Attorney Joel K. Dayton Named “Best Lawyers” Akron Area Lawyer of the Year for 2012
(October 2011) - Black McCuskey is pleased to announce that Attorney Joel K. Dayton has been named the Akron Best Lawyers Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law Lawyer of the Year for 2012 by Best Lawyers, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession. The lawyers being honored as “Lawyers of the Year” have received particularly high ratings in the surveys by earning a high level of respect among their peers for their abilities, professionalism, and integrity.
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.
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 Joel K. Dayton on being selected as the ‘Akron Best Lawyers Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law Lawyer of the Year’ for 2012.”
Joel is the Practice Area Coordinator of the firm’s Commercial, Creditors’ Rights, Bankruptcy & Workouts Practice Group, concentrating in the areas of commercial transactions, bankruptcy and creditors’ rights, and secured lending. During his years of practice, he has represented numerous businesses, financial institutions, bankruptcy trustees and other parties in many of the major commercial bankruptcy cases filed in the Northern District of Ohio and other jurisdictions. Joel has also served as counsel for numerous banks, businesses, creditors, bankruptcy trustees and court appointed receivers in various state court proceedings, both in and outside the State of Ohio. In addition, he has lectured and authored materials on a variety of UCC, bankruptcy and creditors’ rights subjects and spoken before various organizations and bar associations, including the regional William J. O’Neill Bankruptcy Institute in Cleveland and the White-Williams Bankruptcy Institute in Akron-Canton.
