Three Bryant Miller Olive Attorneys Named 2015 Florida Trend Legal Elite
Tallahassee/Orlando/Tampa, Fla. – Three Bryant Miller Olive attorney have been included on the 2015 Florida Trend Legal Elite list. The Florida Legal Elite named Duane Draper from the Tampa office and Ken Artin from the Orlando office. Additionally, the Florida Bar members were asked to recommend “up and coming” attorneys who exhibit leadership in the law and in their local communities. Ellie Neiberger from the Tallahassee office earned this distinction.
To compile the list, Florida Trend invited all actively practicing Florida lawyers to name the attorneys that they hold in highest regard – lawyers with whom they have personally worked and would recommend to others. Less than two present of the active 83,000 Florida Bar members who practice in Florida receive this honor.
Duane Draper currently co-chairs Bryant Miller Olive’s Public Finance practice area and has been in public finance either as an attorney or investment banker since 1989. He is resident in the firm’s Tampa office and is a member of the National Association of Bond Lawyers and the Local Government Section of The Florida Bar. Additionally, Draper is a graduate of Leadership Tampa 2003 and Leadership Florida 2006. His practice is focused primarily on bond counsel and disclosure counsel representations.
Ken Artin has actively practiced public finance law beginning in 1986 and, since 1991, has practiced exclusively in Florida. He has represented municipalities, counties, school districts and special taxing districts as disclosure counsel, bond counsel and special tax counsel. Mr. Artin is active at the national level through his involvement with the National Association of Bond Lawyers. He graduated from the State University of New York at Buffalo’s Law School in 1982 and from Southern Methodist University with an LL.M. in taxation in 1983. Mr. Artin has also served as the Managing Shareholder of the firm’s Orlando office.
Ellie Neiberger primarily practices in the firm’s Litigation, Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights, and Real Estate practice groups. Ms. Neiberger first joined Bryant Miller Olive as a law clerk in 2008, and joined the firm as an attorney upon admission to The Florida Bar. She received her Juris Doctorate with highest honors from the Florida State University College of Law in May 2009, where she graduated first in her class. After graduating and passing the bar, Ms. Neiberger was elected to the Florida State University Chapter of the Order of the Coif and recognized by the Florida Supreme Court for high performance on the July 2009 bar examination. In May 2006, she received a Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics with honors from the University of Florida.
