For our second blog post concerning awards this summer, Ahlers Cressman & Sleight is pleased to announce that nine members of our firm have been selected to the 2025 Washington Super Lawyers list and three were selected to the Rising Stars list.

The road to being a Super Lawyer begins when attorneys are nominated by their peers, managing partners, third parties, or identified by the Super Lawyers research team. They then undergo independent research evaluating them on twelve indicators of professional achievement and peer recognition, including but not limited to: honors/awards, verdicts/settlements, position at their firm, transactions, clients, and experience. Candidates are then evaluated by other nominated peers within their practice area and selected based on who has the highest point totals grouped by firm size.

The process for becoming a Rising Star is the same as a Super Lawyer, however this nomination is reserved for candidates who are under the age of forty or who have been practicing for 10 years or less. Both nominations are rigorous as only five percent of lawyers in the state are recognized as Super Lawyers and only two and a half percent are recognized as Rising Starts within the state.