August 30, 2024 in Blog>In The News|News
Sullivan Papain (Sullivan Papain) is proud to announce that Best Lawyers® has named 11 of its attorneys in the 2025 editions of The Best Lawyers in America® and Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America.
Best Lawyers® compiles its lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. The Best Lawyers in America® is based on more than 7.3 million detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers.
Attorneys are selected for recognition based on an exhaustive and rigorous peer-review survey that has been developed and refined for over 40 years. The 2025 publication is the 31st edition of The Best Lawyers in America®.
Best Lawyers® notes that the lawyers being honored as Lawyers of the Year have received particularly high ratings in their surveys by earning a high level of respect among their peers for their abilities, professionalism, and integrity. Only a single lawyer in each specialty per community is being honored as the Lawyer of the Year®.
The following individual was named as a 2025 Lawyer of the Year® along with the practice area and city for which he was chosen:
2025 Lawyer of the Year®
New York, NY

Brian J. Shoot
- Personal Injury Litigation / Plaintiffs Lawyer of the Year
The 9 Sullivan Papain attorneys recognized in this edition of The Best Lawyers in America®, along with the practice area and city for which they were chosen include:
The Best Lawyers in America®
Garden City, NY

John F. Nash
- Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs

Robert G. Sullivan
- Medical Malpractice Law – Plaintiffs
- Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs
New York, NY

Albert B. Aquila
- Medical Malpractice Law – Plaintiffs

Eleni Coffinas
- Medical Malpractice Law – Plaintiffs
- Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs

Thomas J. McManus
- Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs

Vito Cannavo
- Medical Malpractice Law – Plaintiffs
- Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs

Frank V. Floriani
- Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs
- Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs

Nicholas Papain
- Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs
- Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs

Brian J. Shoot
- Personal Injury Litigation / Plaintiffs
The following attorneys have been named to the 2025 Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America along with the practice area and city for which they were chosen:
Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch®
New York, NY

Mark. A. Apostolos
- Medical Malpractice Law – Plaintiffs
- Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs

Ina Pecani
- Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs