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Stuart & Branigin Sees a Record Five Partners Included in The Best Lawyers in America 2008

Lafayette, Indiana – February 6, 2008 – Five partners from Stuart & Branigin LLP have been selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2008. Bruce Hugon, of the firm’s Indianapolis office, appears in the guide for the first time. He joins Anthony Benton, John Duffey, Thomas McCully, and Stephen Pennell, who have been included in previous editions.

Published since 1983, Best Lawyers is a highly respected referral guide to the legal profession in the United States. Only a small fraction of attorneys in the Indiana State Bar Association are listed. Those included are nominated by their professional peers and then voted into the guide through a confidential peer-review process. Lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee for inclusion. According to the publisher, Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.” For more information, visit www.bestlawyers.com.

Stuart & Branigin LLP, a full-service firm with offices in Lafayette and Indianapolis, has been providing legal services in Indiana since 1878. Today, the law firm has more than 30 experienced lawyers providing legal representation in such diverse areas as civil litigation and appellate matters; banking and creditors’ rights; business counseling; business transactions; buying and selling businesses; design and construction; education; employment; environmental; estates and trusts; health care; insurance; intellectual property; international; real estate, development, and zoning; and taxation.

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