Akerman LLP, a top 100 U.S. law firm, is pleased to announce that the firm has been recognized in Florida Trend’s 2021 Legal Elite List, with 16 lawyers receiving honors. The firm’s Legal Elite honorees represent offices across Florida, including Jacksonville, Miami, Naples, Orlando, Tallahassee, Tampa, and West Palm Beach.

Partners David Ackerman, Silvia Alderman, Karen Buesing, Joni Armstrong Coffey, and Kathi Giddings were once again featured in Florida Trend’s Hall of Fame. Florida Trend also named two Akerman lawyers as Up & Comers for their record of excellence in the legal community, representing the future of law.

The 2021 Legal Elite list recognizes the state’s top lawyers as selected by their peers through a voting process in 27 practice areas. The publication recognizes less than two percent of the more than 106,000 Florida Bar members practicing in the state.

The Akerman lawyers honored in the 2021 Legal Elite list are:

David P. Ackerman, Commercial Litigation
Silvia M. Alderman, Environmental & Land Use
Jacob A. Brown, Bankruptcy & Workout
Karen M. Buesing, Labor & Employment
Joni Armstrong Coffey, Environmental & Land Use
Ashlea A. Edwards, Labor & Employment – Up & Comer
Zarra R. Elias, Labor & Employment – Up & Comer
Alejandro J. Fernandez, Intellectual Property
Dee Dee Fischer, Commercial Litigation
Katherine E. Giddings, Appellate Practice
Jonathan E. Gopman, Real Estate
Daniel Jacobson, International
Arlene K. Kline, Labor & Employment
Richard Craig Milstein, Wills, Trusts & Estates
Stacey A. Prince-Troutman Wills, Trusts & Estates, Wills, Trusts & Estates
Scott William Rostock, Construction

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