ACG Detroit Member Gail Straith has been named the Best Lawyers’ 2012 Detroit Mergers & Acquisitions Lawyer of the Year.
Best Lawyers, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession, has named Gail Haefner Straith as the “Detroit Best Lawyers Mergers & Acquisitions Law Lawyer of the Year” for 2012. After more than a quarter of a century in publication, Best Lawyers is designating “Lawyers of the Year” in high-profile legal specialties in large legal communities. Only a single lawyer in each specialty in each community is being honored as the “Lawyer of the Year.”
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 these surveys by earning a high level of respect among their peers for their abilities, professionalism, and integrity.
Throughout her 26-year career, Ms. Straith has enjoyed guiding business owners and management teams through the process of buying or selling a business. Ms. Straith has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America since 2003. Ms. Straith is a 1978 graduate of the University of Michigan and a 1985 graduate of Cornell Law School. She currently serves as President of Straith Law, a firm based in Birmingham, Michigan.
Steven Naifeh, President of Best Lawyers, says, “We continue to believe – as we have believed for more than 25 years – that recognition by one’s peers is the most meaningful form of praise in the legal profession. We would like to congratulate Gail Haefner Straith on being selected as the ‘Detroit Best Lawyers Mergers & Acquisitions Law Lawyer of the Year’ for 2012.”