Recognition

Kevin J. Napper Listed in The Best Lawyers in America For Eight Consecutive Years


Tampa attorney Kevin Napper, a Carlton Fields shareholder, was listed in The Best Lawyers in America for 2013, for the eighth year in a row. The Best Lawyers in America is a legal ratings agency that uses an anonymous ratings process.

Mr. Napper has been listed in connection with his work in the areas of white collar criminal defense, personal injury law, and bet-the-company cases. 

According to the Best Lawyers website:

“Best Lawyers peer-reviewed listings are now published in almost 70 countries around the world, and our presence has grown substantially in the international legal community. The nineteenth edition of The Best Lawyers in America (2013) includes 50,178 attorneys in 128 practice areas, covering all 50 states and the District of Columbia, and inclusion in this year’s publication is based on more than 4.3 million detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers.”

Mr. Napper noted that only a dozen or so lawyers from the Tampa Bay area are included in the book. Click here to see his 2013 Best Lawyers listing in the Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions category.

Best Lawyers was founded by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White.  Both graduates of the Harvard Law School class of 1977, they serve as the publication’s editors. They have been featured by a wide variety of media outlets, including in The Washington Post and The New York Times, and on “Charlie Rose” and “Oprah.”