Gordon & Doner Named In Top Tier Of 2010 Best Law Firms
PALM BEACH GARDENS, FL (September 28, 2010) - The law firm of Gordon & Doner was named in the top tier of the 2010 Best Law Firms by U.S. News Media Group and Best Lawyers, which ranked 8,782 law firms in 81 practice areas in 178 locations.
Achieving a high ranking is a special distinction that signals a unique combination of excellence and breadth of expertise. These inaugural rankings, which are presented in tiers both nationally and by metropolitan area or by state, named Gordon & Doner in the top tier in the area of Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions the West Palm Beach area.
The law firm of Gordon & Doner has been serving the community for over 17 years. Their practice areas also include Personal Injury, Wrongful Death, Medical Malpractice, Nursing Home Abuse, Defective Products, Veterans’ Benefits, Workers’ Compensation and Immigration Law. Gordon & Doner has offices in Palm Beach Gardens, Stuart, Pembroke Pines and Fort Lauderdale.
"U.S. News is the world’s leading publisher of institutional rankings based on both objective data and peer evaluations," said Steven Naifeh, President of Best Lawyers. "We are combining this expertise with Best Lawyers’ experience of providing rankings of individual lawyers based on peer reviews for almost three decades. By combining hard data with peer reviews, and client assessments, we believe that we are providing users with the most thorough, accurate, and helpful rankings of law firms ever developed."
The complete list of rankings is posted online at www.usnews.com/bestlawfirms and the national first-tier rankings will be featured in the October print issue of U.S. News & World Report, which will go on sale September 27.
Results were complied from 9,514 clients – including every Fortune 100 company and 587 of the Fortune 1000 companies – who provided 194,370 firm practice-area evaluations; 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. Hard numbers were also used to develop the practice area rankings — data about numbers of lawyers and their previous experience, numbers of clients within different billing ranges, numbers of transactions and litigation matters at different dollar levels; pro-bono commitment, diversity, and other objective data.
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