An Irvine law firm specializing in management-side labor and employment law has been ranked among the nation's best in a new collaboration between U.S. News & World Report and Best Laywers.
The inaugural Best Law Firms rankings, released Sept. 16th, cover 8,782 law firms in 81 practice areas in 171 metropolitan areas and seven states.
The Irvine branch of Fisher & Phillips LLP received a first-tier ranking for the Orange County metropolitan area; the firm received a national first-tier ranking as well.
Irvine is the second-largest of the firm's 23 offices nationwide.
The rankings were devised using the results of surveys sent to 52,480 clients including every Fortune 100 company, and 43,900 lawyers. The rankings also incorporate 3.1 million evaluations of 39,372 individual lawyers collected by Best Lawyers in its most recent annual survey.
Other Irvine law firms that received first-tier rankings in the Orange County metropolitan area include Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe for intellectual property law; Payne & Fears for management-side employment law; Watt, Tieder, Hoffar & Fitzgerald for construction law; and Greenberg Traurig for mergers & acquisitions and tax law.
