News & Insights

Guerra King was a proud Bronze Sponsor of the “Bridging the DEI Gap in Law Documentary” premiere event on Wednesday, April 26th at the Chester Ferguson Law Center. This groundbreaking film is a follow-up to the “Before the Law was Equal” documentary and features interviews from some of our community’s brightest legal stars and their accounts on how diversity, equity, and inclusion has progressed in our community. Chemere Ellis and George Guerra attended the premiere event and Ailen Cruz was part of the planning committee.

Guerra King proudly renewed its Gold level sponsorship for the George Edgecomb Bar Association’s (GEBA) 40th Anniversary Scholarship Gala, which occurred on April 21, 2023.

On April 18, 2023, Guerra King shareholder Larry Dougherty discussed business disputes with Tampa entrepreneurs studying with the Jim Moran Institute for Global Entrepreneurship at FSU’s College of Business. 

Shareholder Larry Dougherty, who was a newspaper reporter in his previous career, participated in a presentation on dealing with the media at the monthly meeting of the Ferguson-White American Inn of Court on April 13, 2023

Guerra King supported its client CAN Community Health, Inc. on Saturday, April 1, 2023 at CAN’s Red Ribbon Gala – Reshaping the Face of HIV at the Tampa Museum of Art.

March 31 is International Transgender Day of Visibility, an annual celebration of transgender and nonbinary people and a commemoration of the worldwide discrimination against this vulnerable population. The term “transgender” refers to someone whose gender differs from the sex they were assigned at birth, and “nonbinary” refers to those who do not identify as either a man or a woman or are not strictly one or the other.

Guerra King attorneys Chemere Ellis, George Guerra, and Larry Dougherty enjoyed their time chatting with the neighbors at the Westshore Alliance’s After-Hours Networking event on March 29, 2023.

The highlight of Black History Month, however, came with Guerra King’s sponsorship of the Black History Month Reception hosted by the George Edgecomb Bar Association and the Fred G. Minnis, Sr. Bar Association on February 28. The Reception was awe-inspiring as Doretha Edgecomb discussed the life and legacy of her late husband, Judge George Edgecomb, who became the first black judge in Hillsborough County in 1973 at just 31 years old. Judge Edgecomb died tragically just a few years later at the age of 33, but his short life created a legacy that transcends time.

Shareholder Larry Dougherty is scheduled to participate in a virtual panel discussion on Advanced LLCs: Disputes in Operating Agreement Provisions and in Practice produced by the National Business Institute on June 21, 2023.

Chemere Ellis mentored students at the Stetson Black Law Student Association’s largest program of the year, Survival of the Fittest, on Saturday, February 25.