TAMPA, FL— October 15, 2007 — Macfarlane Ferguson & McMullen is pleased to announce that five of its attorneys were selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2008 (Copyright 2007 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, S.C.):  Frank E. Brown (Labor and Employment Law), E. John Dinkel, III (Labor and Employment Law), James A. Martin, Jr. (Medical Malpractice Law), Stephen H. Sears (Legal Malpractice Law and Personal Injury Litigation), and William B. Taylor, IV (Environmental Law).  

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 25,000 leading attorneys cast almost two million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their specialties, 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.”

For over a century, Macfarlane Ferguson & McMullen, one of Florida’s oldest law firms, has maintained a tradition of providing comprehensive services to businesses and individual clients.  The firm has 45 attorneys and three offices located in Tampa, Clearwater and Lakeland.