BatesCarey is pleased to announce partners David M. Alt, Robert J. Bates, Jr., David F. Cutter, Adam H. Fleischer and Mark G. Sheridan  have been selected by their peers for inclusion in the 2020 edition of The Best Lawyers in America for Insurance Law. 

BatesCarey founding partner Bates has received this award 15 times and every year since 2006. Alt, Cutter, Fleischer and Sheridan have been previous honorees of this distinction as well. 

This national honor follows BatesCarey earning recognition as a leading insurance coverage firm from Chambers USA for the 15^th consecutive year, Bates being named a top five Global Elite Thought Leader in North America by the Who’s Who Legal for the third year in a row and Fleisher being named to Crain’s Chicago Business as a 2019 Notable Gen X Leader in Law. 

Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers has become regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Its lists are compiled based on peer-review evaluations and for the 2020 edition of The Best Lawyers in America, more than 8.3 million evaluations were analyzed.