J. Steven Carter
Managing Shareholder
Practice Areas
- Commercial and corporate litigation
- General Civil litigation
- Medical malpractice
- General tort and insurance defense
- Civil rights and constitutional claims
- Defense of employers in discrimination and wrongful discharge cases
Education
- Birmingham Southern College: B.S., cum laude, Business Administration
- Florida State University: J.D. with Honors
Professional
- Recognized by the Florida Bar as a board certified civil trial lawyer since 1999
- Rated "AV" by Martindale-Hubbell
- Joined the firm in March 1994
- Clerked for the firm as a law student from 1989-1991
- Named to Florida Trend Magazine's "Florida Legal Elite" in the practice of civil trial law, which ranks the top 2% of practicing Florida Bar Members by peer review
- Listed as a Florida Super Lawyer in the areas of Business Litigation, Civil Litigation Defense, and General Litigation in the Super Lawyers Magazine, a peer review publication by Law & Politics Magazine
- Member of the litigation and the business and labor law sections of the American Bar Association, the trial lawyers section of the Florida Bar Association, the Tallahassee Bar Association, and the William Stafford Tallahassee Chapter of the American Inns of Court
Admitted to Practice
- All Courts In The State of Florida
- United States Supreme Court
- United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
- United States District Court, Northern, Middle and Southern Districts of Florida
