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Brian D. Guralnick

Personal Injury Law

422 Belvedere Rd, West Palm Beach, FL 33405, USA

My passion for personal injury law began with a personal tragedy. My mother’s malignant melanoma was misdiagnosed, allowing the cancer to spread and ultimately take her life. That experience taught me the importance of understanding the facts, asking questions, and fighting for what’s right. After working at two large personal injury firms, I founded my own in 1998 with a different vision: to provide every client with personal attention while bringing the experience, resources, and determination needed to take on the largest insurance companies. At our firm, we know our clients personally. We listen. We care. We treat each other—and our clients—like family and that commitment has helped us recover hundreds of millions of dollars each year for injured accident victims. Outside the office, I'm a devoted husband to my wife, Ligia, and father to our daughters, Sienna and Aria. Helping people through some of the most difficult moments of their lives isn't just my career—it's my life's work.

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Christian Searcy, Sr.

Personal Injury Law

2139 Palm Beach Lakes Blvd., West Palm Beach, FL 33409

CHRISTIAN D. SEARCY is president and CEO of Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley, P.A. and writes and lectures extensively about civil trial practice, personal injury and wrongful death. For 46 years he has litigated cases primarily involving catastrophic injury and death in venues throughout Florida as well as in other states. At age 29, he had the distinction of being the youngest lawyer in the United States to achieve a verdict of $1 million for a single personal injury lawsuit. In 2006, Mr. Searcy was one of only two lawyers in the country to receive the War Horse Award from the Southern Trial Lawyers Association, honoring his outstanding skill as a trial advocate and his extraordinary contributions to the cause of justice. In 2005, the Florida Justice Association, formerly known as the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers, honored Mr. Searcy with its Perry Nichols Award, the highest honor it bestows, in recognition of a lifetime of outstanding service to the cause of justice. Mr. Searcy is vice president of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers Foundation and past president of the prestigious International Academy of Trial Lawyers, a worldwide organization limited by invitation to just 500 attorneys. He is named in The Best Lawyers in America, an independent study by Harvard trained attorneys; is included as one of the Florida Legal Elite in Florida Trend magazine; and is named as a top lawyer in South Florida Legal Guide. He is a Lawdragon Legend, listed in Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America more than ten times and a member of the Lawdragon 500 Hall of Fame

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Darryl Lewis

Darryl Lewis

Distinguished Lawyer

Personal Injury Law

2139 Palm Beach Lakes Blvd, West Palm Beach, FL 33409, USA

Darryl L. Lewis has earned a national reputation as a trial attorney, representing clients in personal injury and wrongful death claims in venues throughout Florida. He also has represented clients in Kentucky, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Washington. An inspiring public speaker, Mr. Lewis is invited to speak multiple times each year to lawyers from all over the country. He has served proudly in the U.S. Army Reserve as a Judge Advocate General (JAG lawyer). A native Kentuckian, Mr. Lewis earned a bachelor of science degree, summa cum laude, in Political Science from Kentucky State University, and received his law degree from the University of Kentucky College of Law.

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David Garten

David Garten

Featured Lawyer

Probate Law

2161 Palm Beach Lakes Blvd., Suite 201, West Palm Beach, FL 33409

Area of Practice: Probate, Trust & Guardianship Litigation Earning his J.D. from Golden Gate University in San Francisco, California. With more than 30 years of legal experience and 18 years focusing his practice in the most complex areas of litigation representing high net worth individuals and/or institutions involving guardianship, probate, estate, and trust matters. A long standing member of the Palm Beach County Bar Association. Served as the chairperson of the Probate and Guardianship Practice Committee. He is also a member of the CLE Estate and Probate Law Committees. Admitted to the Florida Bar and is currently a member of the Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section; the Probate Law and Procedure Committee; the Trust Law Committee; and the Probate and Trust Litigation Committee.

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Edmund Gonzalez

Edmund Gonzalez

Distinguished Lawyer

Family and Divorce Law

340 Columbia Drive,, Suite 111, West Palm Beach, FL 33409

Edmund Gonzalez is an attorney in West Palm Beach, Florida, whose firm biography lists personal injury, family law, commercial litigation and criminal law as his areas of practice. Gonzalez & Henley, P.A. identifies him as a member of the firm. His listed office is at 340 Columbia Drive, Suite 111, an address also recorded in his Florida Bar profile. Gonzalez was admitted to the Florida Bar on September 14, 2001. The Bar lists him as a member in good standing and eligible to practice law in Florida, under bar number 502499. His firm biography also records admission in 2002 to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. These admissions span Florida's state bar and two federal courts. His education includes a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Miami, awarded in 1983, and a Juris Doctor from Florida Coastal School in 1999. The Florida Bar independently lists Florida Coastal School of Law as his law school. His professional biography lists both Spanish and English among his languages. The Bar's directory identifies Family Law and Trial Lawyers as his sections. Gonzalez & Henley describes its geographic reach as statewide, while identifying West Palm Beach as its location.

