HechtSolberg has been honored as a Tier 1 San Diego law firm in the areas of real estate law and land use and zoning law in the U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers 2016 rankings. The firm was also designated a Tier 2 law firm for San Diego in the area of corporate law.

Firms included in the 2016 “Best Law Firms” list are recognized for professional excellence through consistently impressive ratings from clients and peers. Achieving a tiered ranking signals a unique combination of skill, integrity and qualifications.

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 included in Best Lawyers in that particular practice area and metro. Earlier this year, HechtSolberg attorney Paul E. Robinson was named the 2016 San Diego Land Use and Zoning Law “Lawyer of the Year.” Other HechtSolberg attorneys honored on the 2016 Best Lawyersranking are Darryl O. Solberg for Business Organizations, Corporate Law and Real Estate Law and David W. Bagley II for Real Estate Law best real estate law firms.

“We are particularly proud of being ranked among San Diego’s best law firms because this ranking is generated by a rigorous evaluation process based heavily on peer and client reviews,” said Mickey Maher, managing partner at HechtSolberg. “This designation reflects the high level of respect we have earned from our clients and the San Diego legal community during the firm’s more than 40 years of leadership in the real estate and business industry.”

Michael Best’s Real Estate Practice Group is deeply involved in all aspects of the real estate and project development industry in our own markets and on a national level. Our practice focuses on the structuring and development of large, complex private and public-private projects. Michael Best's real estate attorneys are well versed in every segment of the real estate industry, including land use, acquisition/disposition, leasing, financing, partnership structuring, and tax credits.

Mid-Atlantic Bio Angels (MABA), an angel investor group focused on early-stage life science companies, announced that NangioTx, Inc. was voted as “Best in Show” at the first of MABA's 1st Pitch Life Science events of 2016, which took place at the Civic Hall in New York City on February 23, 2016. Partner Stephen M. Goodman is a co-founder of MABA.

"As evidenced by the generally positive comments from the panel, NangioTx co-founder Vivek Kumar concisely articulated the medical issue and the proposed solution, provided enough data to give substance to the company's hypothesis and set out a reasonable path to market, without minimizing potential issues.  A well-deserved win," commented Goodman.

NangioTx is a Houston-based drug development company developing a novel drug promoting growth of new blood vessels in the muscles of patients with peripheral artery disease, which causes muscle atrophy and cell death.

The real estate practices of two law firms with offices in Grand Rapids have been recognized as the “best of the best” in the Midwest region.

Dickinson Wright and Warner Norcross were both included on the list of 37 top-ranking real estate practices by Midwest Real Estate News in the publication’s “2015 Best of the Best” issue.

Entries from more than 60 Midwest commercial real estate law firms were submitted and rankings were calculated based on the total dollar volume of transactions completed in 2014, according to Midwest Real Estate News.

Dickinson Wright

Dickinson Wright earned the No. 2 slot on the list.

Dickinson Wright’s real estate practice is comprised of more than 95 lawyers who are actively involved in diverse real estate matters and regularly represent a wide variety of clients including property owners, developers, managers, contractors, lenders, investors, corporations, nonprofits and governments, among others, in all aspects of real estate.

The firm has offices across Michigan, as well as Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Nevada, Arizona, Washington, D.C., and Toronto, and has experience in real estate transactions in nearly all 50 states and throughout Canada.

“Our outstanding team of real estate attorneys strives to provide our clients with the expertise and unwavering dedication,” said Harlan W. Robins, practice department manager for real estate, environmental, and energy and sustainability. “Our deal volume reflects their hard work, shoulder to shoulder with our clients.”