Fisher & Phillips Partners John Beers and Tim Murphy Named to The Best Lawyers in America 2013

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, August 25, 2012 (Press-News.org) Fisher & Phillips LLP announces that San Francisco partners John Beers and Tim Murphy have been selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2013 (Copyright 2012 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, S.C.). Overall, the firm has 81 attorneys honored across 23 regional offices - an increase of nearly 23 percent over last year for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America.

Representing employers exclusively, Beers has successfully litigated hundreds of employment cases for numerous clients. He has defended employers in jury trials against claims of wrongful discharge, whistleblowing, age discrimination, sex discrimination, disability discrimination, sexual harassment, retaliation, and other claims. Beers serves as an evaluator of employment cases in Early Neutral Evaluations for the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Program of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. He also mediates employment cases for the Northern District's ADR Program. Beers received his J.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law in 1976 and his B.A. from Stanford University in 1973.

Listed in The Best Lawyers in America for more than 20 consecutive years, Murphy manages the San Francisco office and has handled cases involving a wide variety of issues. Since 1985, his practice has focused on jury trial cases concerning sexual harassment, race discrimination, whistleblower allegations, retaliation, wrongful discharge, trade secret protection, and disability discrimination. Murphy received his J.D. from the University of Colorado Law School in 1972 and his B.A. from Stanford University in 1969.

About Best Lawyers
Since it was first published 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 36,000 leading attorneys cast almost 4.4 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."

About Fisher & Phillips LLP (www.laborlawyers.com)
Fisher & Phillips LLP represents employers nationally in labor, employment, civil rights, employee benefits and immigration matters. The firm has more than 275 attorneys in 27 offices. Founded in 1943, it is one of the first U.S. law firms to concentrate its practice exclusively upon representation of employers in labor and employment matters. The firm has offices in Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Cleveland, Columbia, Dallas, Denver, Fort Lauderdale, Houston, Irvine, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Louisville, Memphis, New England, New Jersey, New Orleans, Orlando, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, San Diego, San Francisco, Tampa, and Washington D.C.