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Four Cox Wootton Attorneys Honored By Northern California Super Lawyers™

Cox, Wotton, Griffin, Hansen & Poulos, LLP, is proud to announce that four of its San Francisco litigation attorneys have been named 2010 Northern California Super Lawyers™, as published in the 2010 edition of San Francisco Magazine and Northern California Super Lawyers Magazine.  Only approximately 5% of the Northern California Bar receives this special distinction, which involves selection by a poll of California lawyers and thorough independent research conducted by Law & Politics.

Cox Wootton's 2010 Super Lawyers are:

-- Terence S. Cox, Partner, General Litigation

-- Richard C. Wootton, Partner, Transportation/Maritime

-- Mitchell S. Griffin, Partner, Transportation/Maritime

-- Rupert P. Hansen, Partner, Transportation/Maritime

Cox Wootton Named Top Firm in San Francisco For Maritime Law by Best Lawyers In America® 2011

Cox, Wootton, Griffin, Hansen & Poulos, LLP, is pleased to announce that for the third year in a row, the Firm has been listed as the top firm in San Francisco for Maritime Law, and three of the Firm's lawyers have been listed among the Nation's preeminent lawyers by Best Lawyers in America® 2011 (copyright 2010 by Woodward/White, Aiken, SC).  Lawyers are selected for listing and Law Firms are ranked in Best Lawyers in America® exclusively through exhaustive peer-review surveys in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate professional peers.  Partners Richard C. Wootton, Rupert P. Hansen and Gregory W. Poulos are the California law firm's individual attorneys listed in Best Lawyers in America® 2011, in the field of Maritime Law (copyright 2010 by Woodward/White, Aiken, SC).  Since its inception in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence.  Because Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which more than 39,000 leading attorneys cast almost 3.1 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas, and because lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor.  Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.”

Cox Wootton Named #1 in San Francisco For Maritime Law by Best Lawyers In America

September 2009.

Cox, Wootton, Griffin, Hansen & Poulos, LLP, is pleased to announce that the Firm has been listed #1 in San Francisco for Maritime Law, and three of the Firm's lawyers have been listed among the Nation's preeminent lawyers by the 2010 edition of Woodward and White's treatise, Best Lawyers in America.  Lawyers are selected for listing and Law Firms are ranked in Best Lawyers in America exclusively through exhaustive peer-review surveys in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate professional peers.  Partners Richard C. Wootton, Rupert P. Hansen and Gregory W. Poulos are the Firm's individual lawyers listed in the 2010 edition of Best Lawyers in America, in the field of Maritime Law.

Four Cox Wootton Attorneys Honored By Northern California Super Lawyers (TM)

July 2009.

Cox, Wotton, Griffin, Hansen & Poulos, LLP, is proud to announce that four of its attorneys have been named 2009 Northern California Super Lawyers, as published in the August edition of San Francisco Magazine and Northern California Super Lawyers Magazine.  Only approximately 5% of the Northern California Bar receives this special distinction, which involves selection by a poll of California lawyers and thorough independent research conducted by Law & Politics. 

Cox Wootton's 2009 Super Lawyers are:

-- Terence S. Cox, Partner, General Litigation

-- Richard C. Wootton, Partner, Transportation/Maritime

-- Mitchell S. Griffin, Partner, Transportation/Maritime

-- Rupert P. Hansen, Partner, Transportation/Maritime

Cox Wootton Welcomes Attorney Christian E. Ford

Cox, Wootton, Griffin, Hansen & Poulos, LLP, has added associate attorney Christian E. Ford to their San Francisco law firm.  Mr. Ford is a 2008 graduate of University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), and holds Masters Degree from both Yale University and University of California, Berkeley.  Concurrent with his law practice at the Firm, Mr. Ford is a Ph.D Candidate in political science at the University of California, Berkeley.

Immediately prior to joining the California law practice, Mr. Ford was a lecturer in the National Security Affairs Department at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), where he taught graduate-level classes in homeland security, critical infrastructure protection, and national security law.  Prior to teaching, Mr. Ford was an associate with Baker & McKenzie LLP, where he worked on commercial litigation, commercial trade regulation and compliance, and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act matters.

While in law school, Mr. Ford was a senior editor and articles editor of the Berkeley Journal of International Law.  He received an Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award from the University, which is given to fewer than ten percent of the University’s graduate student instructors.

Prior to law school, Mr. Ford worked as Special Assistant to the Department of Homeland Security’s Director of Infrastructure Protection (2002-2003).  He also worked as Special Assistant to Homeland Security’s Deputy General Counsel (2003).