October 15, 2014 On the Move
On the Move
Matt G. Firestone and James C. Washburn have joined Shuffield, Lowman & Wilson in Orlando. Firestone joins as a partner focusing on real estate, contract, and business-related matters. Washburn joins as of counsel. Washburn is a board certified construction lawyer assisting those in the construction industry with contract drafting and negotiation, bid protests, scheduling and construction defect claims, default terminations, licensing issues, and lien and bond disputes.
Douglas H. Morris has joined Gordon & Doner in Davie. Morris focuses on medical malpractice, nursing home neglect, catastrophic injury, and wrongful death matters.
B. Michael Clark, Jr., and Nicholas D. Siegfried have been named partners of Siegfried, Rivera, Hyman, Lerner, De La Torre, Mars & Sobel in Coral Gables. Clark focuses on construction law and Siegfried focuses on construction and community association law.
Kurt A. Hoffman, general counsel for the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office, was recently promoted to the rank of colonel and will serve as the chief deputy.
Richard D. Lara has become managing shareholder of Mase Lara in Miami.
Robert B. Lamm has rejoined Gunster, in Ft. Lauderdale as of counsel. He will co-chair the securities and corporate governance practice. He also joins the firm’s corporate and health care law practices.
Bruce M. Lyons of Lyons and Sanders has relocated his offices to 110 S.E. 6th Street, Suite 2150, Ft. Lauderdale. Lyons focuses on criminal law.
Emily E. Collins has joined Xact Data Discovery as a legal project manager, overseeing Xact’s managed review operations in Kansas City.
Melanie Ann Parris has joined Roig Lawyers in Coral Gables. Parris concentrates on first-party property insurance defense and representing financial institutions in consumer debt litigation.
Christopher Marsala and Scott Rowland have joined McLaughlin & Stern, as partners and Jeffrey Glassover as of counsel and announce the opening of the firm’s Naples office at 5051 Tamiami Trail North, Suite 602.
Clarke & Platt has relocated its offices to 1920 Palm Beach Lakes Blvd., Suite 202, West Palm Beach 33409. The firm focuses on workers’ compensation defense.
Erica Gooden and Alyse Latour have joined Holland & Knight in Tampa as associates. Gooden joins the litigation section and represents clients in commercial litigation matters. Latour joins the public companies and securities group and advises clients in mergers and acquisitions, public offerings and private placements of securities, venture capital investments, and other business transactions.
Christine L. Weingart has joined Zimmerman Kiser Sutcliffe in Orlando, practicing in the areas of tax and general business law.
Brent McNeal has joined the Florida Department of Education in Tallahassee as deputy general counsel, overseeing legal services for the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation and the Division of Blind Services.
Jason H. Baruch has joined Holland & Knight in Tampa as a partner in the litigation practice group. Baruch focuses on commercial litigation, maritime law, bankruptcy and creditors’ rights, and intellectual property.
Geraldo F. Olivo III has joined The Wilbur Smith Law Firm in Ft. Myers. He focuses on criminal defense and civil litigation.
Christopher O’Connell has joined Goede, Adamczyk & DeBoest in Ft. Myers.
O’Connell focuses on the representation of condominium and homeowners’ associations.
Derek P. Rooney has joined GrayRobinson in Naples. Rooney practices in land use and local government law, and is board certified in city, county, and local government law.
Bonnie S. Klapper has become of counsel to Clarke Silverglate in Miami. Klapper focuses on white collar criminal defense.
Susan Warner has joined Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough as of counsel in Jacksonville. She practices in the areas of employment litigation, commercial litigation, appellate, and education law.
Kimberly L. Wald and Catherine C. Darlson have joined Kelley/Uustal in Ft. Lauderdale as associates. Wald focuses on personal injury law, medical malpractice, and tobacco litigation. Darlson focuses on business litigation, financial misconduct, products liability, personal injury, and wrongful death.
Michelle Swiren Zaltsberg has joined Baker Donelson as an associate in Orlando. Zaltsberg focuses on commercial litigation.
Doug Clifton has joined the Fourth Circuit Public Defender’s Office in the Felony Court Unit in Duval County.
Debora Cornelia Curt has joined the Fourth Circuit Public Defender’s Office as aspecial assistant public defender handling Baker Acts.
Laurin Leigh Pletzke has joined the Fourth Circuit Public Defender’s Office in the County Court Unit.
Royce Saalfield has joined the Fourth Circuit Public Defender’s Office in the Duval County Office to serve clients in felony court.
Jeffrey B. Shapiro of Miami has been elected chair of Arnstein & Lehr.
Matthew D. MacNamara has joined Coppins Monroe Adkins & Dincman in Tallahassee as an associate.
D. Porpoise Evans has joined Perlman, Bajandas, Yevoli & Albright in Miami as a partner. Evans focuses on litigation and compliance, including ADA and FHA litigation, employment counseling and litigation, FCPA compliance and investigations (with an emphasis on African countries), and securities litigation, including FINRA arbitrations.
Charla Burchett has joined Shutts & Bowen in Sarasota as a partner in the firm’s trusts and estates group.
Andrew O. Kaplan has joined Pierce Atwood in Boston in its energy practice group. He focuses on representing providers of energy storage, demand response, ancillary services, and electricity and gas transmission and supply, both in the wholesale and retail markets.
Harris B. Kirsch has joined Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin as an associate in Ft. Lauderdale as a member of the casualty department and fraud/special investigation practice group. Kirsch focuses on general personal injury protection (PIP) litigation and other civil litigation matters.
Maria Arhancet Fehretdinov, Javier E. Fernández, and Kearey O. Wan have been promoted to shareholders of Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff & Sitterson in Miami.
J. Cameron Thurber has been promoted to deputy inspector general at the Federal Election Commission in Washington, D.C. He will oversee the legal, investigative, and audit operations of the Office of Inspector General.
Scott D. McKay and Telese B. McKay of McKay Law Firm have opened an office at 1904 Manatee Avenue West, Suite 300, Bradenton 34205. The firm will continue in the areas of community association law and litigation, civil litigation, small business law and litigation, trial law, debt and judgment collection law, and litigation.
Jeffrey Gilbert has joined Cozen O’Connor in Miami as a partner. Gilbert is a real estate, business, and trusts and estates litigator.
Cory Eichhorn has joined Holland & Knight in Miami as a partner in the South Florida litigation practice.
G. Donovan Brown has joined Colodny, Fass, Talenfeld, Karlinsky, Abate & Webb
in Tallahassee. He will concentrate in the areas of legislative, executive, and public affairs, insurance regulatory law, administrative law and related matters, transactional law, and corporate counseling and representation.
O. George Bamis has joined Macfarlane Ferguson & McMullen in Clearwater to represent clients in the areas of family law and immigration and nationality law.
Katherine E. Bruce and Anna Mikhaliants have joined The Quick Law Group in Jacksonville. Bruce and Mikhaliants focus on divorce and family law.
