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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.
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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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Advisory Board Spotlight
Joseph M. Leccese is the Chairman of Proskauer. In that capacity, he is responsible for leading the Firm’s global operations across its 13 offices. He also is an extremely active practitioner and the co-head of Proskauer’s renowned Sports Law Group. Joe regularly handles matters relating to the acquisition, financing, operation and equity funding of professional sports teams, including the sale of the Buffalo Bills and the acquisition of the Cleveland Browns, Jacksonville Jaguars,...
From 1950 to 1954 he was Advocate for Ministry of Finance in Jeddah and Dammam, Saudi Arabia and from 1954 to 1955 he was Special Counsel to US Aid Mission, Jordan.In 1955-1965 and then again in 1969 he was Deputy Chairman of Cairo Amman Bank.From 1965 to 1969, he was Minister of National Economy, Minister of Finance and Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs and Jordan’s Governor at the World Bank.In 1971 he established his law practice in Abu Dhabi and Bahrain to cover the GCC countries, and fr...
Steven Wright is senior vice president and general counsel at Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. A distinguished Boston-area attorney, Steve has served as lead counsel and strategic advisor for several Fortune 500 companies, addressing complex commercial, corporate, intellectual property, litigation and regulatory matters. He is named in “Best Lawyers in America” for commercial litigation, a member of Best Lawyers National Advisory Committee and a “Super Lawyer” for business and corporate law. I...
Santiago Nicholson has been a partner at Nicholson y Cano Abogados and a managing partner for more than 20 years. He has participated in several acquisitions, mergers and restructuring processes of Argentine companies, advising national and international clients, and has offered guidance to various business chambers on institutional issues: ADEBA (the Argentine Banks Association), Centro Azucarero Argentino (Argentine Sugar Manufacturing Center), and AFJP (the Association of Retirement and Pe...
Head of the Life Sciences Department of Fieldfisher JAUSAS, with over 20 years’ experience and extensive knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry and related sectors. Advises over 50 companies in the industry on regulatory affairs, market access, advertising, commercial hiring and compliance. Member of Conférence Bleue (European Lawyers’ Conference on Pharmaceutical and Health Care Affairs) since 1997 and co-managing partner of it since 2012.
Russ is a partner in the Vorys Columbus office and serves as the firm’s managing partner. Russ engages in the practice of general corporate and contract law, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and initial public offerings (IPO). He acts as general counsel to a variety of public and private corporations. Russ received his J.D. from Columbia University School of Law and his B.A. from Rutgers University. Russ is a member of the American Bar Association, the Ohio State Bar Associ...
Yong Suk YOON is a senior partner in the international litigation and arbitration practice group at Lee & Ko. With more than 30 years of experience in successfully advising and representing clients in resolving legal disputes in a wide range of areas, including various corporate, commercial, M&A, construction, aviation & shipping, real estate and insurance matters, he is very highly regarded for his professional expertise in advising clients on the handling of complex internationa...
Dr. Wolfgang Kühn is a senior partner of Heuking, a major German law firm with about 350 lawyers and offices in Berlin, Brussels, Chemnitz, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart and Zurich. The firm engages in general corporate and commercial, international arbitration and M&A.
First appointed as a mediator for the federal courts in 1999, Mark’s current mediation practice includes state and federal actions involving intellectual property (copyrights, patents, trademarks, and trade secrets), employment (class and individual cases), consumer (class and individual cases), commercial, antitrust, unfair competition and contract actions, insurance coverage and contract disputes, real estate leasing and sale disputes, business acquisition and dissolution disputes, and soci...
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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