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Press Release
Date:
3/27/2009
15 Firm Attorneys and 7 Practice Areas Recognized as Leaders in Florida by Chambers USA 2009
ORLANDO, Fla.; March 27, 2009 — The seventh edition of the prominent legal guide Chambers USA: A Guide to America’s Leading Business Lawyers, the only legal directory to rank law firms and individual attorneys, will highlight 15 Broad and Cassel attorneys as leaders in their respective fields, while the Firm will be listed as among the best in 7 statewide practice areas. The 2009 edition of Chambers USA will be released June 12, 2009, and will reveal final tiered rankings and editorial content.
Among the Firm’s leading attorneys are longtime Chambers honorees: Firm Chairman C. David Brown, II, Fort Lauderdale Managing Partner Gabriel L. Imperato, and West Palm Beach Managing Partner Patricia Lebow.
The Broad and Cassel attorneys listed below have been recommended as “Leaders in their Field” in Chambers USA 2009. Each will be included in the Florida ranking tables and receive editorial commentary in the book.
- C. David Brown, II, Orlando — Real Estate
- Gabriel L. Imperato, Fort Lauderdale — Healthcare
- Arvin Jaffe, Boca Raton — Banking & Finance
- Roy S. Kobert, Orlando — Bankruptcy/Restructuring
- Patricia Lebow, West Palm Beach — Litigation: General Commercial
- Douglas L. Mannheimer, Tallahassee — Healthcare
- Lester Perling, Fort Lauderdale — Healthcare
- Beverly Pohl, Fort Lauderdale — Litigation: Appellate
- Douglas Rillstone, Tallahassee — Environment
- Stephanie Russo, Miami — Healthcare
- Mike Segal, Miami — Healthcare
- James Slater, Orlando — Real Estate
- Joseph Stanton, Orlando — Banking & Finance: Public Finance
- Donna Stinson, Tallahassee — Healthcare
- Michael K. Wilson, Orlando — Construction
In addition to Firm attorneys who have been listed as “Leaders in their Field,” the Firm also received rankings for the following statewide practice areas:
- Banking & Finance
- Bankruptcy/Restructuring
- Construction
- Corporate/M&A
- Healthcare
- Litigation: General Commercial
- Real Estate
The Chambers USA: A Guide to America’s Leading Business Lawyers, is an independent, objective, research-based legal directory. Attorneys and law firms are selected for inclusion by strong recommendations from the market and according to reputation. This year, more than 50 full-time researchers conducted thousands of interviews in order to determine the most exceptional law firms and attorneys.
Based in London, Chambers and Partners began as a general book publisher in 1969, then launched a legal recruitment consultancy four years later. The Chambers Directory has been published since 1990.
Broad and Cassel is one of Florida’s most prestigious corporate law firms, serving clients worldwide from Boca Raton, Destin, Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Orlando, Tallahassee, Tampa and West Palm Beach. Founded by Alvin Cassel and Shepard Broad in 1946, the Firm has more than 160 attorneys with extensive experience in a wide variety of practice areas including: Corporate and Securities; Construction Law and Litigation; Real Estate Development; Estate Planning and Trusts; Commercial Litigation; Health Law; Law Use and Environmental Law; Taxation; Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights; Labor and Employment; Eminent Domain; Auto Dealership/Repair Shop Defense and Regulatory Compliance; Appellate Law; Public Finance and Capital Projects; and White Collar Crime and Civil Fraud Defense. For more information, please visit us online at www.BroadandCassel.com.
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For more information, contact:
Jessi Blakley, APR Consensus PR
407/608-5905 (o) 407/432-3673 (c)
jessi@onmessage.com
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