"Best Law Firms" Rankings by U.S. News and Best Lawyers® Lists Henson & Efron, P.A.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Minneapolis, MN, September 22, 2010 – Four practice areas at the law firm of Henson & Efron, P.A. were cited this week as tops in the Minneapolis area in the first-ever ranking of law firms by U.S. News Media Group, the publishers of U.S. News & World Report, and Best Lawyers®. 

Tier 1 Practice Areas:
Family Law
Family Law Mediation

Tier 2 Practice Areas:
Corporate Law
General Commercial Litigation

Using a comprehensive multi-step process, feedback was first obtained from law firm clients and lawyers to determine the factors they considered vital for clients hiring law firms, for lawyers choosing a firm to refer a legal matter to, and for lawyers seeking employment.  Then six separate survey instruments were created and distributed to a total of almost 114,000 recipients, including law firm clients, lawyers, marketing officers and recruiting officers.

Client and lawyer surveys collected mostly reputational data: expertise, responsiveness, integrity, understanding of a business and its needs, cost-effectiveness, civility, and likelihood of referrals. 
Marketing-officer and recruiting-officer surveys provided a wide range of demographic data, client profile information, pro-bono commitment, practice areas including transaction activity, and diversity. The rankings also include the number of lawyers listed in Best Lawyers for each practice area.

All of the quantitative and qualitative data were combined into an overall U.S. News – Best Lawyers overall score for each firm.  Because firms were often separated by small or insignificant differences in overall score, they have been tiered rather than ranked sequentially. In general, the first tier includes those firms that scored within a certain percentage of the highest-scoring firm(s); the second tier, those firms that scored within a certain percentage of the next highest scoring firm(s), etc.

Read the news release about this partnership between two highly-esteemed organizations with expertise in ranking all types of institutions, including law schools and law firms. 

More information can be obtained about the methodology of the process at the U.S. News Best Law Firms website.

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