Nine members of Ryley Carlock & Applewhite have been selected as Leading Lawyers for Business in Arizona and Colorado by Chambers & Partners. They will be included in the 2009 edition of Chambers USA America's Leading Lawyers for Business The Client's Guide, which will be released to the public in June, 2009.

Chambers & Partners interviewed clients of law firms, General Counsel at Fortune 100 companies, entrepreneurs, and other significant purchasers of legal services to obtain a consistent market view of which law firms and lawyers are considered leaders in their law practice areas. The nine lawyers from RC&A selected as leaders are:

Colorado:
• James Sanderson, Environment
Arizona:
• Carolann Cervetti Bullock, Labor & Employment
• Charles (Rusty) Chester, Labor & Employment
• James Brophy, Corporate/M&A
• John Hink, Real Estate
• William Staudenmaier, Environment (including water rights)
• Michael Moberly, Labor & Employment
• Nathan Niemuth, Labor & Employment
• Phillip Guttilla, Corporate/M&A

Chambers & Partners have been publishers since 1969. They are located in London, England, and publish United Kingdom, USA, and Global guides to the legal profession. Additional information regarding Chambers & Partners, its guides, and the selection process they use to determine the leading lawyers in the United Kingdom, the USA, and the World is available at www.ChambersandPartners.com.

Ryley Carlock & Applewhite is a firm of more than 100 lawyers, with offices in Phoenix and Denver. Its practices concentrate on areas of law most vital to the region, ranging from business and banking, to employment and bankruptcy, and include one of the leading water, energy, resources and environment practices in the West.