Burton A. Landy, a shareholder in Akerman Senterfitt's Miami office, has been selected chairman-elect of the World Services Group, a global membership association of the top providers of professional business services. Landy has served as an arbitrator in numerous international commercial and investment disputes from Argentina to Japan. He'll become WSG chairman in 2007...
>> Also in Miami, William P. McCaughan has left Duane Morris for Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham, where he'll be a partner in the real estate practice. McCaughan is a member of the executive council of the real property section of the Florida Bar and was chairman of the Mortgage Law Committee for 10 years...
>> In Tampa, Latour "LT" Lafferty, a 10-year federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Florida, has joined Fowler White Boggs Banker as a shareholder in the firm's healthcare and white-collar crime practice groups. Lafferty previously worked as associate independent counsel in Washington, D.C., on the Whitewater and Monica Lewinsky investigations involving President Clinton.