4 Akerman Partners Honored with Everyday Organization Review’s 2023 Florida Legal Awards

National law firm Akerman is pleased to announce that 4 partners have been recognized for their skilled excellence in the legal neighborhood in the course of the Everyday Organization Review’s 2023 Florida Legal Awards held on Could 17 at the JW Marriott Marquis in Miami. Tax Unique Counsel Elizabeth Hughes was chosen in the On the Rise category, Healthcare Companion Betsy Hodge was awarded in the Distinguished Leader category, Fraud and Recovery Practice Group Chair Michael Goldberg was named Lawyer of the Year, and Litigation Companion Grasford Smith was honored in the Diversity and Inclusion category.

Elizabeth Hughes, Miami

Hughes focuses her practice on fiduciary litigation, with a unique concentration on disputes that arise from Florida estates, trusts, and guardianships. Her expertise incorporates effectively litigating and resolving complicated circumstances involving will and trust contests, fiduciary charge disputes, determination of heir disputes, disputes more than appointment of fiduciaries, removal of fiduciaries, surcharge actions, elective share disputes, and breaches of fiduciary obligations. She consistently assists people and consumers serving as fiduciaries in reforming and construing wills and trusts, figuring out rights in wills and trusts, modifying trusts, and terminating trusts. For far more than ten years, Hughes has served on the Executive Council of the Actual Home, Probate, and Trust Law Section of the Florida Bar and in this capacity has been involved in crafting Florida Law relating to estates, trusts, and guardianship proceedings and has been involved in the legislative method for the section.

Betsy Hodge, West Palm Beach

The newly appointed chair of the American Well being Law Association Well being Facts &amp Technologies Practice Group, Hodge concentrates her practice on compliance and regulatory challenges affecting healthcare providers, payers, and employer-sponsored overall health plans. She has considerable expertise with HIPAA and the HITECH Act and assists covered entities and enterprise associates in complying with these laws via the improvement of policies and procedures, workforce coaching, evaluation of information incidents and notification of breaches, and assisting with government audits and investigations. Hodge also advises consumers with regards to compliance with a variety of other federal and state privacy and information safety laws and related transactional challenges.

Michael Goldberg, Fort Lauderdale

A Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, Goldberg chairs the firm’s Fraud and Recovery Practice, which is focused on unraveling higher-profile investor fraud, such as Ponzi schemes and EB-five Immigrant Investor Visa Plan wrongdoing. Goldberg has served as court-appointed receiver in lots of circumstances more than the previous two decades, assisting victims maximize prospective returns by identifying, securing, and monetizing prospective assets as swiftly and effectively as doable.

Grasford Smith, West Palm Beach

Smith, President Elect of the Palm Beach County Bar Association, focuses his practice on complicated industrial litigation matters and is certified by the Supreme Court of Florida as a Circuit Civil Mediator. He has expertise representing a diverse variety of consumers, such as Fortune 500 firms, government agencies, athletic leagues, technologies firms, and a U.S. Congressman, in addition to a assortment of compact and medium-sized enterprises. He handles regional and national disputed matters regarding corporate governance, government enforcement actions, non-compete and confidentiality agreements, trade secrets, actual estate matters, building defects, franchises, goods liability, intellectual home, eminent domain, and disciplinary/admission matters.

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