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C L A S S N OT E S
CLASS NOTES
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1970s
Dean Mead announced that
Martin S. Friedman J.D. ’75
has joined the firm’s Orlando
office. Friedman represents a
broad range of Florida utilities
as lead counsel. Throughout his
38-year career, he has handled
130 utility acquisitions totaling
more than $3 billion.
1980s
Overseer Richard Harrison
B.A. ’83, J.D. ’86 began offering
the first Open Government
Law course at Stetson Law in
the fall of 2018.
Trenam Law is pleased to
announce that Lynn Welter
Sherman J.D. ’83 has joined
the firm’s St. Petersburg office
as a shareholder. She brings
more than three decades of
Chartwell Law has added Jorge
L. Cruz-Bustillo J.D. ’92 to
the firm’s Miami office. Cruz-
Bastillo focuses his practice
on first party and third party
insurance defense.
Akerman LLP has promoted
Raye Curry Elliott J.D. ’94
to partner. Elliott is a former
Federal Deposit Insurance
(FDIC) counsel.
Brian Tannebaum J.D. ’94 has
been appointed the new chair
of Innocence Project of Florida
board. Tannebaum has served
on the Board of the Innocence
Project of Florida since 2015
and is a former president of
the Florida Association of
Criminal Defense Lawyers. He
is currently special counsel at
Bast Amron, LLP in Miami,
serving as general counsel, and
handling ethics and criminal
defense cases.
S T E T S O N L AWY E R
legal service to bolster the
firm’s highly experienced and
accomplished Bankruptcy
& Creditors’ Rights practice
group.
Law alumnus Rich McKay
J.D. ’84, president and CEO of
the Atlanta Falcons, was named
as one the Top 500 Most
Powerful Leaders in the Atlanta
Magazine 2019 publication.
Tori L. Kaufholz J.D. ’86 was
appointed to the Florida Bar
Certified Arbitrator Committee
through June, 2030.
Global law firm Greenberg
Traurig, LLP announced that
Bradford D. Kaufman J.D.
’86 will join Ernest L. Greer
as co-president. Kaufman,
resident in the firm’s West
Palm Beach office, is currently
defending the key figure in
the Barclay’s case in London
- the only major prosecution
stemming from the financial
crisis. Most recently, he served
as a senior vice president and
treasurer of Greenberg Traurig
and as global chairman of the
firm’s Professional Development
and Integration.
1990s
Lila Jaber B.A. ’88, J.D. ’90
received the Lifetime Advocacy
Award from the Big Bend
Minority Chamber of
Commerce.
Carlton Fields is pleased
to announce that Tampa
Shareholder Wm. Cary Wright
J.D. ’90 was named a fellow
of the American College of
Construction Lawyers at the
organization’s annual meeting
held in St. Petersburg, Florida,
Feb. 21-24.
Richard B. Schwamm J.D.
’91, shareholder at Haliczer
Pettis & Schwamm P.A.,
has become a Fellow of the
American College of Trial
Lawyers, one of the premier
legal associations in North
America.
Gunster, one of Florida’s
oldest and largest full-service
business law firms, is pleased to
announce that private wealth
services attorney Debra L.
Boje J.D. ’92 has assumed her
role as chair of the Florida Bar
Real Property, Probate & Trust
Law Section (RPPTL).
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