Elk & Elk Partners Recognized in 2017 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America©
Posted in Firm News on August 23, 2016
Elk & Elk is excited to announce Partners Jay Kelley and Marilena DiSilvio have been included in The Best Lawyers in America© 2017.
Jay was recognized in the fields of Personal Injury Litigation and 
Medical Malpractice Law. He has been a partner at Elk & Elk since 2011, and currently focuses on representing victims of medical negligence and wrongful death related to birth injury, surgery; oncological, cardiac and pharmaceutical product liability causes. In addition to his inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America, Jay has been named in multiple Super Lawyers rankings and earned the highest marks from AVVO and Martindale-Hubbell® Peer Review Rating™.
Marilena was commended for her work in the field of Medical 
Malpractice Law. Prior to joining Elk & Elk as a partner in 2014, she gained extensive experience at a defense firm representing physicians, nurses and hospitals, and worked as a nurse in a neonatal intensive care unit. Marilena focuses her practice on claims involving birth injuries, medical negligence and personal injury. She was first recognized by Best Lawyers® in 2010, and has been honored by various well-known legal publications and organizations throughout her impressive career.
About Best Lawyers®
Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Best Lawyers lists are compiled based on an exhaustive peer-review evaluation. Over 83,000 leading attorneys globally are eligible to vote, and more than 13 million votes have been received to date on the legal abilities of other lawyers based on their specific practice areas around the world.
For the 2017 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America©, 7.3 million votes were analyzed, which resulted in almost 55,000 leading lawyers being included in the new edition. Lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed; therefore 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.”