Howard Janet and Kenneth Suggs, partners in the law firm, Janet, Jenner & Suggs, have been named Lawyers of the Year” by Best Lawyers in America®.

Janet, managing partner, was named 2012 Lawyer of the Year-Baltimore Personal Injury Litigation-Plaintiffs and Suggs was named 2012 Lawyer of the Year-Columbia, SC Product Liability Litigation-Plaintiffs.  The Best Lawyers magazine in the Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, Wall Street Journal and New York Times featured these awards.

The designation is based on rankings compiled by Best Lawyers in America®, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession.  Only one lawyer for each practice area in each community was honored as a Lawyer of the Year.

“What has always set our firm apart is the confidence our clients have in us to fight aggressively for full, not partial, justice,” said Janet. “I’m honored that my fellow attorneys have shown that kind of confidence in me,” he added.

Janet has won noteworthy verdicts throughout his career. He doubled what had been the largest medical malpractice verdict in Washington, DC with a $24 million award, and twice set the mark for the highest birth injury verdict in Minnesota. He also achieved landmark results in Maryland’s highest appellate court, expanding the scope of damages recoverable by brain-damaged children and expanding the rights of patients who have been victimized by fraudulent physicians.

Suggs, who heads the firm’s Columbia, SC office, is a former president of the American Association for Justice (AAJ), and was named South Carolina Best Lawyers’ Trial Lawyer of the Year in 2010.  He has numerous groundbreaking verdicts to his credit, including a $48 million breach of contract and fraud verdict for a public corporation against a Fortune 500 company.

“The greatest recognition a lawyer can receive—aside from clients who win justice in the courts—is from their peers, and I’m humbled by this recognition,” Suggs said.

Janet, Jenner & Suggs is a leading national firm that focuses on the areas of medical malpractice, birth injury related cerebral palsy, dangerous medications and defective medical devices, mass torts, product liability, business disputes, and environmental hazards.