For over fifty years, Barkan Neff Handelman Meizlish has fulfilled its commitment to provide quality legal services to working people, including those who are injured on the job, are unable to work at all due to an injury or disability, or who are injured due to the negligence of another. Our firm proudly continues to provide aggressive legal representation to labor organizations and their members across a wide variety of industries and professions.

Today, Barkan Neff Handelman Meizlish represents thousands of people in our offices in Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania and Louisiana. At no other time has representing the injured and disabled been more challenging. Likewise, it is not an exaggeration to say that the rights of employees and their unions are under attack by employers, elected officials, and the legal system.

Those who seek to weaken the rights of working people and their unions, the injured, and the disabled continue to lobby Congress and legislatures across America with measured success. Their goal is to enact laws and obtain legal decisions that limit or eliminate benefits the injured and disabled so richly deserve and to create an economy where businesses reap all of the rewards and have all of the power rather than sharing it with employees.

But the lawyers, paralegals, and staff at Barkan Neff Handelman Meizlish are ready to meet the challenge everyday. We understand that how well we do our job makes a difference in the quality of life for each of our clients and their families. We've never been more dedicated.

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Kevin Hartman

Kevin Hartman is the partner in charge of our Florida Social Security Practice and has extensive experience in the areas of Social Security Disability and SSI rights.  Mr. Hartman received his undergraduate business administration degree specializing in finance in 1987 from Florida International University.  After working some years after college, Kevin went back to school to earn his law degree from Nova University in 1994.  Kevin is admitted to the Supreme Court of Florida, the United States District Court’s Middle and Southern Districts of Florida, and the Supreme Court of the United States.

Mr. Hartman is also professionally affiliated with the National Organization of Social Security Claimant’s Representatives (NOSSCR) as well has the Florida and Hillsborough County Bar Associations. Within his local community, Mr. Hartman is a member of the Knights of Columbus Council Number 6724 in Brandon, Florida, as well as the Metropolitan Ministries. In 2005 Kevin was also a judge for the Tampa Bay Teen Summit Scholarship Competition.

Kevin currently resides with his wife and daughter in the Tampa area.