyer focusing on the representation of institutional lenders in making commercial loans, loan workouts and restructuring, troubled asset management and dispositions, and creditors’ rights.

Super Lawyers is a Thomson Reuters rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The annual selections are made using a rigorous process, including a statewide survey of lawyers, an independent research evaluation of candidates and peer reviews by practice area. Only 5% of the lawyers in each state or region are named to the Super Lawyers list and no more than 2.5% are named to the Rising Stars list. Rising Stars are selected based on the same criteria as Super Lawyers with the exception of peer evaluation by practice area. Additionally, one must be 40 years old or younger, or have made exceptional contributions in a particular practice area for 10 years or less. Stites & Harbison has 65 attorneys named to the Super Lawyers list and 34 named to the Rising Stars list.