{photo1-left} JACKSONVILLE (October 11, 2011) — Best Lawyers has named Smith, Gambrell & Russell attorney Douglas Stanford as “Jacksonville Best Lawyers Real Estate Law Lawyer of the Year” for 2012.

Best Lawyers designates “Lawyers of the Year” in high-profile legal specialties in large legal communities. Only one lawyer in each specialty is honored as the Lawyer of the Year in a community.

Stanford, a partner, is head of SGR’s real estate services practice in Jacksonville. His practice emphasizes commercial real estate transactions and includes representation of clients with real estate interests in Florida and throughout the Southeastern United States.

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 current, 18th edition of The Best Lawyers in America (2012) is based on more than 3.9 million detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers.

The lawyers being honored as “Lawyers of the Year” have received particularly high ratings for their abilities, professionalism and integrity.