The national law firm of Quarles & Brady LLP announced that Phoenix partner Diane Haller is one of 14 Quarles & Brady attorneys nationally to have been selected as a “Lawyer of the Year” in The Best Lawyers in America®.

Each year, Best Lawyers compiles its list of “Lawyers of the Year,” in which only a single lawyer in each practice area and designated metropolitan area is honored. Lawyers with this designation are chosen based on peer-review assessments conducted with thousands of leading lawyers each year. Receiving this honor reflects the respect a lawyer has acquired among other leading lawyers in the same practice areas throughout the same communities.

Haller is at the center of many major development projects in Phoenix, not only as a lawyer, but as an advocate of smart development. She is a board member of Habitat for Humanity, as well as a member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers, and serves as vice-chair on the board and executive committee of the Phoenix Community Alliance.

Haller has been named among the Top 25 Female Lawyers in Southwest Super Lawyers and honored as the Most Influential Women in Arizona Business by AZ Business Magazine. She serves as the national chair of Quarles & Brady’s Real Estate & Land Use Practice Group and is Martindale-Hubbell AV Peer Review Rated.