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Date: June 8, 2015

Five Los Angeles Attorneys Named to 2015 Rising Stars® List

by foleyandmansfield
Date: June 8, 2015
by foleyandmansfield

Five Los Angeles Attorneys Named to 2015 Rising Stars® List

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Foley & Mansfield announces that five defense attorneys in the firm’s Los Angeles office have been named to the 2015 Rising Stars® list.  Three are new additions to the list.

Keith Ameele, Managing Partner of the Los Angeles office and a member of the firm’s executive committee, was again recognized for his work in Civil Litigation – Defense.  This is his second consecutive year on the list.  Shaun Swiger, named to the list in 2014, was again recognized for his work in Business & Commercial Litigation. Three additional attorneys were added to the list for 2015:  Maryam Danishwar for Personal Injury – Products Defense; M. Amadea Groseclose for Business Litigation; and Morgan W. McCall for General Litigation.  We invite you to learn more about these remarkable defense attorneys and their practices. 

Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters business, is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The annual selections are made using a patented multiphase process that includes a statewide survey of lawyers, an independent research evaluation of candidates and peer reviews by practice area. No more than 2.5% of the lawyers in a state are named to the Rising Stars list, which is comprised of up-and-coming Los Angeles area attorneys under the age of 40, having practiced fewer than 10 years.

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