(PRWEB) July 01, 2013

Akerman Senterfitt nowadays announced that Florida Trend magazine has named 37 of the firm’s attorneys to its 2013 Florida Legal Elite list, producing Akerman 1 of the top firms in the state for total lawyers listed, and one of the four firms with the most girls honorees. The lawyers are from Akermans offices in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Jacksonville, Orlando, Tallahassee, Tampa and West Palm Beach.

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Honorees include shareholder Karen Buesing, who is a member of the Legal Elite Hall of Fame, and six lawyers under the age of 40 that had been named Up and Comers for exhibiting leadership in the law and in their neighborhood neighborhood. The 2013 Florida Legal Elite list recognizes the states leading lawyers as chosen by their peers via a voting method in 28 practice areas and recognizes less than 2 percent of the more than 66,000 Florida Bar members practicing in the state.

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The Akerman lawyers honored in 2013 are:

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Silvia M. Alderman, Environmental and Land Use&#13

Jacqueline M. Arango, Criminal Law&#13

Eyal Berger, Up and Comer&#13

Allison S. Bernstein, Civil Trial&#13

Jacob A. Brown, Bankruptcy &amp Workout&#13

Karen M. Buesing, Labor &amp Employment&#13

Robert I. Chaskes, Commercial Litigation&#13

Aileen S. Davis, Banking &amp Financial&#13

Michael K. Dixon, Intellectual Home Rights&#13

Susan N. Eisenberg, Labor &amp Employment&#13

Carol L. Schoffel Faber, Actual Estate&#13

Mary Katherine Fackler, Up and Comer&#13

Samantha S. Feuer, Government &amp Administrative&#13

Joseph E. (‘Ed’) Foster, Industrial Litigation&#13

Christian George, Up and Comer&#13

Joanne Gelfand, Bankruptcy &amp Workout&#13

Katherine Eastmoore Giddings, Appellate Practice&#13

Andrew P. Gold, Industrial Litigation&#13

Michael I. Goldberg, Bankruptcy &amp Workout&#13

Rachael L. Greenstein, Up and Comer&#13

Laura M. Holm, Company Law&#13

Arlene K. Kline, Labor &amp Employment&#13

Andrew M. Loewenstein, Up and Comer&#13

John B. Macdonald, Bankruptcy &amp Exercise&#13

D. Brett Marks, Bankruptcy &amp Exercise&#13

Margaret D. Mathews, Industrial Litigation&#13

Jason S. Oletsky, Industrial Litigation &#13

David E. Otero, Bankruptcy &amp Workout&#13

Guy E. Quattlebaum, Civil Trial&#13

Carl D. Roston, Enterprise Law&#13

Lawrence D. Silverman, Industrial Litigation&#13

Scott T. Silverman, Labor &amp Employment&#13

Julie S. Sneed, Commercial Litigation&#13

David I. Spector, Commercial Litigation&#13

George Volsky, International&#13

Melissa Zinkil, Up and Comer

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About Akerman Senterfitt&#13

Akerman is a major transactions and trial law firm known for its core strengths in middle industry M&ampA, within the financial services and genuine estate industries, and for a diverse Latin America practice. With much more than 550 lawyers and government affairs professionals and a network of 19 offices, it is ranked among the leading 100 law firms in the United States by The National Law Journal NLJ 350 (2013). Far more info can be identified at akerman.com or twitter.com/akerman_law.

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