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September 1, 2023 On the Move

On the Move

Juan D. Bendeck joined Dentons Cohen & Grigsby in Naples as a shareholder.

Sylvain R. Robitaille and Kevin Paul joined Kubicki Draper in Tampa.

Kaylee Tuck joined GrayRobinson in Ft. Myers as of counsel.

Tiffany Brown was promoted to senior managing associate general counsel at Universal Property and Casualty Insurance Company.

Erin Daly joined The Brown Law Firm in Brooksville.

David M. Koberlein and William J. Sanchez joined Kubicki Draper in Ft. Myers.

James Timko joined Dean Mead in Orlando.

Brannock Humphries & Berman is now known as Brannock Berman & Seider.

Zachary D. Means joined Kubicki Drape in West Palm Beach.

James R. George joined Katz Baskies & Wolf in Boca Raton as chair of the fiduciary litigation practice group.

Erika Lusky Bernhard, Matthew A. Brown, Staci K. Campbell, Jason P. Martell, and Connor J. Stone joined Gunster. Bernhard in Miami. Brown in Tampa. Campbell and Martell in West Palm Beach. Stone in Naples.

Annie Nosich joined Akerman in Miami.

Anthony Narula and Janet Moreira joined Caldera Law in Little River as partners.

Maria Currais and Ed Soto were tapped as co-chairs of the real estate practice at Weiss Serota Helfman Cole + Bierman in Miami.

Michael R. Merhar started Merhar Law, PLLC, located at 5950 NW 1st Place, Suite 120 in Gainesville.

Williams Parker opened a new office at 7500 Island Cove Terrace, Suite 200 in Lakewood Ranch.

Payton L. Kuenzli joined Kubicki Draper in Ft. Lauderdale.

Parker, Hudson, Rainer & Dobbs relocated to 101 East College Ave., in Tallahassee.

Jordan Goldfarb joined McGlinchey Stafford as of counsel for the enterprise litigation and investigations group in Ft. Lauderdale.

Bailey Howard joined Clark Partington in Tallahassee.

Ralph W. Confreda, Jr., joined Hinshaw & Culbertson in Ft. Lauderdale as senior counsel.

Matthew Bussin joined Goldberg Segalla in Orlando.

Timothy M. Riley joined Gunster in Tallahassee as a shareholder.

Rosannie T. Morgan joined McDonald Toole Wiggins.

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

Zascha Blanco Abbott joined Kaufman Dolowich in Ft. Lauderdale as a partner.

Katherine Hupp joined Lewis, Longman & Walker in West Palm Beach.

Heather A. McLeod and Joshua D. Day joined HR Law in Deerfield Beach.

Lily H. McLauchlin joined Trudy Innes Richardson in Tallahassee.

Salim A. Punjani joined Kubicki Draper in Orlando.

Jessica F. Hernstadt joined Collins Brown Barkett Chartered in Vero Beach.

Robin I. Bresky was named managing partner of Schwartz Sladkus Reich Greenberg Atlas in Boca Raton.

Cody J. Shilling joined Goldberg Segalla in West Palm Beach.

Gregory H. Lercher joined Jabil Inc., in St. Petersburg as corporate counsel.

Nicole Bell Cleland was promoted to partner at Legacy Protection Lawyers in St. Petersburg.

Gregory Ritter, Gary Rosner, Evan Rosenberg, and Olivia Retenauer joined Moritt Hock Hamroff at its new office in Plantation.

Farideh E. Tadros joined Goldberg Segalla in Orlando.

Lisa Goodman has become a partner at Hickey Law Firm in Miami.

Lorenzi Lora joined Ball Janik in its new office in Orlando.

Erika Lusky Bernhard, Matthew A. Brown, Staci K. Campbell, Jason P. Martell, and Connor J. Stone joined Gunster. Lusky Bernhard in Miami. Brown in Tampa. Campbell and Martell in West Palm Beach and Stone in Naples.

Jonas Weatherbie joined Galbraith in Naples as a partner.

Vinod “Vinnie” Bajnath and Andre J. Friedson joined Kubicki Draper in Miami.

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