Holland & Hart Partner Walt Bithell Named Idaho Personal Injury Litigator of the Year

BOISE (February 13, 2009) – Holland & Hart Boise office partner Walt Bithell is Best Lawyer’s 2009 Personal Injury Lawyer of the Year. As a trial lawyer in Holland & Hart's Boise office with more than 35 years of experience, Bithell's practice emphasizes complex business and commercial litigation.  He is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, past president of the Idaho Trial Lawyers Association, and past president of the Idaho State Bar.

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Best Lawyers, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession, is designating “Lawyers of the Year” in high-profile legal specialties in large legal communities. These specialties are Banking Law, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Corporate Law, Family Law, Personal Injury Litigation, and Real Estate Law, and 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, 15th edition of The Best Lawyers in America (2009), is based on more than 2.5 million detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers. For more information visit www.bestlawyers.com.