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Summer 2006 Class Notes
1949
Samuel L. Crouch Sr. retired from The Florida Bar after 55 years of practice. He became a charter member of the Bar upon its formation in 1950.
The Sarasota County Judicial Center was renamed the Judge Lynn N. Silvertooth Judicial Center in honor of the 24-year circuit court jurist.
1956
Louie N. Adcock Jr. is celebrating his 50th year as a practicing attorney with the law firm of Fisher & Sauls.
1965
John-Edward Alley, a partner in the Tampa and Miami offices of Ford & Harrison, has been named to the Guide to the World’s Leading Labour & Employment Lawyers.
Alan J. Rubinstein serves on the advisory panel for the Center for Children and Families at the Levin College of Law.
Sidney A. Stubbs, president of Jones, Foster, Johnston & Stubbs in West Palm Beach, has been appointed Florida chair for the American College of Trial Lawyers. He also is the 2005 recipient of the Palm Beach County Bar Association’s Professionalism Award.
1966
Jon W. Agee, under the pen name Noah Bond, has recently published his second novel, The Doorstep of Depravity.
1968
Charles B. Edwards, of Geraghty, Dougherty & Edwards in Fort Myers, has been appointed to the Board of Governors, the group that oversees Florida’s university system, for a seven-year term.
1971
The J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board reelected Steven J. Uhlfelder to his third term as chair.
John K. Vreeland, of GrayRobinson in Lakeland, was listed in Woodward & White’s The Best
Lawyers in America.
1974
Leslie J. Lott, a past director of the International Trademark Association and founding partner of
Lott & Friedland in Coral Gables, spoke at the Boating Writers International annual meeting and the Mastering Complex Intellectual Property Licensing conference.
William P. White was elected public defender for the Fourth Judicial Circuit, and took office in January 2005.
1975
The judges of the Third District Court of Appeal have unanimously chosen Judge David M. Gersten to serve as the next chief judge. Gersten also serves as faculty for the National Judicial College, Reno, Nev., and as an adjunct professor at St. Thomas University School of Law in Miami.
1976
Roy B. “Skip” Dalton Jr., of Dalton & Carpenter, served as general counsel to U.S. Senator Mel
Martinez. He also was listed in Woodward & White’s The Best Lawyers in America.
Michael J. Dewberry joined Fowler White Boggs Banker as a shareholder and will work in the commercial litigation practice group.
1977
Charles S. Modell, of Larkin Hoffman Daly & Lindgren in Minneapolis, has been named in the 2006 edition of the International Who’s Who of Franchise Lawyers and Woodward & White’s The Best Lawyers in America.
Dennis J. Wall was voted in the “top five percent” for insurance representation by lawyers in Central Florida, according to the Orlando Business Journal.
1978
Fred M. Abbott, of Abbott Law Firm, recently won a $5.2 million jury verdict in a motorcycle accident injury case in Alachua County civil court.
1979
Neisen O. Kasdin, a shareholder in the real estate department of Gunster Yoakley, participated in a panel discussion on “Revitalization of Downtown Miami” at the South Florida Chapter of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties.
1982
M. Lee Drake Jr., of Davis, Matthews & Quigley in Atlanta, has been selected by legal peers to be among Georgia Trend’s “Legal Elite” for 2005.
Susan D. Hansen has been appointed public defender for the City of Richmond, Va. She has been the chief deputy for the past 12 years.
Janis B. Keyser has been appointed by Gov. Jeb Bush to fill a vacant judicial post in the Palm
Beach County Court.
1983
James A. Gale, co-founder of Feldman Gale, was a speaker at the Mastering Complex Intellectual Property Licensing conference. He also was listed in Woodward & White’s The Best Lawyers in America.
Elizabeth Miranda Hernandez was awarded the Prestigious League of Cities “Best City Attorney” Award for 2005.
Edward E. Sawyer, of White & Case in Miami, has been elected chair of the Florida Bar Tax
Section for 2007-08. He is currently serving as director of the Florida Bar Tax Section’s Finance Committee and co-director of the Tax Section’s Long Range Planning Committee.
1984
Ronald A. Levitt has been named a fellow in the American College of Tax Counsel. In addition, he is the chairman of the ABA Tax Section S Corporation Committee.
Mark W. Merrill was selected to serve on a panel concerning “Connecting with Family” at the first ever White House Conference on Helping America’s Youth in Washington, D.C.
