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Recent Recognition

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• Parker Poe has consistently been named to BTI Consulting Group's "Client Service A-Team" over the past decade. BTI's Client Service A-Team is considered the gold standard for measuring client service in the legal industry. The report is based on interviews with general counsel, chief legal officers, and other legal decision-makers at companies with $700 million or more in revenue. 
   
• Best Lawyers named Parker Poe to its list of "Best Law Firms" for 2024. Parker Poe received the coveted National Tier 1 ranking for real estate litigation for the fourth straight year. The firm received a National Tier 2 ranking in environmental litigation, land use and zoning law, public finance law, and real estate law. Parker Poe received National Tier 3 rankings in bankruptcy law, commercial litigation, corporate law, and environmental law. 
   
• Best Lawyers honored 107 Parker Poe attorneys for 2025, including seven as "Lawyer of the Year." Best Lawyers also named 40 of the firm’s attorneys "Ones to Watch" for 2025. 
   
• Chambers USA 2024 ranked 40 Parker Poe attorneys and 13 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 second-leading bond counsel in North Carolina for 2023 with a volume of over $1.9 billion. The publication also ranked the firm fifth in South Carolina with a volume of $328 million. Parker Poe ranked ninth in the Southeast.
   
• 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.