Benjamin W. Kadden earns coveted ‘Lawyer of the Year’ in Litigation-Bankruptcy in New Orleans by Best Lawyers in America© for 2023. Only a single lawyer in a specific practice area and location is honored with a "Lawyer of the Year" designation. Kadden, Lugenbuhl’s Managing Partner, is also recognized under three specialties of the 2023 Best Lawyers in America© list in Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Commercial Litigation, and Litigation-Bankruptcy.

We are also very proud of the twenty-four Lugenbuhl Attorneys named to the Best Lawyers in America© and Best Lawyers in America©: Ones to Watch 2023 Editions!

Best Lawyers in America©

-        Ashley L. Belleau - Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law and Litigation-Real Estate

-        Alicia M. Bendana - Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Commercial Litigation, and Litigation-Real Estate

-        Christopher T. Caplinger - Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law and Litigation–Bankruptcy

-        Thomas Louis Colletta, Jr. – Personal Injury Litigation-Defendants and Railroad Law

-        Todd G. Crawford - Admiralty and Maritime Law

-        Elia Diaz-Yaeger - Insurance Law

-        Céleste D. Elliott - Insurance Law

-        Adelaida J. Ferchmin – Admiralty and Maritime Law

-        Delos E. Flint, Jr. - Admiralty and Maritime Law and Commercial Litigation

-        Rose McCabe LeBreton - Land Use and Zoning Law, Litigation-Real Estate, and Real Estate Law

-        Stewart F. Peck - Admiralty and Maritime Law, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law, and Litigation-Bankruptcy

-        S. Frazer Rankin - Trusts and Estates

-        Anne E. Raymond - Real Estate Law

-        Seth A. Schmeeckle - Litigation-Insurance, Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions-Defendants, and Personal Injury Litigation-Defendants

-        Shaundra M. Schudmak - Insurance Law

-        David B. Sharpe - Admiralty and Maritime Law

-        Kristopher T. Wilson - Personal Injury Litigation-Defendants

-        Rodger Wheaton - Admiralty and Maritime Law

Best Lawyers in America©: Ones to Watch

-        Tyler J. Arbour – Trusts and Estates, Tax Law, and Litigation-Trusts and Estates

-        Stephen F. Butterfield - Commercial Litigation and Insurance Law

-        Megan M. Clark - Insurance Law and Trusts and Estates

-        Jay P. Farmer - Commercial Litigation, Insurance Law, and Transportation Law

-        Destinee F. Ramos - Commercial Litigation, Personal Injury Litigation-Defendants, and Transportation Law

-        James W. Thurman - Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law

For more than three decades, Best Lawyers in America© has compiled annual lists of outstanding attorneys based on exhaustive peer-review surveys in which tens of thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. Lawyers are not permitted to pay any fee to participate in or be included on the lists. It is the oldest peer-review guide to the legal profession worldwide, and a highly-respected industry publication.

About Lugenbuhl, Wheaton, Peck, Rankin & Hubbard

Founded in 1986, Lugenbuhl, Wheaton, Peck, Rankin & Hubbard is a nationally recognized full-service law firm specializing in core practice areas including admiralty and maritime, bankruptcy, insurance, litigation, commercial, corporate, real estate, and estates and trusts. The firm has evolved and expanded with offices in New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Houston, and Gulfport to better serve the needs of its national and international clients. For more information, call (504) 568-1990 or visit www.lawla.com.