July 7, 2011

Akerman Senterfitt, the largest law firm in Florida and one of the top 100 firms in the United States, today announced 35 of its attorneys have been recognized in the Florida Trend 2011 Florida Legal Elite making it one of the top firms in the state for total attorneys listed. The attorneys are from Akerman’s Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Jacksonville, Naples, Orlando, Tallahassee, Tampa and West Palm Beach offices and represent deep Akerman industry experience in a variety of areas.

The Florida Trend 2011 Legal Elite list honors outstanding attorneys selected by their peers through a voting process in 28 areas of practice and recognizes less than 2 percent of the 63,000 Florida Bar members practicing in the state.

The honored Akerman attorneys are listed below:

Kimberly A. Ashby, Appellate
Jacob A. Brown, Bankruptcy & Workout
Karen M. Buesing, Labor & Employment
Venus A. Caruso, Commercial Litigation
Christopher S. Carver, Commercial Litigation
Kirk S. Davis, Health
Megan C. DeVault, Up and Comers
Benjamin F. Diamond, Up and Comers
Michael K. Dixon, Intellectual Property Rights
Christopher S. Duke, Labor & Employment
Katherine E. Giddings, Appellate
Andrew P. Gold, Commercial Litigation
Michael I. Goldberg, Banking & Financial
Jonathan E. Gopman, Wills, Trusts & Estates
Russell B. Hale, Tax
Elizabeth M. Hernandez, Government & Administration
Laura M. Holm, Business Law
Bernard Jacobson, Business Law
Daniel Jacobson, Business Law
Leslie Joughin III, Commercial Litigation
Arlene K. Kline, Up and Comers
John B. Macdonald, Bankruptcy & Workout
D. Brett Marks, Bankruptcy & Workout
Richard H. Martin, Up and Comers
Margaret D. Mathews, Commercial Litigation
C. Cory Mauro, Commercial Litigation
Jason S. Oletsky, Commercial Litigation
Guy E. Quattlebaum, Civil Trial
Ronald B. Ravikoff, Antitrust & Trade Regulation
Joseph W. Rugg, Health
Phillip B. Schwartz, Banking & Financial
Scott T. Silverman, Labor & Employment
William P. Sklar, Real Estate Transactions
David I. Spector, Commercial Litigation
Wesley D. Tibbals, Commercial Litigation

About Akerman Senterfitt
Akerman is ranked among the top 100 law firms in the United States by The National Law Journal NLJ 250 (2011) in number of lawyers and is the leading Florida firm. With 500 lawyers and government affairs professionals, Akerman serves clients throughout the United States and overseas from Florida, New York, Washington, D.C., California, Virginia, Colorado, Nevada and Texas.  More information can be found at www.akerman.com or www.twitter.com/akerman_law.