Flora Pettit is pleased to announce its inclusion in U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers® 2020 “Best Law Firms” rankings for the Charlottesville Metropolitan area. Harrisonburg and other areas outside of the City of Charlottesville are included in the Best Lawyers® “Charlottesville metropolitan area.”
Firms included in the 2020 “Best Law Firms” list are recognized for professional excellence with persistently high ratings from clients and peers.
The 2020 rankings are based entirely on peer review. Its methodology is designed to capture, as accurately as possible, the consensus opinion of leading lawyers about the professional abilities of their colleagues within the same geographical area and legal practice area.
“For the 2020 ‘Best Law Firms’ publication, the evaluation process has remained just as rigorous and discerning as it did when we first started ten years ago.” says Phil Greer, CEO of Best Lawyers®. “This year we reviewed 14,931 law firms throughout the United States – across 75 national practice areas – and a total of 2,106 firms received a national law firm ranking. We are proud that the ‘Best Law Firms’ rankings continue to act as an indicator of excellence throughout the legal industry.”
Best Lawyers employs a sophisticated, conscientious, rational, and transparent survey process designed to elicit meaningful and substantive evaluations of the quality of legal services. Its belief has always been that the quality of a peer review survey is directly related to the quality of the voters.
Flora Pettit, a 25-attorney law firm, serves businesses and individuals throughout Virginia and across the globe in both routine and complex transactional and litigation matters.
Below are Flora Pettit’s Best Lawyers® tier rankings:
• Metropolitan Tier 1
o Charlottesville
▪ Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
▪ Commercial Litigation
▪ Employment Law – Management
▪ Real Estate Law
▪ Tax Law
▪ Trusts & Estates Law
• Metropolitan Tier 2
o Charlottesville
▪ Litigation – Bankruptcy
▪ Litigation – Labor & Employment
▪ Workers’ Compensation Law – Employers
