Wilkinson Barker Knauer is pleased to announce that it is ranked in the first tier – both nationally and the Washington, DC metropolitan area – in the 2010 Best Law Firms rankings, in the practice area of Communications Law. This marks the inaugural issue of this annual analysis, produced jointly by Best Lawyers and U.S. News Media Group, publisher of U.S. News  & World Report.

The rankings include nearly 9,000 law firms in 81 practice areas. Close to 10,000 clients, including every Fortune 100 company and 587 of the Fortune 1000 companies, provided over 194,000 firm practice area evaluations.

Survey responses were combined with more than 3.1 million evaluations of individual lawyers in these firms from the most recent Best Lawyers survey of leading lawyers.

To review the complete rankings, please visit http://www.usnews.com/bestlawfirms