15 High Swartz LLP Lawyers Recognized by Best Lawyers in America® for 2025

The Best Lawyers in America© 2025 edition includes 12 High Swartz Attorneys and 3 in its Ones to Watch edition.

High Swartz is pleased to announce that The Best Lawyers in America^© Edition includes 15 attorneys in 2025. 

At the top of the list is Lawyer of the Year nods for both Mary Cushing Doherty for Family Law Mediation and Gilbert P. High, Jr. for Land Use and Zoning Litigation and Municipal Law.

The Best Lawyers in America^©: Ones to Watch 2025 edition now includes Caitlyn Foley of our Norristown office for family law. This category highlights lawyers who have been in private practice for 5-9 years. Lawyers in practice for 10+ years are then eligible for The Best Lawyers in America Edition.

High Swartz Attorneys recognized in The Best Lawyers in America^© 2025:

• Doylestown, PA
  • Thomas E. Panzer
    • Workers' Compensation Law - Claimants
  • Donald Petrille, Jr.
    • Trusts & Estate Litigation
  • Shari R. Gelfont Williams
    • Family Law
• Norristown, PA
  
  • David J. Brooman
    • Environmental Law
    • Land Use and Zoning Law
    • Litigation - Environmental
    • Litigation - Land Use and Zoning
  • Mary Cushing Doherty
    • Family Law
    • Family Law Arbitration
    • Family Law Mediation
  • Mark R. Fischer, Jr.
    • Land Use and Zoning Law
  • Arnold Heller
    • Real Estate Law
  • Gilbert P. High Jr.
    • Land Use and Zoning Law
    • Litigation - Land Use and Zoning
    • Litigation - Municipal
    • Litigation - Real Estate
    • Municipal Law
  • Matthew T. Hovey
    
    • Land Use and Zoning Law
  • William F. Kerr, Jr.
    • Real Estate Litigation
    • Municipal Law
    • Real Estate Law
  • Thomas D. Rees
    • Employment Law - Individuals
    • Employment Law - Management
    • Labor and Employment Litigation
  • Richard C. Sokorai
    • Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs

The Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch (2025 Edition)

Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers^® has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Best Lawyers recognitions are compiled based on an exhaustive Purely Peer Review^® evaluation. More than 123,000 industry leading lawyers are eligible to vote (from around the world), and we have received more than 20 million evaluations on the legal abilities of other lawyers based on their specific practice areas around the world.

For the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America^®, more than 13.7 million votes were analyzed, which resulted in more than 76,000 leading lawyers included in the milestone 30th edition.

And in the 2025 edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch^® in America, more than 2.4 million votes were analyzed, which resulted in more than 25,000 lawyers honored in the new edition.