Burnette Shutt & McDaniel earns 5 Tier 1 honors in Best Law Firms
November 5, 2026
For the 10th consecutive edition, Burnette Shutt & McDaniel has earned Tier 1 honors in Best Law Firms®.
Burnette Shutt & McDaniel has received Tier 1 rankings in the Columbia area every year since the firm’s founding. In the just-released 2027 edition, the firm’s top-level awards are in:
• Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
• Employment Law – Individuals
• Litigation – Labor and Employment
• Education Law
The firm earned numerous additional honors in other tiers. In Tier 2: Commercial Litigation, Employment Law – Management, Health Care Law, Litigation – ERISA, Litigation – Environmental, and Mediation for the Columbia area and Employment Law – Individuals for the Greenville area. In Tier 3: Administrative/Regulatory Law, Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs, and Real Estate Law for the Columbia area.
Selection for Best Law Firms requires that at least one attorney from the firm be included in the same year’s update of Best Lawyers in America®. Burnette Shutt & McDaniel qualified when 10 of its attorneys were listed in the 2027 edition of Best Lawyers and its companion piece, Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch. In addition to individual honors for the firm’s attorneys across more than a dozen practice areas, Nekki Shutt was named Lawyer of the Year in the Columbia area for her work in Employment Law – Individuals.
Eligible firms then are asked to provide background information, complete a survey and provide client and professional references. The client and professional feedback is then analyzed on several key points, including experience, responsiveness, and whether they would refer another client to the firm. All the data is then compiled, and overall scores are used to place firms in tiers with other firms in the same practice area and the same geographic region.
About Burnette Shutt & McDaniel, PA
Located in Columbia’s historic business district, Burnette Shutt & McDaniel, PA’s attorneys are licensed to practice in all South Carolina courts and at all levels of federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. The firm represents clients in a range of areas, including employment, environmental, education, family, and administrative law. They also handle employee benefits and ERISA matters, civil rights cases, privacy and data protection issues and government matters such as eminent domain, land use and zoning. Learn more at burnetteshutt.law.
