Warner Norcross + Judd LLP named as one of the 2025 “Best Law Firms” by Best Lawyers®.
The firm has been recognized for its litigation work in the areas of regulatory enforcement and environmental law. Additionally, six of its offices have received top-tier ratings in multiple practice areas. The rankings are based on a rigorous evaluation process that includes the collection of client and lawyer evaluations, peer reviews from leading attorneys and other criteria, such as firm practice areas, expertise, responsiveness, integrity, litigation and major legal matters, cost-effectiveness, civility, pro bono commitment and diversity.
Best Lawyers, which produces the industry’s leading annual peer review of attorneys, conducts extensive surveys of attorneys included in the rankings and gathers feedback from clients on the evaluation criteria.
Warner has been recognized in the top tier of law firms in Grand Rapids for the following areas of the law:
- Administrative/regulatory
- Appellate
- Banking and finance
- Bankruptcy and creditor debtor rights/insolvency and reorganization
- Bet-the-company litigation
- Business organizations, including LLCs and partnerships
- Closely held companies and family businesses
- Commercial litigation
- Copyright
- Corporate
- Criminal defense – white-collar
- Elder
- Employee benefits
- Employment law – management
- Environmental
- Family
- Family mediation
- Financial services regulation
- Health care
- International trade and finance
- Labor – management
- Litigation in the areas of antitrust, bankruptcy, construction, environmental, intellectual property, labor and employment, patent, personal injury, real estate and trusts and estates
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Nonprofit/charities
- Patent
- Real estate
- Securities/capital markets
- Tax
- Trademark
- Trusts and estates
- Water
Additionally, Warner’s Bloomfield Hills, Detroit, Kalamazoo, Lansing and Midland offices were recognized as top-tier law firms.
In Troy, Warner’s Bloomfield Hills office was recognized for bankruptcy and creditor debtor rights/insolvency and reorganization, commercial litigation, corporate, family, intellectual property litigation, real estate and trusts and estates.
The Detroit office was recognized for bankruptcy and creditor debtor rights/insolvency and reorganization, bankruptcy litigation, closely held companies and family businesses, commercial litigation, corporate, employee benefits, environmental, health care law and litigation, mass tort litigation/class actions, patent law, regulatory enforcement litigation, tax law and trust and estates.
The Kalamazoo office was recognized for antitrust litigation and commercial litigation.
The Lansing office was recognized for its commercial, construction and environmental litigation, government relations practice and health care law.
In the Great Lakes Bay region, Warner’s Midland office was recognized for bankruptcy and creditor debtor rights/insolvency and reorganization and trusts and estates.
Warner also had 120 attorneys listed in The Best Lawyers in America® 2025. Attorneys from each of the firm’s nine offices were featured in the 2025 listings, which were released earlier this year.
About Warner
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