Keating Wagner Polidori Free is proud to announce that eleven of its attorneys were included in this year’s Best Lawyers list across a range of practice areas including Ross Pulkrabek, who was named as a Lawyer of the Year for Legal Malpractice Law- Plaintiffs, and Melissa Hailey, who is honored for the first time.

Attorneys Randy Barnhart, Larry Free, Christina Habas, Melissa Hailey, Mike Keating, Deirdre Ostrowski, Ross Pulkrabek, Melissa Sullivan, Bob Wagner, Dan Wartell, and Zach Warzel were all named to the 2020 list in practice areas including Personal Injury Litigation-Plaintiffs, Legal Malpractice–Plaintiffs, Workers’ Compensation–Claimants and Insurance Law. Specific designations for each attorney are outlined below. Congrats to our amazing team!

• W. Randolph Barnhart (2006) [15th consecutive year]
  • Insurance Law
  • Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs
  • Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs
  • Professional Malpractice Law – Plaintiffs
• Laurence J. Free (2016) [5th consecutive year]
  • Workers’ Compensation Law – Claimants
• Christina Habas (2015) [5th consecutive year]
  • Employment Law – Individuals
  • Medical Malpractice Law – Plaintiffs
  • Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs
  • Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs
• Melissa Hailey (*)
  • Insurance Law
• Michael O’Brien Keating (2015) [5th consecutive year]
  • Medical Malpractice Law – Plaintiffs
  • Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs
  • Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs
• Deirdre Ostrowski (2016) [5th consecutive year]
  • Medical Malpractice Law – Plaintiffs
  • Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs
  • Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs
• Ross W. Pulkrabek (2017)
  • Legal Malpractice Law – Plaintiffs
  • Litigation – Securities
  • Professional Malpractice Law – Plaintiffs
• Melissa Sullivan (2019)
  • Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs
• Robert A. Wagner (2013) [5th consecutive year]
  • Medical Malpractice Law – Plaintiffs
  • Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs
  • Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs
• Daniel Wartell (2017)
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Professional Malpractice Law – Plaintiffs
• Zachary C. Warzel (2015) [5th consecutive year]
  • Insurance Law
  • Litigation – Insurance

Since it was first published 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 36,000 leading attorneys cast almost 4.4 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. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers® “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.”

*denotes the first year designated