TOLEDO, OH – Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP, has been selected by Martindale-Hubbell® as a 2012 "Top Ranked Law Firm." The selection was based upon 33% or more of the Firm's practicing attorneys receiving an AV® rating. According to Martindale-Hubbell®, an AV® certification mark is "a testament to the fact that a lawyer's peers rank him or her at the highest level of professional excellence." Currently, 99 Shumaker attorneys are AV-rated. Martindale-Hubbell® has a database of more than 250,000 law firms and of those, less than 1,000 firms were named to its Top Ranked List. The Top Ranked Law Firms' will be published on December 26 in Fortune Magazine's Investor's Guide 2012 issue and on CNN Money online.

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Founded in 1925, Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP is a full service law firm with 215 attorneys practicing in Toledo and Columbus, Ohio; Tampa and Sarasota, Florida; and Charlotte, North Carolina.