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Civil Litigation

1550 Palm Beach Lakes Blvd, West Palm Beach, FL 33401, USA

Joanne Gelfand is a Florida attorney whose professional background includes commercial and business disputes and insolvency. She is listed by the Florida Bar as a member in good standing and eligible to practice, with a Florida admission date of November 21, 1985. Her connection to Pincus & Currier in West Palm Beach is documented in November 2024: the firm’s letterhead in a court filing names her among its lawyers. The professional profile published under her name on the firm’s website identifies commercial and business disputes and insolvency as her practice areas. Gelfand’s seminar record includes two cryptocurrency-related programs in 2023. The profile lists a spring cryptocurrency symposium panel for the St. Thomas Journal of Complex Litigation and the June program “Pledging Digital Assets in a Crypto World” for the Florida Bar’s Real Property Probate and Trust Law Section. Her education spans undergraduate study, a law degree and postgraduate legal study. She earned a B.S. cum laude from the University of Florida in 1982, majoring in journalism/advertising with a Spanish minor. A comparative-law summer session at Oxford University followed in 1983. She received her J.D. cum laude from the University of Miami School of Law in 1985 and an LL.M. in labor and employment law from New York Law School in 2000.

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Joel Weissman

Family and Divorce Law

515 N Flagler Dr, West Palm Beach, FL 33401, USA

Joel Michael Weissman practices matrimonial and family law in West Palm Beach, Florida, at Joel M. Weissman, P.A. The Florida Bar directory identifies his position as managing partner and confirms that he is eligible to practice in Florida and a member in good standing. His education and Florida admission date to the 1970s. He earned a B.A. at Bridgewater State College in 1972, followed by a J.D. at Stetson University School of Law in 1976. That year also brought his admission to the Florida Bar. His firm biography records two admissions in 1987: New York State and the U.S. Supreme Court. It lists admission to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in 1994. The Florida Bar lists his Marital and Family Law certification with the year 1987. His firm’s family law practice description names equitable distribution and alimony among its subjects. Parenting, child support and other child-related issues appear on that list as well, together with attorney’s fees and costs. Weissman’s biography lists memberships in the Palm Beach County and South Palm Beach County bar associations. It also names the New York State Trial Lawyers Association. The family law sections of the Florida Bar and New York State bar are included in the same membership record.

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Joshua Bratter

Joshua Bratter

Distinguished Lawyer

Immigration Law

515 N Flagler Dr suite 406, West Palm Beach, FL 33401, USA

Joshua Bratter earned his B.A. from Hamilton College, where he founded the College’s first Policy Think Tank on hemispheric issues, H.O.L.A. His senior thesis was published in the literary journal, The Minerva Review. He received his JD from the University of Miami, where he was one of the founding members of the University’s Asylum Clinic, supervised under the auspices of The National Lawyers Guild and The Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center. As a Research Assistant to the Honorable Hugo Caminos, Mr. Bratter was awarded a post-graduate research grant to attend The Hague Academy of International Law, in the Hague, Netherlands. Mr. Bratter has worked as a Research Analyst at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs in Washington DC and a Law Clerk for the Under Secretary of Legal Affairs at the Organization of American States, Washington DC. Mr. Bratter has spoken on panels and at conferences with Congressmen, Demographers, Religious and Community Leaders, Sports and Entertainment Agents, Immigration Officials and Members of the Immigration bar on the subject of Immigration Law, specifically Extraordinary Ability Aliens, for events sponsored by the American Bar Association, the American Immigrant Lawyers Association, International Trade Organizations and Universities in the US and abroad.

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Laura Anthony

Distinguished Lawyer

Securities Law

1700 Palm Beach Lakes Blvd suite 820, West Palm Beach, FL 33401, USA

Laura E. Anthony is a West Palm Beach, Florida, business lawyer and the founding partner of Anthony, Linder & Cacomanolis, PLLC. Her individual practice listing covers business law, mergers and acquisitions, and business transactions. December 21, 1993, marks her admission to the Florida Bar, where she is listed as eligible to practice and a member in good standing. Earlier that year, in April, she completed her law degree at Florida State University College of Law in Tallahassee, graduating cum laude. Her undergraduate degree is a B.A. from Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. Anthony’s firm biography lists memberships in both the Palm Beach County Bar Association and the Crowdfunding Professional Association. It also names the American Bar Association and its committees on Federal Securities Regulations and Private Equity and Venture Capital among her professional affiliations. At the firm level, Anthony, Linder & Cacomanolis advises on securities transactions and public-company obligations. Its services for companies already trading publicly include interim reports on Forms 8-K and 6-K, quarterly Form 10-Q reports, and annual reports on Forms 10-K and 20-F. Annual meetings and shareholder consents are also part of the firm’s stated work, with attention to federal proxy rules and state corporate law. For initial public offerings, the firm describes working alongside bankers and auditors on listings on Nasdaq or NYSE American.

