The Best Lawyers In America is a premier reference publication for ascertaining if a lawyer has an exceptional professional rating in specific areas of law. Fewer than three hundred (300) of more than 10,000 immigration lawyers in the United States are selected as the "best" in the United States. All "Best Lawyer" recommendations are based on the publisher's extensive surveying of and in-depth interviews with the top attorneys in each relevant field of law (i.e. criminal, corporate, etc.). The database is the product of years of extensive polling. Interviews begin with basically the following sample question: "If a family member or close friend needed an immigration lawyer and you couldn't take the case yourself -- for reasons of conflict or in the interest of time -- to whom would you refer them?" So when the publishers designate a lawyer as "the best," it isn't just their opinion. That lawyer is the consensus choice of the other top lawyers in their area of law.