A Miami-based international law firm ‘Steel Hector & Davis LLP’, publicized that Richard E. Brodsky, P.A. has joined the firm’s Miami workplace as Of Counsel, where he will be a member of the firm’s Securities, Broker/Dealer and Appellate Litigation Groups with the Corporate, Securities and Finance Practice Group. He comes to the firm from Brodsky & Mullin, P.A., where he was an associate.

Richard E. Brodsky has worked broadly in securities and other business and economic court case, with a stress on directors and officers liability and accountant’s liability. He has represented many customers before the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Florida Board of Accountancy, as well as in state and federal courts.

Alvin Davis, managing associate of Steel Hector & Davis LLP said “He is a significant addition to our team of lawyers, adding a major depth and viewpoint that will permit us to better serve the needs of our customers.”

Former to his work in the confidential division, Brodsky had a well-known career in government. He spent 8 years as a lawyer for the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Enforcement in Washington, D.C., where he worked in several innovative cases, with the case that ultimately led to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act provisions on securities lawyers’ responsibilities.

Brodsky is an Adjunct Professor of Securities Regulation at the St. Thomas University School of Law, and has served on several business and professional boards comprising: chair and co-originator of the South Florida Baseball Committee, Inc.; past president of the University of Miami Citizen’s Board; trustee of United Way of Miami-Dade; and associate of Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce Baseball Task Force.

He received his A.B. from Brown University, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, in 1968 and graduated, cum laude, in 1971 from Harvard Law School.

The international law firm of Steel Hector & Davis LLP (www.steelhector.com), one of Florida’s major and oldest law firms, maintains a diversified business practice that contains common and business court case and alternative dispute resolution; corporate and securities; mergers and acquisitions; dispositions and restructurings; distribution and franchising; project development and structured financing; eminent domain; energy and usefulness; creditors' privileges; banking and monetary services; securities lawsuit and arbitration; tax; real estate; construction; insurance; environmental and land use; health care; employment and labor relations; civil rights class actions; family law; trusts, estates and personal planning; media and communication; intellectual property; products liability; antitrust and trade regulation; admiralty and maritime; transportation and aviation; international; immigration and nationality law; white collar criminal protection; managerial law; and government relations. The firm has above 150 lawyers with 3 Florida offices located in Miami, West Palm Beach and Tallahassee; and international offices in London, Tel Aviv, Caracas, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Santo Domingo, Santiago and Buenos Aires.