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Attorney Wetch accepted to national organization

Joseph Wetch has joined The National Trial Lawyers, a national organization composed of The Top 100 Trial Lawyers from each state. Membership is obtained through special invitation and is extended only to those attorneys who exemplify superior qualifications of leadership, reputation, influence, stature, and profile as civil plaintiff or criminal defense trial lawyers.

 1/3/12

Five Serkland Law Firm Attorneys named to Super Lawyers List

Jack G. Marcil, Ronald H. McLean, Roger J. Minch, Maureen Holman, and Joseph A. Wetch, Jr., long time attorneys from the Serkland Law Firm in Fargo, have been selected by their peers as Great Plains Super Lawyers 2011.  No more than 5 percent of the lawyers in the state are selected by Super Lawyers.

Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters business, is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement.  The annual selections are made using a rigorous multi-phased process that includes a statewide survey of lawyers, an independent research evaluation of candidates, and peer reviews by practice area.

Areas of practice and the number of years the attorneys have been with Serkland Law Firm are:  Marcil - alternative dispute resolution, commercial litigation, and personal injury, 42 yrs.  McLean - civil litigation, 36 yrs.  Minch - alternative dispute resolution, banking law, business and commercial law, commercial litigation, creditor-side bankruptcy and creditor’s rights, 33 yrs.   Holman - family law, 28 yrs.   Wetch - business and commercial law, personal injury, malpractice defense, and insurance litigation, 10 yrs.

For more information about Super Lawyers, go to superlawyers.com.

11/10/11

Four Serkland Law Firm Attorneys named to Best Lawyers

Four Serkland Law Firm attorneys in Fargo have been named to the 2012 edition of Best Lawyers, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession.  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 following Serkland Law Firm lawyers received Best Lawyer honors:  Jack G. Marcil – Arbitration; Mediation; Personal Injury Litigation; Product Liability Litigation.  Ronald H. McLean – Commercial Litigation; Litigation – Construction, Labor & Employment, Mergers & Acquisitions, Municipal.  Roger J.  Minch – Arbitration; Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law; Commercial Litigation; Litigation – Banking & Finance, Bankruptcy.  Maureen Holman – Family Law.

11/10/11

McLean Named Commercial Litigation Lawyer of the Year


Best Lawyers, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession, has named Ronald H. McLean as the “Fargo Best Lawyers Commercial Litigation 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 the surveys by earning a high level of respect among their peers for their abilities, professionalism, and integrity.

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 Ronald H. McLean on being selected as the ‘Fargo Best Lawyers Commercial Litigation Lawyer of the Year’ for 2012.”

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For further information about the selection process, please visit http://www.bestlawyers.com/aboutus/selectionprocess.aspx
10/04/2011

Serkland Law Firm joins TAGLaw Legal Network

The Serkland Law Firm is a member of the TAGLaw®  legal network.  TAGLaw® is a global alliance of high-quality, independent law firms with more than 140 member firms based in nearly 100 countries. Its 7500+ lawyers work out of 300 offices to provide a full range of legal services to clients all over the world.

TAGLaw® members are highly-respected, value-driven law firms with local market knowledge and expertise. Members are carefully chosen based on their reputation and record, and on recommendations from existing members. Members undergo a rigorous screening process prior to an invitation to the network, and are ultimately reviewed and approved by the TAGLaw Advisory Board

For more information, visit www.taglaw.com.

04/11/2011