Leavengood, Dauval & Boyle, P.A. Receives "A/V" Peer Review Rating™ for Ian R. Leavengood

Oct. 19, 2012 - PRLog -- St. Petersburg, FL – October 17, 2012 – Leavengood, Dauval & Boyle, P.A. today announced it has received notification from LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell that Ian R. Leavengood has received a Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Rating.

         Ian R. Leavengood was given an “AV” rating from his peers, which means that he was deemed to have very high professional ethics and preeminent legal ability.  Only lawyers with the highest ethical standards and professional ability receive a Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Rating.

  The Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Ratings evaluates lawyers in the United States and Canada based on the anonymous opinions of members of the Bar and the Judiciary, including both those who are rated and those who are not. The first review to establish a lawyer's rating usually occurs three years after his/her first admission to the Bar.

         LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell conducts secure online Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Ratings surveys of lawyers across multiple jurisdictions and geographic locations, in similar areas of practice as the lawyer being rated. Reviewers are instructed to assess their colleagues' general ethical standards and legal ability in a specific area of practice.

Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Ratings were created in 1887 as an objective tool that would attest to a lawyer's ability and professional ethics, based on the confidential opinion of  other lawyers and judges who have worked with the lawyers they are evaluating, " said Mike Walsh, President and CEO, U.S. Legal Markets at LexisNexis.  "The Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Ratings have remained the most prestigious and widely  respected lawyer rating system in the world for over a hundred years."

         "I am honored to be recognized by my peers as possessing legal ability and ethics high enough to ranked among the best lawyers of those practicing law in bankruptcy and consumer law related matters," said Ian R. Leavengood, Managing Shareholder of Leavengood, Dauval & Boyle, P.A.  "I will certainly continue to advocate on behalf of Florida consumers to the very best of my ability while never forgetting the ethical standard that we as Florida lawyers are held to as officers of Florida Courts -- again, I am flattered to receive the 'A/V' rating."

About Leavengood & Nash

         Leavengood, Dauval & Boyle, P.A. is a boutique litigation firm headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida, with satellite offices in Tampa, Clearwater, Sarasota, and Orlando, Florida.  Leavengood, Dauval & Boyle, P.A. traces its roots back to 1972 and has served consumers in the Tampa Bay Area and throughout the State of Florida for over three generations.  Leavengood & Nash specializes in consumer and commercial bankruptcies, having filed thousands of Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 bankruptcy petitions over the last four decades.  Leavengood & Nash also represents small businesses and individuals in Debt Settlement, Creditor Harassment, Mortgage Foreclosure Defense, Criminal & DUI, Business Disputes & Commercial Litigation, Personal Injury & Accidents, Estate Planning & Asset Protection, Real Estate & Title, and Mediation & Dispute Resolution.  For more information about the firm, its attorneys and their credentials, please visit www.LeavenLaw.com or call its managing shareholder, Ian R. Leavengood, at (727) 327-3328.

About LexisNexis

LexisNexis® (www.lexisnexis.com) is a leader in comprehensive and authoritative legal, news and business information and tailored applications. A member of Reed Elsevier Group plc [NYSE- ENL; NYSE- RUK] (http://www.reedelsevier.com), the company does business in 100 countries with 13,000 employees worldwide. In addition to its flagship Web-based Lexis® and Nexis® research services, the company includes some of the world’s most respected legal publishers such as Martindale-Hubbell, Matthew Bender, Butterworths, JurisClasseur, Abeledo-Perrot and Orac.

In the United States, LexisNexis offers its customers total practice solutions comprised of an extensive range of online and print legal, regulatory, news and business information products, tools, customized Web applications and critical filing services that help legal professionals achieve excellence in the business and practice of law.