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Michael Steinger

Michael Steinger

Distinguished Lawyer

Personal Injury Law

1645 Palm Beach Lakes Blvd, Suite 900, West Palm Beach, FL 33401

MICHAEL S. STEINGER, founding partner of Steinger, Iscoe & Greene, believes in representing real people, not big businesses. Since the firm?s creation in 1997, Steinger, Iscoe & Greene has never represented an insurance company or large corporation, and he vows to keep this promise. Over the course of his career, Mr. Steinger has handled thousands of Florida accident cases, recovering millions of dollars for his clients and earning him membership into the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum. Staying up-to-date on the ever-evolving laws protecting injury victims and their families, Michael is an active member of the American Bar Association, the Palm Beach and St. Lucie Bar Associations, and sits on the Auto Insurance Committee of the Florida Justice Association.

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Patrick R. McKamey

Patrick R. McKamey

Distinguished Lawyer

Criminal Defense Law

515 N Flagler Dr, West Palm Beach, FL 33401, USA

Truth. Justice. Integrity. These are the principles our legal system was founded on and the principles which drive West Palm Beach criminal defense attorney Patrick R. McKamey and his highly skilled defense team. If you are ready to fight your charges, hire the firm with the skills and experience to make that fight a winnable one. Contact the Law Office of Patrick R. McKamey, P.A. today to start discussing your defense!

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Sarah Vitulli

Family and Divorce Law

515 N Flagler Dr, West Palm Beach, FL 33401, USA

Education:Stetson University College of Law, J.D., 2004, Florida State University, B.A., 2001 Memberships:The Florida Bar (2004), Palm Beach County Bar Association, Susan Greenberg Family Law American Inn of Court of the Palm Beaches (CLE Chair for the organization)

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Timothy C. Felice

Timothy C. Felice

Distinguished Lawyer

Personal Injury Law

3 Harvard Circle, West Palm Beach, FL 33409

Timothy C. Felice skilled personal injury civil trial lawyer dedicated to obtaining full justice for those who have been injured or killed because of the negligence of another person, company or defective product. Tim is passionate in his quest for full civil justice. He is not only an aggressive trial lawyer, but also takes the time to listen and get to know each client he is fighting for. Tim takes great pride in helping other trial lawyers hone their craft. In fact, many of the largest personal injury firms in Florida and the country refer Tim cases to litigate and bring to trial. Timothy Felice, is on the Board of the Palm Beach Justice Association and is a nationally sought after trial instructor. Timothy C. Felice was born in New Rochelle NY in 1976. He spent 23 years in NY before he decided to get away from the cold. In 1999 Tim became a permanent resident of Florida. After graduating magna cum laude in 2001 from Florida Atlantic University, he attended Nova Southeastern University, Shepard Broad Law Center and graduated in 2004. In 2005 Tim was admitted to the Florida Bar and licensed to practice before all Florida State courts, state appellate courts, and the Florida Supreme Court as well as the United States District Court for the Southern and Northern Districts of Florida. Tim is also a member of the Palm Beach County Bar, Florida Justice Association, and Palm Beach County Justice Association.

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Joseph Johnson

Personal Injury Law

2139 Palm Beach Lakes Blvd., West Palm Beach, FL 33409

Over the past 25 years, Joe Johnson has litigated some of the most complex cases in Florida and he's been taking on some of the most powerful opponents. But that's little surprise: The law, and courtroom savvy, is something the third-generation lawyer grew up with. A Board Certified Civil Trial Lawyer, Joe has successfully handled a wide range of product liability, consumer protection, defective medical device, and commercial litigation, as well as medical malpractice and other personal injury cases. The cases may differ, but their theme is always the same: fighting to protect, and vindicate, his client's rights. The South Florida native's philosophy is simple: his client?s interests are his interests. That means every case is tackled with the same level of preparation, dedication, and skill that Joe would demand in his own attorneys. And it means always being responsive to clients and their needs. Like his partners at Babbitt & Johnson P.A., he brings the service of a small firm but large-firm talent to every case he handles. It has earned him the respect of judges, juries, and peers. But more importantly, it has earned him the respect of his clients.

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