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As a result, we congratulate at some point in your life, you’re those lawyers who have earned a place in this year’s guide and going to need a lawyer, and you won’t always be able to forecast offer special recognition to those when that need will arise. Finding selected for the first time by highlighting their names in green an advocate in whom you can throughout this publication. place your trust—particularly There have been other during times of strain or improvements to the magazine duress—can be a particularly as well. This year, to make your daunting task. For most of us, the choice must be made quickly search even more useful, we have included all listed lawyers and decisively, and large sums in Connecticut broken out by of money are potentially on the line. As when choosing a doctor, practice area and are pleased to announce the 2015 recipients of we place an immense amount the “Lawyer of the Year” award. of responsibility in the counsel Only one lawyer per practice area we hire to represent us. In our per metropolitan zone is granted search for the highest quality advocate, we expect to be treated this distinction, based on the highest peer ratings received. fairly, for our grievances to be Turn to page 6 to find out more. heard, and for our lawyers to We are also thrilled to unveil take on our case as if it were our new, fully interactive their own. digital edition, truly putting Best Lawyers is proud to be the power to make an informed the oldest legal peer-review decision at your fingertips. Each organization in the United States. Since 1983, lawyers have lawyer and firm with an online profile on BestLawyers.com is been nominating and voting on hyperlinked within these pages their colleagues, culminating in what is currently the 21 st edition and highlighted in blue. Simply of The Best Lawyers in America, scan the QR code on page 3 from which this directory has with your smartphone or go to been culled. The 2015 edition BestLawyers.com/Connecticut includes 52,488 attorneys in to access the fully responsive 137 practice areas, covering digital edition. It’s available all 50 states and the District anytime, anywhere—accessible of Columbia, and inclusion is for free, all year long. based on more than 5.5 million Our aim is to quickly connect detailed evaluations of lawyers you to the Best Lawyer that by other lawyers. best suits your needs and our A lot has changed in the last publication strives to put you in three decades. We now have touch with the Best Lawyers in myriad tools at our disposal, your hometown. Because it takes but has it gotten any easier to a community to recognize the find a lawyer? No one is allowed best, if you know an outstanding to buy his or her way into Best attorney who isn’t listed here, Lawyers , so when you search do not hesitate to go online to for representation here, you are BestLawyers.com and nominate certain to find only the most him or her today. highly regarded advocates in their chosen field. Lawyers must be re-nominated every year, thus ensuring that those listed are still considered the most Meredith Hinshaw esteemed in the profession. Director of Publications
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.
• N O M I N AT I O N Nominations are open to anyone. Our primary sources for nominations are clients, other lawyers & marketing teams.
• B A LLO T I N G Ballots are generated and distributed to listed lawyers. They are designed based on the voter’s practice area(s) and geographic region.
• VOTING 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.
• I N C LU S I O N 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.
• ANNOUNCEMENT Listed lawyers are notified of inclusion and the list is released to the public.
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