This week, Super Lawyers marks our one year anniversary with Thomson Reuters. It's been a great year indeed, and it's been an honor to tell the stories of amazing attorneys from a platform that continues to grow with the help of Thomson Reuters, FindLaw and Hubbard. As a twenty-year member of the Thomson Reuters family via West Publishing, I feel as if Super Lawyers is really at home here. Our motto at West was to provide "better service to the bench and bar," and of course, Thomson Reuters Trust Principles reinforce what Super Lawyers has always stood for -- freedom from bias and dissemination of information. At Super Lawyers, we name the attorneys who exhibit excellence in practice, as evidenced by their nomination by peers and the findings of our independent research team. You can't buy your way onto our list or into our editorial. We disseminate our lists widely so that consumers who need an attorney can use them as input to their important hiring decision. And we surround the lists with editorial that tells the stories of these attorneys who set the bar as jurists, community members and people. It's been a great year for Super Lawyers and I have no doubt 2011 will be even better.
When the Spirit Moves You
When you receive your copy of Super Lawyers magazine, you may be moved to tell us a few things. Perhaps you think we left someone deserving off the list; or maybe you think we included someone who shouldn’t be on the list. In the past, you had to wait several months before you could nominate that overlooked attorney, and other than sending us an email or letter, there wasn’t an effective means of providing us feedback regarding the lawyers on the list.
New York, New York -- Coming soon
With nearly a 150,000 lawyers in the state, New York has more attorneys than any other state according to the ABA. For Super Lawyers, this presents some challenges. What we've done is basically divide the state into two -- the New York City metro area, and upstate.
Update: Wednesday, September 13
On Wednesday, September 13, 2006, theSupreme Court of New Jersey granted Super Lawyers, New Jersey Monthlyand the New Jersey Bar Association status in their Petitions inopposition to Opinion 39. We thank the Supreme Court for thisopportunity to defend our reputation. We , as members of the press,hold ourselves to high standards of editorial integrity, and lookforward to this opportunity to present those standards to the Court --and for the first time, to the New Jersey Committee on AttorneyAdvertising.
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Happy Anniversary Super Lawyers & Thomson ReutersThis week, Super Lawyers marks our one year anniversary with Thomson Reuters. It's been a great year indeed, and it's been an honor to tell the stories of amazing attorneys from a platform that continues to grow with the help of Thomson Reuters, FindLaw and Hubbard. As a twenty-year member of the Thomson Reuters family via West Publishing, I feel as if Super Lawyers is really at home here. Our motto at West was to provide "better service to the bench and bar," and of course, Thomson Reuters Trust Principles reinforce what Super Lawyers has always stood for -- freedom from bias and dissemination of information. At Super Lawyers, we name the attorneys who exhibit excellence in practice, as evidenced by their nomination by peers and the findings of our independent research team. You can't buy your way onto our list or into our editorial. We disseminate our lists widely so that consumers who need an attorney can use them as input to their important hiring decision. And we surround the lists with editorial that tells the stories of these attorneys who set the bar as jurists, community members and people. It's been a great year for Super Lawyers and I have no doubt 2011 will be even better.
When you receive your copy of Super Lawyers magazine, you may be moved to tell us a few things. Perhaps you think we left someone deserving off the list; or maybe you think we included someone who shouldn’t be on the list. In the past, you had to wait several months before you could nominate that overlooked attorney, and other than sending us an email or letter, there wasn’t an effective means of providing us feedback regarding the lawyers on the list.
Now all that has changed.
We’ve expanded the nomination period so that it opens about the same time you receive Super Lawyers magazine. With the magazine in your hand and the spirit moving you, you can immediately log on to my.superlawyers.com to nominate and voice your opinion while things are still fresh in your mind.
And the nomination process is no longer about simply providing us with a name. We’ve added two new features to the nomination page: The “Comment” feature allows you to tell us exactly why you believe the attorneys you nominate should be included. You can comment privately, or allow publication of your comments, with or without attribution.
The “Rate” feature allows you to rate each attorney on 12 criteria, things like, knowledge of the law, ethics, results, civility, and so on. Both the Comment and Rate features are optional. You can still nominate by simply providing the name of the lawyer.
What if there’s a lawyer on the list you don’t think should be there? At the top center of every page on my.superlawyers.com there’s a tab you can’t miss: It’s labeled “Comment on/Evaluate Lawyers.” Click on this and you’ll be given the same “comment” and “rate” options as on the nomination page. As always, we will treat these comments and ratings as confidential unless you direct otherwise.
Next time you receive Super Lawyers, we hope you’ll remember to take advantage of this opportunity to vent. In case you don’t, we’ll be running ads in the magazine reminding you to log on to my.superlawyers.com to comment, rate and nominate. Judging from the number of comments and ratings we’ve received so far, lawyers appreciate these new options. It all takes just a minute or two, and the feedback you provide is invaluable to us.
With nearly a 150,000 lawyers in the state, New York has more attorneys than any other state according to the ABA. For Super Lawyers, this presents some challenges. What we've done is basically divide the state into two -- the New York City metro area, and upstate.
Metro area lawyers will be listed in 475,000 copies of the September 28, 2008 New York Times Sunday magazine which will distributed in New York city and Long Island. This is the second year we've published Super Lawyers in the Sunday magazine. Last year, Justice John Paul Stevens graced the cover. Some in the press speculated that we had somehow persuaded the editors of the Times to put the jurist on the cover of the very magazine where our list would appear as a special advertising supplement. I have to admit that when we first saw the choice of cover subjects, we were both surprised and pleased. While it would be nice to think that we could exert such control in the world, it just isn't so. The cover choice was a pure coincidence.
In addition, 121,000 copies of New York Super Lawyers -- Metro Edition magazine will be distributed to lawyers in the metro area. But wait, that's not all. We will also list lawyers from the Westchester area in the October issue of Westchester magazine (readership 369,933).
Upstate lawyers will appear in the cleverly named New York Super Lawyers -- Upstate Edition which will distributed to 25,000 lawyers in the region, and in the September issue of Hudson Valley magazine (readership 163,743).
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