CINCINNATI, OH—Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP has been ranked among the 2010 Best Law Firms by U.S. News Media Group and Best Lawyers. The inaugural rankings are presented in tiers both nationally and by metropolitan areas. Taft was included in the top 7% of firms that were ranked nationally.  Taft also received Tier 1 rankings by metropolitan area in 36 practice areas. 

Taft received 20 top rankings in Cincinnati, nine in Cleveland, two in Dayton, one in Columbus and four in Indianapolis.   The following are the Tier One practices by metropolitan area:

Cincinnati
         Alternative Dispute Resolution
         Antitrust Law
         Banking and Finance Law
         Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights /
             Insolvency and Reorganization Law
         Corporate Law
         Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
         Employment Law – Management
         Environmental Law
         General Commercial Litigation
         Health Care Law
         Information Technology Law
         Labor Law – Management
         Mergers & Acquisitions Law
         Non-Profit/Charities Law
         Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants
         Real Estate Law
         Securities / Capital Markets Law
         Tax Law
         Trusts & Estates Law
         Workers' Compensation Law – Employers

Cleveland
         Administrative / Regulatory Law
         Banking and Finance Law
         Corporate Law
         Gaming Law
         General Commercial Litigation
         Health Care Law
         Real Estate Law
         Securities / Capital Markets Law
         Venture Capital Law

Columbus-OH
         Health Care Law

Dayton
         Employment Law – Management
         Labor Law – Management

Indianapolis
         Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights /
             Insolvency and Reorganization Law
         Corporate Law
         Environmental Law
         Mergers & Acquisitions Law

Major clients and leading lawyers were asked to rate the law firms they consider best in their practice area. In the end, 9,514 clients – including every Fortune 100 company and 587 of the Fortune 1000 companies – provided 194,370 firm practice-area evaluations; 6,190 clients provided 11,181 comments about law firm practice areas and individual lawyers; and 8,842 lawyers provided 594,012 firm practice-area evaluations.

Full data is available online at www.usnews.com/bestlawfirms.

About the U.S. News Media Group
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About Best Lawyers
Best Lawyers is the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession. For over a quarter century, the company has helped lawyers and clients find legal counsel in distant jurisdictions or unfamiliar specialties. The 2011 edition of The Best Lawyers in America includes 41,385 lawyers covering all 50 states and the District of Columbia and is based on more than 3.1 million detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers. At www.BestLawyers.com, Best Lawyers also publishes peer-reviewed listings of lawyers in most of the world’s major legal markets. Best Lawyers lists are excerpted in a wide range of general interest, business and legal publications worldwide, reaching an audience of more than 17 million readers.

About Taft
At Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, delivering outstanding legal performance to help clients succeed is what drives and motivates its more than 300 attorneys and legal professionals every day. Taft has offices in Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus and Dayton, Ohio; Indianapolis, Indiana; Northern Kentucky; Phoenix, Arizona; and Beijing, China. The firm practices across a wide range of industries, in virtually every area of law, including: Business and Finance; Litigation; Labor and Employment; Intellectual Property; Business Restructuring; Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights; Environmental; Health and Life Sciences; Private Client Services; Real Estate and Tax law. With a proven track record of experience since 1885, Taft is proud to celebrate its 125th anniversary in 2010. The firm offers breadth and depth of legal knowledge coupled with a trusted business perspective, helping its clients, big and small, regionally, nationally and internationally, in reaching their goals.