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Jackson Lewis has recently boosted its Miami office with the hires of Devand (Dave) Sukhdeo and Terrance Woodhard.  Sukhdeo joins as a partner and Woodhard joins as an associate.  Sukhdeo was most recently a partner with Ogletree Deakins law firm.    

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Jones Walker has boosted its Miami office with the hire of three attorneys.  D. Renee Jenkins joins the firm as special counsel and was previously with Adorno & Yoss.  Real Estate associate, Gregory W. Kuehnle, joins from Williams Mullen.  Constance D. Russell will be an associate at Jones Walker after completing federal clerkship with the Honorable Catharine R. Carruthers, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Middle District of North Carolina.

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Greenberg Traurig has added attorney Justin B. Mead to its Miami office. He joins as partner in the tax practice group. Mead concentrates on federal income tax and large corporations, and places special focus on the energy industry. He was a partner at McDermott Will & Emery.

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Zuckerman Spaeder announced that it plans to close its Miami office due to loosing five of its attorneys to Carlton Fields. Departing are the following: managing partner Walter Tache, partners Michael S. Pasano, Stephen J. Bronis and Thomas J. Meeks, and of counsel Paul A. Calli. After closing its Miami office, Zuckerman will have one remaining office in Tampa, Florida.
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Hunton & Williams has announced that Michael A. Silva will join their Miami office as a partner within their private wealth tax practice. Silva has 13 years of experience with tax law as well as over a decade of international tax experience in addition to having been an adjunct professor of law at the University of Miami. Silva will join Hunton & Williams partner Cary Tolley in the tax practice.
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Six Holland & Knight Miami partners have announced their departure from the firm to start their own boutique. The Coral Gables firm will be known as Avila Rodriguez Hernandez Mena & Ferri. Former head of H&K’s banking and finance group, Alcides Avila, will be joined by partners Wilfredo Rodriguez, Eugenio Hernandez, Patricia Hernandez, Daniel Mena, and Marco Ferri; associate Asnardo Garro Jr. is also joining. Holland & Knight’s Miami office executive partner, Peter Prieto, is not worried about the loss of the partners, and said that the remaining attorneys cover all the same areas of expertise.
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Holland & Knight welcomed three new attorneys to its Tallahassee office this week. Frederick R. Dudley and Mia L. McKown join the firm’s Florida Government Advocacy Practice, and Gigi Rollini joins the firm’s Litigation Section. Dudley focuses on construction law, administrative law, and legislative and governmental affairs. McKown specializes in administrative law and legislative and governmental affairs, and Rollini practices administrative law as well as utility regulation and appellate law.
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Littler Mendelson has opened an office in Orlando with six employment lawyers from Fisher & Phillips. With locations in Charlotte, NC; Columbia, SC; Atlanta, Mobile, AL and Miami, the San Francisco firm’s new office pushes it farther into the Southeast. Littler Mendelson is known as the nation’s largest labor and employment firm, and has over 600 attorneys across the country.
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