Lake Mary attorney James Vickaryous named in the nation's top 1%

LAKE MARY, Fla. - March 26, 2015 - PRLog -- Florida personal injury attorney James Vickaryous, President of the Seminole County Bar Association and Treasurer of the Central Florida Trial Lawyers Association, has been selected by the National Association of Distinguished Counsel for its “Nation’s Top Attorneys” recognition.

The National Association of Distinguished Counsel is an organization dedicated to promoting the highest standards of legal excellence. The mission of the NADC is to objectively recognize the attorneys who elevate the standards of the Bar and provide a benchmark for other lawyers to emulate. By virtue of the incredible selectivity of its research process, only the elite few are invited to join the ranks of the NADC. Specifically, less than 1% of practicing attorneys in the United States are afforded the opportunity to be named “Nation’s Top Attorneys.” The recipients of this prestigious award have demonstrated the highest ideals of the legal profession.

Selection follows a rigorous, multistage selection process:

Candidates must be nominated and then are vetted by association researchers based on public profiles, client reviews and courts records, firm profile and reputation, years of practice, education and training, trial experience, case outcomes, peer endorsements, professional awards and memberships, leadership in legal organizations and community involvement.

If judged to be worthy based on these criteria, nominees are reviewed again by a panel of attorneys and then by a judicial review board that includes a group of former judges. As a successful candidate, Vickaryous is now recognized nationally as a member of “The Nation’s Top One Percent.”

Vickaryous is the owner and founder of the Lake Mary-based Vickaryous Law Firm.

He has been an attorney since 1993, and for the past two decades, his practice has been dedicated to the legal representation of people injured in the state of Florida.

Vickaryous’ legal experience was sharpened by leading troops in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1997 where his military police platoon aggressively patrolled the “Zone Of Separation,” using both friendly coaxing and forceful persuasion to keep the Tuzla Valley of Bosnia free of warfare.  He was awarded the NATO Medal For Service in Former Yugoslavia, and his proudest accomplishment was bringing his troops home safe and sound to their families in Florida.

Vickaryous is the Board Chairman of the Rescue Outreach Mission of Central Florida, Seminole County’s only homeless and emergency services shelter.  He is also the Race Chairman for the Rescue Run Corporate 5K, the first of only two corporate race events in Seminole County.

Vickaryous is 1998 MBA graduate of Stetson University, a 1993 graduate of Stetson University College of Law, and a 1990 graduate of the University of Miami.

He is a Rotary International Paul Harris Fellow and a Fellow of the Florida Bar Foundation, the charitable arm of the Florida Bar Association.

He and his wife, Jennifer, are the parents of three children, Stacy, Evan and Irelyn.