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• Mark M. McGinnis Named Best Lawyers 2012 Sole Recipient for the "Phoenix Best Lawyers Water Law Lawyer of the Year."   Read More...
Salmon, Lewis & Weldon, PLC is pleased to announce that Mark M. McGinnis has been named Best Lawyers 2012 sole recipient for the "Phoenix Best Lawyers Water Law Lawyer of the Year. Best Lawyers only honors a single lawyer in each specialty, within each community as a "Lawyer of the Year."


About Best Lawyers in America
Best Lawyers is the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession. Best Lawyers compiles lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. Because lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be included, a listing in Best Lawyers is widely regarded within the legal profession as a signal honor, conferred on a lawyer by his or her peers. The current, 17th edition of "The Best Lawyers in America" (2012), is based on more than 3.9 million detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers "the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice."

The lawyers being honored as "Lawyers of the Year" have received particularly high ratings in surveys by earning a high level of respect among their peers for their abilities, professionalism, and integrity.

Please be aware that the practice areas and subspecialties listed in the Best Lawyers' publications are based on information from the general legal community and that a listed lawyer may or may not be board certified in a specialty or subspecialty. Readers are urged to check the attorney's firm web page to determine whether he or she is board certified in the specialty or subspecialty.


• John B. Weldon, Jr. Selected by The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers for Environment 2011   Read More...
Salmon, Lewis & Weldon, PLC is pleased to announce that John B. Weldon, Jr. has been selected by The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers in Environment for 2011.


About The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers
Since 1996 Who's Who Legal has identified the foremost legal practitioners in 32 areas of business law. They feature over 10,000 of the world's leading private practice lawyers in over 100 countries. It is not possible to buy entry into this publication. Nominees are selected based upon comprehensive, independent survey work with both general counsel and private practice lawyers worldwide. Only specialists who have met independent international research criteria are listed.

Please be aware that the practice areas and subspecialties listed in the Who's Who Legal publication are based on information from the general legal community and that a listed lawyer may or may not be board certified in a specialty or subspecialty. Readers are urged to check the attorney's firm web page to determine whether he or she is board certified in the specialty or subspecialty.


• John B. Weldon, Jr. Named Best Lawyers’ 2011 Phoenix Natural Resources Lawyer of the Year   Read More...
Salmon, Lewis & Weldon, PLC is pleased to announce that John B. Weldon, Jr. has been named Best Lawyers 2011 sole recipient for the "Phoenix Best Lawyers Natural Resources Lawyer of the Year." Best Lawyers only honors a single lawyer in each specialty, within each community as a "Lawyer of the Year."


About Best Lawyers in America
Best Lawyers is the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession. Best Lawyers compiles lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. Because lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be included, a listing in Best Lawyers is widely regarded within the legal profession as a signal honor, conferred on a lawyer by his or her peers. The current, 17th edition of "The Best Lawyers in America" (2011), is based on more than 3.1 million detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers "the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice."

The lawyers being honored as "Lawyers of the Year" have received particularly high ratings in surveys by earning a high level of respect among their peers for their abilities, professionalism, and integrity.

Please be aware that the practice areas and subspecialties listed in the Best Lawyers' publications are based on information from the general legal community and that a listed lawyer may or may not be board certified in a specialty or subspecialty. Readers are urged to check the attorney's firm web page to determine whether he or she is board certified in the specialty or subspecialty.


• Salmon, Lewis & Weldon, PLC Named in U.S. News-Best Lawyers "Best Law Firms" 2010   Read More...
Salmon, Lewis & Weldon, PLC is pleased to announce that the firm has been named in the U.S. News-Best Lawyers "Best Law Firms" Rankings as a First-Tier law firm in Phoenix for Environmental Law, Natural Resources Law and Water Law. The Firm’s Real Estate Law group was also ranked in the report for Phoenix.


About U.S. News-Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms” Rankings
The methodology for the U.S. News – Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms” involved surveying thousands of law firm clients, leading lawyers and law firm managers, partners and associates, and marketing officers and recruiting officers. Each were asked what factors they considered vital for clients hiring law firms, for lawyers choosing a firm to refer a legal matter to, and for lawyers seeking employment. In addition to the information of the surveys, the rankings incorporate evaluations of individual leading lawyers collected by Best Lawyers in its most recent annual survey. All of the quantitative and qualitative data were combined into an overall U.S. News – Best Lawyers overall score for each firm.


• Several Salmon, Lewis & Weldon, PLC Attorneys Named 2011 Best Lawyers in America   Read More...
  
Salmon, Lewis & Weldon, PLC is pleased to announce that several of its attorneys have been selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America 2011. The attorneys who were selected for inclusion in the 2011 Best Lawyers in America Edition are: John B. Weldon, Jr. (Natural Resources and Water Law), James R. Huntwork (Real Estate), Mark A. McGinnis (Environmental Law, Natural Resources and Water Law), and Lisa M. McKnight (Environmental Law).


About Best Lawyers in America
Best Lawyers is the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession. Best Lawyers compiles lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. Because lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be included, a listing in Best Lawyers is widely regarded within the legal profession as a signal honor, conferred on a lawyer by his or her peers. Please be aware that the practice areas and subspecialties listed in the Best Lawyers' publications are based on information from the general legal community and that a listed lawyer may or may not be board certified in a specialty or subspecialty. Readers are urged to check the attorney's firm web page to determine whether he or she is board certified in the specialty or subspecialty.


• Salmon, Lewis & Weldon, PLC and John B. Weldon, Jr. Selected as Leaders by Chambers USA 2010   Read More...
  
Salmon, Lewis & Weldon, PLC has been selected for inclusion in Chambers USA Leading Law Firms 2010 in Environment (including water rights): Arizona in Band 2.

Additionally, John B. Weldon, Jr. has been selected as a Leader in his Field (Environment (including water rights)): Arizona by Chambers USA 2010 in Band 2. The information from the Chambers website provides: John Weldon, Jr. specializes in water rights litigation, in which he is widely seen as being at the forefront of the market. He frequently works with Indian communities negotiating water rights, including the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community and the Zuni Indian Tribe.


About Chambers & Partners
Chambers speaks to a vast range of lawyers and their clients to compile their research for rankings. Greater weighting is given to the views of the clients, and any biased viewpoints tend to cancel each other out. All interviews are conducted purely for research purposes and are entirely confidential and un-attributed. Thousands of interviews are conducted by a team of 50+ full-time researchers. Chambers researches, compiles and launches completely new editions of their directories each year. The rankings and editorial comment about lawyers are independent and objective. Inclusion in this section of the guide is based solely on the research team's findings. No-one can buy their way in.


• Salmon, Lewis & Weldon, PLC Welcomes Attorney Paul R. Orme to the Firm as Of Counsel   Read More...
  
Salmon, Lewis & Weldon, PLC is pleased to announce that Paul R. Orme has joined the firm as Of Counsel. Mr. Orme will practice in the Water Rights and Natural Resources, Special Districts and Municipal Law and Electric Power and Utilities practice areas. Mr. Orme serves as General Counsel to numerous special districts in Arizona. He has been in practice for 30 years, assisting his clients in building their water and electricity delivery systems.


• Attorney Scott M. Deeny Elected to the Executive Council of Natural Resources Section of the Environmental and the Arizona State Bar   Read More...
  
Salmon, Lewis & Weldon, PLC is pleased to announce that Scott M. Deeny, an associate of the firm, has been elected to the serve on the Executive Council of the Environmental and Natural Resources Section of the Arizona State Bar.

Mr. Deeny's practice focuses on water rights, natural resource matters, administrative law and commercial litigation.