11/17/09

Best of the Year -- W&E Lawyers named.

Jamie G. Houston, III and William C. Smith, Jr. have received special distinction from Best Lawyers in America.       

Jamie G. Houston III will be recognized in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America as the Jackson, Mississippi Best Lawyers' Trusts and Estates Lawyer of the Year.       

William C. Smith, Jr. is recognized in the 2009 edition of Best Lawyers as the Best Lawyers' Lawyer of the Year in Real Estate for the state of Mississippi.

Best Lawyers recently has begun the practice of designating a “Lawyer of the Year” in high-profile legal specialties in large legal communities. Only a single lawyer in each specialty in each community receives this designation. The lawyers being honored as “Lawyers of the Year” were selected because they received particularly high ratings from most of their peers. The selected lawyers have earned a high level of respect among other leading lawyers in the same communities and the same specialties for their abilities, their professionalism, and their integrity. This publication is one of the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession.

For more information about all of the firm's Best Lawyers honors, please see www.watkinseager.com/news_archive/BestLawyers.htm  or www.bestlawyers.com.