Firms included in the 2015 “Best Law Firms” list are recognized for professional excellence with persistently impressive ratings from clients and peers. Achieving a tiered ranking signals a unique combination of quality law practice and breadth of legal expertise.
“For thirty years, U.S. News has provided consumers with accurate, in-depth information and rankings of a wide range of institutions,” says Tim Smart, Executive Editor of U.S. News & World Report. “Law firms are an integral part of our rankings and a natural accompaniment to the law school rankings.”
The 2015 rankings are based on the highest number of participating firms and highest number of client ballots on record. To be eligible for a ranking, a firm must have a lawyer listed in The Best Lawyers in America, which recognizes the top 4 percent of practicing attorneys in the US. Over 17,000 attorneys provided almost 600,000 law firm assessments, and almost 7,500 clients provided more than 40,000 evaluations.
"For a long time, we have joined enormous measures of hard information with companion surveys and customer appraisals to add to our law office rankings," says Steven Naifeh, CEO and Co-Founder of Best Lawyers. "Progressively, customers let us know that our own are the most exhaustive, precise, and supportive rankings of law offices accessible anyplace." Positioned firms, exhibited in levels, are recorded on a national and/or metropolitan scale. Accepting a level assignment mirrors the abnormal state of appreciation a firm has earned among other driving legal advisors and customers in the same groups and the same practice regions for their capacities, their polished methodology and their honesty.
Honors were given in 74 national practice regions and 120 metropolitan practice territories. One "Law office of the Year" is named in 73 of the broadly positioned practice ranges.
The 2015 "Best Law Firms" rundown will be offered in two distributions, conveyed not long from now. The national first-level rankings will be emphasized in the second release of the "Best Law Firms" Legal Issue, which will be conveyed to more than 30,000 C-level administrators. National and metropolitan first-level rankings will be offered in the "Best Law Firms" General Counsel Publication, which will be conveyed to more than 30,000 in-house counsel and in advanced configuration to more than 60,000 private practice legal advisors around the world.
The 2015 “Best Law Firms” rankings can be seen in their entirety by visiting bestlawfirms.usnews.com.
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