Foley Receives 27 National Tier 1 Practice-Area Rankings in 2020 U.S. News – Best Lawyers ‘Best Law Firms’ List

Foley & Lardner LLP is pleased to announce that the firm has received 27 national Tier 1 rankings and 125 metropolitan Tier 1 rankings in the 2020 edition of U.S. News – Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms.”

The 2020 practice-area rankings are calculated using client feedback, Best Lawyers peer-review, the Law Firm Survey and the Law Firm Leaders Survey, which utilizes more than seven million evaluations of more than 54,000 individual leading lawyers collected by Best Lawyers. For a practice area to be eligible, a firm must have at least one lawyer from that practice listed in Best Lawyers “The Best Lawyers in America” 2019, which recognizes the top 4 percent of practicing attorneys in the U.S.

Practice areas are classified and ranked in national and metropolitan categories established by U.S. News – Best Lawyers. Foley’s first-tier rankings include:

National Tier 1

• Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law
• Biotechnology Law
• Commercial Litigation
• Corporate Law
• Criminal Defense: White-Collar
• Derivatives and Futures Law
• Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
• Employment Law – Management
• Environmental Law
• Franchise Law
• Health Care Law
• Insurance Law
• Litigation – Bankruptcy
• Litigation – Construction
• Litigation – Intellectual Property
• Litigation – Labor & Employment
• Litigation – Patent
• Litigation - Real Estate
• Litigation – Securities
• Mergers & Acquisitions Law
• Patent Law
• Public Finance Law
• Real Estate Law
• Securities/Capital Markets Law
• Securities Regulation
• Tax Law
• Trusts & Estates Law

Metropolitan Tier 1

Boston

• Commercial Litigation
• Criminal Defense: White-Collar
• Health Care Law

Chicago

• Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law
• Commercial Litigation
• Corporate Law
• Criminal Defense: White-Collar
• Derivatives and Futures Law
• Litigation – Bankruptcy
• Litigation – Intellectual Property
• Public Finance Law
• Securities Regulation
• Trusts & Estates Law

Dallas/Fort Worth

• Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law
• Commercial Litigation
• Corporate Law
• Environmental Law
• Litigation – Bankruptcy
• Litigation – Intellectual Property
• Litigation – Securities
• Litigation – Tax
• Mergers & Acquisitions Law
• Real Estate Law
• Tax Law
• Trademark Law
• Trusts & Estates Law

Detroit

• Commercial Litigation
• Corporate Law
• Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law
• Employment Law – Management
• Labor Law – Management
• Litigation – Labor & Employment
• Securities/Capital Markets Law

Houston

• Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law
• Commercial Litigation 
• Corporate Law
• Employment Law – Management
• Tax Law

Jacksonville

• Banking and Finance Law
• Corporate Law
• Employment Law – Management
• Labor Law – Management
• Litigation – Banking & Finance
• Litigation  - Labor & Employment 
• Litigation – Real Estate
• Mergers & Acquisitions Law
• Municipal Law
• Public Finance Law
• Real Estate Law

Los Angeles

• Criminal Defense: White-Collar
• Health Care Law
• Privacy and Data Security Law

Madison

• Appellate Practice
• Biotechnology Law
• Commercial Litigation
• Corporate Law
• Employment Law – Management
• Insurance Law
• Labor Law – Management
• Litigation – Intellectual Property
• Litigation – Labor & Employment
• Litigation – Patent
• Mergers & Acquisitions Law
• Patent Law
• Trusts & Estates Law

Miami

• Franchise Law

Milwaukee

• Antitrust Law
• Banking and Finance Law
• Bet-the-Company Litigation
• Commercial Finance Law 
• Commercial Litigation
• Corporate Governance Law
• Corporate Law
• Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
• Employment Law – Management
• Energy Law
• Environmental Law
• Financial Services Regulation Law
• Health Care Law
• Insurance Law
• Labor Law – Management
• Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law
• Litigation – Antitrust
• Litigation – Banking & Finance
• Litigation – Bankruptcy
• Litigation – Environmental
• Litigation – Intellectual Property
• Litigation – Real Estate
• Litigation – Securities
• Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Defendants
• Mergers & Acquisitions Law
• Natural Resources Law
• Nonprofit/Charities Law
• Patent Law
• Product Liability Litigation – Defendants
• Project Finance Law 
• Real Estate Law
• Securities/Capital Markets Law
• Sports Law
• Tax Law
• Trusts & Estates Law

Orlando

• Appellate Practice
• Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)
• Commercial Litigation
• Construction Law
• Litigation – Construction
• Real Estate Law

San Diego

• Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law
• Litigation – Bankruptcy

Tallahassee

• Insurance Law

Tampa

• Corporate Governance Law
• Corporate Law
• Health Care Law
• Leisure and Hospitality Law
• Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law
• Mergers & Acquisitions Law
• Real Estate Law
• Securities/Capital Markets Law

Washington, D.C.

• Administrative/Regulatory Law
• Biotechnology Law
• Criminal Defense: White-Collar
• Litigation – Securities
• Patent Law
• Securities/Capital Markets Law
• Trusts & Estates Law