Best Lawyers, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession, has named Troy attorney E. Stewart Jones, Jr. as the “Albany Best Lawyers DUI / DWI Defense Lawyer of the Year” for 2012.

Only a single lawyer in each 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 edition of The Best Lawyers in America (2012) is based on more than 3.9 million detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers.

The lawyers being honored as “Lawyers of the Year” have received particularly high ratings in Best Lawyers surveys by earning a high level of respect among their peers for their abilities, professionalism, and integrity.

Steven Naifeh, President of Best Lawyers, says, “We continue to believe – as we have believed for more than 25 years – that recognition by one’s peers is the most meaningful form of praise in the legal profession. We would like to congratulate E. Stewart Jones, Jr. on being selected as the ‘Albany Best Lawyers DUI / DWI Defense Lawyer of the Year’ for 2012.”

In addition, Mr. Jones was recently selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America publication in the specialties of Personal Injury Litigation, Legal Malpractice Law, DWI / DUI Defense and Criminal Defense Law. The 2012 edition marks an impressive accomplishment as Mr. Jones has now been recognized in Best Lawyers each year since the publication’s very first edition, 28 years ago.

E. Stewart Jones, PLLC is a private, family owned law firm representing the greater Capital Region since 1898. The firm specializes in personal injury and criminal defense law and its managing partner, E. Stewart Jones, Jr., is recognized as one of the state’s premier trial attorneys. For additional information, please visit www.esjlaw.com.

Troy attorney E. Stewart Jones, Jr. was again selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America publication in the specialties of Personal Injury Litigation, Legal Malpractice Law, DWI/DUI Defense and Criminal Defense Law. The 2012 edition marks an impressive accomplishment as Mr. Jones has now been recognized in Best Lawyers each year since the publication’s very first edition, 28 years ago.

Since its inception in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Because Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which more than 41,000 leading attorneys cast almost 3.9 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas, and because lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.”

E. Stewart Jones, PLLC is a private, family owned law firm representing the greater Capital Region since 1898. The firm specializes in personal injury and criminal defense law and its managing partner, E. Stewart Jones, Jr., is recognized as one of the state’s premier trial attorneys. For additional information, please visit www.esjlaw.com.