F. Gregory Barnhart - Lawyer in West Palm Beach, FL
West Palm Beach, FL 33409-6601
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About the lawyer
F. GREG BARNHART, asenior partner at Searcy Denney Scarola, Barnhart Shipley, P.A., isrecognized as one of Americas leading trial lawyers. He is Board Certifiedin Civil Trial Law by The Florida Bar and regularly handles cases throughoutthe United States.
Inaddition to being named in The Best Lawyers in America for the past 25years, Mr. Barnhart has been recognized as one of the Legal Elite in FloridaTrend magazine, named a Top Lawyer in South Florida magazine, andlisted in Top 100: Florida Super Lawyers. He was named Best Lawyers Lawyerof the Year for 2010, 2015, 2017, 2019, and 2020 in personal injurylitigation and in 2017, 2018, and 2019 for medical malpractice litigation.
Mr.Barnhart is an honors graduate of Vassar College and The Cornell LawSchool. The Cornell Law Forum says of him, Barnhartcertainly is sharp? he is consistently recognized as one of the best triallawyers in the country, and regularly takes on Big Tobacco, the pharmaceuticalindustry, and other corporate defendants in cases that have an impact on anational scale. Mr. Barnhart has over 96 million dollar and multi-milliondollar verdicts and settlements for his clients in cases involving personalinjury, product liability, auto and truck collisions, medical malpractice,aviation and railroad disasters, and large commercial and will contest cases.
DifferentFlorida Governors have appointed Mr. Barnhart to sit on the 15thCircuit Judicial Nominating Commission as well as on the Fourth District Courtof Appeal Judicial Nominating Commission, where he served as chair of theCommission. He is a past president of the Florida Justice Association as wellas a past president of the Federal Bar Association.
Afrequent lecturer in Florida and other states, Mr. Barnhart has enjoyedteaching lawyers and law students about the intricacies of trial work. Recently,he taught a trial techniques course at the Cornell Law School. He has beenhonored with the Distinguished Lecturer award and the Al J. Cone LifetimeAchievement award by the Florida Justice Association.
Mr.Barnhart also has been inducted into the prestigious International Academy ofTrial Lawyers, which is limited to the top 500 trial lawyers and barristers, aswell as the American College of Trial Lawyers, which is limited to the top1,000 trial lawyers and barristers.
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