Adams and Reese is pleased to announce that litigation attorney
Laura Whitmore has joined the firm’s Tampa office as an Associate.
Whitmore focuses her practice in litigation and appeals, concentrating in insurance bad faith and insurance coverage. She also has experience in banking and finance law, medical negligence, and products liability. She has been recognized by Florida Super Lawyers as a “Rising Star” in insurance coverage law. She also has been named an “Up and Comer” in
Florida Trend’s “Legal Elite.”
In addition to previously serving as an associate at Florida law firms, Gunn Law Group and Carlton Fields, P.A., Whitmore clerked for The Honorable Chris W. Altenbernd at Florida’s Second District Court of Appeal and for The Honorable E. Michael Hoff at the Monroe County Circuit Court in Bloomington, Indiana.
In 2011, Whitmore was appointed by the Florida Supreme Court to the Court’s Standard Jury Instructions (Civil) Committee.
Whitmore earned her J.D. from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law in 2004, and she received her B.A. from Trinity University in 2001.
Adams and Reese is a multidisciplinary law firm with offices strategically located throughout the southern United States and Washington, DC. American Lawyer includes Adams and Reese on its distinguished list of the nation's top law firms - "The Am Law 200." The National Law Journal also includes the firm on the "NLJ 250" list of the nation's largest law firms.