GULFPORT, Fla.— Advocacy teams from Stetson University College of Law won competitions Feb. 27 in Miami, Fla., and Feb. 28 in Kansas City, Mo. Another team took home best individual awards on Feb. 27 in Albany, N.Y.
On Feb. 27 in Miami, a Stetson team won the 2010 Florida pre-competition for the Willem C. Vis International [...]

TAMPA, FLA. (March 2, 2010) – From the moment the tournament match-ups are announced on Selection Sunday, March 14, until the nets are cut down after the championship game April 5, employees will be talking about the tournament and betting on its outcome. March Madness draws the attention of millions of workers every year, boosting [...]

ST. PETERSBURG – Kirkland, Russ, Murphy & Tapp, P.A. (KRMT) is pleased to announce that Managing Shareholder, Bill Tapp, was awarded the 2010 Roy G. Harrell Jr. Leadership Award by St. Anthony’s Hospital Foundation. The award recognizes individuals whose leadership and civic activism lights the way to better our community and was presented to Bill [...]

Tampa, Fla., — Mason Black & Caballero P.A. is proud to announce that managing partner, Caroline Black, received the 2009 Florida Bar President’s Pro Bono Service Award for the 13th Circuit.
Ms. Black was recognized for the donation of hundreds of hours of legal services and her long-term commitment to developing legal service programs for low-income [...]

ORLANDO, FL – February 25, 2010 – Eleven attorneys from Rumberger, Kirk & Caldwell have been named to Florida Super Lawyers 2010 and eight lawyers were named Florida Super Lawyers Rising Stars.
Super Lawyers is a comprehensive guide to the top 5 percent of attorneys in the state, as chosen by their peers and categorized by [...]

TAMPA, Fla. (February 9, 2010) – Former Squire, Sanders and & Dempsey lawyers Suzette Marteny and Harry Teichman have formed Bayshore Law Group, P.L.L.C., located in the Sykes Building in downtown Tampa. Reflecting the growing popularity of smaller law firms in the current economy, Marteny and Teichman formed the boutique business law firm to [...]

SARASOTA, FL – Jenifer S. Schembri, a Partner in the Sarasota Office, has joined the Board of Directors of the Sarasota Manatee Association for Riding Therapy. SMART has been in existence since 1987 and is a member of the American Riding for the Handicapped Association. SMART provides an all-encompassing horsemanship program that provides the participants [...]

SARASOTA, FL – Anthony J. Abate, Partner in the Sarasota Office of Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Sarasota County. The mission of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Sarasota County is “To enable all young people, especially those who need [...]

GULFPORT, Fla.— Stetson University College of Law has again been listed among the top 25 law schools graduating Hispanics in The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education. The December 2009 Hispanic Outlook listed Stetson Law 15th among law schools across the country graduating the most Hispanic students.
Stetson Law’s Hispanic students have established a strong tradition of [...]

P. Christopher Jaensch, the Managing Partner of Jaensch Immigration Law Firm, the leading immigration law firm in Sarasota, announced today the grand opening of a new, related business called Passport Health of Sarasota (www.PassportHealthSarasota.com).
Passport Health of Sarasota is part of the largest network of travel medicine advisors and vaccine providers in the nation. The [...]

GULFPORT, Fla. — First-year Stetson University College of Law students Chelsea C. Harrison, Christian M. Leger, Ming J. Lin, Patrick S. McArdle and Haley R. Meher received the inaugural Carey & Leisure Torts Book Award on Feb. 5 in St. Petersburg.
The award was created this academic year by the Clearwater law firm of Carey & [...]

Tampa, FL – Richard A. Jacobson, a shareholder in the International Practice Group of Fowler White Boggs P.A. in Tampa, was recently elected to the Board of Directors of TerraLex, an international network of 160 foreign and U.S. law firms, in more than 100 countries. Mr. Jacobson provides international tax and [...]