Legal News Briefs - Sept. 2007

Art Levy | 9/1/2007

» The Fort Myers firm of Osterhout & McKinney has added Beth Prather as partner and will now be known as Osterhout, McKinney & Prather.

» Jeanne L. Seewald has joined Hahn Loeser + Parks as a partner in the Naples office.

» Vance E. Salter, a partner at Hunton & Williams in Miami, has been appointed judge for the 3rd District Court of Appeal of Florida.

» Barry University Law School has received a $778,000 grant from the Eckerd Family Foundation to create a Juvenile Justice Center at its campus in Orlando.

» Stetson University College of Law has named professor Clark Furlow associate dean of its Tampa Law Center.

» Attorneys Mitchell Fuerst, Christine Humphrey and Andrew Ittleman have started a law firm called Fuerst Humphrey Ittleman of Miami.

» William S. Spencer has joined Akerman Senterfitt as a shareholder in its Fort Lauderdale office.

Tags: Politics & Law, North Central, Government/Politics & Law

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