CONCORD, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cleveland, Waters and Bass, P.A., is proud to announce that five of its attorneys have been selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© 2018. In addition, Timothy Britain was named the Best Lawyers 2018 Litigation-Real Estate “Lawyer of the Year” in Concord, New Hampshire.

Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Best Lawyers lists are compiled based on an exhaustive peer-review evaluation. 83,000 industry leading attorneys are eligible to vote (from around the world), and Best Lawyers has received almost 10 million evaluations on the legal abilities of other lawyers based on their specific practice areas around the world. For the 2018 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America, 7.4 million votes were analyzed, which resulted in more than 58,000 leading lawyers being included in the new edition. Lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed; therefore inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.”

The Cleveland, Waters and Bass attorneys named for 2018 are:

Timothy E. Britain

Commercial Finance Law

Commercial Transactions/UCC Law

Land Use and Zoning Law

Litigation-Real Estate

Real Estate Law

Selected by Best Lawyers as 2018 Concord “Lawyer of the Year” in Litigation-Real Estate

David K. Fries

Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)

Closely Held Companies and Family Businesses Law

Commercial Transactions / UCC Law

Corporate Law

Philip M. Hastings

Land Use and Zoning Law

Real Estate Law

David W. Rayment

Commercial Litigation

Mark D. Wiseman

Workers’ Compensation Law – Claimants

Founded in 1959, Cleveland, Waters and Bass, P.A., represents individuals and businesses throughout New Hampshire and northern New England. The firm’s attorneys practice in the area of business law, employment law, commercial transactions, real estate development and finance, commercial and administrative litigation, and trusts and estates. Cleveland, Waters and Bass is a member of the Legal Netlink Alliance, an international alliance of independent law firms.