Best Lawyers® Recognizes 23 QGT Attorneys In 2025 Edition

Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull PLLC is pleased to announce that 23 lawyers have been included in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®. Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence, earning the respect of the profession, the media, and the public as the most reliable, unbiased source of legal referrals.  Its first international list was published in 2006 and since then has grown to provide lists in over 75 countries. Lawyers on The Best Lawyers in America® list are divided by geographic region and practice areas. They are reviewed by their peers on the basis of professional expertise and undergo an authentication process to make sure they are in current practice and in good standing.

Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull PLLC would like to congratulate the following lawyers named to the 2025 The Best Lawyers in America® list: 

Brandon B. Cate – Commercial Litigation, Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law, Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law, Litigation – ERISA, and Litigation-Labor and Employment
Vincent O. Chadick – Agriculture Law and Commercial Litigation
E. B. (Chip) Chiles IV – Appellate Practice, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law, Litigation – ERISA, Litigation – Labor and Employment, Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Defendants, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants, and Product Liability Litigation – Defendants
Joseph R. Falasco – Appellate Practice, Commercial Litigation, Corporate Law, Litigation – Labor and Employment, and Litigation – Real Estate
Timothy W. Grooms – Banking and Finance Law, Corporate Law, Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law, Land Use and Zoning Law, Litigation – Real Estate, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, and Real Estate Law
Michael B. Heister – Appellate Practice, Commercial Litigation, Energy Regulatory Law, and Environmental Law
John M. Jewell – Information Technology Law
Jeb. H. Joyce – Banking and Finance Law, Corporate Law, and Real Estate Law
Sarah Keith-Bolden – Commercial Litigation and Litigation – Labor and Employment
Scott M. Lar – Tax Law and Trusts and Estates
J. Cliff McKinney II – Land Use and Zoning Law and Real Estate Law
Joseph W. Price II – Commercial Litigation, Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law, and Litigation – Real Estate
Steven W. Quattlebaum – Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Insurance Law, Litigation – Health Care,  Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Defendants, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants, and Product Liability Litigation – Defendants
Michael N. Shannon – Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants, Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants, and Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs
Geoffrey B. Treece – Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law and Litigation – Bankruptcy
John E. Tull III – Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, First Amendment Law, Litigation – Banking and Finance, Litigation – First Amendment, Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Defendants, Media Law, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants, and Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs
David B. Vandergriff – Banking and Finance Law, Commercial Litigation, Litigation – Banking and Finance, and Litigation – Real Estate
Thomas G. Williams – Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants and Product Liability Litigation – Defendants
R. Ryan Younger – Commercial Litigation, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants, and Product Liability Litigation – Defendants

Best Lawyers also honors a single lawyer in each practice area and designated metropolitan area as a “Lawyer of the Year.”  Six attorneys from our firm earned this distinction in Little Rock for 2025: Timothy W. Grooms for Banking and Finance Law; John E. Tull III for Litigation – Banking and Finance; E. B. (Chip) Chiles IV for Bet-the-Company Litigation; Thomas G. Williams for Product Liability Litigation – Defendants:  Joseph W. Price III for Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law; and Geoffrey B. Treece for Litigation – Bankruptcy.  Brandon B. Cate was named Lawyer of the Year for Litigation – Labor and Employment in Fayetteville. These lawyers are selected based on particularly impressive voting averages received during the peer review assessments.  Receiving this designation reflects the high level of respect a lawyer has earned among other leading lawyers in the same communities and the same practice areas for their abilities, their professionalism, and their integrity.

Four lawyers from QGT have been included in the 2025 Edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America, which recognizes associates and other lawyers who are earlier in their careers for their outstanding professional excellence in private practice in the United States.  Lawyers recognized in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America are divided by geographic region and practice areas, reviewed by their peers on the basis of professional expertise, and undergo an authentication process to make sure they are in current practice and in good standing.

Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull PLLC would like to congratulate the following lawyers recognized in the 2025 Edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America: 

Meredith M. Causey – Commercial Litigation
Philip A. Elmore – Commercial Litigation
C. Ryan O’Quinn – Trusts and Estates
Thomas H. Wyatt – Commercial Litigation

A complete list of these and other rankings can be found on our Awards page.