Need A Good Attorney? Waterford's Bert Polito Is New London County's "Plaintiff's Lawyer of the Year"

A press release from Waterford law firm, Polito & Quinn

Best Lawyers, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession, has named Humbert J. Polito Jr. as the “New London Area Best Lawyers Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiff’s Lawyer of the Year” for 2013.

Polito Jr., who lives in Essex, is a partner in the law firm of Polito & Quinn, LLC in Waterford, which he founded with Michael J. Quinn in 2002. 

After more than a quarter of a century in publication, Best Lawyers is designating “Lawyers of the Year” in high-profile legal specialties in large legal communities. Only a single lawyer in each specialty in each community is being honored as the “Lawyer of the Year.”

Best Lawyers compiles its lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers.

The current, 19th edition of The Best Lawyers in America (2013), is based on nearly 4 million confidential evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers. The lawyers being honored as “Lawyers of the Year” have received particularly high ratings in the surveys by earning a high level of respect among their peers for their abilities, professionalism, and integrity.

Steven Naifeh, President of Best Lawyers, says, “We continue to believe – as we have believed for more than 25 years – that recognition by one’s peers is the most meaningful form of praise in the legal profession. We would like to congratulate Bert Polito on being selected as the ‘New London Area Best Lawyers Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiff’s Lawyer of the Year’ for 2013.”

According to Polito's biography posted on his firm's web site:

"Bert taught high school both before and during law school, and continues to be active in teaching. Bert ran the People’s Law School Program in New London for several years, and currently assists middle school students each year in New London to prepare for annual mock trial exercises. Bert also serves as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Connecticut School of Law, where he has taught a semester course in Trial Advocacy each fall since 1998.Bert has been admitted to practice law in Connecticut since 1986, and in Rhode Island since 1987. His practice has focused exclusively on plaintiff’s personal injury litigation."