Guerra King is pleased to announce that Chemere Ellis has graduated from the Hillsborough County Bar Association (“HCBA”) 2022-2023 Leadership Institute. The 2022-2023 Leadership Institute consisted of an elite group of attorneys who all exhibit the potential to develop into HCBA and Tampa Bay community leaders.
Guerra King is proud to announce that shareholder Ailen Cruz has been selected to serve as a Director on the Hillsborough Association for Women Lawyers’ (“HAWL”) Board of Directors.
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
On April 5th, shareholder Ailen Cruz successfully argued a Motion to Dismiss based on eligibility in a FINRA customer arbitration. Although FINRA arbitration rules prohibit time-barred claims from proceeding in arbitration, arbitrators have been conspicuously less inclined to dismiss ineligible claims in recent years due – in part – to increasingly creative pleadings and arguments from claimants that are designed to avoid dismissal.
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.