BRADENTON-SARASOTA-ST. PETERSBURG, FL, June 16, 2015 – Blalock Walters, P.A., one of Sarasota-Manatee County’s largest and well-established law firms, is pleased to announce that two of the firm’s attorneys were selected to the 2015 Florida Super Lawyers and Florida Rising Stars lists.
Anthony D. Bartirome, principal at the firm, was selected to the 2015 Super Lawyers list. Bartirome heads Blalock Walters’ Estate Planning and Wealth Preservation practice group in Bradenton and Sarasota. His law practice primarily involves estate planning, charitable planning and estate and trust administration, with an emphasis on estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer taxation.
Super Lawyers are chosen through a multi-phase, patented selection process which includes a statewide survey of lawyers, independent research evaluation of candidates and peer reviews by practice area. The top lawyers from more than 70 practice areas are selected for Super Lawyers.
Michael D. Magidson was selected to the 2015 Florida Rising Stars list. Magidson is a member of the firm’s Business and Health Care practice groups. He counsels clients regarding entity formation, business governance issues, business transactions and health care transactional and regulatory matters. Magidson is Board Certified in Health Law by The Florida Bar.
To be eligible for inclusion in Rising Stars, a candidate must be either 40 years old or younger or in practice for 10 years or less. While up to five percent of the lawyers in the state are named to Super Lawyers, no more than 2.5 percent are named to the Rising Stars list.
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