Best Lawyers has named Julia Cornish its 2014 Halifax Family lawyer of the year, an honour that has previously been bestowed on both her and Doug Sealy.

What is Best Lawyers?  Here is their own description from a previous press release:

Best Lawyers is the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession.  After more than a quarter of a century in publication, Best Lawyers is designating “Lawyers of the Year” in high-profile legal specialties in large legal communities. Only a single lawyer in each specialty in each community is being honored as the “Lawyer of the Year.”

Best Lawyers compiles its lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers.

The lawyers being honored as “Lawyers of the Year” have received particularly high ratings in our surveys by earning a high level of respect among their peers for their abilities, professionalism, and integrity.

Congratulations Julia!