DENVER – Attorneys Elizabeth A. Starrs, Michael T. Mihm and Susan Bernhardt, of Starrs Mihm LLP, have been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2012 (Copyright 2011 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, S.C.).
This is the fifth year Starrs has been selected to the prestigious Best Lawyers® list in both legal malpractice - plaintiffs and legal malpractice - defendants.
Mihm has been included in The Best Lawyers in America® for two years in a row for legal malpractice - plaintiffs.
Bernhardt has been selected to The Best Lawyers in America® for the first year in both arbitration and mediation.
Starrs focuses on legal malpractice, business litigation, employment, mediation and arbitration. She has the distinction of having tried more legal malpractice cases than any other lawyer in Colorado. Moreover, she has tried employment cases involving well-known and high profile companies and individuals. She is an approved mediator and arbitrator by the American Arbitration Association.
Mihm focuses on representing plaintiffs in legal malpractice lawsuits. He also handles a wide variety business disputes, as well as select catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death cases. Mihm is the managing editor of Lawyers' Professional Liability in Colorado, Second Edition (CLE of Colorado, Inc., 2005, Michael T. Mihm ed.), a two-volume, 42-chapter book on the law of lawyer’s professional liability and professional ethics.
Bernhardt's practice emphasizes business disputes, securities fraud, partnership and corporate fiduciary duties, corporate governance, and "squeeze out" and "freeze out" lawsuits, as well as mediation and arbitration. The American Arbitration Association has approved Bernhardt as an arbitrator for commercial and employment disputes.
Published annually, The Best Lawyers in America® is widely regarded as the preeminent referral guide to the legal profession in the United States. The Best Lawyers in America® lists are compiled from more than 500,000 detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers.
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THE BEST LAWYERS IN AMERICA®
Since its inception 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 41,000 leading attorneys cast almost 3.9 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.”
