Eight attorneys from Mintz, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. have been named Washington, D.C. Super Lawyers for 2017 and four have been named Washington, D.C. Rising Stars. The list will be published in a special advertising supplement in The Washington Post Magazine and in a stand-alone magazine, Washington D.C. Super Lawyers Magazine.

The annual publication identifies lawyers who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. Only five percent of Washington, D.C. lawyers were named 2017 Washington, D.C. Super Lawyers.

The following Mintz attorneys were named 2017 Washington, D.C. Super Lawyers:

• David Barmak
• Hope S. Foster
• Laurence J. Freedman
• Robert G. Kidwell
• Dionne C. Lomax
• Karen S. Lovitch
• Bruce D. Sokler
• Susan Neuberger Weller

The following Mintz attorneys were named 2017 Washington, D.C. Rising Stars:

• Donald Davis
• Tara Swenson Dwyer
• Matthew R. Howsare
• Matthew T. Simpson

Rising Stars are chosen by their peers as being among the top up-and-coming lawyers and must be 40 years old or younger, or in practice 10 years or less. Only 2.5 percent of lawyers in Washington, D.C. were named 2017 Washington, D.C. Rising Stars.