Best Lawyers Awards Shook Three National Tier 1 Rankings
Shook earned three National Tier 1 rankings, including Patent Law, in U.S. News-Best Lawyers in America® 2020. The “Best Law Firm” Tier 1 rankings also include Commercial Litigation and Mass Tort Litigation/Class Action – Defendants. Shook also earned a Tier 2 in Litigation – Patent and Litigation – Environmental.
The premier trial firm garnered 13 total national rankings in the yearly “Best Law Firms” ranking. In addition, seven of Shook’s offices achieved 19 Tier 1 Metropolitan rankings and 44 total Metropolitan rankings in the three-tiered list. Kansas City earned the Bet-the-Company Litigation Tier 1 honor in 2020.
Shook's Metropolitan Tier 1 rankings include the following practice areas:
Chicago
Colorado
- Commercial Litigation
Houston
- Litigation - Patent
- Patent Law
Kansas City
- Bet-the-Company Litigation*
- Commercial Litigation
- Litigation - Environmental
- Litigation - Intellectual Property
- Litigation - Labor & Employment
- Litigation - Patent
- Mass Tort Litigation/Class Action - Defendants
- Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants
- Product Liability Litigation - Defendants
- Real Estate Law
Miami
- Mediation
- Product Liability Litigation - Defendants
Philadelphia
- Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions - Defendants
San Francisco
- Product Liability Litigation - Defendants
*New in 2020
Best Lawyers inclusion is based entirely on peer review, the consensus opinion of leading lawyers about their colleagues in the same practice areas and geographic location. The complete rankings appear in U.S. News & World Report’s Best Law Firms report.