Appellate Attorney Maureen Pearcy Of Hinshaw & Culbertson Named To 2015 Florida Trend Magazine’s

MIAMI - July 1, 2015 - PRLog -- Florida Trend magazine has released its annual Florida Legal Elite list for 2015, recognizing the top 1.8 percent of Florida’s 56,000 lawyers.  Appellate attorney Maureen G. Pearcy, a Partner in the Coral Gables office of the national law firm of Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP, has been named among the top practitioners in Florida as a Florida Legal Elite.

Pearcy is an appellate practitioner, who represents clients in a wide variety of civil matters in state and federal courts. She focuses her practice primarily in insurance coverage disputes, including professional liability and first-party claims. She also has appellate experience in the areas of consumer class actions, products liability, catastrophic injuries and torts.

She has handled appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, all Florida District Courts of Appeal and the Florida Supreme Court. She has assisted in drafting amicus briefs involving issues affecting the insurance and maritime industries.

Pearcy holds a J.D., cum laude, from American University Washington and a B.A., with honors, from University of Pennsylvania.

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is a full-service national law firm providing coordinated legal services across the United States, as well as regionally and locally. Hinshaw lawyers represent businesses, governmental entities and individuals in complex litigation, regulatory and transactional matters. Founded in 1934, the firm has approximately 500 attorneys in 22 offices located in Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, Rhode Island and Wisconsin. For more information, please visit: www.HinshawLaw.com.