Brown & James is proud to announce 29 lawyers are listed in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America, including two first listings each in both Best Lawyers and Ones to Watch.
The 2025 edition of Best Lawyers lists 23 lawyers in multiple practice areas and is the first listing for Joseph Callahan and Daniel Hasenstab.
Lawyers on The Best Lawyers in America© list are organized by geographic region and practice areas. The methodology employed by Best Lawyers® is designed to capture, as accurately as possible, the consensus opinion of leading lawyers about the professional abilities of their colleagues within the same geographical area and legal practice area. Lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed, therefore inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor.
The following Brown & James lawyers are recognized by Best Lawyers® in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America:
Denise Baker-Seal, Insurance Law, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants
Tucker Blaser, Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants
A. J. Bronsky, Legal Malpractice Law – Defendants, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants, Professional Malpractice Law – Defendants
David Buchanan, Litigation – Insurance, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants
Kenneth Burke, Mass Tort Litigation/ Class Actions – Defendants
Joseph Callahan, Litigation – Insurance, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants
Kristie Crawford, Litigation – Insurance
John Cunningham, Insurance Law, Litigation – Insurance, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants
David Ellington, Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants
Daniel Hasenstab, Insurance Law, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants
Corey Kraushaar, Commercial Litigation, Insurance Law, Litigation – Insurance Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants
Agota Peterfy, Insurance Law, Mass Tort Litigation/ Class Actions – Defendants
Brian Plegge, Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants
John Rahoy, Insurance Law, Litigation – Insurance, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants, Professional Malpractice Law – Defendants
Robert Rosenthal, Legal Malpractice Law – Defendants, Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants
Steven Schwartz, Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Insurance, Legal Malpractice Law – Defendants, Litigation – Labor and Employment, Professional Malpractice Law – Defendants
Christopher Seibold, Commercial Litigation, Construction Law, Insurance Law, Litigation – Construction, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants
Peter Spataro, Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants
Christine Vaporean, Litigation – Labor and Employment
Beth Kamp Veath, Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants, Transportation Law
T. Michael Ward, Appellate Practice, Insurance Law
Philip Willman, Litigation – Health Care, Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants
Edward Zeidler, Insurance Law, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants
A new category introduced in 2021, Best Lawyers Ones to Watch recognizes attorneys early in the careers for outstanding professional excellence. The following Brown & James attorneys were named to this list for 2025:
Emma Bean, Commercial Litigation, Insurance Law
Kara Burke, Insurance Law
Taylor Connolly, Commercial Litigation, Insurance Law
Bryce Pfalzgraf, Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants (first listing)
Ashley Simeone, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants (first listing)
Daniel Sanchez, Workers’ Compensation Law – Employers
Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers® has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Best Lawyers lists are compiled based on an exhaustive peer-review evaluation in which more than 83,000 leading attorneys are eligible to vote. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers® “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.”