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Legal Briefs - Dec. 2006

? Greenberg Traurig hired Gregory W. Kehoe, U.S. legal adviser to the tribunal prosecuting Saddam Hussein and members of his former government, for its global litigation practice. Kehoe, a longtime international prosecutor who also served as trial attorney for the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia at The Hague, joins as a shareholder in GT's newest office in Tampa.

? Charles Harper, a former associate regional administrator at the Securities and Exchange Commission in Miami who has more than 30 years of experience in investigating and prosecuting securities fraud, has joined Navigant Consulting as a director in the firm's Miami office

? Former Florida lawmaker Joseph Arnall joined Akerman Senterfitt as a government relations consultant in the firm's Jacksonville and Tallahassee offices.

? John C. Carey, Juan J. Rodriguez, Steven M. Greenberg and Scott D. Paul founded Carey Rodriguez Greenberg & Paul LLP, an intellectual property law and complex commercial litigation firm with offices in Miami, Boca Raton and Washington, D.C.

? The George Hartz firm named Jose Antonio Llerena an associate in the Coral Gables office, where he will focus on commercial, corporate, labor, contract and civil rights law.

? Gregory L. Mayback and Catherine F. Hoffman opened Mayback & Hoffman, an intellectual property firm in Fort Lauderdale. Hoffman heads up the litigation department, while Mayback leads the transactional department and prosecutes patents, trademarks and copyrights.

? Hunton & Williams named founding partner Sam Danon its new administrative partner in the Miami office, where he also serves as head of the litigation practice.

? The St. Johns County Commission unanimously voted Patrick F. McCormack county attorney.
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Deborah Halvorsen
was named shareholder at Jacksonville's O'Hara Law Firm.

? Karen Koster Burr was tapped to head Brennan, Manna & Diamond's intellectual property group in Jacksonville.