Lawyers Practicing in Florida
From Fort Lauderdale to Tampa, to Coral Gables, Florida is a melting pot of America’s top lawyers. In Miami alone, one would discover some of the US’ best attorneys at the top of their chosen practice areas, may it be business law, appellation, civil trial, commercial litigation, labor, employment, government, or criminal law.
According to the Florida Trend Legal Elite list, Florida’s biggest law firms often include Miami’s Greenberg Traurig PA, which has over 420 lawyers statewide and 1,775 globally. Other large Miami law firms of repute include Shutts & Bowen LLP, and Cole Scott & Kissane. In Orlando, Akerman Senterfitt, GrayRobinson PA, Fowler White Boggs Banker PA, Ruden McClosky, Broad and Cassel, and Foley & Lardner LLP are some of the bigger firms around.
When it comes to complex and commercial business litigation, the name of Coffey Burlington is sure to crop up among Florida’s best lawyers. In fact, not a few of this law firm’s best lawyers rank in the Legal Elite, to wit: David J. Zack, Paul Joseph Schwiep, Jeffrey B. Crockett, and Daniel Frederick Blonsky. Not to be outdone, Robert Kent Burlington and Kendall Coffey, the firm’s namesakes and founding partners, rank highly on the list.
From 1993 to 1996, Kendall Coffey served as the US Attorney for the Southern District of Florida. Most memorably, Kendall Coffey’s services were engaged in such high-profile cases as the Elian Gonzalez repatriation and the 2000 presidential recount. Early in his career, Kendall Coffey helmed the banking litigation practice at Greenberg Traurig.
Sources: http://www.coffeyburlington.com/ http://www.coffeyburlington.com/attorneys/kendall_coffey.htm http://www.floridatrend.com/law_elite.asp http://www.floridatrend.com/legalelite_articles.asp?aID=49356
