Eleven Adams & Reese Attorneys Named 2025 Florida Super Lawyers, Rising Stars

Eleven Adams & Reese attorneys are ranked in the 2025 edition of Florida Super Lawyers (by Thomson Reuters), which includes the publication’s “Rising Stars” list.

Adams & Reese Construction Team Leader and Partner Trent Cotney ranks among the Top 50: Tampa Bay Super Lawyers Top List, an overall ranking of the city’s top attorneys who received the most peer review votes.

This year’s honorees from Adams & Reese include:

2025 Florida Super Lawyers

• Trent Cotney - Construction Litigation
• Brian Lambert - Construction Litigation
• Brian Oblow - Construction Litigation
• Eric Partlow - Business Litigation
• Kyle Rea - Construction Litigation

2025 Florida Rising Stars

• Ben Briggs - Labor and Employment
• Christie Coston - Construction Litigation
• Jacqueline Feliciano - Mergers & Acquisitions
• Mason Pokorny - Construction Litigation
• Alex Sarsfield - Construction Litigation
• Lee Tomlinson - Construction Litigation

Since its founding in 1991, Super Lawyers has recognized lawyers in each state who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. 

Honorees are selected through a nomination process, a peer-review survey by practice area, and independent research on candidates emphasizing professional successes, peer recognition, and community involvement. To be eligible for inclusion in Rising Stars, a candidate must be either 40 years old or younger or in practice for ten or fewer years.