Clausen Miller Appellate Practice Group Achieves Top Tier "Best Law Firms" Ranking
November 2, 2011
The Clausen Miller Appellate Practice Group has ranked in the Chicago top tier of the 2011 - 2012 U.S. News - Best Lawyers® "Best Law Firms" rankings. The national first-tier rankings will be featured in U.S.News & World Report’s Money issue, on newsstands November 15, 2011; the national and metropolitan first-tier rankings are featured in the “Best Law Firms” standalone publication, which is being distributed to 30,000 general counsel and in digital format to 58,000 private practice lawyers worldwide; the rankings in their entirety are posted online at http://bestlawfirms.usnews.com.
These rankings, which are presented in tiers, showcase 9,633 different law firms ranked nationally in one or more of 75 major legal practice areas and in metropolitan or state rankings in one or more of 119 major legal practice areas. Clausen Miller’s Appellate Practice Group received a Tier 1 ranking by metropolitan area.
“U.S. News is the world’s leading publisher of institutional rankings based on both objective data and peer evaluations,” says 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.”
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.
Clausen Miller is proud to be among this year's extraordinary group of represented firms.
About Clausen Miller P.C.:
Clausen Miller’s experience in the practice of law is both diverse and comprehensive. The Firm's core practice is serving and representing the insurance industry, particularly with regard to analyzing coverage under policies, defending insurers and their insureds when sued and prosecuting subrogation actions for or on behalf of insurers. The Firm also counsels clients on a broad range of commercial, litigation and liability issues. With offices scattering the globe, Clausen Miller serves as international, national, regional and local counsel to numerous insurance companies, corporations and financial clients.
Skilled advocates, Clausen Miller’s Appellate Practice Group has earned the firm a reputation for excellence in post-trial and appellate work nationwide. With a combination of strong trial and appellate skills, our appellate attorneys handle the post-trial motion and appeal of all cases originating within the firm, as well as a significant number of high-profile cases referred to the Clausen Miller P.C. Appellate Practice Group from outside sources throughout the United States. In concentrating on the complex, highly technical and constantly evolving discipline of Appellate procedure, we have the experience needed to plan and execute the most effective post-trial and appellate strategy in any venue.
In addition to handling appeals, the Clausen Miller Appellate Practice Group provides critical services at the trial level, including consultation on the preparation of dispositive pretrial motions, participation at trial, and attendance at the crucial jury instructions conference. Further, when substantive changes in the law outside the judicial process are needed, our appellate attorneys have drafted legislative proposals for placement within the proper legislative mechanism, prepared supportive legal analysis, and provided testimony before the appropriate legislative body. And, we keep clients current on developments in the law with the CM Report of Recent Decisions and CM Report-New York.
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