Twenty-Four Mintz Levin Attorneys Named 2012 New York Super Lawyers and Rising Stars

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nineteen attorneys from Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. have been named New York Super Lawyers for 2012 and five have been named New York Rising Stars. The list will be published in a special advertising supplement in The New York Times Magazine on October 7, 2012 and in a stand-alone magazine, New York Super Lawyers - Metro Edition.

The annual publication identifies lawyers who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. Only five percent of New York lawyers were named 2012 New York Super Lawyers.

The following Mintz Levin attorneys were named 2012 New York Super Lawyers:

Kevin N. Ainsworth	Stephen J. Gulotta, Jr.
Jonathan A. Ballan	Stuart Hirshfield
Richard H. Block	David R. Lagasse
Robert I. Bodian	Heidi A. Lawson
Steven B. Callahan	Jeffrey A. Moerdler
Charles E. Carey	Joel I. Papernik
Peter A. Chavkin	Andrew B. Roth
Stephen C. Curley	Robert Owen Senzer
Stephen E. Friedberg	Jeremy A. Spector
Marvin S. Gittes

The following Mintz Levin attorneys were named 2012 New York Rising Stars:

Michael S. Arnold	Narges M. Kakalia
Francis J. Earley	Peter F. Snell
Samuel Effron

Rising Stars are chosen by their peers as being among the top up-and-coming lawyers and must be 40 years old or younger, or in practice 10 years or less. Only 2.5 percent of lawyers in New York were named 2012 New York Rising Stars.

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