Smith Anderson Three-Peat ‘North Carolina Firm of the Year’ for Litigation

For three consecutive years, Smith Anderson’s Litigation team has been chosen as “North Carolina Firm of the Year” by Benchmark Litigation® at its 10^th annual U.S. Awards ceremony, held in-person in New York City on March 24, 2022. The U.S. Awards recognized the country’s most distinguished litigators and law firms for their exemplary work over the past 12 months. 

These awards celebrate the leading litigators and most impactful disputes across the United States based on months of peer review-based research and submission reviews. According to the guide, state firm winners are viewed as the dominant players on a state level, and the ones who are most often retained as local counsel, with a proven bench of local stars. Award shortlist nominees are the culmination of months of research, analyzing hundreds of submissions, surveying thousands of referees and interviewing hundreds of lawyers. Benchmark Litigation is the only publication on the market to focus exclusively on litigation and disputes in the United States. 

Smith Anderson’s Litigation practice team is known for its trial-tested lawyers who are active in a range of matters across complex areas of law including large multi-party, multi-jurisdiction litigation and complex matters in state and federal court. They advise and litigate matters involving intellectual property disputes, commercial contracts, shareholder actions and employment disputes, and represent real estate and construction companies and corporate policyholders in insurance-related disputes, major manufacturers in product liability and tort actions – which are often class-action based, and healthcare entities and professionals regarding licensure issues and allegations of malpractice.

Benchmark Litigation is the definitive guide to the leading litigation law firms and lawyers around the world. Since its inception in 2008, Benchmark has grown dramatically and garnered industry-wide accolades as the hub for in-depth analysis of the players shaping the practice of litigation. The growth of the brand has driven demand for its expansion to service other markets beyond the U.S. including, Canada, Latin America, the Asia-Pacific region and Europe. Additional details about Benchmark Litigation’s voting methodology can be viewed here.