A select group of 24 attorneys from Foley’s Jacksonville, Orlando and Tampa offices have been named 2007 Florida “Super Lawyers” by Law & Politics Media, Inc.
To compile the annual list, Law & Politics surveyed more than 44,000 lawyers across Florida, asking them to vote for the best lawyers they have personally observed in action. The final list features the top five percent of Florida attorneys in more than 60 areas of practice.
The Foley attorneys named and their primary practices as classified by Law & Politics are:
Jacksonville
- Allan P. Clark, employment & labor
- Charles E. Commander III, real estate
- Gardner F. Davis, business/corporate
- Kevin E. Hyde, employment & labor
- Emerson M. Lotzia, real estate
- Robert M. Rhodes, real estate
Orlando
- J. Gordon Arkin, business/corporate
- Edmund T. Baxa Jr., construction litigation
- James S. Grodin, business litigation
- John R. Hamilton, appellate
- John P. Horan, construction/surety
- John S. Lord Jr., employment & labor
- Thomas K. Maurer, environmental
- Paul E. Rosenthal, real estate
- R. Duke Woodson, land use/zoning
Tampa
- Michael D. Annis, tax
- Stephen A. Crane, business/corporate
- W. Keith Fendrick, bankruptcy & creditor/debtor rights
- James M. Landis, antitrust litigation
- Thomas F. Munro III, construction litigation
- Fred S. Ridley, real estate
- Debra K. Smietanski, estate planning & probate
- Stephen J. Szabo III, real estate
- Mark J. Wolfson, bankruptcy & creditor/debtor rights
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