New York, NY. International law firm Nixon Peabody LLP has been highly recognized as a “Best Law Firm” in rankings released by U.S. News Media Group, the publisher of U.S. News & World Report magazine and Best Lawyers, the oldest peer-review publication in the legal profession. Twenty-three practices were ranked—both nationally and regionally—noting “a unique combination of excellence and breadth of expertise.”
Nationally, Nixon Peabody received honors in several practices, including a top rating for the Franchise practice. The firm also received high national recognition for the Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Employment Law/Management and Labor Law/Management, General Commercial Litigation, and Tax Law practices.
“The recognition from U.S. News and Best Lawyers validates our commitment to providing counsel of the highest quality to our clients and delivering results that help them to achieve their strategic business objectives,” said Richard F. Langan, Jr., Nixon Peabody’s managing partner and CEO. “The rankings are another indication of the excellence of our lawyers and staff across the firm and we are tremendously proud to be recognized among the leading law firms.”
Additionally, many of Nixon Peabody’s offices ranked highly in the following practice areas:
- Administrative/Regulatory Law
- Antitrust Law
- Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
- Corporate Law
- Criminal Defense: White-Collar
- Employment Law – Management
- Energy Law
- Environmental Law
- Franchise Law
- General Commercial Litigation
- Government Relations Practice
- Health Care Law
- Insurance Law
- Labor Law – Management
- Land Use & Zoning Law
- Media & First Amendment Law
- Mergers & Acquisitions Law
- Non-Profit/Charities Law
- Product Liability Litigation – Defendants
- Public Finance Law
- Real Estate Law
- Tax Law
- Trusts & Estates Law
The final 2010 Best Law Firm national rankings will be published in the October print issue of U.S. News & World Report and are posted online at www.usnews.com/bestlawfirms.
The U.S. News & World Report/ Best Lawyers rankings were developed after receiving responses from 9,514 clients—including every Fortune 100 company and 587 of the Fortune 1000 companies—which provided 194,370 firm practice-area evaluations. A total of 6,190 clients provided 11,181 comments about law firm practice areas and individual lawyers, and 8,842 lawyers provided 594,012 firm practice-area evaluations. These reputational survey responses were combined with more than 3.1 million evaluations of individual lawyers in these firms in the most recent Best Lawyers survey of leading lawyers.