Bone McAllester Norton continues to earn top recognition in the 2017 edition of U.S. News & World Report & Best Lawyers “Best Law Firm” rankings—a comprehensive survey of America's top law firms—with 20 overall practice rankings. Bonelaw added several new rankings, including Healthcare, Corporate, Mergers and Acquisition, Environmental, and Securitization and Structured Finance. The survey also resulted in 14 individual rankings for Bonelaw attorneys, 10 of those ranked in more than one practice area.
Practice rankings include:
- Administrative / Regulatory Law - Learn More
- Banking and Finance Law - Learn More
- Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law - Learn More
- Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships) - Learn More
- Copyright Law - Learn More
- Corporate Law - Learn More
- Criminal Defense: General Practice - Learn More
- Criminal Defense: White-Collar - Learn More
- DUI/DWI Defense - Learn More
- Employment Law - Individuals - Learn More
- Employment Law - Management - Learn More
- Environmental Law - Learn More
- Health Care Law - Learn More
- Litigation - Labor & Employment - Learn More
- Mergers & Acquisitions Law - Learn More
- Non-Profit/Charities Law - Learn More
- Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs - Learn More
- Real Estate Law - Learn More
- Securitization and Structured Finance Law - Learn More
- Trademark Law - Learn More
The U.S.News – Best Lawyers "Best Law Firms" rankings are based on a rigorous evaluation process that includes the collection of client and lawyer evaluations, peer review from leading attorneys in their field, and review of additional information provided by law firms as part of the formal submission process.
Bone McAllester Norton is also pleased to announce Anne C. Martin was named Best Lawyers© “Lawyer of the Year” for Litigation – Labor and Employment. Anne Martin has been a member of Best Lawyers since 2007 and a “Lawyer of the Year” since 2013. Only one attorney in the Nashville area is named “Lawyer of the Year” for Labor and Employment. Anne advocates for employees wrongly treated by employers and also advises employers how to comply with complex federal and state employment laws.
“We are pleased to have so many of our attorneys named to Best Lawyers in their areas of practice” said Charles W. Bone, Chairman, Bone McAllester Norton.
Best Lawyers is the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession. The attorneys included in the 2017 The Best Lawyers in America list are:
- Banking and Finance Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
- Non-Profit / Charities Law
- Administrative / Regulatory Law
- Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)
- Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs
- Administrative / Regulatory Law
Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs
- Food and Beverage Law
- Non-Profit / Charities Law
- Corporate Law
- Healthcare Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
- Real Estate Law
- Securitization and Structured Finance Law
- Employment Law – Individuals
- Environmental Law
- Copyright Law
- Trademark Law
- Best Lawyers© Lawyer of the Year 2017
- Employment Law – Individuals
- Employment Law – Management
- Litigation – Labor and Employment
- Banking and Finance Law
- Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
- Banking and Finance Law
- Real Estate Law
- Criminal Defense: General Practice
- Criminal Defense: White-Collar
- DUI/DWI Defense
- Commercial Litigation
- Copyright Law
- Litigation – Intellectual Property
Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Best Lawyers lists are compiled based on an exhaustive peer-review evaluation. Over 83,000 leading attorneys globally are eligible to vote, and we have received more than 13 million votes to date on the legal abilities of other lawyers based on their specific practice areas around the world. For the 2017 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America, 7.3 million votes were analyzed, which resulted in almost 55,000 leading lawyers being included in the new edition. Lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed; therefore inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor.