Givens Pursley earned Metro Tier 1 rankings in the practice areas of employment law-management, energy, environmental, health care, land use & zoning, litigation-land use & zoning, litigation – real estate, natural resources, real estate and water law.  Tier 2 rankings included banking and finance law, bankruptcy and creditor debtor rights/insolvency and reorganization law, commercial litigation, labor law-management, litigation – labor & employment, and medical malpractice law - defendants.  The firm was named for mergers & acquisitions law and personal injury litigation-defendants in Tier 3.