Awards & Recognition

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Mark A. Senn has been asked to serve as an Advisor on Real Estate Law to the Board of the Continuing Professional Education Committee of ALI-ABA. (2008-2010). ALI-ABA has been the recognized leader in continuing professional education in the United States for nearly 60 years. In 1947, the American Bar Association, the largest professional organization for lawyers in the world, asked the American Law Institute, an influential and highly respected law-reform organization, to develop the first national program of post-admission legal education.

Senn Visciano Canges P.C. has been ranked in the 2016 “Best Law Firms” list by U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers® in the following areas:

Firms included in the 2016 “Best Law Firms” list are recognized for professional excellence with persistently impressive ratings from clients and peers. Achieving a ranking signals a unique combination of quality law practice and breadth of legal expertise.

The 2016 Edition of “Best Law Firms” includes rankings in 74 national practice areas and 120 metropolitan-based practice areas.

The U.S. News – Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms” rankings, for the sixth consecutive year, are based on a rigorous evaluation process that includes the collection of client and lawyer evaluations, peer review from leading attorneys in their field, and review of additional information provided by law firms as part of the formal submission process. Clients and peers were asked to evaluate firms based on the following criteria: responsiveness, understanding of a business and its needs, cost-effectiveness, integrity and civility, as well as whether they would refer a matter to the firm and/or consider the firm a worthy competitor.

Best Lawyers has published their list for over three decades, earning the respect of the profession, the media, and the public as the most reliable, unbiased source of legal referrals. Its first international list was published in 2006 and since then has grown to provide lists in over 65 countries.

“Best Lawyers is the most effective tool in identifying critical legal expertise,” said President and Co-Founder Steven Naifeh. “Inclusion on this list shows that an attorney is respected by his or her peers for professional success.”

Lawyers on the Best Lawyers in America list are divided by geographic region and practice areas. They are reviewed by their peers on the basis of professional expertise, and undergo an authentication process to make sure they are in current practice and in good standing.

Senn Visciano Canges P.C. would like to congratulate the following attorneys named to the 2016 Best Lawyers in America list:

Michael Canges, Family Law
Lawrence J. Donovan, Jr., Real Estate Law
Mark Gruskin, Construction Law
Barry Permut, Real Estate Law
Mark A. Senn, Real Estate Law
Frank W. Visciano, Commercial Litigation

After a lawyer’s General Ethical Standards and Legal Ability Ratings are confirmed, his/her ratings are aggregated to create an overall numeric rating for each rated Area of Practice. The numeric rating determines the Peer Review Rating, which includes a rating term and may include a Certification Mark: AV® Preeminent™ (4.5-5.0) – An AV® certification mark is a significant rating accomplishment – a testament to the fact that a lawyer’s peers rank him or her at the highest level of professional excellence. BV® Distinguished™ (3.0-4.4) – The BV® certification mark is an excellent rating for a lawyer with some experience. A widely respected mark of achievement, it differentiates a lawyer from his or her competition.

Rated (1.0-2.9) – The Peer Review Rated designation demonstrates that the lawyer has met the very high criteria of General Ethical Standing.

For over a century, lawyers have relied on the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory for authoritative information on the worldwide legal profession. Martindale’s Peer Review Ratings play an integral role in this service to the legal community. Peer Review Ratings attest to a lawyer’s legal ability and professional ethics, and reflect the confidential opinions of members of the Bar and Judiciary.

Peer Review Ratings for Senn Visciano Canges P.C.

Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Ratings

AV^® Preeminent™ 5.0 out of 5

Ms. Wynn E. Strahle, Of Counsel

AV^® Preeminent™ 5.0 out of 5

Twelve Senn Visciano Canges attorneys have been selected to the 2014 Colorado Super Lawyers or Rising Stars lists. Mark Senn, Frank Visciano, Michael Canges, James Bailey, Erich Bethke, Lawrence Donovan, Jr., Mark Gruskin, Christine Hayes and Barry Permut were included in the Super Lawyers list and Riley Madden, Jonathan Nash and Matthew Pluss were chosen as a Rising Star.

Each year, no more than five percent of the lawyers in the state are selected by the research team at Super Lawyers for inclusion in Super Lawyers and no more than 2.5 percent of the lawyers in the state are selected for inclusion in Rising Stars.

Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters business, 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 patented multiphase 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.

Mark Senn has been selected as being among of the world’s leading Real Estate lawyers in Who’s Who Legal Directory. Since 1996 Who’s Who Legal has identified the foremost legal practitioners in multiple areas of business law. In total, they feature over 10,000 of the World’s leading private practice lawyers from over 100 national jurisdictions. www.whoswholegal.com

Mark Senn has been selected by 5280 Magazine as one of the Top Lawyers in Colorado.

Senn Visciano Canges has been recognized by Chambers and Partners USA as a leading law firm in the area of real estate in their 2015 edition.