The competition for our fifth annual Lawdragon 500 guide was the fiercest yet. As always, we are extremely grateful to the national legal community for the incredible level of participation and interest during our selection process. We chose this year’s 500 guide from the Lawdragon National Finalists posted in February, which itself is an amazing group of attorneys that we encourage you to review again.

Selecting this year’s 500 — which represents far less than 1 percent of the profession — was the most challenging task Lawdragon has completed in the past five years. Our selections are based on a combination of written submissions, online votes and comments through our online ballot, and editorial research by Lawdragon staff.