TAMPA, Fla. - Glenn Rasmussen Fogarty & Hooker, P.A. announces that eight shareholders have been named among Florida Super Lawyers magazine's top attorneys in Florida for 2009.  In addition, Trenton H. Cotney has been recognized in the Florida Rising Stars list, which includes top up-and-coming attorneys who have been practicing for 10 years or less or are under age 40.  Super Lawyers is an annual listing of outstanding lawyers who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement.  The shareholders and their respective categories are as follows:

Michael B. Colgan: Business Litigation
Trenton H. Cotney: Florida Rising Stars, Construction Litigation
Robert B. Glenn: Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights
Mark A. Hanley: Employment & Labor
Michael S. Hooker: Business Litigation
Peter J. Kelly: Real Estate
Gregory M.  McCoskey: Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights
Robert C. Rasmussen: Mergers & Acquisitions
George E. Spofford, IV: Construction Litigation

Robert B. Glenn, Mark A. Hanley, and Michael S. Hooker are also included in the top 50 attorneys list for the North Central Gulf Coast edition and the top 100 list for all of Florida.

Only five percent of the lawyers in the state are named by Super Lawyers.  The selections for Super Lawyers are made by Law & Politics, a division of Key Professional Media, Inc. of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Each year, Law & Politics undertakes a rigorous multi-phase selection process that includes a statewide survey of lawyers, independent evaluation of candidates by Law & Politics' attorney-led research staff, a peer review of candidates by practice area, and a good-standing and disciplinary check.