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It’s inevitable—at some point in your life, you’re going to need a lawyer, and you
4.9 million detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers. A lot has changed in the last three decades. We now have myriad tools at our disposal, but won’t always be able to forecast when that need has it gotten any easier to find a lawyer? No one will arise. Finding an advocate in whom you can is allowed to buy his or her way into Best Lawyers, place your trust—particularly during times of so when you search for representation here, you strain or duress—can be a particularly daunting are certain to find only the most highly regarded task. For most of us, the choice must be made advocates in their chosen field. Lawyers must be quickly and decisively, and large sums of money re-nominated every year, thus ensuring that those are potentially on the line. As when choosing listed are still considered the most esteemed in a doctor, we place an immense amount of responsibility in the counsel we hire to represent the profession. As a result, we congratulate those us. In our search for the highest quality advocate, lawyers who have earned a place in this year’s guide and offer special recognition of those who we expect to be treated fairly, for our grievances have been honored for 30 years by highlighting to be heard, and for our lawyers to take on our their names in red throughout this publication. case as if it were their own. There have been other improvements to Best Lawyers is proud to be the oldest the magazine as well. This year, to make your legal peer-review organization in the search even more useful, we have included all United States. Since 1983, lawyers have been listed lawyers in Indiana broken out by metro nominating and voting on their colleagues, culminating in what is currently the 20th edition and practice area and are pleased to announce the 2014 recipients of the “Lawyer of the Year” of The Best Lawyers in America, from which this award. Only one lawyer per practice area per directory has been culled. The 2014 edition metropolitan zone is granted this distinction, includes 50,834 attorneys in 134 practice based on the highest peer ratings received. Turn areas, covering all 50 states and the District of Columbia, and inclusion is based on more than to page 6 to find out more.
We are also thrilled to unveil our new, fully interactive digital edition, truly putting the power to make an informed decision at your fingertips. Each lawyer and firm with an online profile on BestLawyers.com is hyperlinked within these pages and highlighted in blue. Simply scan the QR code on page 11 with your smartphone or go to the Regional Publications section of BestLawyers.com to access the fully responsive digital edition. It’s available anytime, anywhere—accessible for free, all year long. Our aim is to quickly connect you to the Best Lawyer that best suits your needs and our publication strives to put you in touch with the Best Lawyers in your hometown. Because it takes a community to recognize the best, if you know an outstanding attorney who isn’t listed here, do not hesitate to go online to BestLawyers.com and nominate him or her today.
Meredith Hinshaw Director of Publications
METHODOLOGY Inclusion in Best Lawyers is based entirely on peer-review. The methodology is designed to capture, as accurately as possible, the consensus opinion of leading lawyers about the professional abilities of their colleagues within the same geographical area and legal practice area.
Best Lawyers employs a sophisticated, conscientious, rational, and transparent survey process designed to elicit meaningful and substantive evaluations of the quality of legal services. Our belief has always been that the quality of a peer-review survey is directly related to the quality of its voting pool.
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Nominations are open to anyone. Our primary sources for nominations: clients, other lawyers & marketing teams.
Ballots are generated and distributed to listed lawyers. They are designed based on the voter’s practice area(s) and geographic region.
Best Lawyers asks voters the question: “If you were unable to take a case yourself, how likely would you be to refer it to this nominee?” Nominees are given a 1 -5 rating, with room to leave additional comments.
The Best Lawyers editorial staff reviews the votes and comments. Selected lawyers are checked against state bar association sanction lists to make sure they are in good standing with the ethics committee of their state bar.
Listed lawyers are notified of inclusion and the list is released to the public.
To submit nominations, please visit www.BestLawyers.com/Admin/Nomination.aspx or email nominations@bestlawyers.com. For additional information concerning nominations, please contact us at info@bestlawyers.com.
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