Congratulations to Our Lawyers for Being Named to the 2022 Best Lawyers List

Taylor & Ring is proud to announce that several of our attorneys have been named to the 2022 list of Best Lawyers in America®!

For close to 40 years, Best Lawyers has honored the top lawyers in America. All recognized lawyers are nominated and assessed based entirely on peer review. Best Lawyers methodology is designed to capture, as closely as possible, the consensus opinion of the leading attorneys within the same geographical area and legal practice area.

Best Lawyers uses a transparent, sophisticated process to obtain legal service evaluations that have meaning and substance.

Taylor & Ring is pleased to announce that seven of our attorneys have been recognized this year.

Meet our award-winning attorneys

Plaintiff’s personal Injury litigation

Best Lawyers defines the term “personal injury” as “a wide area of claims that arise when one party believes that his or her damages were caused by another party, resulting in a lawsuit.”  The following Taylor & Ring attorneys have been recognized for their work in this practice area.

John C. Taylor: partner and co-founder. John has been recognized by Best Lawyers for 28 years for his work in personal injury litigation for plaintiffs. His practice is focused on representing victims of serious personal injury, wrongful death, products liability, civil rights, employees’ rights, insurance bad faith, faulty road design and general negligence.

Dave M. Ring: partner and co-founder. David has been recognized by Best Lawyers for 18 years for his work in personal injury litigation for plaintiffs. He was named a Lawyer of the Year in 2015 by Best Lawyers. His practice is focused on sexual abuse, sexual harassment, assault, molestation, and sexual misconduct, as well as wrongful death, serious motor vehicle and motorcycle accidents, construction site accidents, product liability, premises liability, and employment actions involving discrimination, harassment, and wrongful termination.

Robert R. Clayton: partner. Robert has been recognized by Best Lawyers in America for 5 years for his work in personal injury litigation and product liability litigation, both for representing plaintiffs. His practice is focused on wrongful death, premises liability, dangerous conditions on public and private property, mass transit accidents, products liability, serious motor vehicle and motorcycle accidents, burn injury claims, assault and battery cases, sexual assault, and sexual abuse cases.

Natalie Weatherford: partner. Natalie has been recognized by Best Lawyers for the second year for her work in personal injury litigation for plaintiffs. Her practice is focused on representing both children and adults in sexual harassment, assault, abuse and misconduct cases, as well as civil rights litigation

Plaintiffs’ product liability litigation

Product liability claims arise from defective products. Often, these products cause serious injury and harm. Robert R. Clayton was also recognized by Best Lawyers for his work in this practice area.

About Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch

Best Lawyers: One to Watch “recognizes extraordinary lawyers who have been in private practice for less than 10 years in the United States.” Taylor & Ring is proud to say that three of our attorneys were named to the 2022 Ones to Watch list for their work in plaintiff’s personal injury litigation.

Neil K. Gehlawat. Neil has been recognized for the second (added one) time by Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch for his work in personal injury litigation for plaintiffs. His practice is focused on serious personal injury, wrongful death, civil rights, and sexual abuse.

Brendan P. Gilbert. Brendan has been recognized for the second (added one) time by Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch for his work in personal injury litigation for plaintiffs. His practice is focused on sexual abuse of minors, sexual assault and harassment, products liability, and complex personal injury actions with catastrophic injuries.

Sonya Ostovar. Sonya has been recognized for the first time by Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch for her work on childhood sexual abuse, sexual assault, and sexual harassment, as well as employment law, elder abuse, and personal injury.

We are very proud of this year’s honorees. We hope you will join us in congratulating John, David, Robert, Natalie, Neil, Brendan, and Sonya!