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Katz, Marshall & Banks has been ranked a First-Tier employment law firm in DC by the U.S. News & World Report’s Best Law Firms rankings. This highly anticipated annual analysis compiled data from 9,514 clients, including every Fortune 100 company and 587 of the Fortune 1000 companies, 194,370 firm practice-area evaluations, 11,181 comments about law firm practice areas and individual lawyers from 6,190 clients, and 594,012 firm practice-area evaluations from 8,842 lawyers. The purpose of the rankings, according U.S. News & World Report, is to provide a tool “to help guide referring lawyers and clients…who need an especially high level of legal work.” Steven Naifeh, the President of Best Lawyers, said “U.S. News is the world’s leading publisher of institutional rankings based on both objective data and peer evaluations. By combining hard data with peer reviews, and client assessments, we believe that we are providing users with the most thorough, accurate, and helpful rankings of law firms ever developed.” The publishers of the report remark that “achieving a high ranking is a special distinction that signals a unique combination of excellence and breadth of expertise.”