Six Adams and Reese attorneys are honored with a “Lawyer of the Year” designation in The Best Lawyers in America® 2025 edition. Only a single lawyer in a specific practice area and geographic region is honored with this designation, as voted on by their peers.
The Adams and Reese 2025 Best Lawyers “Lawyer of the Year” honorees include:
- Britton Bonner – Government Relations Practice, Mobile. Bonner is a Partner in the Adams and Reese Mobile office and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. Bonner advises clients on government relations and economic development across the United States. He is the only lawyer in Alabama and one of only 15 attorneys across the U.S. to be ranked by clients among the nation’s top GR attorneys by Chambers USA.
- Robin Cheatham – Financial Services Regulation Law, New Orleans. Cheatham serves as Counsel in the Adams and Reese New Orleans office and is a longtime, leading member of the firm’s Commercial Restructuring and Bankruptcy Team. Cheatham advises clients in all aspects of bankruptcy transactions and litigation, including commercial litigation, oil and gas matters, construction law, asset acquisitions, general business counseling and complex commercial financial transactions.
- Vic Lott – Mergers and Acquisitions, Timber Law, Mobile. Lott serves as Counsel in the Adams and Reese Mobile office. He has more than 40 years of experience negotiating transactions and representing clients in the purchase and sale of businesses and assets, venture capital financing, corporate governance and structuring, mezzanine finance, asset-based lending, real estate development, and finance and lender representation. He also advises on large institutional multi-state timberland transactions.
- Don McKinney – Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants, New Orleans. McKinney is a Partner in the Adams and Reese New Orleans office and longtime leading member of the Litigation Practice Group. He represents clients in all kinds of general and commercial litigation, including contract disputes, construction defects, professional liability and licensure, product liability, toxic exposure, medical malpractice, among others.
- Lucian Pera – Appellate Practice, Memphis. Pera is a Partner in the Adams and Reese Memphis office. His practice focuses on legal ethics work, media law, commercial litigation, and appellate. He is one of the nation’s leading legal ethics practitioners. Pera is ranked among the top litigators in Tennessee by Chambers USA.
- Tim Volpe – Arbitration, Jacksonville. Volpe serves as Counsel in the Adams and Reese Jacksonville office. He advises clients in commercial litigation, insurance litigation, and insurance industry matters, including the formation, reorganization, purchase and sale of insurance companies and agencies. Volpe is ranked among the top insurance and regulatory attorneys in Florida by Chambers USA.