Pavese Law Firm Named Among 2022 U.s. News & World Report Best Lawyers® And "best Law Firms"

FORT MYERS, Fla. - Nov. 26, 2021 - PRLog -- Pavese Law Firm is being recognized as one of U.S. News – Best Lawyers® and U.S. News & World Report "Best Law Firms" for 2022, acknowledging professional excellence with consistently impressive ratings from clients and peers. To be eligible for a ranking in Best Law Firms, a practice must first have a lawyer recognized in The Best Lawyers in America®, which recognizes the top 6% of lawyers practicing in the United States.  Pavese has three lawyers listed in The Best Lawyers in America – Christopher J. Shields, Steven C. Hartsell and Neale Montgomery.  Additionally, Hartsell was recognized as the 2022 Fort Myers Land Use and Zoning Law "Lawyer of the Year."  Only a single lawyer in each practice area and community is honored with a "Lawyer of the Year" award.

Achieving a tiered ranking in the U.S. News – Best Lawyers® "Best Law Firms" signals a unique combination of quality law practice and breadth of legal expertise. Ranked firms, presented in three tiers, are recognized on a national and regional-based scale. Firms that received a tier designation reflect the highest level of respect a firm can earn among other leading lawyers and clients from the same communities and practice areas. Pavese Law Firm has been distinguished as Metropolitan Tier 1, specifically in the areas of Land Use and Zoning Law (Steven C. Hartsell and Neale Montgomery) and Real Estate Law (Christopher J. Shields).

"For over three decades, U.S. News has provided the public with accurate and in-depth rankings on key institutions in society from higher education to hospitals and health systems," says Morgan Felchner, executive editor at U.S. News. "Law firms serve a critical role in American life and ranking them is a key extension of our overall mission to help individuals make important life decisions."

The 2022 rankings incorporate more than 8.2 million evaluations of more than 115,000 individual leading lawyers from more than 22,000 firms. More than 2,000 firms received a national law firm ranking this year.

National and Metropolitan Tier 1 rankings will be featured in the physical edition of U.S. News – Best Lawyers® "Best Law Firms", which will be distributed to more than 30,000 in-house counsels.

Pavese Law Firm is well known for having a hand in the substantial growth of Southwest Florida. Since opening its doors over 70 years ago as a general practice firm, Pavese Law has grown into a diverse firm of experienced attorneys across three offices in Fort Myers, Cape Coral and West Palm Beach, Florida. For more information about the firm, please visit paveselaw.com.