Florida Civil Litigation Lawyers

Civil Litigation

316 S Baylen St suite 600, Pensacola, FL 32502, USA

Glen Ged is an attorney at Levin Papantonio. He graduated from Babson College with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration & Management, and received his Juris Doctorate from New England Law | Boston. While in law school, Glen served on the executive board of the Student Bar Association and was the Co-Founder and Treasurer of the Middle Eastern Law Students Association.

Civil Litigation

13161 Gray Heron Dr, North Fort Myers, FL 33903, USA

Heath Gelman (Esp) is a Senior Litigation Attorney practicing with Parvey and Cavanego. As far back as sixth grade, Heath wanted to be a trial lawyer and was inspired by the book “To Kill a Mockingbird”. To that end, he took law studies in high school, and interned at a law firm in Boca Raton during his senior year at Spanish River High School, in Boca Raton. During his undergraduate years at the University of Florida and Florida Atlantic University, he was elected and served as a school senator, which helped to develop his service to others. Heath attended law school in Miami at St. Thomas University, where he prevailed in an Association of Trial Lawyers in America opening statement/closing argument competition. In his third year of law school, he interned at the Assistant Public Defender Office in Broward County Public where he was permitted to try misdemeanor and juvenile cases with a Public Defender. It was at this point in which Heath received his first real taste of trial work and prevailing on behalf of his clients. A career focused in civil litigation commenced immediately after law school. He worked twelve years at a prominent insurance defense firm in both Southeast and Southwest Florida, successfully trying cases on behalf of individuals and insurance companies and securing fair and reasonable settlements. There he was promoted to partner, and learned many of the tools in which he took with him to plaintiff practice. Residing in Fort Myers, Florida, since 2004, Heath joined the largest plaintiff injury firm in the nation, and achieved great success on behalf of his clients in and outside of the courtroom, securing huge results on behalf of his clients. Thereafter, he accepted employment as a partner in the Fort Myers law firm of Henderson, Franklin, Starnes & Holt, the oldest named law firm in the State of Florida. At that firm, he handled civil litigation matters for private companies, professional liability matters defending lawyers and professionals, insurance defense and some plaintiff personal injury matters. In one of his memorable trials, he prevailed on behalf of the School Board of Lee County in a highly litigated injury lawsuit of some local acclaim. During this timeframe, the covid pandemic hit, and Heath became published many times over in numerous blog articles on Covid-19 business interruption, insurance bad faith, and other salient topics. Additionally, Heath has lectured various audiences at all his previous law firms on a variety of topics. Thereafter, Heath went back into plaintiff practice with a large personal injury firm, and again, achieved trial success along with procuring large settlements on behalf of his deserving clients. During Heath’s litigation career, he has litigated against Carlos Cavenago and Allan Parvey and a mutual respect was born. For much of his career handling plaintiff matters, Carlos was a sounding board on strategies, concepts, and plaintiff practice. The move to Parvey & Cavenago was a natural progression, about 15 years in the making. Heath Gelman (Esq) was voted in 2021 and again in 2022, by his legal peers, and published in Naples Illustrated Magazine as a top personal injury litigation attorney and insurance law attorney in Southwest Forida ; two separate practice areas. In addition, he was nominated by his peers and selected to the prestigious Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel. Heath is also a certified Florida mediator. Heath has always lived by the saying in his law practice, “You must keep your mind on the objective, not on the obstacle”, said by William Randolph Hearst. There are daily obstacles, and it is the sound lawyer, that prepares for obstacles and formulates strategies to overcome them. When Heath is not practicing law, he tries to avoid discussing law with his lawyer wife, who practices estate planning, elder law, and probate. During their free time Heath and Lisa are consumed with raising four active children. He can be found on the Fort Myers sport fields cheering on his kids, at the beach, or on a great vacation. Giving back to the community is imperative to Heath, and he has been involved with food drives with Harry Chapin Food Bank, Christmas toy drives for families in Pine Manor, and various community events.

Civil Litigation

1600 Malcolm Point Dr., Winter Garden, FL 34787

Area of Practice: Investigations Miss McEvoy began her investigative career at the Law Offices of Euclid F. Maggiani in 1999. In 2005, she moved to Deloitte Financial Advisory Services, LLP, where she served as an investigator in its Business Intelligence Services practice and acted as a liaison with clients in the U.S. Intelligence Community and Departments of Defense and Homeland Security. Before founding Quilligence, she served as the Director of Research and Investigations at a boutique investigations consultancy. Miss McEvoy has consulted with a vast portfolio of law firms, accounting firms, commercial and public sector clients on investigations relating to litigation, business partnerships, fraud and foreign corruption, and other regulatory matters; she specializes on investigations involving fraud, national security, hidden assets, and visualization of complex business networks. Miss McEvoy is a licensed attorney and holds a Juris Doctorate from St. John’s University of Law in New York; a B.A. in Political Science from Marist College in New York; and a Certificate of Foreign Policy from American University in Washington, D.C. She holds active high level national security clearances.

Civil Litigation

St. Petersburg, FL 33733, USA

Civil Litigation

100 SE 2nd Street, 2600, Miami, FL 33131

James K. Parker was born and raised in Orlando, Florida. Jim graduated from the University of Miami School of Law in 1973. He is an AV-rated trial attorney that has been in litigation practice in southern Florida for 45 years. Jim is a named partner with the Firm and is also certified by the Supreme Court of Florida as a Circuit Court Mediator and is a member of the Florida Academy of Professional Mediators. During his 45 years of practice, Jim has concentrated his efforts as a litigator representing clients in a broad range of disputes involving negligence, personal injury, wrongful death, premises liability, products liability, medical malpractice, professional liability, employment practices liability, broker’s errors and omissions, insurance coverage issues, declaratory actions, homeowners associations, condominium associations, construction defects and commercial litigation. Representative clients include Axis Insurance, AIG Insurance Companies, and Travelers Insurance Company. Most of Jim’s practice is devoted to the representation of insurers and their insureds, but his practice also includes the representation of Plaintiffs. After graduation from law school, Jim was appointed as an Assistant State Attorney under then State Attorney, Richard Gerstein. He then went into private practice representing clients in all levels of criminal defense matters. In 1976, he joined the law firm of Samuel M. Spatzer, P.A. practicing civil litigation. In 1982, Jim established his own firm in Coconut Grove, Florida. He became partner of Cohn, Parker & Cohn, P.A. in 1990. In 2004, he joined Boyd Richards Parker & Colonnelli, P.L. to participate in the handling of the firm’s many complex adversarial proceedings.