The 2014 selections are in, and GMLJ is proud to announce that eight of our attorneys have been named Super Lawyers and Rising Stars. Wade McGuffey, Edward Lindsey, Peter Muller, and Bill Goodman have been named Super Lawyers; and Robert Luskin, Adam Joffe, Josh Stein, and Adam Whitten have been named Rising Stars.

Edward has been recognized for ten years in a row, and Wade and Bill have been recognized nine times each. Peter has been recognized six times. Robert leads our Rising Stars with seven recognitions. Adam has been recognized for three years in a row, and Josh has been recognized twice. Additionally, previously, Teri Zarrillo, Jeff Stinson, and Fred Green have been recognized as Super Lawyers and Rising Stars.

Attorneys are selected by a combination of peer nominations, evaluation by third party researchers, and peer evaluation by practice area. For more information on the selection process, please click here . https://www.superlawyers.com/about/selection_process.html 

A.M. Best is a credit rating organization which analyzes financial strength and credit worthiness of risk-bearing entities in the insurance industry. Goodman McGuffey Lindsey & Johnson, LLP is listed in Best’s Directory of Recommended Insurance Attorneys in General Defense. 

Goodman McGuffey Lindsey & Johnson’s managing partner of our Southwest Florida Regional office, Robert Darroch, will speak at the upcoming National Advanced Forum on Bad Faith Litigation on March 31st 2014 in Philadelphia. The session is entitled, “Year in Review and Issues on the Horizon in the Bad Faith Context: Inside the Year’s Top Cases and How They Will Dictate the Future, New Risks, Recent Trends, and What to Expect for the Second Half of 2014.”

Robert will explore bad faith litigation in the past year, including the implications of recent decisive cases, bad faith suits in direct action states, state-specific nuances of bad faith litigation, and a number of other noteworthy topics in bad faith.