AUGUSTA, Ga., August 18, 2022 — The 2023 editions of The Best Lawyers in America® and Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America™, released by Best Lawyers®, celebrate the professional accomplishments of the top legal talent in the country selected by their peers.

“We are delighted to announce the 2023 recognitions for the United States and congratulate the worthy lawyers honored,” said Best Lawyers CEO Phillip Greer. “For more than 40 years our awards have garnered the respect of the industry as a reliable and unbiased resource to identify the top legal professionals, and we are proud to continue our globally respected purely peer-review methodology through these recognitions.”

Utilizing Best Lawyers’ purely peer-reviewed methodology and voting process, the 29th edition of The Best Lawyers in America recognizes approximately 7% of the lawyers in private practice in the United States. For more than 40 years, Best Lawyers has operated on the belief that the quality of a peer-review survey directly relates to the quality of voters. Through a sophisticated, conscientious, rational and transparent survey process, Best Lawyers is established as the oldest and most respected guide to the legal profession. While preparing for the 2023 edition of The Best Lawyers in America, more than 12.2 million evaluations were analyzed in the United States.

Using the same transparent methodology and survey process that has made Best Lawyers the gold standard for legal rankings worldwide, Best Lawyers expands recognitions to lawyers earlier in their careers via the Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America awards. Candidates can only be considered for one recognition at a time, either Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch or traditional Best Lawyers awards, with most “Ones to Watch” honorees working in private practice for five to nine years. In the third edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America more than 1.6 million evaluations were analyzed in the United States resulting in more than 19,000 lawyers being recognized by their peers for their outstanding legal talent.

Additionally, one lawyer per practice area in each region with extremely high overall feedback from their peers is awarded the “Lawyer of the Year” honor. Only 5,484 lawyers earned this exceptional distinguishment in the 2023 edition.

Recognitions by Best Lawyers are specified by edition, country and practice area. For research purposes, smaller and more rural cities located within a reasonable distance to larger cities are combined into single geographical regions called “metro areas” to help collect as much feedback and data as possible. As defined by Best Lawyers, America is composed of 201 metro areas.

About Best Lawyers

For more than four decades, Best Lawyers has assisted those in need of legal services to identify the lawyers best qualified to represent them in distant jurisdictions or unfamiliar specialties. Lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed; therefore, recognition by Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor. Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch is not a seed list to Best Lawyers and all hopeful candidates must be nominated and vetted by their peers recognized in Best Lawyers.