The Lawdragon selection process has been created over 50 years of researching and reporting on the legal profession and creating guides to the most effective legal professionals. Our team brings more than 100 years in the lawyer reporting and information business.
The foundation of our selection is in journalism. We research each guide extensively, studying which lawyers and law practices have had significant impact, including an emphasis on recent matters handled. We accept submissions and review them alongside thousands of candidates we identify and consider for each guide. We also work with editorial advisors in each substantive area to develop the focus of the guide and identify talent.
Lawyers featured in this guide will, at heart, come from the world of those high-level advisors to the world’s richest individuals and families. They bring skills in estate planning, fiduciary management and litigation, tax, wealth transfer, charitable giving, family offices, and the range of business activities inherent in managing the sources and management of wealth. Included, as well, will be elite counsel who can parse various jurisdictions and domiciles that offer beneficial environments for the ultra-wealthy and their assets.
Selection for The Lawdragon 500 Leading Global Wealth Lawyers guide typically requires a lawyer to have shown outstanding skills for at least 15 years in practice, with extremely rare exceptions. Similarly, virtually all will be partners in their law practice or hold a designation that indicates the regard of those with whom they practice. Leadership within their practice in a firm and or in relevant bar organizations is considered.
Lawdragon is proudly inclusive and searches for qualified women, minority, LGBTQ+, military veterans and other attorneys who lend an additional perspective to the heights of wealth matters.
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