• Chief Judge Donald Moran was unanimously reelected to serve another two-year term as chief judge of the 4th Judicial Circuit. Last week, court administrator Britt Beasley informed Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Barbara Pariente that Moran had been elected to remain as chief judge for Duval, Clay and Nassau counties. This is Moran’s sixth term. He was first elected in February 1995. His current term will take him to 2007. The election for chief judge runs in February of odd-numbered years.
• The law firm of Fowler, White, Boggs and Banker recently added two new associates to its Jacksonville office - Adam M. Jarchow and Kimberly G. Killian. Jarchow, a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Florida’s Levin College of Law, has joined the firm’s corporate and real estate practice groups. He will mainly work in the areas of federal and state taxation, mergers, acquisitions and secured lending transactions. Killian will practice in the firm’s securities, financial and white collar practice group and will focus on commercial litigation, class actions and complex litigation involving consumer fraud. She is a cum laude graduate of Florida State University’s College of Law. Jarchow and Killian will be joining Fowler White’s team of more than 200 attorneys across Florida.
• Though Harrell & Johnson is now called Harrell & Harrell since former partner Gregory Johnson’s departure, who ever produced the firm’s new television ads didn’t get the memo. If you pay close attention to the new Harrell & Harrell ads on television, you might notice that one of the talking heads is that of Johnson, even though he is no longer with the firm.
• The Florida Coastal School of Law Center for Law and Justice is presenting a symposium for participants of a delegation visiting from Buenos Aires, Argentina this week. Participants include Argentinean lawyers, judges, law professors and members of a South American judicial reform group.
• Bankruptcy attorney Jacob Brown has announced that he is running for a position on the Jacksonville Bar Association’s Board of Governors.
• He might not have quite the star power, but Michael Figgins, the executive director of Jacksonville Area Legal Aid, thinks the producers of “Lonely Hearts,” a movie starring John Travolta that’s filming in Jacksonville, could have saved some money by casting him in Travolta’s place. While the former “Pulp Fiction” star makes around $20 million a year, Figgins said he’d work “for around $5 a day just to work with Selma Hayek.” Hayek is Travolta’s co-star in the movie.
• What do you get when you mix lawyers, bowling balls and champagne? How about $35,000 for charity? That was the amount raised recently at Champaign Bowling at Jax Lanes Grove Park. The money went to The Bridge of Northeast Florida, a local non-profit that provides a full range of programs for children raised in Jacksonville’s inner city. The event was co-sponsored by Coker, Myers, Shickel, Sorenson and Green, and Delores Weaver’s Weaver Family Foundation plans to match the money raised.