Best Lawyers has named six attorneys at Friday, Eldredge & Clark as Best Lawyers’ 2012 Lawyers of the year.  Those honored and the areas for which they are recognized are:

Sarah Cotton – Litigation-Trusts and Estates
Price C. Gardner – Litigation & Controversy-Tax
James E. Harris – Non-Profit/Charities Law
Laura Hensley Smith – Medical Malpractice Law-Defendants
Jay T. Taylor – Real Estate Law
Frederick S. Ursery – Litigation-Labor & Employment

Because only a single lawyer in each specialty in each community is being honored as the “Lawyer of the Year,” this award is a high honor.

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 the surveys by earning a high level of respect among their peers for their abilities, professionalism, and integrity.