These lists are excerpted from The Best Lawyers in America 2016©, which incorporates listings for greater than 55,000 lawyers in one hundred forty specialties, in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The twenty third Version of The Finest Lawyers in America© (2017) contains fifty four,905 attorneys in 140 observe areas, masking all 50 states and the District of Columbia, and inclusion in this 12 months’s publication relies on greater than 7.3 million detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers.

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