Nichols Kaster, PLLP, a firm dedicated to employee and consumer rights and social justice, congratulates Rebekah L. Bailey, Reena I. Desai, Michele R. Fisher, Matthew C. Helland, James H. Kaster, Paul J. Lukas, Matthew H. Morgan, Anna P. Prakash, David E. Schlesinger, Robert L. Schug, Steven Andrew Smith and Rachhana T. Srey who have recently been selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2025. Steven Andrew Smith was also selected as Lawyer of the Year in Minneapolis.
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), and we have received more than 25.8 million evaluations of 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 being included in the milestone 31st edition.
