Four lawyers from Curtis, Heinz, Garrett & O’Keefe were listed in The Best Lawyers in America© 2017: Leland Curtis, Carl Lumley, Kevin O’Keefe and Helmut Starr.

Leland Curtis and Carl Lumley were selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2017 in the fields of Communication Law and Energy Law. Kevin O’Keefe and Helmut Starr were included in The Best Lawyers in America 2017 in the field of Municipal Law. Helmut Starr also was included in The Best Lawyers in America 2017 in the fields of Land Use & Zoning Law and Real Estate Law.

Additionally, Carl Lumley and Helmut Starr were named the Best Lawyers® 2017 “Lawyer of the Year” in St. Louis for Energy Law and Litigation-Land Use & Zoning, respectively.

Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers® has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence, the lists for which are compiled based on peer-review evaluations. For the 2017 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America©, 7.3 million votes were analyzed, resulting in close to 55,000 leading lawyers being included in the new edition. Lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed; therefore 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.”