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Best Lawyers® provides trusted, peer-reviewed recognition of top legal professionals and helps clients find credible, experienced counsel with confidence.
For more than 40 years, our Purely Peer Review® process has set the standard for merit-based legal distinction. It is respected by lawyers and firms worldwide, with more than 13 million confidential evaluations submitted annually.
The process is highly selective, with only 5% of U.S. lawyers and 3% globally earning this honor. Rigorous bias-filtering ensures integrity and fairness.
We combine this credibility with powerful digital tools built for the realities of modern legal marketing. These tools increase the visibility of recognized lawyers and help clients identify proven legal talent. Our partnerships with more than 50 local, national and international media outlets extend our influence globally.
Our goal is to bring clarity to legal selection and build lasting trust between lawyers and those seeking legal counsel.
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In 2010, we launched Best Law Firms to recognize exceptional law firm performance. Today, Best Law Firms operates in six global markets, delivering firm-level distinction alongside individual recognition.
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Brett leads sales and client success at Best Lawyers, driving revenue through client relationships and strategic partnerships. With over 20 years in the legal industry he has held leadership roles across Fortune 500 and early-stage firms, bringing deep expertise in legal marketing, SaaS, data, and AI.
“Though Best Lawyers has been the leader in our space for over 40 years, we still operate with the energy of a much younger company. Writing this next chapter of our company history with the same team is extremely inspiring and I am grateful to continue to work with my colleagues.”
“I am proud to lead many of our partnerships. I think what sets Best Lawyers apart as an organization is that we really do take care of our own. That extends to all employees at all levels and I am living proof.”
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Advisory Board Spotlight
Mr. Foltyn has served as the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Honigman since 2008. Under his guidance, the firm has instituted innovative strategies to become a "value leader" in the legal marketplace by implementing processes, technology and staffing models to increase value and maintain the high quality of its legal services. In addition, Mr. Foltyn has enhanced the recruitment and development functions of the firm by providing a wide variety of internal and external too...
Keith Teel litigates patent and product liability cases. He emphasizes trial work, but has also argued in various appellate courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. He has extensive experience developing and overseeing the enactment of state legislation focusing on liability issues, and is highly experienced in handling issues involving sensitive political or public policy considerations. Mr. Teel co-chairs the firm’s patent litigation practice group.
Stanley Twardy, Day Pitney's Managing Partner, is a leading corporate litigator. He helps clients with criminal, civil and regulatory investigations conducted by federal and state agencies. Clients have included Fortune 500 companies, their executives and others involved in federal and state criminal, regulatory and SEC investigations. Stan has argued many civil and criminal cases in federal and state appellate courts, and been counsel of record before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Since 1997, Mr. Boies has been the Chairman of Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, a law firm with offices in New York, Washington D.C., California, Florida, Nevada, and New Hampshire. Prior to 1997 Mr. Boies was a partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore. Mr. Boies has been selected as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by Time Magazine (2010). He has been named Global International Litigator of the Year by Who’s Who Legal an unprecedented seven times, including 2013. Mr....
Guido Santiago Tawil is the partner in charge of the Arbitration and Economic Regulation and Administrative Law departments. His work focuses on regulatory practice, complex litigation and international arbitration. In regulatory matters he has represented the most important local and international companies on issues relating to telecommunications, the supply, transport and distribution of electricity and gas, postal services, water providers and waste disposal services, public works, IT, th...
Marcus V. Brown was named executive vice president and general counsel in 2013. Prior to that, in January 2012, he was named senior vice president and general counsel. In his role as general counsel, Brown is responsible for all legal, ethics and compliance matters affecting Entergy Corporation and its subsidiaries, including providing counsel to the chairman and CEO, board of directors, and senior management. Brown also is a member of the Office of the Chief Executive or OCE. The OCE, in con...
Panayotis has been the Managing Partner of the Firm since 1984 and is Head of the Land & Property Development Department. He has an active, broad-based commercial practice and is particularly well known for his EU & Competition practice, having represented a number of high profile clients in alleged cartel cases heard before the Hellenic Competition Commission. Panayotis has extensive experience in all types of Dispute Resolution, representing his clients in civil and administrative a...
Mr. Khachaturyan is Senior Partner and Chair of Banking, Finance and Securities of Asters, one of the leading Ukrainian law firms. He has worked as a coordinator of the advisory group at the State Commission of Ukraine on Securities and Stock Market for improvement of capital market regulations and is a member of the National IPO Committee of Ukraine. Armen has extensive banking, finance and project finance experience. His practice areas also include M&A, general corporate advice, currenc...
As Managing Partner, Steven Sonberg is the chief executive officer of the firm, overseeing the strategic growth and direction of the firm and the management of all aspects of the firm's operations. With more than 30 years of experience, Mr. Sonberg is a corporate lawyer whose practices have focused on the areas of securities law and mergers and acquisitions. His practice has included the representation of domestic and international businesses in public and private offerings of debt and equity...
Dan has a nearly 40-year career in law and business, most notably serving from 1997 until 2007 as senior vice president and general counsel at Oracle under Larry Ellison and from 2007 to 2010 as senior vice president and general counsel of Apple under Steve Jobs. With DLA Piper, he continues to focus on issues related to corporate governance and boards of directors, as well as the role of the general counsel and management of global corporate law departments. Dan also serves as a member of th...
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