U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers, for the sixth consecutive year, has announced the Best Law Firms rankings.
Goodall & Yurchak, now a part of Steinbacher, Stahl, Goodall & Yurchak, was listed as a 2016 Best Law Firm in the central Pennsylvania area for trust and estate law and elder law.
Firms included in the 2016 Best Law Firms list are recognized for professional excellence with impressive ratings from clients and peers. Achieving a tiered ranking signals a unique combination of quality law practice and breadth of legal expertise.
“For more than 30 years, U.S. News has ranked a wide range of institutions,” said Tim Smart, executive editor of U.S. News & World Report. “Law firms are an integral part of our rankings and complement our law school rankings.”
The 2016 rankings are based on the highest number of participating firms and highest number of client ballots on record. To be eligible for a ranking, a firm must have a lawyer listed in The Best Lawyers in America, which recognizes the top 4 percent of practicing attorneys in the U.S. More than 21,000 attorneys provided almost 700,000 law firm assessments, and more than 8,000 clients provided more than 47,000 evaluations.
“We have been ranking law firms for six years now,” said Steven Naifeh, CEO and co-founder of Best Lawyers. “We are proud that we have undertaken this challenging and important task so diligently and with such care that the legal profession has come to view our tens of thousands of rankings each year with widespread respect.”
Ranked firms, presented in tiers, are listed on a national and/or metropolitan scale. Receiving a tier designation reflects the high level of respect a firm has earned among other leading lawyers and clients in the same communities and the same practice areas for their abilities, their professionalism and their integrity.
