Stories by Derek Dowell on Florida Record

ORLANDO – The Florida State Bar Association recently released the names and offenses of four attorneys who ran afoul of professional expectations.

GULFPORT – It was March Madness of a different flavor recently when an arbitration team from Stetson University College of Law took home multiple awards at the 23rd annual Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration moot competition in Vienna, Austria last month.

CLEARWATER, Fla. – Palm Harbor businessman Scott Patrick Mitchell broke up with his fiancee last summer and shortly thereafter realized $2.1 million in jewelry had gone missing from a vault to which only he and his ex, Mary Catherine Hunt, knew the combination.

ORLANDO – Just when it seemed the dust had settled over Orlando’s decision to use the eminent domain process to acquire land on which to build a Major League Soccer (MLS) stadium, local activists Lawanna and Betty Gelzer allege in a lawsuit that the city violated Florida law by selling the land to private developers.

JACKSONVILLE – The law firm of Brennan, Manna & Diamond recently welcomed Matthew Harrod to the Jacksonville office.

LAKELAND – Fighting to recoup money lost because of her home’s shoddy construction has taken more than a decade of Michelle Gray’s life, and extracted a terrible toll both financially and emotionally, but it seems the Hillsborough woman will finally see compensation for her ordeal to the tune of $168,000.