2021 U.S. News-Best Lawyers Ranks Steeg Law Firm a Metropolitan Tier 1 Law Firm in Real Estate

I am honored that Steeg Law has once again been included in the 2021 edition of U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers  “Best Law Firms,” ranking the firm a Metropolitan Tier 1 Law Firm in New Orleans for Real Estate Law, Commercial Finance Law, Commercial Litigation, Commercial Transactions/UCC Law and Litigation – Real Estate. Steeg Law has been recognized every year since 2010, the first year that Best Lawyers began including law firms in their rankings.

The firm was also honored by inclusion in several other categories.

Best Lawyers Metropolitan Tier 2 New Orleans

• Banking and Finance Law

Best Lawyers Metropolitan Tier 3 New Orleans

• Bet-the-Company Litigation

• Corporate Law

• Litigation – Bankruptcy

To be eligible for a ranking, a firm must have a lawyer listed in The Best Lawyers in America, which recognizes the top 4 percent of practicing attorneys in the United States. Five Steeg Law attorneys were selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2021 for New Orleans, Louisiana, and one for The Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch 2021. Robert M. Steeg is one of a select group of lawyers who has been included for more than 25 years.

The Best Lawyers in America 2021

• Lillian E. Eyrich – Real Estate Law (since 2008)

• David A. Martinez – Real Estate Law (since 2013)

• Randy Opotowsky – Banking and Finance Law, Commercial Transactions/UCC Law, Litigation – Real Estate, Real Estate Law (since 2012)

• Robert M. Steeg – Banking and Finance Law, Commercial Finance Law, Commercial Transactions/UCC Law, Corporate Law, Real Estate Law (since 1995)

• Charles L. Stern, Jr. – Litigation – Real Estate, Litigation – Bankruptcy, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Litigation – Commercial Litigation, Real Estate Law (since 2012)

The Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch

• Margaret V. Glass – Real Estate Law (2021)

Best Lawyers “Lawyer of the Year”

Charles Stern was also recognized by Best Lawyers as the 2021 “Lawyer of the Year” for Litigation – Real Estate in New Orleans, Louisiana, an honor he also received in 2018 and 2015. Lillian Eyrich, Randy Opotowsky and Robert Steeg have previously been recognized by Best Lawyers as the “Lawyer of the Year” in New Orleans.

Best Law Firms Methodology

The U.S. News – Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms” rankings are based on a rigorous evaluation process that includes the collection of client and lawyer evaluations, peer review from leading attorneys in their field, and review of additional information provided by law firms as part of the formal submission process.

To be eligible for a ranking in a particular practice area and metro region, a law firm must have at least one lawyer who is currently recognized in Best Lawyers in that particular practice area and metro.

For the 2021 “Best Law Firms” list, the methodology for the initiative remained the same as in the previous ten years.

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

Lawyers also cast votes and were asked to consider expertise, responsiveness, whether they would refer a matter to a firm and whether they consider a firm a worthy competitor.

In addition to lawyer and client feedback, law firms were asked to provide general demographic and background information on the law firm and attorneys, and other data that speaks to the strengths of a law firm’s practice areas.

All of the quantitative and qualitative data were combined into an overall “Best Law Firms” score for each firm.

This data was then compared to other firms within the same metropolitan area and at the national level. Because firms were often separated by small or insignificant differences in overall score, U.S. News – Best Lawyers uses a tiering system rather than ranking law firms sequentially. The first tier in each metropolitan area includes those firms that scored within a certain percentage of the highest-scoring firm(s); the second tier, those firms that scored within a certain percentage of the next highest scoring firm(s), and so on.