Orlando A. Prescott, Miami-Dade county judge, is now serving as judge in Miami-Dade Circuit Court. He has been a county court judge for the domestic violence division since 2000.
1985
Donald C. Dowling Jr., international labor & employment counsel at Proskauer Rose in New York City, has been teaching international employment law as an adjunct professor in an LL.M. program at Chicago’s John Marshall Law School. He also presented an address at an NYU program in Florence, Italy, on Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower hotlines abroad. ddowling@proskauer.com
Brenna M. Durden, a shareholder in the Jacksonville office of Lewis, Longman & Walker, has been awarded an AV peer review rating by LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell.
1986
Caroline A. Falvey has been named as judge for the Fifth Judicial Circuit and will handle family law cases in Citrus County.
Morris C. Massey, former senior chief assistant city attorney for the City of Tampa, has joined the Tampa law firm of Hill, Ward & Henderson to practice with the firm’s real estate and development and land use groups.
Jean Roush-Burnett has joined the law firm of Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & Reed as an of-counsel attorney after serving the city of Orlando for almost 20 years.
1987
Brian Butler is now a partner at Morris, Manning & Martin.
David L. Templer, of Templer & Hirsch, was elected to the city council for the city of North Miami Beach.
1988
Julia Johnson serves as the chairperson of the Video Access Alliance, a not-for-profit organization that serves as an advocacy and advisory group for independent, emerging and minority networks, video programmers and other industry participants.
Jonathan E. Perlman, of Genovese Joblove & Battista, has been appointed director of the Biscayne Bank in Miami.
Katherine Clark Silverglate was selected by Great Output magazine for the digital “Walk of Fame;” was appointed last year to the faculty of the Professional Digital Imaging Association; has the record for the longest standing art exhibit in the history of the Florida Supreme Court; and has been appointed by the Florida Supreme Court to the Arts in the Courts Commission.
1989
David J. Utter, director of the Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana, was recognized by the Leadership for a Changing World for his efforts to improve conditions for young offenders. The program is sponsored by the Ford Foundation in partnership with the Advocacy Institute in Washington, D.C. and the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University.
1990
Felecia G. Ziegler has joined Harris, Harris, Bauerle & Sharma as a partner.
1991
Julio C. Jaramillo has been appointed to serve on The Florida Bar Foundation’s board of directors. In past years, he has served as vice president of the Colombian-American Service Association, as well as worked pro bono for the Dade County Bar Association’s “Put Something Back” program.
Joseph N. Tucker has been named partner at Dinsmore & Shohl in Cincinnati.
1992
Christopher Shakib has joined consumer injury law firm Terrell Hogan in Jacksonville.
Andrew M. Tiktin heads the group of attorneys in the Internal Revenue Service’s Large and Mid-Size Business Division for South and Central Florida. He also teaches federal tax procedure in the University of Miami’s LL.M. Program in Taxation.
1993
David E. Cannella, a shareholder at Carlton Fields, was recognized as one of Orlando Business Journal’s Best of the Bar 2005.
Rebecca L. Henderson, a land use attorney with Greenspoon Marder, has been included in the Florida Real Estate Journal’s “Top Women in Florida Commercial Real Estate” for 2005.
Peter A.D. McGlashan was sworn in as a Volusia County court judge.
Gov. Jeb Bush appointed Kathleen Hill Roberts of Stuart as a Martin County Court judge.
Kathy L. Yeatter has joined the firm of Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott in Philadelphia and
Harrisburg, Pa.
1994
Kenneth J. McKenna, of Dellecker, Wilson, King, McKenna & Ruffier, served as a faculty co-presenter for the National Business Institute’s seminar on “Dealing with Destruction: Spoilation of Evidence in Florida.”
David J. Winker was honored as a “Top Lawyer” in the 2006 South Florida Legal Guide. He is an AV rated attorney and a partner at Zumpano Patricios & Winker. dwinker@zpwlaw.com
1995
Harlan S. Louis (LLMT), a certified specialist in estate planning, trust and probate law, has been
elected as a member of Bailey Cavalieri in Columbus, Ohio.
Jeffrey M. Taylor has joined the Blank Rome in Philadelphia, Pa., as an associate in the public companies and capital formation practice group of the business department.
1996
Juan Carlos Ferrucho has joined Alvarez & Marsal Tax Advisory Services in Miami as a senior director in the international tax services department.
