Duval Delegation supports local pay day lender ordinance
The Duval County Delegation passed a resolution Friday supporting Duval County’s payday lender ordinance. The legislation caps interest rates that can be charged on the short-term loans and restricts where the lenders can operate. The resolution said Florida cities and counties would be better prepared to protect citizens from predatory lending with support from the legislature.
Akerman Senterfitt adds to staff
Kevin Eckhardt has joined Akerman Senterfitt’s litigation group as an associate in the firm’s Jacksonville office. Eckhardt will focus primarily on complex commercial litigation, bankruptcy and creditors’ rights, including class action litigation, securities litigation, contract litigation, debt restructuring, asset purchases and insolvency planning.
Local attorneys back up fish stories with photos
Attorneys Jeffrey Morrow and Tom Edwards returned this month from their annual fly fishing odyssey to Guatemala. This year’s friendly tournament turned into a game of one-upsmanship with several anglers performing some boast-worthy feats. Manley Kilgore, a local doctor, caught the biggest sailfish of the week using fly gear. Edwards, of Peek Cobb Edwards & Ashton, recorded a rare “triple.” The fishing term refers to three anglers in the same boat reeling in catches at the same time. But Morrow set the most tongues wagging by reeling in a sailfish from an inflatable kayak 40 miles out in the Pacific Ocean. Theories abound in Jacksonville’s legal community about what might have prompted Morrow’s one-man re-enactment of Ernest Hemingway’s “Old Man and the Sea.” “Too much tequila,” suggested attorney Gene Peek. Morrow expanded the humanitarian mission of this year’s trip. In lieu of an entrance fee, the price of admission to this year’s tournament was a suitcase full of food, medicine and other essentials for the locals.