Keith M. Carter Honored by Worldwide Registry for Excellence in the Law

    TAMPA, FL, May 11, 2015 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Keith M. Carter of Morgan & Morgan, P.A., has been recognized for showing dedication, leadership and excellence in the law.

Keith M. Carter was born in Starke, Florida in 1959. Mr. Carter spent his entire life and legal career in Florida. In 1981, he earned a Bachelor of Science from the Florida State University College of Business with a major in finance. He graduated with honors from Stetson University of College of Law in 1985. From 1985 through 2001, Mr. Carter's practice consisted of general insurance defense with a focus on automobile insurance law, commercial transportation, products liability and professional liability. He was a founding partner of Mitchell and Carter, P.A., a shareholder and managing director of the Tampa firm of Shackelford, Farrior, Stallings and Evans (founded in 1907) and ended his defense career as an attorney and shareholder of Gray, Harris, Robinson, Shackleford, Farrior (now Gray Robinson).

In 2002, Mr. Carter joined the Tampa office of the largest plaintiff's injury law firm in the United States, Morgan and Morgan. His current role with the Tampa office is to serve as trial counsel on cases involving civil rights, general negligence, and medical malpractice. In the last decade, he achieved eight separate verdicts in excess of $1 million dollars and his total damage verdicts exceed $80 million dollars.

He is board certified by the Florida Bar Association since 1994, AV rated by Martindale Hubbell since 1995, regularly included on the list of Florida Super Lawyers and Florida Legal Elite. He is active in the American Inns of Court, Tampa Bay Chapter. Mr. Carter was named a Top-Rated Medical Malpractice Lawyer by Martindale-Hubbell, and was also recognized for his 30-Year Anniversary Serving His Community by Martindale-Hubbell in 2015 and was named one of the Top Attorneys in the Tampa Bay Area. Honored in Tampa Bay Magazine in 2013, he was also named one of the Top Attorneys in Florida, one of Tampa Bay's Top Lawyers, and amongst Florida Super Lawyers, and the Florida Legal Elite.

Mr. Carter believes that representing clients who have been wronged is the most important part of what he does. He feels that someone has to fight for a person's injury due to neglect and he draws gratification and hope from the resilience and determination of clients willing to join the fight to protect their valuable rights.

For more information about Keith M. Carter and Morgan & Morgan, P.A., please visit http://www.forthepeople.com.

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