✩# ✩# “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. “Without music, life would be a Learn as if you were to live forever.” mistake.” —Friedrich Nietzsche — Mahatma Gandhi ✩# ✩# (USPS 209-320) SERVING THE LEGAL COMMUNITY SINCE 1911 Subscription Price $20.00 a year in Advance. 107th Year — No. 14 TAMPA, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 2017 50¢ Single Copy. Back Copy $1.00. events and entertainment law law Foley Partner Tom Petty and Collier Joins Stearns Receives Award The Heartbreakers Weaver Miller in for Outstanding Coming to Amalie Tampa Office Pro Bono Service Stearns Weaver Miller Land Development, Zoning & Environmental Mark J. Wolfson, a partner with the Arena on May 6 Shareholder Jeffrey A. Collier has joined Tampa office of Foley & Lardner LLP, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, one of the most the firm’s Tampa office. has been named recipient of the 2017 iconic bands in American music history, have Following a successful stint at the “Thirteenth Judicial Circuit Outstanding announced the first dates of their 40th Anniversary firm’s Tallahassee office, Jeff will bring Pro Bono Service by a Lawyer Award,” an Tour, which includes a stop at Tampa’s Amalie® his expertise to the Tampa Bay Area. Jeff award given by the Volunteer Lawyers Arena on Saturday, May 6, 2017 at 8:00 p.m. Joe has 17 years of experience serving private Program of Bay Area Legal Services Inc. Mark Wolfson Walsh will appear as very special guest. Jeffrey A. Collier and public sector clients throughout He will be recognized at the program’s The primarily U.S. tour will begin on April 20, Florida in the areas of environmental, awards ceremony in Tampa on April 20, 2017. 2017 in Oklahoma City and continues throughout Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers (1977) land development and administrative law. He advocates clients’ “Mark Wolfson began serving on the Bay Area Volunteer Lawyers the summer with more dates to be announced. interests before federal, state and local governments, representing Program’s pro bono panel in 1995, and he provided 175.5 of pro Additional details on Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers’ 40th Anniversary Tour and career-spanning vinyl box sets are clients in a broad range of matters involving transactions, bono hours in 2016 alone,” said Jena Donofrio Hudson, Esquire, Pro available at www.tompetty.com. permitting, regulatory compliance, and litigation. Bono Manager of Bay Area Legal Services. “He is always ready to Prior to joining Stearns Weaver Miller in 2015, Jeff served as the take on a challenge and comes up with some extremely creative and Environmental Practice Group Leader of the South Florida Water unprecedented solutions to difficult legal matters.” Management District’s Office of Counsel and senior attorney with As Foley’s pro bono chairman in Tampa, Wolfson has increased Straz Center to Present ROCKTOPIA LIVE the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. the amount of Foley attorneys who participate in pro bono work, “Jeff’s relocation marks a strategic step for the Firm’s Land including business lawyers who work on non-profit matters as well The Straz Center for the Performing Arts is scheduled to present ROCKTOPIA LIVE: A Classic (R)evolution on Saturday, April 22, at 8 p.m. in Morsani Hall. Development, Zoning & Environmental Group, reinforcing the as individual cases. Wolfson has also completed pro bono cases team’s solid presence in Tampa,” said Managing Director Rick involving guardianship and guardian advocacy cases for ROCKTOPIA LIVE is a revolutionary performance celebrating the fusion of classical music with classic rock. The live concert features five world-class vocalists, five top notch rock musicians, an orchestra and choir. ROCKTOPIA LIVE Schatz. “In the past two years, we have added five new lawyers to developmentally disabled young adults, and has taken on additional the group in Tampa - Vin Marchetti, Jacob Cremer, Claire Carraway, pro bono cases that were originally difficult to place with attorneys. delivers one-of-a-kind musical arrangements featuring the works of classical composers, rock bands and artists including Queen, Mozart, Journey, Handel, U2, Tchaikovsky, Heart, Beethoven, Styx, Foreigner, Rachmaninoff, Pink Floyd, Christian O’Ryan and Brandon Rosser. We are delighted that Jeff He also regularly participates in the “Legal Help Clinic” at will now add his talents to principal practice areas that our Tampa Metropolitan Ministries in Tampa. Copland, The Who and more. Regularly priced tickets for ROCKTOPIA LIVE: A Classic (R)evolution are $36-$76.50. Tickets may be purchased by office offers.” “Mark has not only provided significant pro bono legal services “I look forward to serving our current and future clients from my to indigent clients but has also made substantial contributions to calling 813.229.STAR (7827) or 800.955.1045 outside Tampa Bay, in person at the Straz Center Ticket Sales Office or online at www.strazcenter.org. new location and continuing to strengthen the group’s