Paula Peaden has been selected by her peers for inclusion in 20^th edition of The Best Lawyers in America®. Ms. Peaden was selected for her work in the practice areas of Estate Planning and Elder Law. For the first time, she was also chosen as the Best Lawyers’ 2014 Richmond Elder Law “Lawyer of the Year”. Selection for Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey comprising top attorneys. Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers^® has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Because Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which almost 50,000 leading attorneys cast nearly five million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas, and because lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor.Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.”