Per BestLawyers.com, “The Best Lawyers methodology is built upon the foundation of peer review, capturing the consensus opinion of leading lawyers about the professional abilities of their colleagues within the same geographical area and legal practice area. Best Lawyers uses a sophisticated, conscientious, rational, and transparent survey process designed to elicit meaningful and substantive evaluation of the quality of legal services. We believe that the quality of a peer-review survey is directly related to the quality of the voters.
Every name on our list has been nominated by a client or trusted sources and is then vetted by the nation’s top 5 percent of legal talent.”