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August 1, 2023 On the Move

On the Move

Jeff Kottkamp has been named executive vice president and general counsel of Florida TaxWatch.

Smith, Currie & Hancock combined with Oles Morrison Rinker & Baker and will use Smith Currie Oles and Smith Currie, along with corresponding logos, under the auspices of Smith, Currie & Hancock.

Williams Allen Casey LPA opened an office in Jacksonville led by senior attorney Jeffrey A. Cramer.

Victor Arca joined McArdle Franco in Miami as a senior associate.

Hugo Benitez joined Gunster in Miami as of counsel.

Monica Offredi joined Schwartz Sladkus Reich Greenberg Atlas in Boca Raton.

Natasha A. Dorcent and Andrew Carrabis joined Kubicki Draper in West Palm Beach.

Kelsey Alvarez and Steve D. Paveglio, Jr., joined Hall Booth Smith in Jacksonville as partners.

Christen Spake became a shareholder at McCarthy, Summers, Wood, Norman, Melby & Schultz.

Aram Barikian, Michael J. Brito, and Jacobo Landman joined Kubicki Draper in Miami.

Yardley M. Collett joined Smith, Tozian, Daniel, & Davis.

Justin Robinson joined Smith Hulsey & Busey in Jacksonville.

Shawn Libman and Stephanie Martinez Simm joined Clarke Silverglate in Miami as partners.

Stephen R. Gross joined Marshall Dennehey in Ft. Lauderdale as special counsel.

Claudia R. Capriles joined Moore Rabinowitz Law in Plantation.

Balazs Vigh joined Kubicki Draper in Ft. Lauderdale.

Dayron Silverio joined Podhurst Orseck in Miami as senior counsel.

Vanessa Gerlich and Alejandro G. Martinez Maldonado joined Kubicki Draper in Tampa.

Ryan G. Knight joined Shepard, Smith, Kohlmyer & Hand as a senior associate.

Patrick W. Ryskamp  of Williams Parker in Sarasota was elected as a member of the management committee.

Ricky Polston joined Shutts & Bowen in Tallahassee as a partner in the appellate practice group and head of the constitutional law practice section.

Michael P. Murawski has become the very first executive director of the City of Naples Commission on Ethics and Governmental Integrity.

Essence Z. Sanders-Saleem has joined Kubicki Draper in Ft. Myers.

Denise Calle joined Olsson Frank Weeda Terman Matz in Washington, D.C., as an associate.

Matthew Bussin joined Goldberg Segalla in Orlando.

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