Legal Briefs (Tampa)

Legal Briefs (Tampa)

Florida Bar gives

Walbolt appellate award

Carlton Fields PA Chairman Sylvia Walbolt received the 2005 James C. Adkins Award from the Florida Bar's Appellate Practice Section for her contributions to the field of appellate practice.

Prior recipients include Arthur England, former chief justice of the Florida Supreme Court, and U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Rosemary Barkett.

Walbolt, former president of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, handles federal and state appeals in all areas, including tort, products liability, commercial, constitutional and employment discrimination. She frequently lectures on appellate practice, procedure and advocacy.

GrayRobinson attorneys

elected to boards

GrayRobinson litigator Colleen M. Fitzgerald was elected to a three-year term as a director of the Tampa Kiwanis Foundation Inc. Fitzgerald, who's completing a term as a director of the Kiwanis Club, specializes in securities and commercial litigation.

In other firm news, W. Campbell McLean of Tampa was appointed to the Tampa Bay Business Committee for the Arts board of directors. McLean focuses on eminent domain and property litigation.

Judicial applicants sought

for Pinellas-Pasco circuit

The 6th Circuit Judicial Nominating Commission is accepting applications for one of three new local judgeships authorized in the 2005 legislative session.

Applicants must be a resident of Pinellas or Pasco, a registered voter and a Florida Bar member in good standing for at least five years. One original and nine copies of the application and attachments must be received by July 14 in the law offices of MacFarlane, Ferguson & McMullen. Send to the attention of Josh Magidson, 625 Court St., Suite 200, Clearwater 33756.

The JNC will submit the names of three to six nominees to Gov. Jeb Bush, who chooses the new judge. The first position is to be filled by Nov. 2, while the other two new judgeships should be filled by January.

An application can be downloaded at the Bar's Web site at flabar.org.

In all, the Legislature approved 55 new judgeships in the state.

Stetson faculty members

honored for work

Stetson University College of Law, Gulfport, recently recognized faculty members for their contributions.

• Professor Dorothy Beane received the 2005 Excellence in Teaching Award, Stetson's highest teaching honor. Beane teaches civil procedure, federal pretrial practice and international human rights. She's director of the college's summer abroad program at The Hague, Netherlands.

• Professors Michael Allen and James Fox received the 2005 Homer and Dolly Hand Awards. Allen teaches constitutional law, civil procedure and federal courts. Fox teaches contracts, poverty and public benefits law and American legal history.

• Vice Dean and Professor Royal C. Gardner and Associate Vice President of College Relations Dotti Bressi received Dean's awards.

Hill, Ward & Henderson

hires new tax attorney

P. Prestin Weidner, a graduate of Vanderbilt University Law School, joined Hill, Ward & Henderson PA as an associate in the corporate and tax department. In addition to an accounting degree from Florida State University and a law degree from Vanderbilt, Weidner has an LL.M. in taxation from Georgetown University.

Foley & Lardner lawyers

recognized By Chambers USA

Seven practice areas in Foley & Lardner's Tampa office were ranked among the best by Chambers USA - America's Leading Business Lawyers. And three of the firm's local partners - James M. Landis, Fred S. Ridley and Mark J. Wolfson - made the list.

The practice areas include antitrust, bankruptcy, construction, corporate/mergers and acquisitions, employment, primarily defense, insurance and real estate.

Carlton Fields attorney

becomes certified in tax law

Cristin A. Conley has been board certified by the Florida Bar in tax law.

Conley practices in the areas of state and federal tax planning, including federal taxation of foreign entities and U.S. foreign investments, tax controversies and laws governing profit and nonprofit businesses. She's a 1994 graduate of Duke University, and she has a J.D. and LL.M from the University of Florida College of Law.

Nathaniel L. Doliner, chair of the firm's corporate practice group, was a panelist on mergers and acquisitions at the recent American Corporate Counsel annual meeting in Chicago.

Plus, Doliner participated in a mock negotiation of a stock purchase agreement at Stanford Law School.

- Janet Leiser

Satterfield joins

Broad & Cassel

David J. Satterfield, a graduate of the University of Florida law school, joined Broad and Cassel as an associate in the firm's commercial litigation practices group.

FAWL installs

new president

June McKinney Bartelle was installed as president of the Florida Association for Women Lawyers in mid June. Her term began July 1.

Bartelle, a senior assistant attorney general in Tallahassee, serves as general counsel to the Florida Commission for Independent Education. She's rated AV by Martindale-Hubell, and experienced in administrative law, complex civil and criminal litigation.

Florida Bar honors

50-year lawyers

More than 100 attorneys from the Sunshine State were honored for half-a-century of dedication to the service of law at a June 24 luncheon during the Florida Bar's annual convention in Orlando.

The bar recognized attorneys in good standing that attained their 50th anniversary as a member of the Florida Bar in 2005.

Honored were Stewart C. Eggert, David H. Hanlon, Lewis Hamilton Hill III, Broaddus Livingston and George O. Wilson III, all of Tampa; Guy L. Kennedy Jr., Clearwater; Alan R. Lupka, Land-O-Lakes; Thomas E. Bissonnette, Odessa; Albert C. Werly, Seminole; and Joseph H. Chumbley, Mark R. McGarry Jr. and Guy N. Perenich, all of St. Petersburg.