Attorney James Wood is Now AV Rated by Martindale-Hubbell®

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - April 26, 2013 - PRLog -- Martindale-Hubbell® has developed an esteemed Peer Review Ratings™ system that helps people easily find experienced and high quality legal representation that are most appropriate for the specific legal matter. Finding a good attorney in the sea of legal representatives can be a difficult task. When an attorney is recognized by Martindale-Hubbell®, then their rating is automatically published on their website martindale.com as well as Lawyers.comSM for people to see. So what are the Martindale-Hubbell® Peer Review Ratings™? The rating system is designed to be an objective indicator of an attorney’s professionalism and their high level of ethical standards. This is determined solely through evaluations from other lawyers and member of the bar- one cannot promote himself to be reviewed.

How the peer evaluations work is LexisNexis begins surveying lawyers in the same geo area who practice in the same field of law and ask them to review their colleagues. The ratings are designed to reflect the attorney’s legal abilities in numerical form in a system from 1-5, 1 being the lowest and 5 being the very best. They also reveal whether or not the attorney practices with a high moral and ethical standard. When rating an attorney they look at five major performance areas: legal knowledge, analytical capabilities, judgment, communication ability and legal experience. Based on these five factors, the attorney can be placed into one of three ranking categories. The Rated review category is for attorney who scored anywhere from 1.0-2.9, the BV Distinguished® category are for those who score between 3.0-4.4 and lastly the AV Preeminent® category is for the top attorneys who scored between 4.5-5.0.

Attorney James H. Wood was recently reviewed on March 27, 2013 and he received some amazing reviews from his peers and fellow counsel. All four peer reviews came from either a government counsel member or a private practice lawyer and they ranked Mr. Wood at 5.0 out of 5.0. His overall peer rating with Martindale-Hubbell® was based in the areas of litigation, medical malpractice and personal injury law. With over 21 years of legal experience, Attorney Wood met their high criteria of general ethical standards and he was placed in the AV Preeminent® category with a total score of 4.9 out of 5.0.

His breakdowns of the individual criteria are as follows:

Legal Knowledge- 4.9
Analytical Capabilities- 4.9
Judgement- 4.9
Communication Ability- 4.8
Legal Experience- 4.9

If you are a buyer looking to obtain legal services for a specific matter, hopefully this peer review rating system has help you in retaining competent representation. For an experienced Albuquerque personal injury attorney, contact the Law office of James H. Wood or visit his website at http://www.albuquerqueinjurylawfirm.com.