Holland & Knight attorney Rob Riva has earned accreditation from the United States Green Building Council and is now considered a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Accredited Professional. Riva practices in the firm’s real estate and public companies and securities groups and, according to the release, is the first LEED AP attorney in Jacksonville and the first to be listed on the Green Building Certification Institute’s LEED AP Director under the “legal” area of practice.
• Attorney Charles Dorman — managing attorney at Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Coggin — has thrown his hat into the ring to replace Dan McCarthy, the City’s chief of Military Affairs. McCarthy has been tabbed by State Attorney-elect Angela Corey to serve as her top assistant. Dorman spent 33 years in the Marine Corps and retired as a Brigadier General. He’s been in Jacksonville with the Philadelphia-based law firm since March 2006.
• The Cornerstone Regional Development Partnership is hosting a regional economic development forum Oct. 3 from 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. Officials and business leaders from Baker, Clay, Duval, Flagler, Nassau, Putnam and St. Johns counties will be on hand to discuss economic development opportunities and issues facing the region to better create a public policy agenda for the region. Cornerstone is the economic development arm of the Jacksonville Regional Chamber of Commerce. For more information, call Wendy Havens at 366-6639. For more on Cornerstone, see page 5.
• According to a typed note taped to the window of the Ethics Office, City Ethics Officer Carla Miller won’t be in the office much the rest of the month. The new fiscal year starts Oct. 1 and the note says there is “no remaining funding for the Ethics Office until Oct. 1, so that is why my time in the office as a volunteer will be limited.” Miller did leave her private practice number, the name and number of her assistant and the office hot line number.
• Jim Porter has joined the law firm of Fowler White Boggs Banker in the firm’s real estate practice group. He’s a shareholder and was vice president and assistant general counsel with Montecito Property Company and Montecito Investment Company.
• MyBoatShares, a company based in Stuart, Fla. has added five boat retailers in the Jacksonville area — including Haskell’s Marine, Jacksonville Yacht Sales and Atlantic Coast Marine — to its dealer networks. Citing the weak economy as the reason for a decline in boat sales, CEO of MyBoatShares Glenn Enriquez thinks this might be the ticket to help. The company sells boats and offers clients partnered ownership of boats at Riverbend Marine in St. Augustine and Ocean Outboard Marine on Amelia Island.