Accolades

Ranked in the 2025 “Best Law Firms” rankings by Best Lawyers® in America

METROPOLITAN MADISON, WI - TIER 1

• Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law
• Criminal Defense: General
• Criminal Defense: White Collar
• Immigration Law
• Litigation -- Land Use & Zoning
• Litigation - Municipal
• Litigation – Securities
• Municipal Law
• Real Estate Law
• Securities/Capital Markets Law 

METROPOLITAN MADISON, WI - TIER 2

• Corporate Law
• Employment Law - Management
• Litigation - Bankruptcy

METROPOLITAN MADISON, WI - TIER 3

• Family Law
• Litigation - Trusts & Estates

Martindale Hubbell – “Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers”

• AV (top) rated firm (fewer than 5% of law firms qualify for “Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers”)
  

Best Lawyers in America® 2019 “Top-Listed” (most listed lawyers in the practice group per market)

• Top-Listed in in Madison, WI, in Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law

Best Business Law Firm - Wisconsin

• AI Legal Awards (2016)

Executive Choice Award – Preferred Law Firm - In Business magazine "Book of Lists"

• Executive Choice Award – 1st Place Award Winner (2013, 2012, 2011, 2010) "Top 3" (2006, 2007, 2009, 2014, 2015, 2017)

Selected by peers for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America® 2026 in the following practice areas:

• Julianne Brock - "Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America" - Family Law
• Sarah DeKraay - Family Law
• Matthew Fleming - Municipal Law; Litigation-Land Use and Zoning; Litigation-Muncipal (Also named "Madison Lawyer of the Year-Municipal Law" 2025; "Madison Lawyer of the Year-Litigation-Land Use and Zoning" 2021, 2024, 2026; "Madison Lawyer of the Year-Litigation-Municipal Law" 2026)
• Hal Harlowe - Criminal Defense: General Practice; Criminal Defense: White Collar (Also named "Madison Lawyer of the Year-Criminal Defense: White Collar" 2022, 2024)
• Vernon Jesse - Corporate Law; Real Estate Law
• Glorily López - Immigration Law (Also Named “Madison Lawyer of the Year–Immigration Law”  2013, 2016, 2019, 2022, 2024)
• Mario Mendoza - Litigation - Trusts and Estates
• Stephen Morgan - Securities / Capital Markets Law; Government Relations Practice; Litigation-Securities (Also named "Madison Lawyer of the Year-Government Relations Practice" 2021)
• William Morgan - Employment Law-Management; Municipal Law
• Jason Reed - Corporate Law
• Bruce Rosen - Criminal Defense: White Collar; Criminal Defense: General Practice (Also named "Madison Lawyer of the Year-Criminal Defense: General Practice" 2012; "Madison Lawyer of the Year-Criminal Defense: White Collar" 2013)
• Ginger Zimmerman – Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law; Litigation-Bankruptcy; Municipal Law (Also named "Madison Lawyer of the Year-Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law" 2016, 2018, 2020, 2024; "Madison Lawyer of the Year-Litigation-Bankruptcy" 2021, 2024, 2026)

Included on the 2024 Wisconsin Super Lawyers® lists and Rising Stars lists; published in Wisconsin Super Lawyers 2024 magazine 

• Jane F. (Ginger) Zimmerman – Bankruptcy: Business (Also “Top 25 Women Wisconsin” in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2022; and "Top 25 Madison" in 2019, 2024)
• Jason Reed - (Rising Star) - Corporate/Business

Fellows of the American Bar Foundation

• Hal Harlowe (2020)
• Jane F. (Ginger) Zimmernan (2020)

Lawdragon's "500 Leading U.S. Bankruptcy & Restructuring Lawyers"

• Jane F. (Ginger) Zimmerman (2020, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025)

ThreeBest Rated Award - Immigration Lawyers, Madison, WI

• Glorily López (2016)

Top One Percent (by the National Association of Distinguished Counsel)

• Hal Harlowe (2015)
• Bruce Rosen (2015)

Fellows of the Wisconsin Law Foundation

• Jane F. (Ginger) Zimmerman (2021)
• Harvey Wendel (2011)

"7 Over 70” – In Business magazine (notable professionals in Dane County over 70 years of age)

• Harvey Wendel (2013)