Michael J. Dewberry Named Health Care Law Lawyer of the Year

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (October 6, 2011) - Best Lawyers has named Michael J. Dewberry as the “Jacksonville Best Lawyers Health Care Law Lawyer of the Year” for 2012. 

Dewberry is a Florida Supreme Court Certified Mediator whose practice focuses on commercial litigation, including all types of business litigation and dispute resolution, disputes involving contracts, real property, insurance, health care operations and litigation, peer review and credentialing, risk management and employment issues, and professional licensing and discipline. He also handles employment litigation, including discrimination, sexual harassment, wage and hour, employment contract and non-competes and other restrictive contracts.

Best Lawyers compiles its lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which thousands of lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. The current, 18th edition of The Best Lawyers in America (2012) is based on more than 3.9 million detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers.

Lawyers being honored as “Lawyers of the Year” have received particularly high ratings in Best Lawyer surveys by earning a high level of respect among their peers for their abilities, professionalism, and integrity.

Steven Naifeh, President of Best Lawyers, says, “We continue to believe – as we have believed for more than 25 years – that recognition by one’s peers is the most meaningful form of praise in the legal profession. We would like to congratulate Michael J. Dewberry on being selected as the ‘Jacksonville Best Lawyers Health Care Law Lawyer of the Year’ for 2012.”

Rogers Towers, P.A., founded in Jacksonville in 1905, is Northeast Florida’s largest law firm with more than 75 lawyers. The firm provides counseling and legal services in the areas of:  Construction; Corporate; Labor and Employment; Environmental; Eminent Domain; Elder Law; Family Law; Governmental Law; Health; Immigration; Intellectual Property; Land Use; Litigation; Public Finance; Real Estate; Taxation; Trusts and Estates; and Wills.  www.rtlaw.com