Daily Record Financial News &
Friday, July 21, 2017
Vol. 104, No. 178 • One Section
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E-Pay expands online payment opportunities Gerald Cates, information technology director for the Duval County Clerk of Courts, with one of the electronic kiosks jurors use to check in at the courthouse.
Hakimian adding retail, office buildings Investor and developer to add outparcels at Liberty Center and Merchants Walk.
Photo by Max Marbut
Hakimian Holdings LLC intends to develop outparcels at two of its properties: Liberty Center in the Southpoint area and Merchants Walk in Mandarin. At Liberty Center at 7077 Bonneval Road, Hakimian Holdings proposes two buildings in the corners of its 7.2-acre property facing Butler Boulevard. One corner would be a 5,625-squarefoot, 100-seat, high-turnover, sitdown restaurant and the other would be a 5,600-square-foot office building. Liberty Center is a six-story, 118,734-square-foot office building that Jacksonville-based Hakimian bought in February 2016. At the time, President Ben Hakimian said he intended to develop two outparcels on the property and was negotiating with a national publicly traded upscale restaurant. At Merchants Walk at 9925 San Jose Mathis
E-Pay by the Numbers
1,235 477
Customers paid online instead of visiting the Duval County Courthouse
$17,000 Average daily revenue, compared to $10,000 with previous system
$1,410
saved by customers due to lower credit card convenience fee Source: Duval County Clerk of Courts
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New Clerk of Courts service for paying fees, fines also less expensive. By Max Marbut Associate Editor Unless you work in the building, or you’re an attorney on the clock, you’d probably rather avoid having to visit the Duval County Courthouse. That could be particularly true for people coming to make a payment, so the Duval County Clerk of Courts has implemented a new service that makes it easier and less expensive to pay fines and fees online. The My Florida County system accepted online payment for civil traffic citations which are not past due, requesting copies of official records and
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The Jacksonville Bar Association offers Lawyer Referral Service.
certain child support payments. The new E-Pay system, epay. duvalclerk.com, allows those transactions, plus traffic citation installment plan payments, court costs, and payment in full on late payments to avoid the account being turned over to a collection agency. “We’re always looking for ways to improve our service and help our customers meet their needs,” said Ronnie Fussell, Duval County clerk of courts. The credit card convenience fee for the E-Pay system is less than that charged by My Florida County, resulting in 1,235 cusE-Pay
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By Max Marbut Associate Editor People need lawyers and lawyers need clients. Putting those two parties and their needs together is the concept behind the Jacksonville Bar Association’s Lawyer Referral Service. Established in 1995 as a separate corporate entity within the JBA, it’s one of 10 similar services offered by The Florida Bar and nine local Bar associations. Along with the Hillsborough County Bar Association’s LRS, it’s one of only two that are approved to meet standards for lawyer referral by the American Bar Association.
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Service helps attorneys, clients connect
Duval County Clerk of Courts: The new E-Pay system
Customers served in first 10 days of operation, ending June 26
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