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Shutts & Bowen LLP is proud to announce its selection as 2024 First Place Winner of the ‘Best Of’ award winner in the Real Estate and Labor and Employment category by the Daily Business Review.

Shutts & Bowen LLP is pleased to announce that Melodie Khosrovani, an associate in the Tampa office, was chosen by the firm’s Pro Bono Committee to receive the First Annual Shutts & Bowen Outstanding Pro Bono Service Award.  This award was presented to Khosrovani during the Tampa office’s monthly social on November 14, 2024.

Shutts & Bowen LLP Miami Private Client Services partner Patrick Lannon spoke at BNY Wealth’s Probate & Pumpernickel event on Thursday, November 14, which took place at BNY Wealth’s Miami Office.

On November 4, 2024, Miami International Litigation and Arbitration attorney Tarmo Jõeveer spoke to students at the University of Miami’s Border Disputes in the 21st Century class, discussing the role of international institutions such as the United Nations’ International Court of Justice and the Permanent Court of Arbitration in resolving territorial disputes between sovereign nations. For this discussion, Tarmo drew on more than 15 years of experience from working on border disputes.

Brendan Aloysius Barry, a partner in Shutts & Bowen LLP’s Fort Lauderdale office, recently served as a judge during “Ocean Exchange 2024,” the non-profit’s entrepreneurship program and awards program for developed and commercialized solutions for the Blue Economy.

Paul Scheck, a partner in Shutts & Bowen LLP’s Orlando office, was recently featured in a Law.com article titled, “Lawyers Warn: Little-Noticed Report Could Spell Bad News for Employers,” on November 4, 2024.

Garrett Tozier, a partner in Shutts & Bowen LLP’s Tampa office, moderated the “Judges Turned Litigators and What They Learned from Their Time on the Bench” CLE for the Appellate Practice Section of The Florida Bar on September 17, 2024.

While the dust settles, companies or individuals doing business in and out of Mexico are paying attention and will seek ways to structure their investments and adjudicate the disputes emanating from them favoring alternative mechanisms such as arbitration.

U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers®, for the 15th consecutive year, collaboratively announced the release of the U.S. News – Best Lawyers® "Best Law Firms" rankings, naming Shutts & Bowen LLP to the 2025 list. The firm is nationally ranked in 18 practice areas and regionally ranked in 47 specialties across eight metropolitan areas.

Shutts & Bowen LLP is pleased to announce that JoAnne “Joleen” Searles has joined the firm’s Sarasota office as a partner in the Private Client Services Practice Group.

Shutts & Bowen LLP Fort Lauderdale attorney Spencer Hennings, a member of the Real Estate Practice Group, recently participated as a panelist for the Gold Coast Chapter of the Master Brokers Forum on October 24, 2024.

Derrick Valkenburg, a partner in Shutts & Bowen LLP’s Orlando office, was re-elected to a second three-year term on the Board of Directors of the Associated Builders and Contractors – Central Florida Chapter.