Three Attorneys Named 2010 Best Lawyers "Lawyer of the Year"
Date: 12/10/2009
Three Partners with the Virginia law firm of Gentry Locke Rakes & Moore have been named "2010 Roanoke Lawyers of the Year" by The Best Lawyers in America®, the oldest peer-review publication in the legal profession.
- Douglas W. Densmore has been named the Best Lawyers' 2010 Roanoke Banking Lawyer of the Year
- S. D. Roberts Moore has been named the Best Lawyers' 2010 Roanoke Personal Injury Litigator of the Year
- William R. Rakes has been named the Best Lawyers' 2010 Roanoke Bet-the-Company Litigator of the Year
Only a single attorney in each specialty in each community is honored with this designation.
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, 16th edition of The Best Lawyers in America (2010), is based on more than 2.8 million detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers. The lawyers being honored as "Lawyers of the Year" have received particularly high ratings in our surveys by earning a high level of respect among their peers for their abilities, professionalism, and integrity.