Conyers Dill & Pearman has been named the Who?s Who Legal Law Firm of the Year in the 2006 Who?s Who Legal Awards.

Using the nominations received from clients and private practice professionals, Who?s Who Legal has identified the pre-eminent firm in 47 countries to receive the award, as announced in The International Who?s Who of Business Lawyers 2006, published in March 2006.

Managing Editor Callum Campbell said: ?Conyers Dill & Pearman has ten listings in seven different practice areas and can boast more featured lawyers than any other firm in the country.

?As such, Conyers Dill & Pearman is a worthy winner of the Who?s Who Legal Law Firm of the Year for Bermuda with outstanding individual talent and breadth of expertise.?

?This is the first time we have singled out an individual firm nationally for such an honour, and Conyers Dill & Pearman can truly be said to be Bermuda?s leading firm.?

Mr. Campbell said in determining the leading law firm in a jurisdiction Who?s Who takes into account a range of factors such as the number of partners from the firm included in its publications. Factors also include the number of practice areas in which the firm is featured, past performance in the publication?s research and the aggregate total of weighted votes cast in favour of lawyers at the firm relative to those of other firms in the jurisdiction.

The International Who?s Who of Business Lawyers 2006 is a compendium volume of the practice areas covered by Who?s Who Legal?s separate single volume publications.

It is the result of ten years of independent research incorporating feedback from thousands of lawyers, and covering over 7,000 practitioners across 27 separate practice areas and over 100 countries.

Mr. Campbell said: ?It is impossible to buy entry into this publication, financial considerations play no part in the selection process and only lawyers who have met independent international research criteria are listed.?

?This book represents an accurate and impartial picture of the global private practice marketplace.?

A full list of featured Conyers Dill & Pearman partners and their contact details is available without charge on www.WhosWhoLegal.com, which is updated on a daily basis. Who?s Who Legal is the official research partner of the International Bar Association.