WWHGD Recognized in U.S. News – Best Lawyers® 2010 "Best Law Firms"

ATLANTA (September 19, 2009)—Four of Weinberg Wheeler Hudgins Gunn & Dial's practice areas have ranked in the U.S. News – Best Lawyers® 2010 "Best Law Firms" inaugural issue.

WWHGD’s Construction Law practice earned both a National Tier 1 ranking and a Metropolitan (Atlanta) Tier 1 ranking. Three additional practice areas were ranked regionally as Tier 1 and Tier 2 practices.

The following WWHGD practices were ranked in U.S. News - Best Lawyers® 2010 "Best Law Firms":

National Tier 1

Construction Law

Metropolitan Tier 1 - Atlanta

Construction Law
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants
Product Liability Litigation - Defendants

Metropolitan Tier 2 - Atlanta

Personal Injury Litigation

U.S. News – Best Lawyers® surveyed 9,000 clients – including every Fortune 100 company – to evaluate law firms on their expertise. Best Lawyers also examined more than 3.1 million individual lawyer evaluations. Hard numbers were also used to develop the practice area rankings for the inaugural edition — data about numbers of lawyers and their previous experience, numbers of clients within different billing ranges, numbers of transactions and litigation matters at different dollar levels, as well as pro-bono commitment, diversity and other objective data.