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Burns, White & Hickton announces 2010 Best Lawyers®

PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA – October, 1, 2009 — Burns, White & Hickton, LLC, announces that five of its Pittsburgh attorneys and one Wheeling, W.Va., attorney have been named to the 2010 edition of Best Lawyers®, the oldest peer review publication in the legal profession. The Pittsburgh attorneys honored are Michael W. Burns for Commercial Litigation, Media Law and Railroad Law; David A. Damico for Railroad Law; Daniel B. Donahoe for Railroad Law; David J. Hickton for Antitrust Law and Commercial Litigation; and David B. White for Medical Malpractice Law and Personal Injury Litigation. From the firm’s Wheeling, W. Va., office, Patrick S. Casey is recognized for Medical Malpractice Law, Personal Injury Litigation and Professional Malpractice Law.

Burns, White & Hickton is ranked No. 1 in Best Lawyers® in the field of Railroad Law and Media Law in both Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania. First published in 1983, Best Lawyers is based on an annual peer-review survey. For the new U.S. edition, more than 24,126 attorneys cast more than 2.8 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in the same and related specialties. The organization’s website received more than 9.4 million page views from August 2008 through July 2009.

Burns, White & Hickton is a law firm representing professionals, companies and organizations in the areas of litigation, transactional law and transportation law. It has more than 90 attorneys working from offices in Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Princeton, N.J., Wheeling, W. Va., and Wilmington, Del.

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