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Michelle Suskauer, the new president of The Florida Bar, joined the Jacksonville Bar Association in 2016.
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Michelle Suskauer, the Florida Bar’s new president, planning a criminal justice reform summit and more. BY MAX MARBUT ASSOCIATE EDITOR
ing at the corner of Adams and Main streets and remodeled the former department store into a three-story law office that’s the firm’s headquarters today. It was an investment of about $5 million, Eddie Farah said. They later bought the abandoned Lerner Shops store next door and when it was determined that the structure, which had been abandoned for decades, wasn’t worth saving, it was removed to make way for a private courtyard that’s used by the attorneys
Michelle Suskauer, the new president of The Florida Bar, practices criminal defense law in West Palm Beach, but she has close ties to Jacksonville’s legal community. In a telephone interview a few days before being sworn in, Suskauer said she visited Jacksonville several times while campaigning to become the state Bar group’s president-elect. “I have so many friends there and it’s a wonderful legal community,” said Suskauer, who joined the Jacksonville Bar Association in April 2016. “You have a very special legal
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From left, attorney Chuck Farah, Farah & Farah Case Manager Brooke Hazleton and attorney Eddie Farah with the law firm’s new electric vehicle that’s used to travel between two buildings the firm owns Downtown.
Law firm has invested millions in its Downtown offices, and now has as new tool to move between them.
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The Farah & Farah law firm began in 1979 with just Eddie Farah, who rented a small office in the Florida Theatre building. Eleven years later, the founder’s brother, Chuck, joined the firm, adding the ampersand to its name. It had grown in terms of attorneys and staff who worked in leased offices in a commercial high-rise on the Southbank. In 1998, Farah & Farah purchased the historic but boarded-up S.H. Kress Co. build-
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