Banker Lopez Gassler receives Tier 1 national “Best Law Firm” ranking in ten practice areas by U.S. News – Best Lawyers in America 2021 in Tampa and St. Petersburg. BLG also received Tier 2 and Tier 3 rankings in twelve practice areas in St. Petersburg, Orlando, Tallahassee, and Tampa.
Tier 1 Ranking
Tampa for Admiralty & Maritime Law, Appellate Practice, Insurance Law, Litigation – Health Care, Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Defendants, Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants, Professional Malpractice – Defendants, Workers’ Compensation Law – Employers
St. Petersburg for Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants
Tier 2 Ranking
Tampa for Commercial Litigation, Construction Law, Elder Law, Legal Malpractice – Defendants, Legal Malpractice – Plaintiffs
Orlando for Workers’ Compensation Law – Employers
Tallahassee for Insurance Law
Tier 3 Ranking
Tampa for Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Health Care Law, Litigation – Construction, Litigation – Insurance, Legal Malpractice Law – Plaintiffs
St. Petersburg for Appellate Practice
U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers®, for the 11th consecutive year, collaboratively announce the release of the “Best Law Firms” rankings.
Firms 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% of lawyers practicing in the United States. Achieving a tiered ranking signals a unique combination of quality law practice and breadth of legal expertise.
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. 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.
