Best Lawyers announced last month the 28th edition of The Best Lawyers in America® and the second edition of the Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America were published.
“40 years ago, Best Lawyers was founded to provide individuals searching for a lawyer a reliable and unbiased resource to identify the top legal professionals in their area,” said Best Lawyers CEO Phillip Greer in a press release. “We are proud to continue our globally respected purely peer review methodology to honor the deserving lawyers recognized by their contemporaries.”
According to the release, “the 2022 edition of The Best Lawyers in America recognizes the professional excellence of more than 66,000 lawyers in 147 practice areas, including 5,846 ‘Lawyer of the Year’ honors awarded to 5,842 lawyers.” The Lawyer of the Year distinction is awarded to only one lawyer per practice in each region. Recipients of the title must score “extremely high overall feedback from peers,” according to Best Lawyers. More than 10.8 million evaluations were analyzed in the U.S., the release states, resulting in recognition of approximately 5% of lawyers in private practice across the country.
Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch was launched last year. Best Lawyers announced “all candidates recognized in the previous edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America were eligible to vote on other nominated lawyers working in the same practice and located in the same geographic region.” More than 990,000 evaluations were analyzed for the 2022 Ones to Watch list, stated Best Lawyers. And more than 14,000 lawyers in 79 practice areas were recognized this year.
The distinction between Best Lawyers and other rankings is the peer-reviewed methodology. Best Lawyers began publishing its peer-reviewed ranking of U.S. attorneys in 1983.
Law Week received announcements that about roughly 230 Colorado attorneys were recognized by Best Lawyers this year. In our Best Lawyers issue, we covered some of the recipients on the lists for Lawyer of the Year and Ones to Watch in addition to Health Care, Personal Injury, Medical Malpractice, Environmental and Construction law.
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