Simmons Law Firm Founder Named One of Best Lawyers in America
John S. Simmons, founding attorney of Simmons Law Firm in Columbia, S.C., was recently selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2017 in the field of White-Collar Criminal Defense. John was also named the 2017 The Best Lawyers in America White Collar Criminal Defense “Lawyer of the Year” for Columbia, South Carolina. Only a single lawyer in each practice area in each community is honored as the “Lawyer of the Year”.
Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers® has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Best Lawyers lists are compiled based on an exhaustive peer-review evaluation. Over 83,000 leading attorneys globally are eligible to vote, and Best Lawyers® has received more than 13 million votes to date on the legal abilities of other lawyers based on their specific practice areas around the world. For the 2017 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America©, 7.3 million votes were analyzed, which resulted in more than 55,000 leading lawyers being included in the new edition. Lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed; therefore 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.”
In addition to this recent honor, John holds Martindale-Hubbell’s highest AV rating, is Lead Counsel rated, and is a member of the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers, the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum, South Carolina Super Lawyers and the National Trial Lawyers Association Top 100 Trial Lawyers. In 1992, John served as the youngest Presidentially-appointed United States Attorney in the country, having been named to the post by President George Bush. After serving as United States Attorney, John was the Chief of the State Grand Jury in the South Carolina Attorney General’s Office. Prior to becoming United States Attorney, John was an assistant United States Attorney in charge of prosecutions involving environmental and white collar crimes.
