JAABA elects board members
Last week, the Jacksonville Asian American Bar Association elected a new board for the upcoming year. Serving second terms in the same position will be Maria Aguila as president and Thuy Anh Nguyen as vice president. Joining the JAABA leadership ranks this year is Patrick Patangan as secretary. Larry Wang will also be returning for a second term as treasurer pending his acceptance of the position.
JALA offering free CLE course
Jacksonville Area Legal Aid is offering a training program this week to teach local attorneys more about predatory lending and consumer law issues. The program will be taught at 2 p.m. Wednesday at JALA’s main office at 126 W. Adams St. JALA attorneys April Charney and Lynn Drysdale will be teaching the three-hour course designed to show attorneys how to defend mortgage foreclosures. For more information, call Drysdale at 356-8371, ext. 381.
New Job
Anthony Perrone, a former law clerk with the Office of General Counsel, has been selected as the new attorney for the city of Crystal Springs, near Tampa. The Crystal Springs City Council voted 5-0 in favor of Perrone, who was with the City of Jacksonville’s OGC from 1998-2003...Emily Romberg has joined the Jacksonville office of Akerman Senterfitt as an associate in the office’s real estate group. She joins the firm from Fidelity National Financial where she was assistant vice president of claims counsel. Romberg received both her undergraduate degree and her J.D. from the University of Miami.
Chin receives volunteer of the year award
Holland & Knight attorney Albert Chin recently received one of the firm’s volunteer of the year awards. For the past two years, Chin has been the Jacksonville coordinator for Holland & Knight’s Opening Doors for Children community service
program. He has coordinated his efforts with the Mayor’s literacy program and also works with the firm’s Junior Achievement
program.
Interviews for judicial vacancy coming
Interviews for the judicial vacancy in Duval County are being conducted Friday, July 29. The interviews are taking place in Chief Judge Donald Moran’s chambers in the Duval County Courthouse beginning at 9 a.m. The following people are being interviewed for the vacancy: Robert Aguilar, Franklin Akel, Alvin Barlow Sr., Mark Borello, Thomas Delegal III, Angela Dixon, Schelley Eckels, Mose Floyd, Gary Joseph, Thomas Lobello III, Sheila Loizos, R. Lynn Lovejoy, Donald Matthews, Virginia B. Norton, Patricia L. Parker, Jodi Seitlin, Julie Taylor, Joseph Vaughn and Leatrice W. Walton. Anyone wishing to comment on the qualifications of any of the applicants may do so by writing to Mary Bland Love, Chair of the Fourth Circuit Judicial Nominating Commission, at 815 S. Main St., Suite 300, Jacksonville, Fla. 32207.