Nicholas J. Bakatsias has been
named director at Carruthers & Roth, P.A in Greensboro, North Carolina. He is a member of the firm’s Business, Tax & Estate practice group. Marc Brody was promoted to shareholder at the West Palm Beach office of Gunster. Justin B. Kaplan has been named partner at the Miami-based litigation firm Kluger, Kaplan, Silverman, Katzen & Levine, P.L. Frank C. Olah has recently joined the Los Angeles office of Klinedinst PC as an associate. David Olson is now part-owner and partner of the firm ChancoSchiffer, P.C. in Atlanta. Jamie B. Schwinghamer, a litigation attorney with Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP, has been appointed to the board of directors for Voices for Kids of Southwest Florida, Inc.
2007
Aracely Alicea, a founding associate
of corporate and real estate transactional law firm Alvarez Arrieta & Diaz-Silveira LLP, was promoted to partner. Amanda Star Frazer joined the Miami office at Broad and Cassel as Senior Counsel in the Commercial Litigation Practice Group. Jason Neufeld, associate of Neufeld, Kleinberg & Pinkiert, was sworn in as the 2014 North Dade Bar Association President.
2008
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Vance A. Aloupis, Jr., state director
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of The Children’s Movement of Florida, was honored with the 2014 Young Floridian award by the Bob Graham Center for Public Service at the University of Florida. Joshua B. Feinberg, along with colleague, Shaun Malvin, established Malvin Feinberg P.L., a commercial litigation law firm with offices in Miami and Ft. Lauderdale. Andrew S. Feldman recently opened Feldman Firm, PLLC in downtown Miami.
2009 Vincent F. Alexander, associate at
Kozyak Tropin & Throckmorton, has been elected Treasurer of the Wilkie D. Ferguson, Jr. Bar Association Board of Directors. Leigh-Ann A. Buchanan, associate at Berger Singerman, has been elected President-Elect of the Wilkie D. Ferguson, Jr. Bar Association Board of Directors. J. Lee Johnson, a member of the worldwide Society of Trust and Estate
Practitioners, was recently awarded an Advanced Certificate, with distinction, in International Succession and Probate. He has also been named a new partner at Ambrecht & Associates in Santa Barbara, California. Laura T. MacDonald joined the Chicago office of Quarles & Brady LLP as an associate in the Health Law Practice Group. Yolanda P. Strader, associate at Carlton Fields Jorden Burt, has been elected President of the Wilkie D. Ferguson, Jr. Bar Association Board of Directors. Songfong Tommy Wang, and his partner Elizabeth Yang, announced the grand opening of the San Gabriel Valley Office of Yang & Wang, P.C.
2010
Akivia Bassaragh, attorney at the
Miami-Dade Public Defender’s Office, has been elected as Group I Director of the Wilkie D. Ferguson, Jr. Bar Association Board of Directors. Anne E. Brown joined the Chicago office of Roetzel & Andress, LPA as an associate. Patricia Elizee, of Elizee Hernandez Law Firm in Miami, has been selected to join the 2014-2015 class of The Florida Bar’s Wm. Reece Smith, Jr. Leadership Academy, as a fellow. Keon Hardemon, Vice Chair for the City of Miami, was selected as a member of the 2014 Leaders of Excellence program, part of the Good Government Initiative at the University of Miami. Sophia R. McGill, associate at Lydecker Diaz, has been elected Secretary of the Wilkie D. Ferguson, Jr. Bar Association Board of Directors. Victor Petrescu has joined the law firm of Levine Kellogg Lehman Schneider + Grossman LLP (LKLSG) as an associate.
2011
Rob Collins and Erin Lewis, both public
Arthur J. Baker, an associate for the Orlando office of BakerHostetler, was
2013
Michael J. Bonan joined the law
firm of Ross Earle & Bonan as an associate attorney. Evan Gallo was recently appointed legislative director for state assemblyman Kevin Cahill of Kingston. Erin Lewis and Rob Collins, both public interest lawyers, were married on December 31. Joshua Levine joined the Miami office of Gunster in their business litigation practice. Joseph D. Magrisso joined the Miami office of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP as a labor and employment associate. Liana Nealon has been selected to be a part of Class II of The Florida Bar Leadership Academy. Samuel W. Wardle joined the Miami office of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP as a litigation associate.
2014
Charlotte Joseph Cassel received
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interest lawyers, were married on December 31. Matthew M. Comiter joined Gunster’s Miami office as an associate in the private wealth services and tax practice groups. Nichole Geary joined Broad and Cassel’s West Palm Beach office as an associate in its Health Law Practice Group. Aubrey Gibson Jr. joined Cozen O’Connor’s Miami office as an associate in the Business Law Department.
2012
appointed to the March Madness Events Committee of the 2014 NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship. Mark A. Gotlieb has joined the Miami office of Arnstein & Lehr as an associate. Jared Hanna joined the offices of Lehigh County District Attorney Jim Martin in Allentown, Pennsylvania as an assistant district attorney. Paul Souferis joined the Criminal Division of Black Srebnick Kornspan Stumpf in Miami as an associate. Brittany Young has accepted a position at the Catholic Charities West Virginia and will be focusing on immigration casework and refugee resettlement. Francesco A. Zincone has joined the Ft. Lauderdale office of Roetzel & Andress.
the 2014-16 Equal Justice Works Fellow at Florida Legal Services, Inc.