Alan Garfinkel grew up in South Florida where hurricanes and tropical storms were always a constant threat. Today, Mr. Garfinkel is notably the nation’s leading expert in Natural Disaster Law and is listed on the Bar Register of Pre-eminent lawyers. He has devoted his legal career to natural disaster relief and civil litigation and lectures throughout the country on Insurance Law.

Mr. Garfinkel graduated from Florida State University and attended Harvard University at Cambridge, Massachusetts, summer 1984, Florida State University Law School and Mercer University Law School where he was admitted Juris Doctor in 1989. Mr. Garfinkel became Board Certified in 1998 and obtained a second Board Certification in 2003.

Mr. Garfinkel was awarded the highest legal rating in the country by the most prestigious attorney rating entity, Martindale- Hubbell - (www.martindale.com), the world’s oldest lawyer rating publication. His rating demonstrates that Mr. Garfinkel has reached the height of professional excellence, and was recognized for the highest levels of skill and integrity.

Mr. Garfinkel is admitted and qualified as an attorney and counselor of the Supreme Court of the United States and is admitted as an attorney in all Florida and Tennessee Courts. Mr. Garfinkel is a member of the American Bar Association, the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, and the United States District Court Middle District of Florida. He is also admitted to the National Trial Academy.

After a nationwide selection process, Alan Garfinkel was recently named a “Super Lawyer.” This designation is made only after examination of nationally recognized databases, personal interviews with individual law firms as well as a survey of 800,000 lawyers throughout the country who nominate the finest lawyers in America.