BUFFALO, NY – Lippes Mathias Wexler Friedman LLP announced today that eight of its attorneys have been honored in the 2017 edition of The Best Lawyers in America©. Best Lawyers® compiles its lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers.

The attorneys and their practice areas include:

Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Best Lawyers lists are compiled based on an exhaustive peer-review evaluation. Over 79,000 leading attorneys globally are eligible to vote, and Best Lawyers has received more than 12 million votes to date on the legal abilities of other lawyers based on their specific practice areas around the world. For the 2016 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America, 6.7 million votes were analyzed, which resulted in more than 55,000 leading lawyers being included in the new edition. Lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed; therefore inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers "the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice."

“We are very pleased that so many of our attorneys received such high profile recognition in this year’s Best Lawyers,” said Kevin J. Cross, managing partner.  “These honors truly reflect the high level of talent and dedication our attorneys demonstrate in their respective practice areas.”