FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Congratulations to Our Eleven Attorneys Named to Illinois Super Lawyers and Rising Stars 2019

ROYAL OAK, Mich., February 14, 2019 – Howard & Howard is pleased to announce that eleven of our attorneys have been named to Illinois Super Lawyers® and Illinois Rising Stars 2019. Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters business, is a 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 patented multiphase process that includes a statewide survey of lawyers, an independent research evaluation of candidates and peer reviews by practice area. The result is a credible, comprehensive and diverse listing of exceptional attorneys. Only five percent of the attorneys in Illinois were named to the Super Lawyers list and two and one half percent to Rising Stars.
The Howard & Howard attorneys and the practice areas under which they are listed in Illinois Super Lawyers 2019 are as follows:
Chicago Office: Scott C. Frost, Business Litigation; Scott M. Levin, Business Litigation; Robert H. Smeltzer, Business Litigation; and David C. Van Dyke, Intellectual Property Litigation.
Peoria Office: Michael R. Lied, Employment Litigation: Defense; and Leonard W. Sachs, Employment & Labor.
The Howard & Howard attorneys and the practice areas under which they are listed in Illinois Rising Stars 2019 are as follows:
Chicago Office: Emily Bennett, Employment & Labor; Tiffany L. Carpenter, Personal Injury-Products: Defense; Alex Leonowicz, Business/Corporate; and Mark Ryerson, Business/Corporate.
Peoria Office: Timothy D. Gronewold, Business Litigation. 
About Howard & Howard:
Celebrating its 150th anniversary this year, Howard & Howard is a full-service law firm with a national and international practice, providing legal services to businesses and business owners. With more than 160 attorneys, the firm has offices in Michigan (Ann Arbor and Royal Oak), Illinois (Chicago and Peoria), Las Vegas, Nevada, and Los Angeles, California.  For more information, please visit howardandhoward.com.

Kady Volmering
PR and Communications Coordinator
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