August 7,2010…John Hargrove has been selected by his peers for inclusion in the 2011 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the practice areas of Appellate Law, Commercial Litigation, First Amendment Law and Trusts and Estates.  Special congratulations are in order as Hargrove is one of a distinguished group of attorneys who have been listed in Best Lawyers  for ten years or longer. Best Lawyers has been regarded – by both the profession and the public – as the definitive guide to legal excellence in the United States. Because selection to Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive and rigorous peer-review survey (comprising more than 3.1 million confidential evaluations by your fellow top attorneys) and because no fee or purchase is required to be listed, inclusion in Best Lawyers is rightly considered a singular honor. The annual, advertisement-free publication has been described by The American Lawyer as “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.”

June 10, 2010…Senior firm member, John Hargrove, was elected to a third term as Chair of Butler University’s Board of Trustees.  The school also announced the “rematch” of the Butler vs. Duke NCAA basketball championship game which will be held at the Meadowlands in New Jersey on December 5, 2010.

April 7, 2010…Hargrove Pierson & Brown P.A. has filed suit against the Kaye group challenging the sale of a “life settlement” insurance transaction causing the couple to lose in excess of $500,000. As reported in the Palm Beach Post and South Florida Sun-Sentinel, “the so-called life settlement scheme was the cornerstone of the Kayes’ business which was memorialized with the jingle, ‘You buy, you die, it pays!’” After attending a “free lunch” seminar, senior citizens David and Aileen Epstein of Boynton Beach, were persuaded by Barry Kaye’s son, Howard Kaye, to turn in their three existing life policies worth $6.5 million and buy from him two new policies worth $28 million. The Epsteins were induced with the promise that the new policies could be sold in a vibrant market for life insurance policies for much more than the stiff premiums that they were persuaded to pay. The full article can be viewed at this link.