Seven Covington Lawyers Named ‘2013 Lawyer of the Year’

Seven Covington Lawyers Named ‘2013 Lawyer of the Year’

September 13, 2012

WASHINGTON, DC, September 13, 2012 — Best Lawyers in America named seven Covington & Burling lawyers today as “2013 Lawyer of the Year” in their respective practice areas and cities. The selected lawyers received strong ratings from their peers for their “abilities, professionalism and integrity,” in the publication’s annual survey. Best Lawyers recognizes only one lawyer per practice area in certain selected markets each year.

The Covington lawyers recognized as “Lawyers of the Year,” each for the Washington area and the following practice areas, are:

Mitchell Dolin, Insurance

Doug Gibson, Sports

Peter Barton Hutt, FDA

David Martin, Corporate Compliance

Jack Schenendorf, Transportation

John Vine, Employee Benefits (ERISA)

Best Lawyers compiles its lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. The current, 19th edition of The Best Lawyers in America is based on more than 4.3 million detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers.

Overall, Covington received 196 individual mentions in 57 areas of law in the 2013 edition of The Best Lawyers in America.