January 15, 2017 News and Notes
Michelle Diffenderfer of Lewis, Longman & Walker in West Palm Beach was selected by the Florida Commission on the Status of Women to receive its Florida Achievement Award.
Derrick B. Gruner moderated “Class B/C Apartments…Investment Tricks of the Trade” at The Middle-Market Multifamily Forum: A Forum for Small & Mid-Sized Apartment Owners and Developers in Orlando.
Patricia Ann Redmond of Stearns Weaver Miller in Miami presented “Everything You Want to Know About Jobs and Opportunities in Bankruptcy” for The American College of Bankruptcy.
Brian F. LaBovick of LaBovick, LaBovick & Diaz in Palm Beach Gardens spoke at Plantation High School with Dori Saves Lives about the legal ramifications of unsafe driving.
Andrew Rodman, Ingrid Ponce, Bayardo Alemán, Giselle Gutierrez Madrigal, and Elitsa Yotkova of Stearns Weaver Miller in Miami presented 2016 FLSA Master Class: Florida Advanced Skills for Wage and Hour Compliance.
Mel Pearlman of Mel Pearlman, P.A., in Celebration spoke on “Estate Planning for International Clients Owning Assets in Florida” at the Quarterly Luncheon of the Global Alliance Network of the Osceola County Association of Realtors.
Steven L. Beiley of Aaronson Schantz Beiley in Miami presented “The ABC’s of ABC’s: Florida’s Business Liquidation Alternative to Bankruptcy” to the Coral Gables Chapter of the Florida Lawyers Network.
Carlos A. Kelly of Henderson, Franklin, Starnes & Holt in Ft. Myers was elected to the Uncommon Friends Foundation Board of Directors.
Anitra F. Raiford of Shook Hardy & Bacon in Tampa provided advice on how to obtain clerkships and private practice jobs and then succeed at these jobs to about 50 Stetson law students.
Alissa M. Ellison of GrayRobinson in Tampa has been named to the Glazer Children’s Museum Board of Directors.
Jason Hunter Korn of Cohen & Grigsby in Naples served as moderator for a “Got Civility?” panel event hosted by the Collier County Women’s Bar Association to promote professionalism in the legal profession.
Adria Notari of McAlpin Conroy in Miami spoke at the Ft. Lauderdale Mariners Club 27th Marine Insurance Seminar on the impact of new technology on the old concept of seaworthiness.
Roy M. Hartman of Sacher, Zelman, Hartman in Miami presented “Do’s and Don’ts When An Accountant Receives a Subpoena” at a Florida Gold Coast Alumni Chapter of Alpha Kappa Psi seminar in Miami.
Bob Lamm of Gunster in West Palm Beach received the “Lifetime Achievement Award” at the Ninth Annual Corporate Secretary Corporate Governance Awards.
Ramon de la Cabada of Miami taught a course to prosecutors and public defenders on trial advocacy skills in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and a course to the same audience on the same issues in Neuquén, Argentina. He also spoke on the process of jury selection in both Rosario, Argentina, and Neuquén.
Jennifer C. Erdelyi of Colodny Fass in Sunrise spoke on client development, retention, and building client relationships at Nova Southeastern University College of Law as part of its mentoring program designed to help students transition from school to practicing attorneys.
Giselle Gutierrez Madrigal of Stearns Weaver Miller in Miami was re-elected to the Cuban American Bar Association Board of Directors.
Bacardi Jackson of Tucker Law Group in Miramar was elected vice chair of the board of directors of the Community Foundation of Broward and elected to membership in the Stanford Associates.
Hector A. Chichoni of Duane Morris in Miami has been appointed chair of the South Florida (Miami) Chapter of the J. Reuben Clark Law Society.
Michael Lynn Moore of Michael L. Moore, P.A., in Orlando co-moderated a presentation on “Requests to Produce” with Ninth Judicial Circuit Court Judge John Marshall Kest at the Citrus Club in Orlando sponsored by the Hispanic Bar Association of Central Florida.
Leonard Helfand of Tallahassee has been recognized by the Florida Statewide Guardian ad Litem Office for his representation of children with special needs in dependency court with an Excellence in Advocacy Award.
