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Premier office suite for lease within law firm at PGA Financial Plaza available immediately . Includes receptionist service in staffed waiting room and use of two conference rooms . Contact our office at 561-296-7900 or skaplan @ stuartnkaplanpa . com .
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Steven Sonberg , managing partner of
Holland & Knight , announced that 52 attorneys in the firm have been elected to partnership effective January 1 , 2023 . Thirty-three associates and 19 senior counsel from various offices throughout the firm have been elevated . Kayla Pragid is a member of the firm ' s Litigation Section in West Palm Beach . Ms . Pragid focuses her practice on complex federal litigation and class actions nationwide , with an emphasis on prosecuting and defending fraud and unfair and deceptive trade practices across multiple industries , including securities , healthcare , insurance , cryptocurrency and equine fraud , as well as shareholder derivative claims and ERISA / ESOP claims with underlying allegations of deceptive or unfair conduct .
Florida law firm Lewis , Longman &
Walker , P . A . is pleased to announce the election of four new shareholders of the firm : Seth C . Behn , Julia L . Jennison , Kathryn B . Rossmell and Robert Angus Williams . Collectively , this group of lawyers brings a total of 60 years of legal experience , most of them being while they practiced at LLW . Seth ’ s practice focuses on land use , environmental law and governmental affairs . He assists clients with complex land development matters and helps them navigate through the government approval processes . With a background in Urban Planning , his work often focuses on zoning entitlements , riparian rights , and real estate . Julia ’ s practice focuses on working closely with clients to understand and execute their strategic objectives within the evolving and complex areas of water resource , environmental and real property law . Julia is the Vice-Chair of LLW ’ s Land Use & Real Estate Law Practice Group and assists clients in permitting of their land development projects , obtaining state and federal environmental resource and mitigation bank permits , state water use permitting issues , and in all aspects of complex real estate transactions . Kathryn ’ s practice focuses on land use , environmental , local government and natural resources law . She represents private clients on land use matters including comprehensive planning issues and land development regulation application , drafting and implementation ; public and private clients on natural resources permitting issues ; clients challenging and defending National Environmental Policy Act ( NEPA ) compliance ; as well as civil litigation for public and private clients for matters within her practice areas
Jones Foster is pleased to announce the addition of attorney Richard P . Caprio as an Associate in the firm ’ s Private Wealth , Trusts & Estates and Corporate & Tax practice groups based in the West Palm Beach office . Rick concentrates his practice in the areas of estate planning , trust and estate administration , taxation , and transactional corporate law . He advises clients on estate planning and tax issues and assists business owners with corporate restructuring and reorganizing as well as corporate conversions . Previously , Rick was a Trust Counsel and a Trust Officer for a land trust company in Illinois and he served as a judicial clerk for Judge Mark A . Speiser of the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit of Florida , Probate Division . He is an active member of The Florida Bar Real Property Probate and Trust Law Section . Rick earned his Juris Doctor from DePaul University College of Law and an L . L . M . in Estate Planning from the University of Miami School of Law . He also holds a Master of Science in Accountancy from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign .
Michael J . Gelfand , Esq . of Gelfand &
Arpe , P . A ., presented an evaluation " Recent Developments , Florida Judicial Update ,” at the University of Miami ’ s 47th , Ralph E Boyer Institute on Condominium and Cluster Development
M ichael J . Gelfand , Esq . of Gelfand
& Arpe , P . A ., a member of The Florida Bar ’ s Condominium Life Safety Advisory Task Force , presented " Green Bananas : The Perception of " Affordable ," Florida Condominium Ownership Slips on a Dirty Rotten Peel ” for the Jacksonville Area Real Estate Council .