Baton Rouge Personal Injury Attorney Steve Marks of Marks and Lear PLC Earns Highest Rating for Ethics and Legal Ability

Personal injury lawyer Steve M. Marks of Marks and Lear PLC has received an AV® Peer Review Rating(SM) from Martindale-Hubbell.

An AV® Rating is the highest rating available through Martindale-Hubbell®, which allows attorneys and judges to anonymously review their colleagues' ethical standards and professional ability.

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A practicing attorney for more than 30 years, Mr. Marks has been the managing partner of Marks and Lear PLC since 1985. He oversees the firm's litigation and day-to-day operations.

Mr. Marks successfully challenged the constitutionality of laws limiting recovery in Louisiana for the catastrophically injured. He was the first attorney to convince a Louisiana court to accept the expert testimony of a neuropsychologist to confirm brain injury when neurologists and neurosurgeons could find no injury using traditional tests such as EEGs, MRIs, or CAT scans. This decision ended the era of serious closed-head injuries being compensated as routine post-concussion syndrome cases. Mr. Marks also handled the case that established the rule of law in auto insurance policy interpretation that prevents an insurance company from enforcing a policy clause that deducts medical payments benefits from uninsured/underinsured protection.

About the Firm

The experienced attorneys at Baton Rouge, Louisiana's Marks and Lear PLC have represented clients in personal injury cases in state and federal courts for more than 25 years. Listed on the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers™, the firm focuses on cases involving personal injury, automobile accidents, industrial accidents, catastrophic injuries, and maritime law. Contact them at www.markslear.com or call 1-888-259-7208 today for a free consultation.

New Orleans-Based Law Firm Ranks In Top 10 For Insurance Litigation

New Orleans-based law firm, Galloway, Johnson, Tompkins, Burr & Smith, PLC, was recently named to the LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell Top 10 Insurance Litigation Law Firm List for the 24th consecutive month. Click on the following link to view the insurance litigation law firms featured on the list.

The LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell Top 10 Insurance Litigation Law Firm List highlights the top 10 law firms according to the total number of insurance litigation cases in which each law firm has represented clients in U.S Federal District Court cases and is updated monthly. Galloway, Johnson, Tompkins, Burr & Smith, PLC, is one of only three U.S. insurance litigation law firms to be featured on the list for 24 months.

"We handle our clients' matters as if they were our own-focused on the result, achieved as cost effectively as possible," says Thomas Smith, director of Galloway, Johnson, Tompkins, Burr & Smith, PLC.

Galloway, Johnson, Tompkins, Burr & Smith, PLC is a premier New Orleans-based litigation law firm in the Gulf South with over 90 attorneys in office locations spanning Louisiana, Texas, Florida, Mississippi and Missouri. Since 1987, Galloway, Johnson, Tompkins, Burr & Smith, PLC has successfully achieved results for its clients by aggressively representing thousands of insurance litigation cases in dozens of industries throughout the world. Galloway, Johnson, Tompkins, Burr & Smith, PLC attorneys represent a broad array of legal areas of practice, including: insurance litigation, maritime, products liability, employer liability, workers' compensation, general casualty, automobile liability, professional liability, construction, environmental law, energy industry, and corporate law. With convenient and easily accessible office locations around the Gulf Coast, the New Orleans-based law firm specializes in insurance litigation, maritime litigation and energy litigation.

For more information about the New Orleans-based law firm or to inquire about insurance litigation services with Galloway, Johnson, Tompkins, Burr & Smith, PLC, please visit the law firm online at: http://www.gjtbs.com.