Awards & Recognition

Naples, Fla. (July 16, 2020)— John R. Wood Properties, the leading real estate brokerage in Southwest Florida, today announced the Earls | Lappin team was recently ranked seventh in the nation in this year’s REAL Trends “The Thousand” ranking of the country’s top real estate sales professionals, with 2019 closed sales volume of $274,885,000. “In an industry which…

TALLAHASSEE –Today, the Florida Restaurant & Lodging Association (FRLA) announced the first 12 restaurants and hotels to achieve the FRLA Seal of Commitment, demonstrating their dedication to enhanced safety and sanitation practices. Establishments across Florida have achieved the Seal, with dozens more in progress, representing the statewide commitment of the hospitality industry to the health…

Fort Myers, FL, July 10, 2020 – The amount of material Lee County residents recycled in 2019 would be enough to fill 138 football fields with material 70 feet high – as high as the Sanibel Causeway Bridge. Lee County received credit for recycling 1.8 million tons of the total 2.27 million tons of waste…

Grant Fridkin Pearson, P.A. is pleased to announce that Travis Hayes was recently recognized in the 2020 edition of Florida Trend’s Florida Legal Elite™ in the Wills, Trusts & Estates practice area. The list of 1,071 honorees represents just over 1% of the active Florida Bar members, including attorneys in private practice as well as…

Laird A. Lile, a board-certified wills, trusts and estates attorney in Naples, has been named as a Top 10 Florida Super Lawyer for the third consecutive year. Also, the recently announced list marks the 10th consecutive year that Lile is among the Top 100 Florida Super Lawyers. The nomination, research and blue-ribbon review process for…

For the third year, Sanibel Captiva Community Bank’s board of directors rewarded bank employees with a bonus from the bank’s savings under the federal tax law. The bonus is a show of appreciation from the board for the employees’ ongoing hard work and contributions to the bank’s continued success. “Our people define who we are…

Fort Myers, Florida – Henderson, Franklin, Starnes & Holt, P.A., is pleased to announce that twenty-one (21) lawyers were selected as 2020 Florida Super Lawyers® and Rising Stars. While only 5% of lawyers in the entire State are named to Florida Super Lawyers®, no more than 2.5% are named to the Rising Stars list. Additionally,…

FORT MYERS, FL (June 25, 2020) – The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) recognized Becky Bokrand, CPA/CFF, CFE with Markham Norton Mosteller Wright & Co., P.A. (MNMW) for being the first-ever professional Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF) to participate in the Accounting Doctoral Scholars Program. “Becky excels, and exceeds, at everything she sets her…

Brendan Flores, a Senior Vice President and Consumer Banking Performance Manager at Bank of America, where he leverages over 15 years of industry experience to drive the consumer results across 100 of the bank’s locations in Southwest Florida was recognized as one of nation’s most prominent Filipino Americans. NAAPPPA’s Top 40 Political Operatives and Public…