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Best Lawyers in America Recognizes 24 Dean Mead Attorneys in 2019 Edition
Orlando, Fla. – Best Lawyers® released its list for The Best Lawyers in America© 2019. This year, there are 24 Dean Mead attorneys selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America. Dean Mead is pleased that the number of our lawyers who are honored continues to grow each year. Many are included for more than one area of law.
The Dean Mead attorneys who are recognized in their fields of practice are as follows:
| Name of Lawyer | Practice Area(s) for Recognition |
| David J. Akins | Tax Law; Trusts and Estates |
| David P. Barker | Real Estate Law |
| Vicki L. Berman | Real Estate Law |
| R. Mason Blake | Real Estate Law |
| Darryl M. Bloodworth | Bet-the-Company Litigation; Commercial Litigation |
| Stephen J. Bozarth | Real Estate Law; Litigation – Real Estate |
| Jane D. Callahan | Non-profit/Charities Law; Tax Law |
| Marc D. Chapman | Litigation – Trusts and Estates; Litigation – Real Estate; Litigation – Construction |
| Lauren Y. Detzel | Tax Law; Litigation – Trusts and Estates; Trusts and Estates |
| Martha J. Edenfield | Government Relations |
| Charles H. Egerton | Tax Law |
| Michael J. Furbush | Commercial Litigation |
| Robert S. Goldman | Tax Law; Litigation and Controversy – Tax |
| Melanie S. Griffin | Commercial Litigation |
| Mark E. Holcomb | Tax Law; Corporate Law; Litigation and Controversy – Tax |
| Gregory K. Lawrence | Real Estate Law |
| Stephen R. Looney | Tax Law |
| Brian Malec | Trusts and Estates |
| Robert W. Mead, Jr. | Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law; Corporate Law |
| Michael D. Minton | Agriculture Law; Tax Law, Trusts and Estates |
| Cari L. Roth | Administration/Regulatory Law; Land Use and Zoning Law; Water Law |
| William D. Townsend | Tax Law |
| Joseph (Jay) Van Heyde II | Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law; Litigation – ERISA |
| Thomas P. Wert | Litigation – Construction; Commercial Litigation; Construction Law |
In addition, Marc D. Chapman was named the Best Lawyers 2019 Litigation – Trusts and Estates “Lawyer of the Year” in Orlando. He also received this honor in 2017. “Lawyer of the Year” is given to a select group of individuals in large legal communities. Only one attorney per practice in each community is honored. Mr. Chapman is the president of Dean Mead and a shareholder in the litigation department. He focuses his practice in the areas of commercial litigation including banking, construction, real estate, commercial landlord/tenant and probate litigation as well as creditors’ rights, creditor bankruptcy litigation and non-compete/trade secret enforcement.
Along with The Best Lawyers in America, Dean Mead and our attorneys have been recognized for other honors this year, including Chambers USA, Florida Super Lawyers and Florida Trend’s Florida Legal Elite.
About Best Lawyers:
Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Best Lawyers lists are compiled based on an exhaustive peer-review evaluation. Almost 87,000 industry leading lawyers are eligible to vote (from around the world), and we have received almost 10 million evaluations on the legal abilities of other lawyers based on their specific practice areas around the world. For the 2019 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America, 7.8 million votes were analyzed, which resulted in almost 60,000 leading lawyers being included in the new edition. Lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed; therefore inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.” For more information about Best Lawyers, visit www.bestlawyers.com.
