Is the attorney rated by Martindale/ Hubbell?
If so, what is the attorney’s rating for his or her legal ability? What is the attorney’s ethical rating? Martindale – Hubbell (M-H) is the only national organization that provides a rating of both an attorney’s legal abilities as well as his or her ethics. M-H sends out thousands upon thousands of rating forms to attorneys in their local areas requesting they evaluate a designated lawyer for legal ability and ethics. The evaluation process is closed and no one outside M-H sees how any particular attorney has evaluated another lawyer. This is what provides the motivation for all evaluating lawyers to be totally open and honest in their opinions of the lawyers they evaluation. The confidential rating forms or ballots for each lawyer evaluated are then returned to M-H, and the forms pertaining to of each lawyer evaluated are tallied. From the collective opinions of all the local lawyers and judges who submitted opinions, M-H then provides the rating of the evaluated attorney from a culmi
