Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers® has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Best Lawyers compiles its lists of Best Lawyers in America and Best Lawyers: Ones To Watch by practice area and geographic location by conducting peer reviews in which hundreds of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. The Best Lawyers: Ones To Watch attorneys are those lawyers recognized for their “outstanding professional excellence” who have been practicing for less than 10 years. Only a single lawyer in each practice area and designated metropolitan area is honored as the “Lawyer of the Year.” Receiving this designation reflects the high level of respect a lawyer has earned among other leading attorneys in the same communities and the same practice areas for their abilities, their professionalism and their integrity.
The list of all PLDO lawyers, representing 23 practice areas, who were selected by their peers for recognition by Best Lawyers® in the 2025 edition includes:
- Gene M. Carlino – Trusts and Estates (Best Lawyers in America)
- William P. Devereaux – Criminal Defense: General Practice; Criminal Defense: White-Collar (Best Lawyers in America)
- Joseph M. DiOrio – Litigation – Bankruptcy; Banking and Finance Law; Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law (Best Lawyers in America)
- Katherine B. Dunn – Commercial Litigation (Best Lawyers: Ones To Watch)
- Joel K. Goloskie – Health Care Law (Best Lawyers in America; Boston market)
- John R. Gowell, Jr. – Corporate Law (Best Lawyers in America)
- Bernard A. Jackvony – Litigation – Trusts and Estates (Best Lawyers in America)
- Brian J. Lamoureux – Employment Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment; Privacy and Data Security Law (Best Lawyers in America)
- Amanda Perry Lepre – Banking and Finance Law; Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law; Litigation – Bankruptcy (Best Lawyers: Ones To Watch)
- Matthew A. Lopes Jr. – Government Relations Practice; Mediation (Best Lawyers in America)
- Patrick J. McBurney – Commercial Litigation (Best Lawyers: Ones To Watch)
- LaTri-c-ea McClendon-Hunt – Alternative Dispute Resolution (Best Lawyers: Ones To Watch)
- William E. O’Gara – Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law; Employment Law – Management; Labor Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment; Workers’ Compensation Law – Employers (Best Lawyers in America)
- Gary R. Pannone – Administrative / Regulatory Law; Corporate Compliance Law; Corporate Governance Law; Corporate Law; Health Care Law; Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Securities / Capital Markets Law (Best Lawyers in America)
- Benjamin L. Rackliffe – Cannabis Law; Corporate Law (Best Lawyers in America)
- Matthew C. Reeber – Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law; Employment Law – Management; Litigation – Labor and Employment (Best Lawyers in America)
- Michael F. Ryan, Jr. – Alternative Dispute Resolution (Best Lawyers: Ones To Watch)
- Aaron L. Weisman – Criminal Defense: General Practice (Best Lawyers in America)
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