TEAM OF EXPERTS JOINING BRYANT MILLER OLIVE’S MIAMI OFFICE FURTHER STRENGTHENING ITS PUBLIC SERVICE SECTOR

MIAMI, Fla. – Bryant Miller Olive, one of the nation’s top public finance law firms, announced today the addition of a highly qualified team of attorneys who will further strengthen the firm’s public sector legal services. James C. “Jim” Crosland, David C. Miller, and Denise M. Heekin will bring to Bryant Miller Olive a combined 58 years of labor and employment law experience.

The three are all board certified in Labor and Employment Law and have worked together for over a decade representing employers in legal matters from union negotiations and disputes to discrimination and wage-hour lawsuits. Their practice spans the full range of both labor laws and employment law, including employee benefits.

“We are proud to have Jim, David, and Denise join Bryant Miller Olive,” said Randy Hanna, Managing Shareholder of BMO. “They add a new level of expertise to our talented team, as well as broaden and deepen Bryant Miller Olive’s capability to greatly benefit our clients in the public service sector. Their legal focus is exclusively on the management side of the law.”

Crosland will serve as the Manager of Bryant Miller Olive’s Labor and Employment Law practice area. He has been named in The Best Lawyers in America®, a list compiled through a peer-review survey, for three consecutive years and was listed in Florida Trends Legal Elite. He was a name partner at Muller, Mintz, Kornreich, Caldwell, Casey, Crosland, & Bramnick, where Heekin and Miller also practiced. Muller Mintz merged with Akerman Senterfitt in 2004, and all three lawyers were shareholders there until the move to Bryant Miller Olive. Crosland received his B.A. from Tulane University and his J.D. from Tulane Law School in 1968. He practices in both state and federal courts at the trial and appellate levels, as do Heekin and Miller. All three also practice extensively before state and federal administrative agencies.

“This career step was an obvious choice when we realized there could be a great synergy between our practice and Bryant Miller Olive’s,” said Crosland. “As we got to know the great people at the firm, it started feeling more and more like home. In fact, we found that we have a number of clients in common. We are looking forward to working with this really talented group of professionals at Bryant Miller Olive to serve all our clients.”

With Heekin, Bryant Miller Olive adds another Martindale Hubbell “AV”-rated attorney to its team. She is a member of both the Greater Miami and Broward County chapters of the Society for Human Resource Management. She received her B.B.A. from Loyola University in New Orleans in 1987 and her J.D. from Tulane Law School in 1991, where she became a member of the prestigious Order of the Coif.

Miller is a member of the Board of Directors of the Dade County Bar Association and sits on the Board of Directors of the Association for Retarded Citizens of South Florida. He received a B.A. from Newberry College in 1978, an M.S. from University of Tennessee in 1982, and his J.D. from Stetson University College of Law in 1998. At Stetson, he served on the editorial board of the Stetson Lew Review. Before entering the practice of law, Miller was a journalist at newspapers including the St. Petersburg Times and the Sarasota Herald Tribune.

About Bryant Miller Olive

A national leader in legal matters related to public finance, state and local government, complex transactions and project finance, Bryant Miller Olive is a highly specialized law practice whose attorneys work closely in related fields. Bryant Miller Olive services clients from offices in Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Jacksonville, Miami, Orlando, St. Petersburg, Tallahassee and Tampa.

The Firm has been consistently ranked as one of the top bond counsel firms in the Southeast for the last several years, and the number one bond counsel firm in the State of Florida by Securities Data Company, Inc. for the last decade based on the number of issues completed. The Firm was ranked as the number one disclosure counsel firm in the Southeast, and sixth nationally for 2007, based on dollar volume.

The Firm has represented more than 500 bond issuers over the past three decades. Firm attorneys have served as bond counsel or underwriters’ counsel for issues in the District of Columbia, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Vermont, Virginia and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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