Justin Parafinczuk of Koch Parafinczuk & Wolf in Ft. Lauderdale had his article, “Florida Workers’ Compensation Laws Are Constitutional and Fair to Workers,” published in the Daily Business Review.
Michael Corso of Henderson Franklin in Ft. Myers presented “An Engineer’s Legal Clinic, Bird’s Eye View of Aviation Law, Including Drones” to students at the Aerospace Engineering Department at Cal Poly Tech in San Luis Obispo, California.
Gina Clausen Lozier of Berger Singerman has been appointed to the Windstorm Insurance Network Board of Directors.
Richard N. Schermer of Pathman Lewis in Miami discussed “experiential shopping” in a roundtable discussion at the South Florida Idea Exchange on November 10, 2016, hosted by The International Council of Shopping Centers.
Joe Chase of Gunster has become chair of the Chamber of Commerce of the Palm Beaches.
John Gihon of Shorstein, Lasnetski and Gihon in Orlando spoke to the Rotary Club of Seminole County South about the future of immigration law under President-elect Trump and was also selected to be on the Immigration/International Law Committee of the Orange County Bar Association.
M. Thérèse (Terry) Vento, general counsel of the Pérez Art Museum Miami, spoke on “Developing an Art Law Practice” at the 2016 Art Law & Litigation Conference in Miami in November.
Amanda Fernandez of Damian & Valori in Miami has been elected to the Cuban American Bar Association Board of Directors.
Miranda Lundeen Soto and Hildy Sastre of Shook, Hardy & Bacon presented “Personalizing the Corporate Client: Reversing the Reptilian Theory in High-Stakes Litigation” to over 100 companies at the annual Association of Corporate Counsel conference in San Francisco.
Andrew G. Tretter of GrayRobinson in Naples received the Pro Bono Service Award from the Southwest Florida Federal Court Bar Association for his representation in the case, McNeeley v. Wilson.
Thomas P. Fabricio of Walton Lantaff Schroeder & Carson in Ft. Lauderdale was appointed to the Broward County Charter Review Commission.
David Kassenoff of Jacksonville was named to the Trust Banking Hall of Fame by the Florida Bankers Association at its annual Trust & Wealth Management Conference in Sarasota.
Julianna Thomas McCabe of Carlton Fields in Miami received the 2016 Outstanding Contributor Award from Lawyers for Civil Justice.
Jason Wolf of Kock Parafinczik & Wolf in Ft. Lauderdale had his article, “How Insurers Can Use Litigation to Address Florida’s AOB Problem,” published in the Insurance Journal.
Christin M. Bucci of Bucci Law Offices in Ft. Lauderdale presented “IRS Tax Updates and Recent Development” to the South Dade Chapter of the Florida Institute of CPAs in Miami.
Terri Feldman Lubaroff of Legion M Entertainment, Inc., in Hollywood, CA, was on two panels at Stan Lee’s Los Angeles Comic Con, where she spoke about “The Past, Present and Future of Fandom” and “Legion M.” She also spoke about “Legion M” at Silicon Valley Comic Con and Palm Springs Comic Con. She spoke on “Comic Book Law School” at San Diego Comic Con and at Wheedonverse. Lubaroff also served as co-chair of the Southern California Mediation Association’s Annual Conference.
Howard E. Fox of Fowler White Burnett in Miami discussed environmental enforcement to environmental law students at the University of Miami School of Law.
Eduardo Palmer of Eduardo Palmer, P.A., in Coral Gables spoke at the South Florida Chapter of the Federal Bar Association regarding the “Nuts & Bolts of International Litigation.”
Miranda Lundeen Soto and Hildy Sastre of Shook, Hardy & Bacon presented “Personalizing the Corporate Client: Reversing the Reptilian Theory in High-Stakes Litigation” at the annual Association of Corporate Counsel conference in San Francisco.
Zachary Hyman of Berger Singerman in Ft. Lauderdale has been named president of the Florida Chapter of the Turnaround Management Association.
Gigi Rollini of Messer Caparello in Tallahassee was selected by the Girl Scouts of the Florida Panhandle to serve as the 2016 “Women of Distinction” honorary chair, after having been recognized as the 2015 “Woman of Distinction” in Law.
