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For Immediate Release: July 4, 2014
Media Contact: Denise Nix • 213-787-2552 • denise.nix@bbklaw.com

SACRAMENTO, Calif _ Best Best & Krieger LLP congratulates its seven attorneys included in the 2014 Northern California Super Lawyers and Super Lawyers Rising Stars lists. No more than 5 percent of California’s attorneys are included in the Super Lawyers lists each year, which is compiled from peer nominations and a research team. To be one of the 2.5 percent of attorneys included on the Rising Stars list, an attorney must either be 40 or younger or in practice for 10 years or less.

The BB&K attorneys named to this year’s list are:

• Sarah Owsowitz, Super Lawyers, Land Use/Zoning, Walnut Creek
• Sue Schoenig, Super Lawyers, Employment & Labor Law, Sacramento
• Stacey Sheston, Super Lawyers, Employment & Labor Law, Sacramento
• Harriet Steiner, Super Lawyers, State, Local & Municipal Law, Sacramento
• Gene Tanaka, Super Lawyers, Environmental Litigation, Walnut Creek
• Kara Ueda, Rising Stars, State, Local & Municipal Law, Sacramento
• Sigrid Asmundson, Rising Stars, State, Local & Municipal Law, Sacramento

Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The annual selections are made using a process that includes a statewide survey of lawyers, an independent research evaluation of candidates and peer reviews by practice area. The result is a credible, comprehensive and diverse listing of exceptional attorneys. For more information, visit SuperLawyers.com.

Best Best & Krieger LLP is a national law firm that focuses on environmental, business, education, municipal and telecommunications law for public agency and private clients. With nearly 200 attorneys, the law firm has nine offices nationwide, including Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Diego and Washington D.C. For more information, visit www.bbklaw.com or follow @BBKlaw on Twitter.