MINNEAPOLIS—August 20, 2020.  Winthrop & Weinstine, P.A., is pleased to announce that thirty-three of its attorneys have been selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© 2021, with two attorneys recognized as “Lawyer of the Year” in their practices: John A. Knapp and Eric F. Swanson. In addition, five attorneys have been included in the inaugural edition of Ones to Watch. The recognized attorneys are:

* denotes “Lawyer of the Year” in this practice area.

The following attorneys were listed in the inaugural edition of Ones to Watch, recognitions given to attorneys who are earlier in their careers for outstanding professional excellence in private practice in the United States. “Ones to Watch” recipients typically have been in practice for 5-9 years.

Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers® has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Best Lawyers lists are compiled based on an exhaustive peer-review evaluation. Almost 94,000 industry leading lawyers are eligible to vote (from around the world), and we have received over 11 million evaluations on the legal abilities of other lawyers based on their specific practice areas around the world. For the 2021 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America©, 8.3 million votes were analyzed, which resulted in more than 62,000 leading lawyers being included in the new edition. Lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed; therefore inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.”

MINNEAPOLIS — August 18, 2020. Winthrop & Weinstine is pleased to announce that it has been ranked in the areas of Banking, M&A and Restructuring & Insolvency by IFLR1000, the guide to the world’s leading financial and corporate law firms and lawyers.

In addition, attorneys Thomas Kettleson and Holly Stocker have been recognized as Highly Regarded attorneys in their fields, and Raha Assadi-Lamouki has been recognized as a Rising Star.

The IFLR1000 has been producing legal market intelligence since 1990 and remains the only international legal directory dedicated to ranking law firms and lawyers on the basis of financial and corporate transactional work. The IFLR1000 rankings can be seen in their entirety by visiting https://www.iflr1000.com/NewsAndAnalysis/New-United-States-firm-rankings-published/Index/11307.

MINNEAPOLIS August 12, 2020 – Winthrop & Weinstine, P.A., has been named the best construction/real estate law firm in the 2020 Finance & Commerce Reader Rankings. Readers of Finance & Commerce and Minnesota Lawyer catapulted Winthrop & Weinstine to the top of the list in the category, acknowledging the law firm’s longstanding contribution to real estate and construction law—from buying and selling land to  leasing and tenant issues to complex tax credit financing and commercial real estate transactions.

This is the fourth year for the Finance & Commerce Reader Rankings. Since the inaugural kick-off in 2017, the competition has aimed to identify the most trusted brands and business partners in the Minnesota business community. Companies compete in a wide range of categories including real estate, legal services, education, entertainment, healthcare, general business, technology, finance and top employers.

The full list of the 2020 Finance & Commerce Reader Rankings can be viewed here.

MINNEAPOLIS—August 10, 2020. Winthrop & Weinstine is pleased to announce that the firm has tied for “Best Law Firm” by Twin Cities Business magazine’s Best of Business awards. Rated by local executives and business decision makers, the publication recognizes Winthrop & Weinstine as one of those most appreciated and affirmed organizations in Minnesota. Twin Cities Business described Winthrop as a firm  that “has made it its job to deeply understand clients’ businesses, collaborating with them on creative problem solving and pushing the boundaries of law to deliver results.”

The firm is proud to be part of the thriving Twin Cities business community, and is committed to supporting and guiding clients  in almost every area of law for business.

For more information or to view all the Best of Business award winners, please click here.