Jul 03 2009
Local attorney receives national peer recognition and professional achievement award
St. George, Utah, June 26, 2009 — Super Lawyers, a publication of Key Professional Media located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has awarded St. George attorney Ronald W. Truman of Dixon, Truman & Fisher, P.C. with the 2009 Mountain States Super Lawyers award. Truman was nominated and awarded this coveted peer acknowledgment for his dealings in a variety of practice areas including Personal Injury Plaintiff: General, General Litigation, and Construction Litigation.
Super Lawyers is a listing of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. In selecting attorneys for Super Lawyers, Law & Politics employs a rigorous, multiphase process. Peer nominations and evaluations are combined with third party research. Each candidate is evaluated on 12 indicators of peer recognition and professional achievement. Selections are made on an annual, state-by-state basis.
According to Super Lawyers, “Once a year, we invite lawyers in each state to nominate the top attorneys they’ve personally observed in action. Lawyers may nominate attorneys in their own firm, but these nominations count only if each in-firm nomination is matched by at least one out-firm nomination. Each nomination carries a point value. An out-firm nomination has substantially greater point value than an in-firm nomination. Lawyers cannot nominate themselves, and must limit their nominations to others who practice in the same state.”
After obtaining these nominations, they are turned over to the research department who evaluates each candidate based on 12 indicators of peer recognition and professional achievement: verdicts and settlements; transactions; representative clients; experience; honors and awards; special licenses and certifications; position within law firm; bar and or other professional activity; pro bono and community service as a lawyer; scholarly lectures and writings; education and employment background; and other outstanding achievements.
These indicators are not treated equally; some have a higher maximum point value than others. Attorneys are then separated into Areas of Practice and once again sent through another evaluation of their peers. The final selections of the nominees are grouped into four firm sized categories, this means solo and small firm lawyers are compared with other solo and small firm attorneys, and large firm lawyers compete with other large firm lawyers. Five percent of the total lawyers in the state are selected for inclusion in Super Lawyers.
Truman has been practicing law in southern Utah since 1988. He is licensed in UT, CA, IL, AZ and NV. Dixon, Truman & Fisher, P.C is an AV rated law firm by Martindale-Hubble.
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