October 6, 2015
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Nineteen shareholders from Rogers Towers, P.A. were selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America©2016. The following attorneys were listed along with the practice area(s) in which they were recognized:
- Graham Allen – Commercial Litigation
- Ellen Avery-Smith – Land Use and Zoning Law
- William Brinton – Commercial Litigation
- Kirby Chritton – Banking and Finance Law | Mergers and Acquisitions Law
- Kevin Cook – Commercial Litigation
- Wyman Duggan – Land Use and Zoning Litigation
- Fred Franklin – Commercial Litigation
- T.R. Hainline – Land Use and Zoning Law | Real Estate Law
- Christopher Hazelip – Commercial Litigation
- Edward Kelly – Banking and Finance Law | Banking and Finance Litigation
- Edward McCarthy – Commercial Litigation
- Joseph O’Shields – Real Estate Law
- Cristine Russell – Appellate Practice | Commercial Litigation
- Adrian Rust – Commercial Litigation
- William Scheu – Real Estate Law
- Ellsworth Summers – Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights
- Richard Vermut – Trademark Law
- Douglas Waldorf – Banking and Finance Law | Real Estate Law
- Donald Wright – Trust and Estates
Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers® has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Best Lawyers lists are compiled based on an exhaustive peer-review evaluation. Over 79,000 leading attorneys globally are eligible to vote, and Best Lawyers has received more than 12 million votes to date on the legal abilities of other lawyers based on their specific practice areas around the world. For the 2016 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America©, 6.7 million votes were analyzed, which resulted in more than 55,000 leading lawyers being included in the new edition. Lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed; therefore inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor. Corporate Counsel Magazine has called Best Lawyers “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.”
Rogers Towers, P. A., founded in Jacksonville in 1905, is Northeast Florida’s largest law firm with offices in Jacksonville, St. Augustine, Amelia Island, Ponte Vedra Beach, Fort Myers, Fort Lauderdale, Tampa Bay and Orlando, Florida. The firm provides counseling and legal services in the areas of: Banking and Financial; Commercial Litigation; Construction; Corporate; Labor and Employment; Environmental; Eminent Domain; Elder Law; Family Law; Health Law; Immigration; Intellectual
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