Greenspoon Marder Attorney Evett Simmons Receives St. Lucie County Black History Makers Award

Feb 3, 2012

Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Feb. 3, 2010- The law firm of Greenspoon Marder has announced that attorney Evett L. Simmons has been selected to receive the 2010 St. Lucie County Black History Makers Award. Ms. Simmons will be presented with the award at the History Makers 4th Annual Banquet and Awards Ceremony to be held on Thursday, Feb. 18, at Panther Woods Country Club, Ft. Pierce, Fla.

Simmons is being recognized for her accomplishments and service to the community and the state of Florida as well as for her achievements in promoting diversity in law on a national level. Simmons also was recently recognized among South Florida’s 100 Most Accomplished Blacks in Law & Healthcare by the ICABA.

Simmons is Chief Diversity Officer at Greenspoon Marder and Chair of the firm’s Diversity Program, which was launched throughout the firm’s nine Florida offices in 2004. She also is a member of Greenspoon Marder’s Trust & Estate Practice and Real Estate Groups, focusing on real estate, probate, and guardianship litigation. She is a member of The Florida Bar Association (ABA) Presidential Diversity Commission and the House of Delegates. She was recently reappointed, for a second year, as a member of the ABA Center for Racial and Ethnic Diversity. She is a past president of the National Bar Association (NBA) and now serves as Chair of the NBA’s Crump Law Camp Committee, which is a pipeline program offered to youth interested in entering the legal profession.

Simmons received an Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree from Suffolk University, Boston, MA, 2001; earned her Juris Doctorate from Mercer University Walter F. George School of Law (J.D., 1982); and is a graduate of Florida Southern College (B.A., 1979), where she now serves on the Board of Trustees.

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Greenspoon Marder LLP is a full-service law firm with over 240 attorneys and more than 20 office locations across the United States. With operations from Miami to New York and from Denver to Los Angeles, our firm attracts some of the nation’s top talent in key markets and innovation hubs. Our core practice areas include Real Estate, Litigation, and Transactional Services, complemented by the capabilities of a full-service firm. Greenspoon Marder has upheld a spot on The American Lawyer’s Am Law 200 as one of the top law firms in the U.S. since 2015, and our goal is to provide exceptional client service by developing a thorough understanding of each client’s business needs and objectives in order to provide strategic, cost-effective solutions.

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