It's been an off year for almost everyone, but an assortment of South Florida attorneys found ways to make noteworthy achievements before and after the coronavirus overhang.

We recognize them with the Daily Business Review's 16th annual Most Effective Lawyers awards for work that concluded in the year ended Sept. 30.

Legal teams reached settlements in long-running litigation over the suicide bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen, for victims of a plane crash involving members of a Brazilian soccer team and for a bankrupt contractor involved in the deadly Florida International University pedestrian bridge collapse.