Christian Searcy Sr.
President and CEO | Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley, P.A.
Christian Searcy Sr. is a personal injury, wrongful death and product liability trial lawyer and President and CEO of Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley, P.A. in West Palm Beach, Florida. Admitted in Florida; J.D., Stetson University College of Law.
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West Palm Beach, Florida 33409-6601
Christian D. Searcy is president and CEO of Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley, P.A., a plaintiff trial firm based in West Palm Beach, Florida. For more than four decades he has tried cases on behalf of people who suffered catastrophic injuries and families who lost loved ones, in courts across Florida and in other states.
Searcy earned a bachelor’s degree with distinction from the University of Virginia and his law degree from Stetson University College of Law, where he finished in the top 10% of his class. According to the firm, he obtained a $1 million personal injury verdict in 1978, at age 29, making him the youngest lawyer in the country to reach that mark in a single injury case.
He is a past president of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, the Florida Justice Association and The National Trial Lawyers, and he is a member of the Inner Circle of Advocates, the American College of Trial Lawyers and the International Society of Barristers. The Florida Justice Association gave him its Perry Nichols Award in 2005, and the Southern Trial Lawyers Association presented him its War Horse Award in 2006. He holds board certification in civil litigation from the National Board of Legal Specialty Certification.
Experience and Expertise
Qualifications
Timeline
- Board Certified in Civil Litigation, National Board of Legal Specialty Certification
- J.D., Stetson University College of Law (top 10% of class)
- B.A. with distinction, University of Virginia
Practice Areas
- International Academy of Trial Lawyers (Past President)
- International Academy of Trial Lawyers Foundation (Vice President)
- Florida Justice Association (Past President; Constitutional Revision Committee)
- The National Trial Lawyers (Past President)
- Florida Supreme Court Historical Society (Past President; Board of Trustees)
- Inner Circle of Advocates
- American College of Trial Lawyers
- International Society of Barristers
- Litigation Counsel of America (Senior Fellow)
- American Association for Justice (Diplomate)
- American Board of Trial Advocates (Advocate)
- The Florida Bar
- National Center for State Courts
- War Horse Award, Southern Trial Lawyers Association (2006)
- Perry Nichols Award, Florida Justice Association (2005)
- National Trial Lawyers Hall of Fame (2015)
- Lawdragon Legend; Lawdragon 500 Hall of Fame
- The Best Lawyers in America
- Super Lawyers, Civil Litigation
- Florida Legal Elite, Florida Trend
- $49 Million Settlement: Confidential auto product liability case resolved in August 2008.
- $46 Million Settlement: Wilson v. Goodman: auto crash causing the wrongful death of a 23-year-old son, with punitive damages claims; settled March 2012.
- $36 Million Settlement: Confidential medical malpractice case involving a brain-injured baby; settled July 2011.
- $19.9 Million Settlement: Confidential medical malpractice case involving brain injury from negligent management of a stroke; settled June 2013.
- $17.75 Million Settlement: Confidential truck/vehicle crash involving partial paralysis; settled January 2010.
- $17.5 Million Settlement: Modica v. Tree of Life: tractor-trailer crash that killed a husband and wife; settled in February 2012 after a three-week trial in Jacksonville, Florida.
- $16 Million Settlement: Confidential wrongful death case; settled December 2008.
- $15.5 Million Settlement: Confidential motorcycle crash resulting in burn injuries; settled November 2013.
- $13.5 Million Arbitration Award: Halpern v. Floval: fuel tanker truck crash causing the wrongful death of a 57-year-old wife; December 2008.
- $9,710,654 Judgment: Simms v. Kraft: judgment based on a January 2014 jury verdict.
- $8 Million Verdict: Hannon v. Shands Teaching Hospital; February 2010.
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