capabilities children, both in and outside of Hillsborough County,” added in the Tampa market,” said Collier. Hudson. “He deserves praise for his passionate and generous Jeff is a Shareholder in the firm’s Tampa office with 17 years of donation of time to both the legal and non-legal communities and experience serving private and public sector clients throughout we are so pleased that he has been selected for this award.” Florida in the areas of environmental, land development and Tied to Wolfson’s pro bono work in the Tampa Bay area is his St. Anthony’s Triathlon Announces administrative law. His former experience, having served as the commitment to actively serving local non-profits in other ways. In environmental practice group leader of the South Florida Water the past, he has served as president of Congregation Schaarai 2017 Pro Athlete Start List Management District’s Office of Counsel and senior attorney with Zedek, and he recently completed a three-year term as board chair the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, provides of the URJ Camp Coleman, which is a non-profit summer camp One of the longest running triathlons will also serve as USAT National Championship qualifier clients with critical insights to the programs administered by these that serves almost 900 children annually throughout the agencies, as well as other state and federal agencies regulating the southeastern United States. St. Anthony’s Triathlon has announced the initial list of Pro athletes that will toe the line at this year’s race, to be held on April 30, 2017. The 34th annual St. Anthony’s Triathlon will host approximately 3,000 athlete participants over the private sector in Florida. Jeff advocates clients’ interests before Wolfson has an extensive legal background and, aside from his federal, state and local governments, representing clients in a broad- pro bono work, specializes in commercial litigation. A member of course of the weekend, and has also been selected by the USA Triathlon (USAT) as a 2017 Regional Championship Race. The list of female professional triathletes includes: Ashley Clifford (Florida), Kaitlin Donner (Florida), Helle range of matters involving transactions, permitting, regulatory Foley’s litigation department, he also serves as senior lawyer in compliance, and litigation. Foley’s Florida Bankruptcy & Business Reorganization Practice. He Frederiksen (Florida), Ericka Hachmeister (New York), Alicia Kaye (Florida), Heather Lendway (Minnesota), Rebecca is a past chairman of The Florida Bar Business Law Section, and is Martz (West Virginia), and Jillian Petersen (Washington). Returning pro competitor Alicia Kaye won the St. Anthony’s rated AV® Preeminent™, which is the highest performance rating in Triathlon in 2015, and was runner-up in the race last year. Martindale-Hubbell’s peer review rating system. On the men’s field, professional triathletes include: Richard Border (Florida), Nicholas Chase (Florida), Robbie Deckard (Indiana), Brian Fleischmann (Colorado), Will Jurkowski (Colorado), Eric Limkemann (Virginia), Jackson Walters Named to Laundry (Canada), Lawrence Merrill (New York), Andrew Mueller (Indiana), Tim O’Donnell (Colorado), Michael Poole (Florida), John Rasmussen (Canada), Tim Russell (Vermont), Rodolphe Von Berg (Colorado), Jason West (Colorado), 25 Most Influential Hill Ward Henderson Timothy Winslow (Colorado), Matthew Wisthoff (North Carolina), and Andrew Yoder (Pennsylvania). Cam Dye was the Women in Collections Attorney Appointed St. Anthony’s Triathlon winner in both 2015 and 2016. Professionals will compete for a $56,000 prize purse. Because the event is a USAT Regional Championship event, by National Magazine registered USAT athletes will be able to qualify at the St. Anthony’s Triathlon for the 2017 Olympic-Distance to St. Petersburg Alison Verges Walters, a Partner in the National Championships in Omaha, Neb., to be held on Aug. 12, 2017. In order to qualify for the National Tampa office of full-service business law College Board of Championships, competitors must finish in the top 33 percent or top five (whichever is greater) competitors per their firm Kelley Kronenberg, has been named respective age groups. one of the 25 Most Influential Women Trustees by Governor “We have a tremendous group of Pro triathletes competing in this year’s event,” said Susan Daniels, race director for in Collections by Collection Advisor Hill Ward Henderson is pleased to St. Anthony’s Triathlon. “We are honored to have such a high level of athletes come to St. Petersburg for great Magazine, a national magazine designed announce the appointment of Shareholder competition on a fast course.” exclusively for collection professionals. Katherine E. “Katie” Cole to the The St. Anthony’s Triathlon is open to all levels of athletes, from amateur to professional. Pro triathlete, Jason West, Alison Verges Walters Mrs. Walters has more than a decade of St. Petersburg College District Board of offers a tip for anyone racing this year’s triathlon, advising, “Take time to practice your race morning routine.