Nason Yeager Gerson Harris & Fumero, P.A. is proud to announce that Shareholder Richard Levenstein has been named as the 2024 recipient of the A. Sherman Christensen Award by the American Inns of Court.

This prestigious award recognizes one leader every year - individuals in the legal profession who exemplify the core values of professionalism, ethics, civility, and excellence. The award will be presented in October at the American Inns of Court Celebration of Excellence Dinner, at the Supreme Court of the United States. You can see the list of recipients 1986-2024 here.

About Richard Levenstein

Richard H. Levenstein is a shareholder at Nason Yeager. He practices in the area of complex commercial, civil litigation, physician and medical staff representation. Mr. Levenstein represents clients with business disputes, including actions arising from contracts or torts; his practice also has a heavy concentration in representing individual physicians, professional medical practices and the physician leadership of organized medical staffs around the State.

He has successfully challenged the policies of major hospitals, and has won several substantial victories that have shaped the law to protect physicians and medical staffs. Mr. Levenstein is a Board Certified Business Litigation Lawyer and a Florida Supreme Court Certified Circuit Civil Mediator. He represents clients in state and federal court, and in administrative proceedings.

A. Sherman Christensen Award

Given in the name of the founder of the first American Inn of Court, this award is bestowed upon a member of an American Inn of Court who, at the local, state, or national level has provided distinguished, exceptional and significant leadership to the American Inns of Court movement.

Founded and dedicated to promoting the highest levels of professionalism in the practice of law, the American Inns of Court recently celebrated its 35th anniversary.

The American Inns of Court is an association of lawyers, judges, and other legal professionals from all levels and backgrounds who share a passion for professional excellence. Through regular meetings, members are able to build and strengthen professional relationships; discuss fundamental concerns about professionalism and pressing legal issues of the day; share experiences and advice; exhort the utmost passion and dedication for the law; provide mentoring opportunities; and advance the highest levels of integrity, ethics, and civility. The Inns have gained a national and international reputation as an organization that bridges the gap between formal law school education and legal practice by offering career-long continuing education in the Common Law tradition.