Crocker Bennett Named Burlington Best Lawyers
Medical Malpractice Lawyer of the Year for 2011

November, 2010 – Best Lawyers, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession, has named S. Crocker Bennett II as the "Burlington Best Lawyers Medical Malpractice Lawyer
of the Year" for 2011. After more than a quarter of a century in publication, Best Lawyers is designating "Lawyers of the Year" in high-profile legal specialties in large legal communities. 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, 17th
edition of The Best Lawyers in America (2011) is based on more than 3.1 million detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers. The lawyers being honored as "Lawyers of the Year" have received particularly high ratings in our surveys by earning a high level of respect among their peers for their abilities, professionalism, and integrity.

Mr. Bennett's 32-year law practice focuses on the defense of physicians, hospitals and other health care providers in malpractice cases. He has attained Martindale-Hubbell's highest rating (AV) and, in 1999, was honored with Fellowship in the American College of Trial Lawyers. Mr. Bennett has been listed in _Best Lawyers in America_ for 15 years. Mr. Bennett is a 1978 graduate of Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, New Hampshire and a 1972 graduate of the University of Vermont. He currently serves as President of Paul Frank + Collins.

Steven Naifeh, President of Best Lawyers, says, "We continue to believe -- as we have believed for more than 25 years -- that recognition by one's peers is the most meaningful form of praise in the legal profession. We would like to congratulate S. Crocker Bennett II on being selected as the 'Burlington Best Lawyers Medical Malpractice Lawyer of the Year' for 2011."