Jacksonville Foley & Lardner attorneys Gardner Davis and Kevin Hyde are among five attorneys in the firm’s Florida offices to be named to the “Who’s Who Legal: Florida 2008,” a compilation of leading lawyers in the state. In the publication, Davis, included in the mergers and acquisitions section, is described as “highly competent” in management buyouts and other large combinations. Hyde is named as “phenomenal” in the management labor and employment section.
• Also at Foley & Lardner, Christopher Kise has rejoined the firm as vice chair of its national appellate practice and as a member of the litigation department. He is based in the firm’s Tallahassee and Tampa offices. Kise returns after serving as counselor to Gov. Charlie Crist, where he served as the chief legal and policy advisor within the administration. He provided advice and leadership and directed the implementation of administration priorities on key statewide issues including automobile and property insurance, energy, transportation, health care, public finance, the environment and climate change. Kise also served more than three years under Crist when he was attorney general as Florida’s solicitor general, the state’s top litigator.
• A donation account has been created at Regions Bank to benefit former full-time judicial assistant Christine Birch. Birch, who has battled cancer for several years, is now a rotating judicial assistant for the 4th Judicial Circuit. Those who wish to make a donation to the account may do so at any Regions Bank location by informing the teller of a deposit to the Christine Birch Fund. The funds will be used to address any needs Birch may have, and note that the contributions are not tax-deductible.
• The Northeast Florida Paralegal Association is holding its annual membership mixer Feb. 28 at the River City Brewing Company. The RSVP deadline is Feb. 22. For more information, e-mail Nancy O’Grady, paralegal at Spohrer & Dodd, at [email protected].
“By the power elite, we refer to those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate set of overlapping cliques share decisions having at least national consequences. In so far as national events are decided, the power elite are those who decide them.”
– C. Wright Mills, U.S. sociologist