Three Partners Named to Lawdragon 3000 List

November 2006

Adding to an established national reputation for excellence in corporate law, three attorneys at Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP have been named to Lawdragon 3000 Leading Lawyers in America, a list of the top U.S. lawyers ranked by clients and peers. The attorneys are: Walter C. Tuthill, Michael Houghton and Julia Heaney.

Mr. Tuthill and Mr. Houghton are members of the firm’s Commercial Law Counseling Group and head its unclaimed property practice. Messrs. Tuthill and Houghton, along with the accounting firm Deloitte & Touche LLP, co-authored a comprehensive analysis of the law of unclaimed property, recently released by the Bureau of National Affairs (BNA). The treatise is published in BNA’s Corporate Practice Series Portfolio 74-2nd "Unclaimed Property." [Michael Houghton et al., Unclaimed Property, 74-2nd C.P.S. (BNA)]

Mr. Tuthill is also listed in the prestigious Chambers USA Guide to America’s Leading Lawyers For Business as an outstanding practitioner in Corporate/M&As as well as the 2006 Best Lawyers in America, a preeminent referral guide to the legal profession in the United States.

Mr. Houghton is currently the Vice President and a member of the Executive Committee of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws ("NCCUSL"), and is active in a variety of political, professional and community organizations.

Ms. Heaney is a member of the firm’s Intellectual Property Litigation Group who, according to national legal publisher IP Law & Business, ranked second nationally in the number of patent cases filed in 2005. Ms Heaney has participated in numerous bench and jury trials in a wide range of patent and trade secret cases in the pharmacological, technological, medical device and consumer electronic fields.

The Lawdragon 3000 Leading Lawyers in America List represents less than one percent of the legal profession and is considered among the most elite group of legal professionals in the country. The Lawdragon 3000 list was compiled after thousands of interviews with corporate attorneys, litigators, judges, in-house counsel, prosecutors, law school professors, pro-bono practitioners, law firm managers, legal recruiters and clients. Lawyers on the list are organized in nearly 70 practice specialties including corporate law, the category for which Mr. Tuthill is recognized.