MILWAUKEE (Oct. 10, 2011) –Godfrey & Kahn, S.C. is proud to announce that Best Lawyers, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession, has named Jon E. Anderson as the “Madison Employment Law – Management Lawyer of the Year” and Howard A. Pollack as the “Milwaukee Bet-the-Company Litigation Lawyer of the Year” for 2012.
Jon Anderson has been a shareholder at Godfrey & Kahn since 1991 and concentrates his practice on all aspects of human resource, labor and employment law matters.
Howard Pollack has been a shareholder at Godfrey & Kahn since 1992 and regularly counsels the firm’s clients on their most challenging litigation matters.
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.”
Best Lawyers compiles its lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. The current, 18th edition of The Best Lawyers in America (2012) is based on more than 3.9 million detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers.
The lawyers being honored as “Lawyers of the Year” have received particularly high ratings in surveys by earning a high level of respect among their peers for their abilities, professionalism and integrity.
With more than 170 lawyers, Godfrey & Kahn, S.C. is one of Wisconsin’s leading business law firms. Founded in 1957, Godfrey & Kahn maintains offices in Milwaukee, Madison, Appleton, Green Bay and Waukesha, Wis.; and Washington, DC. For more information, please visit the firm’s web site at www.gklaw.com.
