For 10th Straight Year, Pond Lehocky Giordano Names to U.S. News & Worlds Report's 'Best Law Firms' List
Pond Lehocky Giordano is proud to announce that for the 10th consecutive year, the firm has been named to the U.S. News and World Report and Best Lawyers® annual Best Law Firms. Firms like Pond Lehocky that are included in the 2021 Edition of U.S. News - Best Lawyers "Best Law Firms" are recognized for professional excellence with consistently impressive ratings from clients and peers.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 10, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Pond Lehocky Giordano is proud to announce that for the 10th consecutive year, the firm has been named to the U.S. News and World Report and Best Lawyers® annual Best Law Firms. Firms like Pond Lehocky that are included in the 2021 Edition of U.S. News – Best Lawyers "Best Law Firms" are recognized for professional excellence with consistently impressive ratings from clients and peers.
To be eligible for a ranking, a firm must first have a lawyer recognized in The Best Lawyers in America©, which recognizes 5 percent of all attorneys practicing in the United States. Achieving a tiered ranking signals a unique combination of quality law practice and breadth of legal expertise.
Earlier this year managing partner Samuel H. Pond, along with partners Jerry Lehocky and Stephen Miller, were all named to the Best Lawyers in America© list, marking milestone years of achievement for both Pond and Lehocky being awarded for 15 and 10 years respectively. Several associates also made the Best Lawyers in America© list for multiple consecutive times. Francis Ciprero and Ryan Scanlon have now been recognized again this year for their third consecutive time, with Andrew Ruder being named to the list for the second time in a back-to-back year.
The firm is honored as associate Keld R. Wenge is recognized for the first time as a Best Lawyers in America©. Kajal Alemo was also named for the first time to the Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch© list.
"For the 2021 'Best Law Firms' publication, the evaluation process has remained just as rigorous and discerning as it did when we first started," says Phil Greer, CEO of Best Lawyers. "This year we reviewed 15,587 law firms throughout the United States – across 75 national practice areas – and a total of 2,179 firms received a national law firm ranking. We are proud that the 'Best Law Firms' rankings continue to act as an indicator of excellence throughout the legal industry."
The 2021 rankings are based on the highest lawyer and firm participation on record, incorporating 8.3 million evaluations of more than 110,000 individual leading lawyers from more than 22,000 firms.
Ranked firms, presented in three tiers, are recognized on a national and regional-based scale. Firms that received a tier designation reflect the highest level of respect a firm can earn among other leading lawyers and clients from the same communities and practice areas.
Awards were given in 75 national practice areas and 127 metropolitan practice areas. Additionally, one "Law Firm of the Year" was named in each nationally-ranked practice area. National and metropolitan tier 1 rankings will be featured in the physical edition of U.S. News – Best Lawyers "Best Law Firms", which will be distributed to more than 30,000 in-house counsel.
Pond Lehocky is ranked in the Metropolitan Tier 1 for Philadelphia Workers' Compensation Law – Claimants. A tier designation recognizes the high level of respect a firm has earned among other leading lawyers and clients in the same communities and the same practice areas for their abilities, their professionalism and their integrity.
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About Pond Lehocky Giordano
Headquartered in Pennsylvania, Pond Lehocky Giordano is one the largest law firms in the region and helps Americans nationwide with injury and disability legal matters. The firm also has a booming nationwide referral network, which helps Americans across the nation with all legal matters. Since opening its door in 2010, the firm has won more than 80 awards, including U.S. News and World Report's Best Law Firms, The Philadelphia Inquirer's Top Workplaces, Philadelphia Business Journal's Best Places to Work, and recognized by The Legal Intelligencer as one of the top law firms in Philadelphia for gender diversity.
About "Best Law Firms" ©
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