Our Top 100 do. Worth’s editors thoroughly vet nominees
for our annual list through a detailed process designed to ensure that those we
honor really are the leaders in their respective fields. We begin by asking our
readers to nominate attorneys with whom they have had successful working
experiences. We then solicit nominations from professionals who regularly
interact with leading lawyers: financial advisors, accountants, family office
executives and others.Worth asks each nominated
attorney to complete a detailed questionnaire. Based on their answers, we cull
those individuals who are focused more on corporate law than personal concerns.
We target those nominees whose experience is deep enough, who serve clients
with sufficient net worth, and who have the professional affiliations and
publishing history to indicate that they could provide extraordinary expertise
to a Worth reader.
We also ask more nuanced, probing questions in an effort to
discern both the intellectual heft and personal touch of the nominees. We want
to know, for example, how they counsel their clients, what qualities they think
make a good—or bad—lawyer, and what they think about current trends in their
fields. Those with knee-jerk, vague or rote answers are cut; those with the most
thoughtful, interesting responses move on.
Finally, we perform background checks. We once again consider
client recommendations and work with the American Bar Association’s regulatory
service to probe actions that may have been taken against any of the candidates.
With this step completed, we compile our list, certain that we are, in fact,
honoring the top 100 attorneys in the nation. --Emily DeNitto.
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