Legal Briefs (Tampa edition)

Legal Briefs (Tampa edition)

eBest Lawyersi includes 26

Tampa area H&K lawyers

Nearly 17% of the Holland & Knight LLP lawyers featured in the new edition of iBest Lawyers in Americai are from the Tampa Bay area. Profiles are selected through peer-review surveys. Those lawyers chosen from the firmis Tampa office include the following:

Chester E. Bacheller, Anderson L. Baldy III, Bernard A. Barton Jr., Stacy D. Blank, William B. deMeza Jr., Richard Eckhard, Leonard H. Gilbert, Robert J. Grammig, Richard B. Hadlow, William F. Hamilton, Michael L. Jamieson, John Arthur Jones, Jack A. Levine, John E. Phillips, Bruce H. Roberson, Frederick M. Rothenberg, Stefan V. Stein, Charles L. Stutts, Gregg D. Thomas and Douglas A. Wright, all from the Tampa office.

Richard O. Jacobs, who works from the firmis St. Petersburg office, also was selected.

eBest Lawyersi profiles

three Ward Rovell attorneys

Alton C. Ward, Roger J. Rovell and R. Dennis Tweed area among the lawyers listed in the new edition of iBest Lawyers in America.i Each practices employment law.

Ward earned a bacheloris degree from the University of Georgia and a law degree from the Stetson University College of Law. Rovell, a University of South Florida graduate, earned a law degree from Stetson and a masteris of laws in taxation from the University of Florida Levin College of Law. Tweed earned bacheloris, law and masteris of law degrees from the Gainesville university.

eBest Lawyersi includes

Tampa lawyer John Olson

Tampa attorney John K. Olson is among 13 lawyers at Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff & Sitterson PA included in the 2005-06 edition of iBest Lawyers in America.i

Olson, a former vice chair of the ABA bankruptcy committee, serves on the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appealsi committee on local rules. A Harvard graduate, Olson earned a law degree in 1975 from the Boston College School of Law.

eBest Lawyeri lists 27

Carlton Fields attorneys

The newest edition of iBest Lawyers in Americai includes 27 Carlton Fields PA attorneys, including 17 in the firmis Tampa Bay area offices.

Those lawyers in the St. Petersburg office are Steven Dupre and Sylvia Walbolt.

Lawyers from the Tampa office include George Barford, David Burke, Chris Coutroulis, Nathaniel Doliner, Edward Gerecke, Ruth Kinsolving, Edgel iEdi Lester, Laurel Lockett, John McAdams, Kevin Napper, Michael Nuechterlein, Gary Sasso, Roger Schwenke, Thomas Snow and Robert Soriano.

Fowler White shareholders

among eBest Lawyersi

Fifteen Fowler White Boggs Banker attorneys are included in the newest edition of iThe Best Lawyers in America.i

The shareholders are Cathy J. Beveridge (labor/employment law), E. Jackson Boggs (tax/estates/trusts), W. Donald Cox (business litigation), John D. Emmanuel (bankruptcy/creditor-rights), James J. Evangelista (personal injury), Frank H. Gassler (personal injury), Andrew J. Krause (trusts/estates), Carl R. Nelson (maritime), Thomas G. Pelham (environmental), John W. Robinson IV (labor/employment), Richard G. Salazar (business) and Robert H. Waltuch (trusts/estates).