After adding four attorneys to its Litigation and Disputes Service Line this year, the national law firm of Shumaker is continuing to expand the team, adding five new associates across its Sarasota, Tampa and Toledo offices.
The new attorneys in the Sarasota office are Jacqueline Gardner and Travis Taaffe, who are also members of Shumaker’s Financial Services Business Sector, focused on broker-dealer litigation and arbitration as part of a team that represents large financial institutions and high net-worth individuals in securities litigation, regulatory investigations and violations of contractual covenants.
Both Gardner and Taaffe worked for Shumaker as summer associates.
With more than 80 experienced litigators across nine offices, Shumaker’s Litigation and Disputes Service Line represents clients in a broad range of matters throughout the United States.
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Conrado Gomez Jr. has joined Berlin Patten Ebling’s team of experienced lawyers.
Gomez primarily practices in commercial litigation, real property disputes, construction litigation and landlord-tenant disputes.
He attended Riverdale High School in Fort Myers, completing the International Baccalaureate program. After high school, Gomez became a Florida Gator.
He also attended Florida State University College of Law, focusing on business law and civil litigation courses. During law school, he clerked at Florida’s Department of Business and Professional Regulation, Division of Pari-Mutuel Wagering.
Post-law school, Gomez became a prosecutor for the Department of Business and Professional Regulation, specifically the Construction Industry Licensing Board in Tallahassee. He has extensive knowledge of the licensing laws in the state, the regulations of the Construction Industry Licensing Board and Florida’s administrative laws.
This article originally appeared on Sarasota Herald-Tribune: Shumaker law firm expanding team, Berlin Patten hires lawyer