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Grant, Fridkin, Pearson, Athan & Crown Shareholders Named Best Lawyers in America® 2012
September, 2011
Naples, FL
Grant, Fridkin, Pearson, Athan & Crown, P.A. is pleased to announce that five of its shareholders were recently selected by their peers for inclusion in the 2012 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® (Copyright 2011 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, S.C.).
G. Helen Athan – Banking & Finance Law, Real Estate Law
Jeffrey D. Fridkin – Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Litigation-Construction, Litigation-Real Estate, Litigation-Trusts & Estates
Richard C. Grant – Construction Law, Corporate Law, Real Estate Law
William M. Pearson – Litigation-Trusts & Estates, Trusts & Estates
D. Keith Wickenden – Commercial Litigation, Litigation-Construction, Litigation-Real Estate, Litigation-Trusts & Estates
Since its inception in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Because Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which more than 39,000 leading attorneys cast almost 3.1 million votes on legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas, and because lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed, 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."
Helen Athan is a founding member of the firm, and has practiced law in Southwest Florida since 1989. Helen has an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell. She has extensive experience in all aspects of commercial and residential real estate law, including acquisition, development, financing, title and leasing, and business organizations and transactions.
Jeffrey Fridkin is a founding member of the firm, and has practiced law in Southwest Florida since 1985. He has been board-certified in Civil Trial Litigation since 1996 and Business Litigation since 1997 by the Florida Bar, and has an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell. Jeff leads the firm’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice group and has extensive trial experience and represents clients in substantial disputed matters involving commercial, wills/trusts and personal injury fields of law.
Richard Grant is a founding member of the firm and has practiced law in Southwest Florida since 1979. He has been board-certified in Real Estate by The Florida Bar since 1987, and has an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell. He leads the firm’s Transactional Real Estate and Business Services practice group and focuses his practice in real estate development and financing, real estate and business acquisitions and mergers, corporate and partnership law, construction law, condominium law, and real property titles and land use.
William Pearson is a founding member of the firm and has practiced law in South Florida since 1988. He has been board-certified in Wills, Trusts & Estates by the Florida Bar since 1995, and has an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell. Bill leads the firm’s Trusts & Estates practice group and focuses his practice in estate planning and administration of estates, trusts and guardianships, represents fiduciaries and beneficiaries in disputed matters involving estates, trusts and guardianships, advises clients in the avoidance and minimization of estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer taxes, and advises clients in charitable planning.
Keith Wickenden is a shareholder of the firm and has practiced law since 1991. He has an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell. Keith focuses his practice in civil litigation, including probate, commercial, construction, products liability, personal injury, and professional malpractice and represents financial institutions, contractors, professionals, and corporations in a variety of litigation matters before federal and state courts at the trial and appellate level.
Grant, Fridkin, Pearson, Athan & Crown, P.A. is a full service law firm located in Naples, Florida. Its attorneys are dedicated to serving the legal needs of its clients, and practices in the areas of business, real estate, transactional and related tax services; commercial and probate & trust litigation; and trust & estate planning and administration. Each practice area is led by an attorney with Florida Bar Board Certification of specialty in that practice area. Additional information about the firm and its attorneys may be found at www.gfpac.com.