Seemann Named N.O. Best Lawyers Construction Lawyer of the Year
November 3, 2010
New Orleans, LA – Best Lawyers, a peer-review publication in the legal profession, has named Charles F. Seemann, Jr. as the "New Orleans Best Lawyers Construction Lawyer of the Year" for 2011. Only a single lawyer in each high-profile 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 surveys by earning a high level of respect among their peers for their abilities, professionalism, and integrity.
Mr. Seemann was previously awarded the prestigious Cornerstone Award by the Construction Industry Forum of the American Bar Association in May of 2003. He has been a speaker on construction law topics at continuing legal education programs for members of the Louisiana and Florida Bar Associations, and has been a featured speaker on construction and contract surety law topics before a wide variety of construction industry groups, including national meetings of the ASME and ASCE, the New Orleans Chapter of ASHRAE, Local Chapter of AGC, and the Greater New Orleans Business Roundtable, as well as at meetings of the Louisiana Association of School Executives and the National Institute of Municipal Law Officers. In 2006, Mr. Seemann was elected to the American College of Construction Lawyers.
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