Arlington, VA — Bean, Kinney & Korman has been named to the first-ever Top Ranked Law Firms list created by LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell®, a legal services resource.

Over 250,000 law firms in Martindale-Hubbell’s Registry from across the United States were reviewed and ranked and fewer than 1,000 law firms are on the list. The Top Ranked Law Firm list has been created using several criteria, including the number of attorneys at each firm who have received an AV® Preeminent™ rating. Currently, 18 Bean Kinney attorneys have AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Ratings.

The list will be published in Fortune magazine’s “2012 Investors’ Guide,” which will be available on Dec. 26, 2011. Bean Kinney will also be listed on CNN Money online.

Martindale-Hubbell is comprised of profiles and ratings for more than one million lawyers and law firms located in the United States, Canada and 160 other countries. For more than 140 years, Martindale-Hubbell® has been known as one of the most reliable, unbiased sources of legal ratings anywhere.