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Recent Recognition

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• Feedback from top corporate counsel led to Parker Poe's selection in BTI Consulting Group’s "Client Service A-Team" for 2025. It is considered the gold standard for measuring client service in the legal industry. Feedback from chief legal officers and other top legal decision-makers also led to the firm’s ranking by BTI as an innovation icon and one of the most strongly recommended midsize firms for 2025. 
   
• Best Lawyers named Parker Poe to its list of "Best Law Firms" for 2025. Parker Poe received National Tier 2 rankings in commercial litigation, real estate law, and real estate litigation. The firm also received National Tier 3 rankings in bankruptcy law, construction law, corporate law, environmental law, environmental litigation, land use and zoning law, and public finance law.
   
• Best Lawyers honored 115 Parker Poe attorneys for 2026, including 10 as "Lawyer of the Year." Best Lawyers also named 23 of the firm’s attorneys "Ones to Watch" for 2026. 
   
• Chambers USA 2025 ranked 41 Parker Poe attorneys and 16 of our practice areas, including five groups with the highest possible ranking, Band 1, in North Carolina or South Carolina. In North Carolina, the firm received that ranking for its environmental, financial restructuring, public finance, and tax practice areas. In South Carolina, the firm received that ranking for health care.
   
• Benchmark Litigation ranked Parker Poe “Highly Recommended” in North Carolina and “Recommended” in South Carolina for dispute resolution in 2024. The rankings demonstrate that clients and peers consistently endorse Parker Poe, and that the firm and its litigators are among “the players shaping the dynamic practice of litigation,” according to the publication.
   
• The Bond Buyer ranked Parker Poe as the leading bond counsel in North Carolina for 2024 with a volume of over $2 billion.
   
• Parker Poe was ranked in the 2024 edition of the World Trademark Review 1000: The World’s Leading Trademark Professionals. The publication ranked Parker Poe as one of the top trademark firms and three of its trademark attorneys, Chris Thomas, Will Cannon, and Sloan Carpenter as top attorneys in 2024. 
   
• U.S. News & World Report named Parker Poe one of the best companies to work for among law firms in 2024. Parker Poe made U.S. News' inaugural list based on six factors the publication defines as most important to employees.