Fourteen lawyers from the law firm of Winderweedle, Haines, Ward and Woodman, P.A., were recently selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© (2026), and two lawyers were named “Ones to Watch”.
The list of Winderweedle Best Lawyer honorees includes, Joseph P. “Rusty” Carolan, III in Banking and Finance Law, Business Organizations and Corporate Law; Michael P. Carolan in Banking and Finance Law, Commercial Transactions/UCC Law and Real Estate Law; James E. “Trippe” Cheek, III, Commercial Litigation and Land Use and Zoning Law; Jere F. Daniels, Jr. in Banking and Finance Law and Real Estate Law; Ryan E. Davis in Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Commercial Litigation and Litigation – Bankruptcy; J. Jeffrey Deery in Commercial Litigation and Litigation - Banking and Finance; Timothy J. Kiley in Commercial Litigation; Heather S. Moraes in Real Estate Law; C. Andrew Roy in Corporate Law; Bradley M. Saxton in Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation and Litigation - Bankruptcy; Vanessa J. Skinner in Elder Law, Litigation – Trusts and Estates and Trust and Estates; Richard B. Weinman in Business Organizations, Commercial Litigation and Litigation – Bankruptcy; Eric F. Werrenrath in Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law and Real Estate Law and W. Graham White in Trusts and Estates. “Ones to Watch” include Heidi M. Mitchell in Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Commercial Litigation, Litigation-Banking and Finance, Litigation - Bankruptcy and Litigation-Real Estate; and Lauren Reynolds in Appellate Practice, Commercial Litigation, Health Care Law, Litigation – Banking and Finance, Litigation- Bankruptcy, Litigation – Real Estate.
Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers® has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Because Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which almost 50,000 leading attorneys cast nearly five million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas, and because lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor.