March 4, 2009 Contact: Client Relations Department
Phone Toll Free: 800.686.2825
E-mail: ClientRelations@bdblaw.com Stephen M. Hammersmith Named as the Banking Lawyer of Year, 2009 Akron
Akron, OH -  AKRON, OHIO – February 25, 2009 – The law firm of Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLP (“BDB”) is pleased to announce that Stephen M. Hammersmith has been named as the Best Lawyers’ 2009 Akron Banking Lawyer of the Year. After more than a quarter of a century in publication, Best Lawyers is designating “Lawyers of the Year” in high-profile legal specialties in large legal communities. 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, 15th edition of The Best Lawyers in America (2009), is based on more than 2.5 million detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers. The lawyers being honored as “Lawyers of the Year” have received particularly high ratings in our surveys by earning a high level of respect among their peers for their abilities, professionalism, and integrity. Hammersmith has been with the firm for over 25 years and serves as Vice President of the Firm’s Board of Managers. His practice is focused on finance and municipal law, commercial and corporate transactions and non-profit entity law. Hammersmith has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America® since 1995 and has received special recognition for 10 consecutive years or more as one of the Best Lawyers in America®. He has a Martindale-Hubbell Rating of AV, which indicates very high to pre-eminent legal ability and very high ethical standards as established by confidential opinions from members of the Bar. Hammersmith has received both his J.D. and B.A. from The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. He is a member of the American, Ohio State and Akron Bar Associations and is admitted to practice law in the Federal District Court and the Northern District Court of Ohio. He is a member of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Akron/Canton Branch Board, as well as Chairman of the Hoban Trust Fund Board. Hammersmith resides in Copley, Ohio.
The Akron office of Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLP employs more than 100 legal professionals and support staff, including attorneys that represent several major organizations in the region including the GAR Foundation Institute, Metro Parks, Serving Summit County, Ohio Realty Advisors, Okamoto U.S.A., Inc., Testa Companies and the Yellow Roadway Corporation. The firm was founded in Akron more than 90 years ago. The attorneys in Akron specialize in various practice areas, including business law, taxation, trusts and estates, immigration, criminal law, real estate and construction and litigation.Since 1913, Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLP has served individuals and businesses in virtually every industry and trade. Through offices in Boca Raton, Florida, and Akron, Canton and Cleveland, Ohio, the Firm provides legal services to clients from sole proprietors to multinational corporations, governmental bodies, foundations and public organizations.
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