On Wednesday, September 10, 2025, at noon, Alison Preston will moderate a Q&A-style webinar called Bench Notes: Improving Your Legal Writing, hosted by the Tampa Bay Chapter of the Federal Bar Association. The webinar aims to offer attorneys practical strategies to elevate their writing. Judges Robin Rosenbaum and Embry Kidd (United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit) will offer their perspectives. Within the Tampa Bay Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, Ali currently serves on the Executive Board as the vice chair of the Appellate Committee and is a past chair of the Young Lawyers Division Committee. For more information on the webinar and registration, go to https://federalbartampa.org/event/bench-notes-improving-your-legal-writing/
At 8:00 AM on August 5, 2025, Creed & Gowdy associate Nick McNamara will be presenting "A Synopsis of Key Supreme Court Cases" at the Jacksonville Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates' (ABOTA) "Teacher's Law School." The event will be held in the jury assembly room at the Duval County Courthouse. ABOTA's Teacher's Law School provides an opportunity for local middle school teachers to learn from local attorneys and judges about the judicial branch and our constitutional system. For more details, please visit https://abotajax.com/upcoming-events/teachers-law-school/.
For the Hillsborough County Bar Association's 2025-2026 bar year, Alison Preston will serve as a co-chair of the Appellate Practice Section, along with Dimitri Peteves, who also served as a co-chair for the Section last bar year. In those roles, Dimitri and Ali will organize and moderate CLEs for local appellate practitioners and judges and will solicit articles for HCBA's LAWYER magazine.
The Super Lawyers list for 2025 has been released, and five Creed & Gowdy, P.A. attorneys have been named.
Rebecca Creed and Bryan Gowdy have been Top-Rated Appellate Attorneys in Florida for many years. This year, Rebecca and Bryan were both ranked Top 100 Florida Super Lawyers for 2025, while Rebecca was also named as one of the Top 50 Women Super Lawyers in Florida. And, the two have been ranked in the Top 25 Jacksonville Super Lawyers for 2025. These lists consist of the top-rated attorneys, as evaluated by peer recognition and professional achievement, in their areas of practice.
D. Gray Thomas, of counsel, was selected as a Top-Rated Criminal Defense Attorney in Jacksonville. Gray has been a Top-Rated Criminal Defense Attorney for the last nine years.
Thomas A. Burns, of counsel, was selected as a Top-Rated Appellate Attorney in Tampa for the seventh year in a row.
Dimitri Peteves was selected as a Top-Rated Appellate Attorney in Jacksonville and has also been selected to Rising Stars for 2025.
Selection to Super Lawyers is limited to a small number of attorneys. Creed & Gowdy is proud of our attorneys' continuous peer recognition and professional achievements!
Rebecca Creed spoke at the Florida Justice Association's Proposal for Settlement CLE, held Friday, July 25, 2025. This CLE, presented each year by the FJA, provides valuable information for trial lawyers who seek to use-and defend against-proposals for settlement (or offers of judgment). Ms. Creed addressed recent Florida and federal caselaw. The recorded webinar is available for purchase here.