Three from Murchison & Cumming Honored in Northern California Super Lawyers Edition

July 15, 2016

SAN FRANCISCO - Murchison & Cumming, LLP is pleased to announce that Partners Heidi C. Quan and Melissa Wood have been recognized as 2016 Northern California Super Lawyers and Senior Associate Katelyn M. Knight has been recognized as a Northern California Rising Star. No more than 5% of the lawyers in Northern California are honored as Super Lawyers and less than 2.5% are honored as Rising Stars.

Ms. Quan has experience representing individuals and businesses in a wide variety of matters, including areas of business litigation, general liability, professional liability, employment law, landlord/tenant, health law and product liability. Ms. Wood focuses her practice in the areas of general liability, premises liability, products liability, personal injury and wrongful death, habitability, construction injury and defect litigation, and employment law. Ms. Knight is a member of the Law & Motion practice group and has a varied civil litigation and appellate practice.

Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters business, is a rating service of outstanding lawyers who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The annual selections are made using a patented multiphase process that includes a statewide survey of lawyers, an independent research evaluation of candidates and peer reviews by practice area. The Super Lawyers lists are published nationwide in Super Lawyers Magazines and in leading city and regional magazines and newspapers across the country. Super Lawyers Magazines also feature editorial profiles of attorneys who embody excellence in their practice of law.

About Murchison & Cumming, LLP
With a firm history dating to 1930, Murchison & Cumming, LLP is a premier, AV-rated civil litigation firm with five offices in California and Las Vegas, whose attorneys specialize in the defense of domestic and international businesses, insurers and individuals, at trial and on appeal. The firm's attorneys also handle employment matters and business transactions. The firm is a member of the USLAW and Insuralex Networks.