Becker & Poliakoff Co-Founder Alan Becker Assumes Law Firm's Managing Shareholder Role & Responsibilities
Co-Founder Gary A. Poliakoff Remains with Firm as Shareholder, Will Shift Focus from Management Obligations to Law Practice and Related Activities
FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla., March 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Becker & Poliakoff, P.A., a diversified commercial law firm with fourteen offices and more than 125 attorneys throughout Florida, today announced that co-founding shareholder Alan S. Becker has assumed the Managing Shareholder role and responsibilities at the law firm.
Mr. Becker takes up the firm's lead management responsibilities from co- founder Gary A. Poliakoff, who remains an active shareholder in the law firm and will shift from a management role in order to concentrate more closely on law practice and related activities.
Co-founder Alan Becker has led the firm with Poliakoff since its inception and most recently served as Marketing & Recruitment Shareholder on the firm's management committee, directing business development, recruitment and strategic planning for the law firm. A former three-term Florida State Legislator, Becker also serves in key leadership positions in Florida economic development organizations, including Enterprise Florida and The Beacon Council, Miami Dade County's private-public economic development agency.
"Gary Poliakoff will continue to play an active and beneficial role in Becker & Poliakoff," said Alan Becker. "I look forward as Managing Shareholder to working with Gary and with the members of the firm's experienced management team, including several longtime shareholders, to continue to build upon the strong foundation and clear vision that Gary has helped to establish at our firm."
Founded in 1973 by Becker and Poliakoff after their graduation from the University of Miami Law School, the law firm has grown to be one of the largest Florida-based law practices in the state today.
In addition to his continued role as an active member of Becker & Poliakoff's Community Association Law practice, Gary Poliakoff will continue writing journal articles and his regular newspaper column on community association law, as well as serving on committees of the American Bar Association (ABA)
Other longtime Becker & Poliakoff shareholders with established roles within the management structure at the firm include:
- Gary C. Rosen, Practice Group Shareholder and leader of the firm's statewide Litigation Practice;
- Allen M. Levine, Financial Shareholder and leader of the firms' Real Estate Litigation Practice;
- Steven B. Lesser, Vice Managing Shareholder and leader of the firm's Construction Law Practice;
- Joseph E. Adams, Regional Office Shareholder and Managing Shareholder of the Firm's Naples and Ft. Myers offices; and,
- Bernie Friedman, Vice Marketing & Recruitment Shareholder and leader of the firm's Government Law and Lobbying Practice.
The firm's prestigious statewide Community Association Law practice continues to be chaired by shareholder Kenneth S. Direktor, who has continuously led the firm's team of 30-plus community association attorneys since his appointment to that position in July 2006. In addition, the firm's leadership includes shareholders in charge of each of the other practice groups within the firm, as well as managing shareholders in each of the firm's regional offices.
About Becker & Poliakoff P.A.
Becker & Poliakoff, P.A. is a diversified commercial law firm based in Ft. Lauderdale with more than one hundred twenty five attorneys in fourteen Florida offices, plus New York, Prague and affiliated offices in China, France and Israel. In addition to Community Association Law, the firm counsels clients in legal issues relating to Real Estate, Construction, Litigation, Government Law & Lobbying, Corporate & Tax, International Business and Trade, and many other areas of law. For more information, visit: http://www.becker-poliakoff.com.
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