Best Lawyers® in America, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession, named Walter Weems as the “Jackson, MS Best Lawyers Mergers & Acquisitions Lawyer of the Year” for 2011. Weems was the only lawyer selected in his respective category in Mississippi.
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, 17th edition of The Best Lawyers in America (2011), is based on more than 3.1 million detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers.
The lawyers being honored as “Lawyers of the Year” have received particularly high ratings in our surveys by earning a high level of respect among their peers for their abilities, professionalism, and integrity.