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Talk of the Town AWARDS ➤ ANNOUNCEMENTS ➤ PRESS RELEASES ➤ PROMOTIONS EVENTS ➤ ACTIVITIES ➤ HONORS ➤ RECOGNITIONS
➤ Stephanie Moot has been named partner with K&L Gates in Miami. Moot focuses her commercial disputes practice on Title III ADA public accommo- dations and defends class
Berger Singerman as a parter in Miami and Tallahassee on the dispute resolution and government and regulatory teams.
➤Cristina Papanikos was promoted to shareholder with Gunster in Miami. She focuses her practice on estate, trust and guardian- ship litigation.
➤ Alexandra M. Taboada is now a partner with Nosich & Ganz in
Coral Gables.
➤ Michelle Otero Valdes has relocated the Coral Gables o ce of Chalos & Co. Otero Valdes is board certi ed in admiralty and maritime law.
on commercial litigation, products liability and catastrophic injury cases.
Stephanie Moot
➤Brendan I. Herbert has joined León Cosgrove in Coral Gables as a commer- cial litigation associate with a focus on complex disputes in nancial services and construction.
action and individual lawsuits for clients across various industries.
Brendan I. Herbert
➤ Joshua L. Spoont has become a shareholder with Richman Greer in Miami. He focuses on civil litiga- tion with an emphasis on complex business disputes, as well as business transac- tions.
Cristina Papanikos
➤ So a Salazar and Lianet Rodriguez have joined Almazan Law in Miami focus- ing on real estate law and workers’ com- pensation defense, respectively.
➤ Cynthia Morales has joined Carlton Fields in Miami as of counsel in the real property litigation practice group.
Joshua L. Spoont
➤Carlton Fields has named several new Miami shareholders, including Anasta- sios G. Kastrinakis, a member of the rm’s business transactions, international, and taxation practice groups; David L. Luck, a member of the appellate and trial support, national trial, and products and toxic tort liability practice groups; Ilan A. Nieucho- wicz, a member of the national trial and real property litigation practice groups, as well as the real estate, title insurance, devel- opment, hospitality, nance, and banking industry groups; and Douglas J. Chum- bley, a member of the national trial and products and toxic tort liability practice groups.
➤Jonathan Jordan has been elevated to partner with Andrew Rier and the North Miami rm will now be known as Rier Jor- dan, P.A. e rm does criminal defense work. Ramon Crego has also joined the rm as an associate.
➤Leslie José Zigel has joined Greenspoon Mard- er in Miami as a sharehold- er. He will chair the rm’s newly formed entertain- ment law group.
➤ Elaine D. Walter and Joseph M. Winsby recently were named partners in Gaebe, Mullen, Antonelli &
DiMatteo.
➤Joseph R. Englander has joined Peretz Chesal & Herrmann as a partner in Miami focusing on patent law.
➤ Francis “Frank” X. Sexton, Jr., and James P. Gueits have joined Roig Lawyers in Miami as partners in the corporate prac- tice group.
➤Pamela Cothran Marsh has joined
Steven M. Appelbaum
➤Steven M. Appelbaum has been promoted to part- ner with Arnstein & Lehr in Miami. He is a member of the litigation practice group.
➤ Ellen Ross Belfer has joined León Cosgrove in Coral Gables as of counsel focusing on complex com- mercial disputes involving contracts, class actions, the Racketeer In uenced and
Melanie A. Parris
➤Melanie A. Parris has joined Nosich & Ganz in Coral Gables, where she will be handling rst- and third-party property de- fense as well as defend gen- eral and professional liabil- ity matters.
Ellen Ross Belfer Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), business torts, duciary duty, fraud and product liability.
➤Greenspoon Marder moved its Miami o ce into the prestigious Brickell World Plaza on Brickell Avenue.
➤ e Law O ces of Richard Kuper, P.A., have relocated to Biscayne Building, 19 West Flagler Street, Suite 707, Miami 33130.
➤Christine Louissaint of Roig Lawyers in Miami received the certi cation fraud examiner certi cate from the Association of Certi ed Fraud Examiners.
Christine Louissaint ➤ Maria D. Garcia of Zumpano Patricios & Winker in Coral Gables has been named vice president of the Cuban American Bar Association.
➤Cynthia Henry Duval of NSU Shepard Broad College of Law has been appointed to the ABA Coalition on Racial and Ethnic Justice. She will be contributing to the co- alition’s Digital Justice Initiative.
➤Avi Kaufman has joined Kopelowitz Ostrow in Mi- ami focusing on consumer class actions and complex business litigation matters.
➤Nazanin Tondravi has
become associate director, O ce of Regulatory Compliance, Depart- ment of Medical Compliance Services at the Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
at the University of Miami.
Avi Kaufman
Leslie José Zigel
➤ Adam Santana has joined Nosich & Ganz in Coral Gables focusing on the defense of complex medical malpractice ac- tions and insurance policy coverage disputes.
➤ Stefanie Phillips has joined Weinberg, Wheeler, Hudgins, Gunn & Dial as an associate in Miami fo- cusing on all aspects of civil litigation with an emphasis
Adam Santana
Stefanie Phillips
Darcee S. Siegel
sion.
➤Darcee S. Siegel of Bal Harbour was nominated to serve on the ABA’s board of governors as a section member at-large represent- ing the government and public sector lawyers divi-
➤Jeni er Viscarra of Viscarra Law in Miami was re-appointed chair of the city
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