Award-Winning Counsel for Hospitality, Corporate, and Real Estate Clients
Since its founding, Zeidel & Associates has built a reputation that belies its status as a small, boutique practice. Its work on behalf of hospitality, corporate, and real estate clients throughout the country has earned the firm, and Robin Zeidel herself, repeated recognition from the most respected and rigorous directories in the legal industry. These rankings and honors reflect the esteem of those who know the firm best: the clients who trust Robin and her team, and the lawyers who have seen their work firsthand.
Chambers USA
Among the organizations that rank lawyers, Chambers and Partners stands apart for the depth of its research. Drawing on more than 350,000 annual interviews and surveys, Chambers evaluates each nominee’s legal ability, client service, commercial awareness, and diligence before its 330-member research team assigns rankings. Only those who stand out are placed in Bands 1 through 6, a significant achievement. Few honors carry more weight within the legal industry than a ranking in Chambers USA.
Zeidel & Associates: Leisure & Hospitality (Nationwide), Band 4, 2026
Leisure & Hospitality (Nationwide) is a category made up primarily of large national and international law firms. In 2026, Chambers USA ranked Zeidel & Associates among them in Band 4. It was the firm’s first national ranking, putting the four-attorney boutique practice on the same list as the country’s largest hospitality practices.
The ranking reflects a reputation built deal by deal with hotel owners, developers, brands, management companies, and restaurant groups. Chambers points in particular to the firm’s work on hotel acquisitions and dispositions, management and franchise agreements, and food and beverage branding arrangements. That reputation is reflected in the caliber of the firm’s recent work, including revising the standard U.S. hotel management agreement used by an ultra-luxury global hotel brand, advising on restaurant management and lease agreements for a dining district anchored by a new professional sports arena in Florida, and counseling on development contracts for a private island resort in Antigua.
“Zeidel & Associates is very business and solution-minded in navigating difficult situations.”
– Chambers USA, Leisure & Hospitality Respondent
“The Zeidel team is knowledgeable, responsive and truly a pleasure to work with. It also has great contacts to refer to when required, whether that be for a state-specific matter or something involving more in-depth litigation.”
– Chambers USA, Leisure & Hospitality Respondent
“Zeidel & Associates’ industry knowledge is extensive and helps us to focus on issues.”
– Chambers, USA, Leisure & Hospitality Respondent
Robin Zeidel: Leisure & Hospitality (Nationwide), Band 4, 2025 and 2026
Chambers also ranks lawyers individually, apart from their firms, based on what their clients and peers say about their work. In 2025, a year before Zeidel & Associates earned its own national ranking in the category, Chambers recognized Robin Zeidel for Leisure & Hospitality, Band 4, without submitting an application. The firm’s only individually ranked attorney, she received another Band 4 ranking for Leisure & Hospitality in 2026.
“Robin is my go-to recommendation.”
– Chambers, USA, Leisure & Hospitality Respondent
“Robin Zeidel is terrific. She has decades of transactional experience and can do anything from hotel management agreements to third party contracts.”
– Chambers, USA, Leisure & Hospitality Respondent
“Robin is always quick to respond, prepared and a pleasure to deal with.”
– Chambers, USA, Leisure & Hospitality Respondent
Zeidel & Associates: Chambers USA Spotlight, Real Estate (Westchester), 2024 to 2026
Chambers named Zeidel & Associates to its inaugural Spotlight Guide for Real Estate in Westchester in 2024, honoring the country’s leading small and mid-sized practices. Chambers has recognized the firm in every edition since then. The 2026 Spotlight Guide specifically highlighted Zeidel & Associates’ work in construction, leasing, and acquisitions, including a master licensing agreement for high-end developments in Brazil.
Super Lawyers
Super Lawyers selects attorneys through a patented process that combines peer nominations, independent research, and peer evaluation. Lawyers can’t nominate themselves, and nominations from attorneys at other firms carry more weight than those from colleagues. Each candidate is then scored on 12 indicators of peer recognition and professional achievement, and a panel of peers reviews the strongest in each practice area, leaving a final list limited to 5 percent of attorneys in each state.
Robin Zeidel: New York Metro Super Lawyers, Real Estate, 2022 to 2026
Robin has been selected to the New York Metro Super Lawyers list in Real Estate every year since 2022, clearing a high bar in one of the country’s most crowded legal markets five years in a row. Because Super Lawyers gives more weight to nominations from attorneys at other firms, her selection reflects the esteem of peers who know her work from across the table.
Martindale-Hubbell
Martindale-Hubbell has been evaluating attorneys since 1887. Ratings are based on input from lawyers and judges who know an attorney’s work and who must confirm a lawyer’s ethical standards before weighing legal ability. AV Preeminent® is Martindale-Hubbell’s highest possible rating, reserved for lawyers whose peers rank them at the highest level of professional excellence for their legal expertise, communication skills, and ethical standards, a high bar that only around 10% of attorneys are able to clear.
Robin Zeidel: AV Preeminent® Peer Review Rating
Robin first earned her AV Preeminent® rating in 2013, when 10 attorneys reviewed her work, including general counsel and law firm partners in hospitality and real estate. Eight gave her a 5.0, the highest possible score, for an overall average of 4.8 out of 5.0. She has held her AV Preeminent® rating ever since.
“Robin is an outstanding lawyer. Very smart and very practical.”
– Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review
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Best Lawyers
Best Lawyers® has published The Best Lawyers in America® since 1983. Inclusion is based entirely on confidential evaluations from other lawyers in the same practice area and region, a peer review process that recognizes only about 5% of lawyers in the United States.
Robin Zeidel: The Best Lawyers in America, Leisure and Hospitality Law, 2025 to 2027
Robin was first named to The Best Lawyers in America® in 2025, as the firm expanded into new practice areas, such as cannabis, and reached across borders to South Korea and Dubai. She was subsequently honored in the 2026 and 2027 editions, marking three consecutive years of recognition from her peers in Leisure and Hospitality Law.