Bass, Berry & Sims received 66 first-tier metropolitan rankings in the 2025 Edition of “Best Law Firms” presented by Best Lawyers®. These metropolitan rankings are representative of each of the four offices – Knoxville, Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee; and Washington, D.C. The firm received an additional nine second-tier metropolitan rankings. The firm was ranked in the second-tier and third-tier on the national level in a total of seven different categories.
Firms included in the 2025 “Best Law Firms” list are recognized for professional excellence with persistently impressive ratings from clients and peers. Achieving a tiered ranking signals a unique combination of quality law practice and breadth of legal expertise. To be eligible to participate in the Best Law Firms research process, a firm must have at least one attorney who has received a high enough peer review to be recognized in the current edition of The Best Lawyers in America®. Firms are eligible in the practice area(s) and metro region(s) with individual recognitions.
Bass, Berry & Sims attorneys were recognized by Best Lawyers® in the 2025 edition:
- 109 Attorneys from Bass, Berry & Sims Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America© 2025
- 58 attorneys were recognized in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America
- 12 attorneys recognized as “Lawyer of the Year” by The Best Lawyers in America©
The Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms” 2025 rankings for Bass, Berry & Sims include:
National Rankings
Tier 2
- Project Finance Law
Tier 3
- Corporate Law
- Health Care Law
- Litigation – ERISA
- Litigation – Intellectual Property
- Securities Regulation
- Technology Law
Metropolitan Rankings – Tier 1
Knoxville
- Commercial Litigation
- Litigation – Real Estate
- Project Finance Law
- Real Estate Law
Memphis
- Arbitration
- Banking and Finance Law
- Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)
- Closely Held Companies and Family Businesses Law
- Commercial Litigation
- Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
- Health Care Law
- Litigation – ERISA
- Litigation – Securities
- Project Finance Law
- Real Estate Law
- Securities / Capital Markets Law
- Securities Regulation
Nashville
- Administrative / Regulatory Law
- Advertising Law
- Antitrust Law
- Banking and Finance Law
- Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
- Bet-the-Company Litigation
- Commercial Finance Law
- Commercial Litigation
- Commercial Transactions / UCC Law
- Construction Law
- Copyright Law
- Corporate Compliance Law
- Corporate Governance Law
- Corporate Law
- Education Law
- Employment Law – Management
- Energy Law
- Environmental Law
- Financial Services Regulation Law
- Government Relations Practice
- Health Care Law
- Information Technology Law
- Insurance Law
- Labor Law – Management
- Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law
- Litigation – Antitrust
- Litigation – Bankruptcy
- Litigation – Construction
- Litigation – Environmental
- Litigation – Health Care
- Litigation – Intellectual Property
- Litigation – Labor and Employment
- Litigation – Mergers and Acquisitions
- Litigation – Securities
- Litigation – Trusts and Estates
- Litigation and Controversy – Tax
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
- Product Liability Litigation – Defendants
- Public Finance Law
- Real Estate Law
- Securities / Capital Markets Law
- Securities Regulation
- Securitization and Structured Finance Law
- Tax Law
- Technology Law
- Trademark Law
- Trusts and Estates
- Venture Capital Law
Washington, D.C.
- Health Care Law
Metropolitan Rankings – Tier 2
Memphis
- Commercial Transactions / UCC Law
- Litigation – Banking and Finance
- Mortgage Banking Foreclosure Law
Nashville
- Appellate Practice
- Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
- Entertainment Law – Music
- Privacy and Data Security Law
- Project Finance Law
- Utilities Law
About Best Lawyers®
Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers® has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Best Lawyers recognitions are compiled based on an exhaustive Purely Peer Review® evaluation. More than 184,000 industry leading lawyers are eligible to vote (from around the world); Best Lawyers has received more than 25.8 million evaluations on the legal abilities of other lawyers based on their specific practice areas around the world. For the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®, more than 23 million votes were analyzed, which resulted in more than 80,000 leading lawyers included in the milestone 31st edition. More information can be found on the Best Lawyers website.