--- description: CGBB shines with 2025 Best Lawyers® recognitions in Richmond, including Irv Cantor as Lawyer of the Year for personal injury litigation. title: CGBB 2025 Best Lawyers® Accolades & Lawyer of the Year canonical: https://virginiatrialfirm.com/blog/cantor-grana-buckner-bucci-recognized-in-2025-best-lawyers-list/ date_published: 2024-08-15T15:15:00+00:00 date_modified: 2025-07-31T21:40:45+00:00 practice_area: blog --- - CGBB 2025 Best Lawyers® Accolades & Lawyer of the Year [Skip to content](#content) # Cantor Grana Buckner Bucci Recognized in 2025 Best Lawyers® List We are pleased to announce our Cantor Grana Buckner Bucci team has once again been selected for the 2025 Best Lawyers® accolades for the Richmond, VA metropolitan area! Recognition by Best Lawyers is based entirely on peer review. The process is designed to collect the consensus opinion of leading lawyers about the professional abilities of their colleagues within the same geographical area and legal practice area. We are also excited to announce that Best Lawyers® recognized Irv Cantor as the 2025 “Lawyer of the Year” award winner in Richmond for Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs. The “Lawyer of the Year” accolade is awarded to individual lawyers who received the highest overall peer feedback for a specific practice area and geographic region. Only one lawyer is recognized as the “Lawyer of the Year” for a specialty and metropolitan location per edition. This will be the 4th time that Irv has been recognized in the Lawyer of the Year category, as the previous three recognitions are as follows: Medical Malpractice Law – Plaintiffs, Richmond (2020) - Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs, Richmond (2016) - Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs, Richmond (2014) Congratulations to our partners for their 2025 Best Lawyers® recognitions for the following practice areas: ### [Irvin V. Cantor](https://virginiatrialfirm.com/attorneys/irv-cantor/) Medical Malpractice Law – Plaintiffs Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs ### [Stephanie E. Grana](https://virginiatrialfirm.com/attorneys/stephanie-e-grana/) Medical Malpractice Law – Plaintiffs Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs ### [Elliott M. Buckner](https://virginiatrialfirm.com/attorneys/elliott-m-buckner/) Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs ### [M. Scott Bucci](https://virginiatrialfirm.com/attorneys/m-scott-bucci/) Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs The Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch™ awards also utilizes peer feedback to highlight excellence in legal talent for lawyers who are earlier in their careers. “Ones to Watch” awarded lawyers are recognized for their work in specific areas of law. Congratulations to [Joseph L. Cantor](https://virginiatrialfirm.com/attorneys/joseph-l-cantor/) for his 2025 Ones to Watch recognition for the following practice areas: Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs And Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs. - [Scott Bucci](https://virginiatrialfirm.com/blog/author/scott-bucci/) - [Elliott Buckner](https://virginiatrialfirm.com/blog/category/elliott-buckner/), [Firm Awards & Recognition](https://virginiatrialfirm.com/blog/category/firm-awards-recognition/), [General](https://virginiatrialfirm.com/blog/category/general/), [Irv Cantor](https://virginiatrialfirm.com/blog/category/irv-cantor/), [Joseph Cantor](https://virginiatrialfirm.com/blog/category/joseph-cantor/), [Scott Bucci](https://virginiatrialfirm.com/blog/category/scott-bucci/), [Stephanie E. 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