February 3, 2012

Christian Dodd has joined Akerman Senterfitt as of counsel within the Litigation Practice Group and will be based in Akerman's Jacksonville office.

Dodd has seven years of experience and concentrates his practice in complex commercial and business litigation, government and internal investigations, and intellectual property matters. He has extensive experience litigating consumer class actions, misrepresentation, false advertising, warranty and unfair competition claims in both state and federal court. He also has significant experience counseling businesses with respect to electronic discovery and document preservation issues and managing large-scale collection, review, and production of documents and electronically stored information in the context of small- and large-scale litigation and government investigations.

Dodd joins from Winston & Strawn LLP and is admitted to the California and Florida state Bars.

Akerman's national litigation team has vast experience in a broad range of civil and criminal litigation, including actions involving banking, securities, healthcare, insurance, real estate and construction. Akerman is recognized nationally by U.S. News - Best Lawyers (2011) in the General Commercial Litigation category and as a national tier one law firm for International Arbitration and Real Estate Litigation. Akerman also is top-ranked in Florida by Benchmark Litigation (2011).

About Akerman Senterfitt
Akerman is ranked among the top 100 law firms in the United States by The National Law Journal NLJ 250 (2012) in number of lawyers and is the leading Florida firm. With 500 lawyers and government affairs professionals, Akerman serves clients throughout the United States and overseas from Florida, New York, Washington, D.C., California, Virginia, Colorado, Nevada, Utah and Texas. More information can be found at http://www.akerman.com/ or www.twitter.com/akerman_law.