Best Law Firms: Ballard Spahr Is National First Amendment Litigation Firm of the Year, Scores More Than 80 Top Metro Rankings
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Ballard Spahr received the national Law Firm of the Year award for First Amendment Litigation and achieved an all-time high with more than 80 Tier 1 metropolitan rankings in the 2025 edition of Best Law Firms released today.
Best Law Firms recognizes firms for professional excellence based on feedback provided by clients and other attorneys about performance, capabilities, and professionalism. The Law Firm of the Year honor is awarded to just one firm nationally for each practice area to single out firms that have an outstanding overall performance record in a particular practice area.
By earning 2025 Law Firm of the Year honors for the category Litigation - First Amendment, Ballard Spahr has won that designation four of the past six years, as well as Law Firm of the Year for Media Law for 2024—a testament to the national preeminence of Ballard Spahr’s Media and Entertainment Law Group.
Ballard Spahr earned Tier 1 national rankings in 23 areas spanning transactional, regulatory, and litigation practices, a demonstration of the firm’s strength across areas of client need. The 23 areas are:
Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law
Criminal Defense: White-Collar
Financial Services Regulation Law
Securities/Capital Markets Law
Overall, Ballard Spahr earned a total of 173 Best Law Firms rankings for 2025. The 82 metropolitan Tier 1 rankings across our 15 offices nationwide include three new rankings in Utah—for Commercial Litigation, Construction, and Real Estate—as well as new rankings in Los Angeles for Entertainment Law - Motion Pictures and Television, and in New York for Commercial Litigation.
Best Law Firms compiles its rankings by assessing feedback provided by law firm clients and professional references about responsiveness, understanding of client businesses and needs, cost-effectiveness, and civility. For further information, please see Best Law Firms’ methodology page.
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