Once again, my firm has been selected as a Metropolitan Tier 1 Firm. I practice in the Roaring Fork Valley and the Front Range. We are a small, but very mighty firm.

Best Law Firms – United States (2025 Edition)

Metropolitan Tier 1

• Colorado
  • Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs
  • Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs
  • Professional Malpractice Law – Plaintiffs

Submission Process From Best Lawyers

As part of our research process, eligible firms are sent submission packets in January. This packet includes information about a firm’s eligibility as well as access to their law firm survey and the portal to provide clients and professional references. Law firms are asked to provide us with general demographic and background information on the law firm and practicing lawyers, and other data that speaks to the strengths of a law firm’s practice area(s).

As part of our research process, eligible firms are sent submission packets in January. This packet includes information about a firm’s eligibility as well as access to their law firm survey and the portal to provide clients and professional references. Law firms are asked to provide us with general demographic and background information on the law firm and practicing lawyers, and other data that speaks to the strengths of a law firm’s practice area(s).

Additional Feedback Analyzed

Clients and professional references are asked to provide feedback on firm practice groups, addressing experience, responsiveness, understanding of a business and its needs, cost-effectiveness, civility and whether they would refer another client to the firm. References also have the option to add names of additional law firms they have worked with on other matters and within practice areas beyond those they were asked to comment on by the referring firm. Some clients choose to write a comment about their experience with the law firm. These comments are for reference only and are not used as data points in the formal evaluation process.

Additionally, as part of the foundational Best Lawyers research process, lawyers are asked to provide feedback individually and organizationally on competitors in their specific fields. Voting lawyers are asked to consider experience, responsiveness, whether they would refer a matter to a firm and whether they consider a firm a worthy competitor.

For the tenth year, a Law Firm Leaders Survey was implemented to provide personal insight on the legal landscape surrounding the nationally ranked practice areas. We ask this group to vote on law firms that have a preeminent national presence within specified legal practice areas they know well.

Rankings by Tiers

The quantitative and qualitative data collected is combined into an overall Best Law Firms score for each firm. This data is then compared to other firms within the same metropolitan area and at the national level. Because firms are often separated by small differences in overall score, we use a tier system rather than ranking law firms sequentially. The first tier in each metropolitan area includes those firms that score within a certain percentage of the highest-scoring firms