Super Lawyer Nominations due today
Superlawyers.com is calling for nominations for candidates for 2009 Mountain States Super Lawyers designation.
All lawyers with at least 5 years experience may nominate candidates. If you didn’t receive a postcard inviting your nominations, click here for to request an access code. Go to https://my.superlawyers.com/ to nominate attorneys.
Now, personally, I’d like to see more women showing up on this list!.
The nominations require only: First Name, Last Name, Firm and Practice Area (there’s an optional comment section).
Ahem – ust to help out anyone choosing to nominate me:
Tami Cowden
Kummer Kaempfer Bonner Renshaw and Ferrario
Appellate, general litigation
You can nominate up to 7 inside the your firm and 7 outside your firm. However, your in-firm nominations count only if you nominate as many or more attorneys outside the firm.
The attorneys you nominate must have at least five years of experience as an attorney (not just here in Nevada – an attorney anywhere).
There is also a “Rising Star” category, for attorneys under 40, and with less than ten years experience as a lawyer. (I’d love to be a rising star, but I don’t qualify on either of those grounds!)
The 2009 winners will be announced in February and will publish in June or July of next year.
For those wanting to buy the superlawyer figurine (creators not, to my knowledge, affiliated with Superlawyer.com), click here
Read on for info about the selection process. Take it as seriously as you like.
Step One: Creation of the Candidate Pool
Statewide survey of lawyers
* Each year, we conduct a statewide survey of lawyers (except in California, New York and Washington, D.C., where we survey by region). Lawyers eligible to participate include those who have been in practice for at least five years.
* This year, we will invite more than 800,000 lawyers nationwide to participate in our survey.
* We ask the lawyers to nominate the best attorneys they've personally observed in action.
* Nominees need not be in private practice. Lawyers may nominate legal aid attorneys, prosecutors and in-house counsel.
* Lawyers may nominate attorneys in their own firm, but these nominations count only if each in-firm nomination is matched by at least one out-firm nomination.
* Each nomination carries a point value. An out-firm nomination has substantially greater point value than an in-firm nomination.
* Lawyers cannot nominate themselves.
With our database, we are able to keep track of who nominates whom. This helps us detect any excessive "back-scratch" nominations (lawyers nominating each other) and "block nominations" (where members of the same law firm all cast identical ballots).
