24 for 24! Sturgill Turner Attorneys Named 2024 Best Lawyers in America; Two are Lexington “Lawyer of the Year”

Sturgill, Turner, Barker & Moloney, PLLC is excited to announce that 24 of our attorneys have been selected for inclusion as 2024 Best Lawyers in America®, one of the most respected legal peer-review guides worldwide. Two of our attorneys have also been named Lexington metropolitan area “Lawyer of the Year.” Only one lawyer in each specific practice area from each community can be honored as the “Lawyer of the Year.”

Sturgill Turner’s 2024 Lexington Lawyers of the Year are:

• Stephen L. Barker: Employment Law, Labor & Employment Litigation

• Kevin W. Weaver: Workers’ Compensation Law – Employers

Twenty (20) of our attorneys have been selected for inclusion in the 2024 Best Lawyers in America list. Plus, four Sturgill Turner attorneys were named to the Best Lawyers in America “Ones to Watch” designation, for attorneys who have been in private practice fewer than 10 years. Our Best Lawyers, and the areas of practice for which they have been recognized, are:

• Stephen L. Barker: Education Law; Employment Law – Management; Labor & Employment Litigation; Mediation (*Lexington Employment Lawyer of the Year: 2011, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2021 & 2024; Lexington Mediation Lawyer of the Year: 2023)

• Bryan H. Beauman: Employment Law – Management (*Lexington Employment Law – Management Lawyer of the Year: 2023)

• Charles D. Cole: Municipal Law

• Kacey M. Coleman: Employment Law – Management

• Andrew D. DeSimone: Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants; Health Care Litigation

• Jamie W. Dittert: Insurance Law; Insurance Litigation

• James W. Gardner: Energy Law; Utilities Law

• Kevin G. Henry: Banking and Finance Litigation; Bankruptcy Litigation; Labor & Employment Litigation; Trusts and Estates Litigation (*Lexington Trusts & Estates Litigation Lawyer of the Year: 2012, 2022; Lexington Banking & Finance Litigation Lawyer of the Year: 2013 & 2021; Lexington Labor & Employment Litigation Lawyer of the Year: 2019; Lexington Bankruptcy Litigation Lawyer of the Year: 2016)

• Stan Lee: Insurance Litigation

• L. Scott Miller: Civil Rights Law; Municipal Litigation; Municipal Law

• Donald P. “Pat” Moloney, II: Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants; Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants (*Lexington Medical Malpractice Defense Lawyer of the Year: 2015 & 2021; Lexington Personal Injury Litigation Defense Lawyer of the Year: 2016)

• Phillip M. Moloney: Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants (*Lexington Personal Injury Litigation – Defense Lawyer of the Year: 2018)

• M. Todd Osterloh: Energy Law; Utilities Law; Municipal Litigation (*Lexington Utilities Law Lawyer of the Year: 2021)

• Josh J. Owen: Insurance Law

• Josh M. Salsburey: Employment Law - Management; Labor and Employment Litigation

• Doug Stephan: Health Care Law; Insurance Law (*Lexington Insurance Law Lawyer of the Year: 2017)

• Kevin W. Weaver: Workers’ Compensation Law – Employers (*Lexington Workers’ Compensation Law Lawyer of the Year – Employers: 2014, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022 & 2024)

• Timothy C. Wills: Construction Law; Construction Litigation; Employment Law – Management; Labor Law – Management; Labor & Employment Litigation; Professional Malpractice Law – Defendants (*Lexington Construction Law Lawyer of the Year: 2014 & 2019; Lexington Construction Litigation Lawyer of the Year: 2021, 2022)

• Derrick T. Wright: Employment Law - Management; Labor and Employment Litigation

• Sarah Charles Wright: Corporate Law; Health Care Law

Best Lawyers “Ones to Watch”

• Catherine E. “Katie” Bouvier: Insurance Law

• Madeleine B. Loeffler: Health Care Law; Medical Malpractice Law - Defendants

• Emily B. Pence: Insurance Law; Health Care Law

• Rebecca C. Price: Corporate Law; Energy Law; Municipal Law

About The Best Lawyers in America®

Since its inception in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Because Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which more than 41,000 leading attorneys cast almost 3.9 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas, and because lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor.

Best Lawyers compiles its lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate the professional abilities of their colleagues within the same geographical area and legal practice area. The lawyers being honored as “Lawyers of the Year” were selected because they received particularly high ratings from their peers.

About Sturgill, Turner, Barker & Moloney, PLLC

For 65 years, Sturgill Turner has been serving businesses, public entities and individuals in Lexington, across the Commonwealth, and beyond. Our attorneys focus on business law, education law, employment law, health care law, insurance law, municipal and governmental law, utilities, trusts and estates, and alternative dispute resolution.