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Eastman & Smith on 2025 Best Law Firms List
Eastman & Smith is pleased to announce the Firm is included in the 2025 edition of Best Law Firms®, published by Best Lawyers®. This is a listing of top law firms in the country in different practice areas. Eastman & Smith earned 34 metropolitan rankings including:
Columbus
Metropolitan Tier 1
- Litigation – Intellectual Property
- Litigation – Trusts & Estates
- Workers' Compensation Law – Employers
Metropolitan Tier 2
- Commercial Litigation
- Labor Law – Management
- Litigation – Environmental
- Litigation – Labor and Employment
- Natural Resources Law
Toledo
Metropolitan Tier 1
- Arbitration
- Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)
- Commercial Litigation
- Corporate Law
- Criminal Defense: White-Collar
- Employment Law – Individuals
- Health Care Law
- Litigation – Construction
- Litigation – Labor & Employment
- Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
- Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants
- Product Liability Litigation – Defendants
- Railroad Law
- Real Estate Law
- Trusts and Estates
- Workers' Compensation Law – Employers
Metropolitan Tier 2
- Closely Held Companies and Family Businesses Law
- Employment Law – Management
- Labor Law – Management
- Land Use and Zoning Law
- Litigation – Land Use and Zoning
- Litigation – Trusts and Estates
The Firm also earned Tier 3 metropolitan rankings in Columbus for Employment Law – Management, Environmental Law and Litigation – Construction
There are 154 Columbus firms and 36 Toledo firms that are recognized in the 2025 Best Law Firms list. The number of the Firm's practice areas that were recognized in Best Law Firms, validates our clients' and the public's perception that Eastman & Smith is a premier law firm.
This is the 15th edition of Best Law Firms list and the 15th year Eastman & Smith has appeared on it. To be considered for inclusion, law firms must have at least one attorney who appears in Best Lawyers in America®. Earlier it was announced that 26 Eastman & Smith attorneys appear in the latest edition. For more information on these attorneys, please read the story posted on our web site.