FordHarrison Attorney Wade E. Ballard Named “Lawyer of the Year” by Best Lawyers
October 9, 2012
GREENVILLE, SC – October 9, 2012 – FordHarrison LLP, a national labor and employment law firm, announces that Best Lawyers, one of the oldest and most respected peer-review publications in the legal profession, has named Wade E. Ballard, a partner in FordHarrison’s Spartanburg office, as the Best Lawyers’ 2013 Greenville Labor Law – Management Lawyer of the Year.
After more than a quarter of a century in publication, Best Lawyers is designating Lawyers of the Year in high-profile legal specialties in large legal communities. Only a single lawyer in each specialty in each community is being honored as the Lawyer of the Year.
About Best Lawyers
Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Because Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which more than 36,000 leading attorneys cast almost 4.4 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas, and because lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed, 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.
About FordHarrison LLP
FordHarrison is a national labor and employment law firm with approximately 200 lawyers in 24 offices, including of counsel affiliates in Akron (OH), Boston, and Houston. The firm represents employers in traditional labor, employment litigation, business immigration, and employee benefits domestically as well as internationally. For more information visit www.fordharrison.com.
