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Shutts & Bowen LLP’s Construction Practice Group leader, Timothy D. Woodward, and Orlando partner John H. Dannecker, recently authored an in-depth overview on Florida construction law, featured alongside the recently released 2021 Chambers USA Florida legal rankings.

Fort Lauderdale partner Amy Wessel Jones recently graduated from the Leadership Broward Foundation program. Leadership Broward is Broward County’s premier leadership development training organization with a 40-year history of preparing and connecting leaders from the business and civic communities to strengthen Florida’s future.

On Thursday, June 17, Miami partner Kristin Drecktrah Paz (FIU Law ’11) will participate as a panelist on FIU Law’s “Women in the Legal Profession” panel.

On June 30, 2021, Amanda Buffinton, a partner in Shutts & Bowen LLP’s Tampa office, will present the second of her two-part audio webcast discussion on Florida’s “federal” summary judgment standard, in a CLE seminar for the Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section of The Florida Bar.

On Thursday, June 10, the firm’s Focus on Women Group held a Summer Social. During the event, attendees experienced a cho.colate tasting led by a chocolate expert from Vosges Haut-Chocolat

Jason Gonzalez, Managing Partner of Shutts & Bowen LLP’s Tallahassee office and Chairman of the Appellate Practice Group, recently discovered a letter dated April 28, 1930, from the firm’s founder, Frank Shutts, to a relative of his by marriage, Stanley Hanson.

Eric Page, a partner in Shutts & Bowen LLP’s Tampa office, was recently elected to the Board of Directors of the Gasparilla Festival of the Arts, one of the country’s most prestigious fine arts and fine crafts shows.

Shutts & Bowen LLP is pleased to announce that the firm has been nationally ranked among Construction Executive magazine’s Top 50 Construction Law Firms™ for 2021. In the firm’s inaugural appearance on the list, Shutts placed 32nd in the 2021 rankings.

Aleksey Shtivelman, a partner in Shutts & Bowen LLP’s Miami office, recently completed the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce’s hallmark leadership program, Leadership Miami®. As a part of the program, Aleksey and his community service project team members were also honored as the inaugural winning team of Project Pitch Night, a Shark-Tank like competition and event, as well as the program’s “Project of the Year.”

On behalf of their client, Florida Department of Health, Shutts & Bowen LLP partners Jason Gonzalez, Amber Stoner Nunnally and Daniel Nordby recently prevailed in the landmark medical marijuana case of the Florida Department of Health v. Florigrown LLC. The Shutts Appellate team has now represented their client in both of the leading Florida cases establishing the new medical marijuana law in Florida.

The Florida Bar recently appointed Jake Baccari, a partner in Shutts & Bowen’s Miami office, to serve on the International Law Certification Committee. Jake, who is Florida Bar Certified in International Law, will serve a 3-year term beginning on July 1, 2021.

On Thursday, May 20, the firm’s Focus on Women Group gathered for a Lunch & Learn centered on the topic of taking ownership of personal finances.