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Bill Garvin of The Garvin Law Firm in Tallahassee
was elected to the board of directors
of the Tallahassee Kiwanis Club.
Marshall Gordon Geisser’s fi rm, Personal Injury
Trial Group, has a new address. He can
be reached at 3521 W. Broward Blvd., Suite
208, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. 33312; Tel., 954-
523-4357; e-mail, mgeisser@pitrialgroup.
com.
Ennis Leon Jacobs Jr. has opened the fi rm
of Williams Jacobs & Associates. He can
be reached at 1720 S. Gadsden St., MS 14,
Tallahassee, Fla. 32301; Tel., 850-222-1247;
e-mail, ljacobs50@comcast.net.
Kathy J. Maus was named a national director
of the 22,000-member DRI-The Voice of
the Defense Bar, the nation’s largest civil
defense organization. She is a partner in
the Tallahassee fi rm of Butler Pappas and
is active in the fi rm’s bad faith, casualty and
first- and third-party insurance coverage
practices.
Stephan A. Pendorf has joined the law fi rm of
Akerman Senterfi tt in West Palm Beach. You
can reach him at 222 Lakeview Ave., Suite
400, West Palm Beach, Fla. 33401; Tel. 561-
653-5000; e-mail, Stephan.pendorf@akerman.com.
Floyd Self of Messer, Caparello & Self in Tallahassee
has been named to the 2005-2006
board of governors of Leadership Tallahassee.
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Frank E. Brown has joined MacFarlane Ferguston
& McMullen in Tampa and can be
reached at One Tampa Center, 201 N. Franklin
St., Suite 2000, Tampa, Fla. 33602; Tel.,
813-273-4200.
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Mallory D. Cooper was appointed to the new
circuit court judgeship for the Fourth Judicial
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Fourth Judicial Circuit, 330 E. Bay St., Room
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Stephen S. Dobson III of Dobson, Kitchen &
Smith is listed as one of Florida’s top lawyers
for the second consecutive year in Florida
Trend magazine’s Legal Elite issue.
Judge Cynthia G. Imperato participated in a
training session in Tampa for the chairpersons
of the judicial nominating commissions
throughout Florida. She was a panelist for the
Young Lawyer Section of The Florida Bar’s
“Practicing with Professionalism Seminar.”
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