Pannone Lopes Devereaux & West named ‘Best Lawyers’
Providence, RI – Pannone Lopes Devereaux & West LLC (PLDW), a highly specialized law firm with offices in Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York and Florida, is proud to announce that partners of the firm have been named to the 2010 edition of Best Lawyers®, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession.
Recognized for their individual legal expertise in 2010 are Gary R. Pannone, PLDW Managing Partner, for his work in corporate governance and compliance law, corporate law and securities law; William P. Devereaux for his work in white-collar criminal defense; and Matthew A. Lopes Jr. and Teno A. West for their work in government relations law. Pannone and Devereaux were recognized by the organization in 2007 and 2008, respectively, and have since maintained their standing as a “best lawyer.”
“We are honored to have been selected by our peers as among the “best lawyers” in Rhode Island for 2010,” said Pannone. “We are committed to serving our clients, our community and the legal profession with the utmost integrity and respect. This honor adds to our recent recognition as a Best Places to Work in Rhode Island by Providence Business News and makes us doubly proud of our entire staff. We are grateful for the teamwork and expertise brought on behalf of our clients by the entire staff.”
First published in 1983, Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive annual peer-review survey. For the new U.S. edition, more than 24,126 leading attorneys cast more than 2.8 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in the same and related specialties.
Due to the rigorous and transparent methodology used by Best Lawyers, and because lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.”
