Building RSHC: Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila LLP 2017 Annual Report - Report - Page 10
Best Lawyers also ranks law
firms. In our first 22 months,
Best Lawyers placed us among
the leading firms in Chicago and
the nation.
For 2018, our firm ranked:
Tier 1 (National)
n Mass Tort Litigation/Class
Actions-Defendants
Tier 1 (Chicago)
n Commercial Litigation
n Criminal Defense: White Collar
n Mass Tort Litigation/Class
Actions-Defendants
n Product Liability LitigationDefendants
Tier 2 (National)
n Appellate Practice
Tier 2 (Chicago)
n Appellate Practice
Reputation
We are humbled by the recognition we have received for outstanding
performance in a field of so many exceptionally talented peers.
In its 2017 and 2018 reports, Best Lawyers in America ranked eight of our
partners (one-quarter of our partnership) among the nation’s leading
practitioners. Last year, Bob Riley and Ron Safer both received highly coveted
Lawyer of the Year (Chicago) rankings for, respectively, their Product Liability
and White Collar defense practices.
This year, Best Lawyers named Matt Fischer a Lawyer of the Year (Chicago)
for his Mass Torts defense work. Also named Best Lawyers were partners Joe
Cancila, Patricia Brown Holmes, Matt Crowl, Tom Quinn, and Jeff Williams.
Super Lawyers, another ratings organization that polls the private bar for their
opinions about the lawyers they meet in practice, also placed eight of our
partners (one-third of our partnership) on its Illinois list. Joining Cancila, Crowl,
Fischer, Holmes, and Safer on this list were Heidi Dalenberg, Valarie Hays, and
Josh Lee. And in our San Francisco office, Super Lawyers saluted partner Steve
Hankins and his IP practice and listed partner Sarah Youngblood-Bates and
associate Lance Cidre as “Rising Stars.”
Leading Lawyers, a long standing Illinois legal and business information
resource, surveys thousands of peer lawyers to recognize top lawyers in their
fields in each state. Less than five percent of all lawyers licensed in each state
are eligible for membership. Leading Lawyers named 18 RSHC partners and of
For 2017, our firm ranked:
Tier 1 (Chicago)
n Commercial Litigation
n Criminal Defense: White Collar
n Mass Tort Litigation/Class
Actions-Defendants
n Product Liability LitigationDefendants
Tier 2 (Chicago)
n Appellate Practice
Tier 3 (National)
n Appellate Practice
n Mass Tort Litigation/Class
Actions-Defendants
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