Fisher & Phillips LLP's Irvine office has been ranked among the nation's best management-side labor and employment law firms in a new collaboration between U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers. The inaugural Best Law Firms rankings cover 8,782 law firms in 81 practice areas in 171 metropolitan areas and seven states. The Irvine branch of Fisher & Phillips received a first-tier ranking for the Orange County metropolitan area. The firm received a national first-tier ranking, as well.

The firm, which just celebrated its 20th anniversary in Orange County, is one of the largest law firms in the United States dedicated solely to representing employers in labor and employment matters, with more than 225 attorneys in 23 offices. The Irvine office is its second-largest.

The rankings were devised using the results of surveys sent to 52,480 clients including every Fortune 100 company and 43,900 lawyers. The rankings also incorporate 3.1 million evaluations of 39,372 individual lawyers collected by Best Lawyers in its most recent annual survey.