Best Lawyers in America® 2014 Recognizes Nearly 100 WilmerHale Partners, Naming Eight “Lawyer of the Year”

• 8.15.2013

Nearly 100 WilmerHale lawyers have been selected for inclusion in the 20th edition of The Best Lawyers in America®—a respected peer-review publication in the legal industry. The 2014 list also highlights eight WilmerHale partners who have been named "Lawyer of the Year" by Best Lawyers.

Only a single lawyer in each legal practice specialty within each community is honored as the "Lawyer of the Year." The following eight partners were selected as "Lawyers of the Year" after receiving particularly high ratings from their peers, indicating a high level of respect and commending their abilities, professionalism and integrity:

Michael J. Bevilacqua, Boston, Copyright Law
Mark G. Borden, Boston, Corporate Law
James C. Burling, Boston, Antitrust Law
James H. Carter, New York City, Arbitration
William F. Lee, Boston, Litigation/Patent
Lori A. Martin, New York City, Mutual Funds Law
Seth P. Waxman, Washington DC, Appellate Practice
Harry J. Weiss, Washington DC, Securities/Capital Markets Law

Best Lawyers compiles its lists of outstanding attorneys through a peer-review survey process by which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their peers. The Best Lawyers in America 2014 is based on more than 2.8 million detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers.

The full list of WilmerHale lawyers who have been included in the 2014 edition is below.