(November 7, 2024) — Lathrop GPM LLP is proud to announce that it has been named a 2025 Best Law Firm by Best Lawyers® in the legal ranking organization’s 15th edition.
Best Law Firms rankings are determined through a rigorous evaluation process involving the collection of client and lawyer evaluations, peer review from leading attorneys in their field, and review of additional information provided by law firms as part of the formal submission process. The highest honor, a Tier 1 ranking, is based on clients’ feedback, the high regard that lawyers in other firms in the same practice area have for the firm, and information that the firm provides via a survey.
Lathrop GPM has been recognized in the following practice areas:
National Tier 1
- Franchise Law
- Litigation – Banking and Finance
- Trusts and Estates
National Tier 2
- Biotechnology and Life Sciences Practice
- Commercial Litigation
- Corporate Law
- Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
- Insurance Law
- Land Use and Zoning Law
- Litigation – First Amendment
- Litigation – Intellectual Property
- Litigation – Labor and Employment
- Litigation – Real Estate
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
- Real Estate Law
- Tax Law
- Trusts and Estates
National Tier 3
- Banking and Finance Law
- Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants
- Patent Law
Metropolitan Tier 1
- Boston
- Biotechnology and Life Sciences Practice
- Colorado
- Commercial Litigation
- Elder Law
- Franchise Law
- Litigation – Trusts and Estates
- Kansas City-KS (Overland Park)
- Commercial Litigation
- Corporate Law
- Real Estate Law
- Trusts and Estates
- Kansas City-MO
- Commercial Litigation
- Criminal Defense: White-Collar
- Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
- Employment Law – Management
- Environmental Law
- First Amendment Law
- Insurance Law
- Labor Law – Management
- Land Use and Zoning Law
- Litigation – Banking and Finance
- Litigation – Bankruptcy
- Litigation – Environmental
- Litigation – ERISA
- Litigation – First Amendment
- Litigation – Insurance
- Litigation – Labor and employment
- Litigation – Land Use and Zoning
- Litigation – Real Estate
- Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants
- Product Liability Litigation – Defendants
- Real Estate Law
- Tax Law
- Trusts and Estates
- Water Law
- Los Angeles
- Litigation – Insurance
- Minneapolis
- Commercial Finance Law
- Commercial Litigation
- Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
- Franchise Law
- Health Care Law
- Litigation – Banking & Finance
- Litigation – Intellectual Property
- Litigation – Labor & Employment
- Mergers & Acquisitions Law
- Nonprofit / Charities Law
- Tax Law
- Trusts & Estates Law
- San Francisco (Redwood Shores)
- Trusts and Estates
- San Jose
- Commercial Litigation
- Litigation – Real Estate
- Litigation – Trusts and Estates
- Trusts and Estates
- St. Louis
- Real Estate Law
- Trusts & Estates Law
- Washington D.C.
- Franchise Law
Metropolitan Tier 2
- Boston
- Patent Law
- Colorado
- Corporate Law
- Trusts and Estates
- Dallas/Fort Worth
- Securities Regulation
- Kansas City-KS (Overland Park)
- Education Law
- Kansas City-MO
- Appellate Practice
- Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
- Corporate Law
- Government Relations Practice
- Health Care Law
- Litigation – Intellectual Property
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
- Los Angeles
- Insurance Law
- Minneapolis
- Corporate Law
- Employment Law – Management
- Labor Law – Management
- Litigation – Health Care
- Litigation – Real Estate
- Litigation – Trusts & Estates
- Real Estate Law
- San Francisco (Redwood Shores)
- Litigation – Trusts and Estates
- San Jose
- Closely Held Companies and Family Businesses Law
- Elder Law
- St. Louis
- Closely Held Companies and Family Businesses Law
Metropolitan Tier 3
- Colorado
- Litigation – Real Estate
- Product Liability Litigation – Defendants
- Kansas City-KS (Overland Park)
- Health Care Law
- Tax Law
- Kansas City-MO
- Banking and Finance Law
- Employment Law – Individuals
- Litigation – Trusts and Estates
- St. Louis
- Tax Law
To be eligible for a Best Law Firm ranking, a firm must have at least one lawyer named among The Best Lawyers in America©. Attorneys are neither required nor allowed to pay a fee to be listed. For 2025, 92 Lathrop GPM attorneys were named among The Best Lawyers in America, seven of whom were selected “Lawyer of the Year” in their practice area. Eighteen additional attorneys were chosen for the “Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch,” which honors up-and-coming attorneys with fewer than 10 years of practice.