CUNNINGHAM BOUNDS ATTORNEY, STEPHEN C. OLEN, NAMED “LAWYER OF THE YEAR”
Oct 5, 2011
Mobile, Ala. – Best Lawyers, the oldest and most respected peer-review
publication in the legal profession, has named Stephen C. Olen as the
“Mobile Best Lawyers Litigation - Banking & Finance Lawyer of
the Year” for 2012.
Mr. Olen graduated from Princeton University in 1976 and received his
Juris Doctorate summa cum laude from Cumberland School of Law of Samford
University in 1979. His practice focuses on complex litigation, business
litigation, class actions and bankruptcy litigation. He has been lead
counsel in numerous multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements.
Mr. Olen has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America® since 1999,
and was named the "Mobile Bet-the-Company Litigator of the Year" for 2010.
After more than a quarter of a century in publication, Best Lawyers is
designating “Lawyers of the Year” in high-profile legal specialties
in large legal communities. Only a single lawyer in each specialty in
each community is being honored as the “Lawyer of the Year.”
Best Lawyers compiles its lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting
exhaustive peer-review surveys in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially
evaluate their professional peers. The current, 18th edition of The Best
Lawyers in America (2012) is based on more than 3.9 million detailed evaluations
of lawyers by other lawyers.
The lawyers being honored as “Lawyers of the Year” have received
particularly high ratings in our surveys by earning a high level of respect
among their peers for their abilities, professionalism, and integrity.
Steven Naifeh, President of Best Lawyers, says, “We continue to
believe – as we have believed for more than 25 years – that
recognition by one’s peers is the most meaningful form of praise
in the legal profession. We would like to congratulate Stephen C. Olen
on being selected as the ‘Mobile Best Lawyers Litigation - Banking
& Finance Lawyer of the Year’ for 2012.”