TWG NEWS

TWG Lawyers Named to “Best Lawyers® in America” 2025 Edition TWG announced that 17 of the Firm’s attorneys were recently selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© (2025 Edition), including Best Lawyers® Lawyer of the Year in Wichita Attorney Ronald H. Harnden for Real Estate Law, Jeffrey D. Leonard for Construction Law and Litigation-Construction, Timothy E. McKee for Natural Resources Law, and Eric B. Metz for Employment Law-Management. Best Lawyers® has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Best Lawyers lists are compiled based on an exhaustive peer-review evaluation. Additionally, Attorneys Andrew N. Kovar and Matthew Schippers are recognized in The Best Lawyers in America©: Ones to Watch (2025 Edition) in Wichita.

CHAMBERS USA 2024 RECOGNIZES TWG AND LAWYERS TWG and its attorneys continue to receive high level rankings in the London-based Chambers USA 2024 Guide. Chambers USA ranks the top lawyers and law firms in all states across the U.S. using independent research. Leading law firms and individual lawyers are ranked based on understanding, diligence, value for money and other qualities valued by clients. In the 2024 publication, the following six TWG attorneys are recognized in Kansas in the following practice areas: Labor and Employment:Eric Metz Litigation; General CommercialJames A. Walker Litigation; General CommercialLisa McPherson Litigation; General CommercialRachael Pirner Real EstateRonald H. Harnden Real EstateJeffery C. Dahlgren Chambers USA’s evaluation methods consists of interviews with, and feedback from, clients and other lawyers in the market, assessment of the firms’ recent work, and independent research by the editors.

Matthew Schippers, TWG Estate and Tax Attorney, has been accepted into Class II of the Heart of America Fellows Institute of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC).

Triplett Woolf Garretson, LLC is pleased to announce that 14 lawyers have been selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2022. In addition, five of these lawyers have been named Best Lawyers® 2022 “Lawyer of the Year” in Wichita, and one attorney has been recognized in the Best Lawyers in America®: Ones to Watch (2022 Edition) in Wichita.

TWG Attorney Kimberlyn Gilchrist recognized among Women Who Lead in Legal TWG Business Law Attorney Kimberlyn Gilchrist has been recognized among Women Who Lead in Legal. The Women Who Lead series is hosted monthly by the Wichita Business Journal. As a native of Wichita, Kimberlyn has dedicated her legal career to serving the community. Kimberlyn practices in TWG’s business law group, with an emphasis on municipal law and finance, real estate, corporate law, and contracts. She also serves as the City Attorney for the City of Hillsboro. TWG is proud of Kimberlyn.

Gov. Kelly appoints Rachael Pirner to Kansas Senior Care Task Force TWG Attorney Rachael Pirner has been appointed by Governor Laura Kelly to serve as elder law attorney for the Kansas Senior Care Task Force. Pirner’s appointment to the Task Force was announced on July 1, 2021. The job of the Task Force is to consider policy that will affect elder law issues and to study the well-being of Kansas seniors. The Task Force will also review state statutes, policies, and programs, and report on improvements and recommended changes to these areas. Pirner comes to the Task Force bringing 33 years of experience as an elder law attorney. In addition, she has served the Kansas community as a board member of an adult care home for nine years, on the Financial Abuse Specialist Team for the Sedgwick District Attorney since 2008, and is currently

TWG attorneys obtain federal jury verdict against scammers TWG Business & Commercial Litigation Attorneys James Walker and Shane Rosson won a federal jury court case in which their client was awarded $3.25 million in punitive damages and $182,600 in actual damages. The jury rendered its verdict on July 1, 2021. The TWG attorneys’ client was an independent oil and gas operator from Harvey County, Kansas, and has been in business for over 50 years. The defendants were from Southern California and the New York City area. Before victimizing TWG’s client, the defendants had previously scammed domestic companies in the energy sector more than 50 times. The defendants conspired in falsely promising to finance North American energy projects in exchange for brokerage fees and short-term loan proceeds purporting to use sovereign bonds issued by a South American nation as collateral. The client was the only