Sia Baker-Barnes Email & Phone Number

Rosalyn “Sia” Baker Barnes is a Partner at Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley, P.A., and serves on its Executive Committee. In her 20-year career, she has successfully pursued justice for victims in catastrophic personal injury, medical negligence and product liability cases, achieving numerous multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements, including her most recent $20 million verdict against tobacco giant RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company. She is included in US News & World Report’s “Best Lawyers In America,” is recognized as one of the top lawyers in the state by Florida Super Lawyers magazine, has been included in Florida Trend magazine’s Legal Elite, and was selected by the Daily Business Review as one of South Florida’s Inaugural “Top 20 Women in Law.” A proud lawyer who is committed to professionalism and civility, Ms. Baker-Barnes serves on The Florida Bar Board of Governors, representing the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit. She is a past President of the Palm Beach County Bar Association. As the 95th President, she was the first African-American female to serve in this role. She is the recipient of many honors and awards: The Justice Barbara Pariente Award, the highest award given by Palm Beach County’s Florida Association of Women Lawyers; the National Bar Association’s Presidential Award and Nations Best Advocates: 40 Under 40 Award; Legacy Magazine’s 50 Most Successful and Influential Black Professionals; Business Leader Media’s South Florida Woman Extraordinaire. She is a Past President of the West Palm Beach Chapter of The Links, Incorporated and a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. She earned her undergraduate and law degrees from Florida State University. She resides in West Palm Beach with her husband and their three children.

Listed skills include Courts, Civil Litigation, Trial Practice, Personal Injury, and 22 others.

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  Lawyer, Partner And Executive Committee

  Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley, Pa

  2000 - Present - West Palm Beach, Florida Area

  20 years of experience successfully handling catastrophic personal injury, medical negligence, and product liability cases on behalf of injured people.