FLORIDA – Ford & Harrison LLP, a national labor and employment law firm, is pleased to announce it has been recognized as the top employment law firm in Florida in the 2006 Chambers USA: America’s Leading Business Lawyers for the fourth year in a row. The firm was also ranked in the category “Employment Firms: Mainly Defendant” in Georgia and Tennessee and “Immigration” in Georgia.
In addition to the firm rankings, a number of Ford & Harrison partners were acknowledged for their individual efforts in the field. Orlando-based partner, Tom Garwood, is noted as “a highly talented labor lawyer” and Tampa partner, John-Edward Alley, is recognized as a “‘valuable resource’ to employers seeking counseling during union elections and strikes.” Jim Brown, in the firm’s Orlando office, “knows everything about labor and employment law - it's all at the tip of his fingers."
Joyce Fleming in the firm’s Atlanta office is commended for her work in the immigration field. Tom Kassin in Atlanta, Herb Gerson in Memphis and Mike Maslanka in Dallas were also recognized by Chambers for their contributions to the employment, mainly defense, category.
The Chambers USA guide is published by London’s respected research organization, Chambers & Partners, and is widely considered a principal guide to American lawyers. Entries are based solely on peer review. Results were compiled by conducting more than 10,000 interviews covering the entire United States by full-time researchers over a period of 6 months.