Southern Vermont Justice

Best Lawyers—the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession—released its 2016 Best Lawyers in America listing, including Bennington’s BarrSternberg | Moss, Silver & Munson partner David F. Silver in its listing. Silver is recognized for his outstanding criminal defense practice, as voted by other attorneys in the field.

A listing in Best Lawyers is a significant honor, conferred on a lawyer by his or her peers. Considered one of the most reliable, unbiased source of legal referrals anywhere, Best Lawyers lists of outstanding attorneys are compiled by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which tens of thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers.

Named by Super Lawyers one of New England’s Best Lawyers, David Silver has built his career crafting defenses for some of the most challenging cases and in many of the nation’s toughest districts. A partner at BarrSternberg since 1992, Silver helped to build a criminal defense team reputed as one of the best in the state. Silver has since grown his practice beyond defense, leading many personal injury, wrongful death, and employment law cases that have helped individual Vermonters recoup damages from powerful business and insurance interests. Silver is a Director of the Vermont Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys, a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys, and on the Board of Directors for the Vermont Association for Justice, Vermont’s trial lawyer organization. He is Board Certified in Criminal Trial Advocacy by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. Silver was one of the co-founders of the Bennington Meals on Wheels program and serves on the Board of Directors for the affordable housing Shires of Bennington and Arlington.