Jonathan S. Gowdy has been elected to the partnership of Morrison & Foerster.
James F. Johnston, of GrayRobinson, has received an AV rating, the highest available from Martindale-Hubbell.
Steven Lessne has been named partner at Blank Rome’s Boca Raton office in the commercial litigation practice group.
John Walker was included in the “Up and Coming” Florida Trend listing of lawyers.
1998
Josias N. Dewey, of the real estate section of Holland & Knight, was elected to the partnership for 2006.
Phillip A. Duvalsaint has joined the litigation practice group of Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs as an associate in Boca Raton.
Marco Ferri, a member of the business section of Holland & Knight, was elected to the partnership for 2006.
Kristy M. Johnson has been promoted to partner at Carlton Fields. She practices in health care, labor and employment, business litigation and trade regulation practice groups in Miami.
Lori R. Keeton has become a partner at Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein. She is a member of the torts, trial and insurance practice group in Charlotte, N.C.
Jay M. Sakalo has been made a partner with the law firm Bilzin Sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod. He also was included in the “Up and Coming” Florida Trend listing of lawyers.
David M. Seifer has been promoted to shareholder at Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff & Sitterson in Miami. He also was named in the 2005-06 edition of Who’s Who in American Law and the “Up and Coming” Florida Trend listing of lawyers.
1999
Jeffrey T. Donner has joined the Office of the City Attorney, city of Miami Beach, as senior assistant city attorney. He handles litigation, environmental and land use, legislative and constitutional issues, and code compliance matters.
Brian P. Trauman, a domestic and international tax controversy associate with the New York office of Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, has been appointed co-chair of the ABA Tax Section’s Hurricane Katrina Task Force.
Ormend G. Yeilding has been named partner of Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & Reed.
2000
Brandon Biederman authored an article in the American Bar Association’s Young Lawyer Newsletter titled “Practicing and Governing: A Young Lawyer Balances Ethics.”
Jill Harmon has been elevated to a senior associate at Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & Reed. She primarily practices in public finance, real estate transactions, development and finance and general litigation.
2001
Nonna K. Crane has joined the international law firm of Chadbourne & Parke in St. Petersburg,
Russia.
Peter C. Sales has joined Boult, Cummings, Conners & Berry in Nashville, Tenn. specializing in trial litigation.
Douglas I. Wall has joined GrayRobinson’s Orlando office, specializing in construction law and litigation.
2002
Sara J. Burton has joined the Orlando office of Rumberger, Kirk & Caldwell as an associate practicing commercial litigation involving breach of contract, fraud, federal and state RICO claims, and consumer practices claims under Florida’s “Little FTC” Act.
Desiree S. Demonbreun has joined the nation’s largest labor and employment law firm, Ford & Harrison, as an associate.
2003
Hunter Biederman has left the Collin County District Attorney’s Office to open his own law firm in Frisco, Texas. The Law Office of Hunter Biederman concentrates on criminal and family law.
Alexander F. Harper has joined Thompson Law Office in Monterey, Calif., as a general litigation associate. Aharper@justice-4-you.com
Nicole C. Kibert has been included in Tampa Bay Business Journal’s “30 Under 30 Class of 2005.” She is a member of Carlton Fields real estate and mortgage financing practice group.
Anne Raduns-Owens is publishing a coloring book for child victims of domestic violence. The book was originally a project for Nancy Dowd’s “Gender and the Law” class at UF.
Adam B. Snyder has joined Poyner & Spruill in Raleigh, N.C., where he practices in the areas of corporate law and taxation.
Anthony F. Sos, of Dellecker, Wilson, King, McKenna & Ruffier, served as a faculty presenter for a seminar on “Nursing Home Negligence in Florida.”
2005
Kimberly A. Davis has joined the Roetzel & Andress litigation group in Fort Myers, with an emphasis on business and commercial litigation.
James O’Hare has joined the law firm of Snell & Wilmer, where he will practice intellectual property and technology.
Brian S. Shelton has joined the tax team at Boult, Cummings, Conners & Berry in Nashville, Tenn.
In Memoriam
William H. Barber III (JD 57)
William Merle Barr (JD 62)
John H. Dewell (JD 46)
Joseph Easthope III (JD 50)
Elmer O. Friday Jr. (JD 49)
Madison B. McClellan (JD 92)
John Alden Paul (JD 34)
Scott G. Schildberg (JD 86)
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