Litigation Practice Group Chair Lawrence Rochefort was selected to receive the 2015 Law Alumni Achievement Award by the University of Miami School of Law, which recognizes those whose continued leadership and support to legal education advances the practice of law. Rochefort will be presented with the award on April 28, along with Hon. Donald Hafele, a Florida 15th Judicial Circuit Court Judge, at the Palm Beach Judicial Reception in Akerman's West Palm Beach office.
Rochefort has more than 20 years of experience litigating business disputes. He has represented financial institutions, originators, servicers, investors, title companies, developers, property owners, retailers, and landlords in a wide variety of real estate and commercial based litigation. Such litigation has focused on commercial and residential foreclosures, distressed property issues (receiverships and enforcement of assignments of rent), title claims, lender liability claims, landlord tenant matters, contract disputes, and creditors' rights issues.