Nineteen Dean Mead Attorneys have been Selected for The Best Lawyers in America© 2023

ORLANDO, Fla. –  Nineteen Dean Mead attorneys have been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© 2023 Edition. In addition, two attorneys were also named “Lawyer of the Year” and two were selected as “Ones to Watch.”

The complete lists of attorneys who are recognized in their fields of practice are as follows:

The Best Lawyers in America: Lawyer of the Year 2023

• Orlando

• • David J. Akins – Tax Law
  • Marc D. Chapman – Litigation – Trusts and Estates

2023 The Best Lawyers in America: 

Fort Pierce, FL

• Michael D. Minton 

• • Agriculture Law
  • Tax Law
  • Trusts and Estates

Orlando, FL

• David J. Akins 

• • • Tax Law
    • Trusts and Estates

• David P. Barker 

• • • Real Estate Law

• Vicki L. Berman 

• • • Real Estate Law

• Jane Dunlap Callahan

• • • Nonprofit / Charities Law
    • Tax Law

• Marc D. Chapman 

• • • Litigation – Construction
    • Litigation – Real Estate
    • Litigation – Trusts and Estates

• Denise D. Dell-Powell 

• • • Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
    • Litigation – Bankruptcy

• Lauren Y. Detzel 

• • • Litigation – Trusts and Estates
    • Tax Law
    • Trusts and Estates

• Michael J. Furbush 

• • • Commercial Litigation

• Gregory K. Lawrence

• • • Real Estate Law

• Stephen R. Looney 

• • • Tax Law

• Brian M. Malec 

• • • Tax Law
    • Trusts and Estates

• Robert W. Mead, Jr. 

• • • Corporate Law
    • Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law

• Joseph Van Heyde II 

• • • Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
    • Litigation – ERISA

• Thomas P. Wert 

• • Commercial Litigation
  • Construction Law
  • Litigation – Construction

Tallahassee, FL

• Marc W. Dunbar 

• • • Administrative / Regulatory Law
    • Gaming Law

• Martha Edenfield 

• • Government Relations Practice

 

The Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch 2023

• Orlando, FL

• Michael S. Dawkins 

• • • • Real Estate Law

• Alexander L. Van Heyde 

• • • Real Estate Law

 

About The Best Lawyers in America©

Recognition in Best Lawyers is widely regarded by both clients and legal professionals as a significant honor, conferred on a lawyer by his or her peers. For more than three decades, our publications have earned the respect of the profession, the media, and the public, as the most reliable, unbiased source of legal referrals anywhere. Learn more about the methodology here.

Each year,  Best Lawyers compiles its lists of outstanding lawyers by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which tens of thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. If the votes for a lawyer are positive enough for recognition in Best Lawyers, that lawyer must maintain those votes in subsequent polls to remain in each edition.

About Dean Mead

Dean Mead is a business law firm providing full-service legal representation, government relations, and lobbying throughout Florida. The firm has six offices with 60 attorneys and four government relations professionals in multiple practice areas including federal tax, state and local tax, estate and succession planning, business litigation, corporate law, labor and employment, government relations and lobbying, regulatory compliance, employee benefits, bankruptcy and creditors’ rights, commercial real estate, leasing, construction law, lending, environmental, land use, water law, utilities law, and eminent domain. For more information, please visit http://www.deanmead.com.

Dean Mead is a long-standing affiliate member of ALFA International. ALFA is widely regarded as the premier global network of independent law firms with 150 law firms in the United States and Canada, Mexico, Latin America, Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa.