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Eric T. Halsey is a native Floridian who joined Sheftall & Torres as an associate in April 2006, after serving as a law clerk in the firm's civil trial and appellate practice since January 2004. Mr. Halsey practices in the areas of commercial and tort litigation, including personal injury, wrongful death, medical malpractice, breach of contract, judgment collection, and defamation. First as a law clerk and now as an associate, Mr. Halsey has worked extensively with the firm's partners on some of Sheftall & Torres' most successful cases, including a $10 million wrongful death settlement in 2005 and a $6 million judgment in construction litigation in 2006.

Mr. Halsey earned his law degree from the University of Miami School of Law in 2005, where he was a member of the Moot Court Board. He is an active member of the Florida Bar, the Miami Beach Bar Association, the Dade County Bar Association, and other local organizations, such as the Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce, of which he is a Pillar Trustee.

Born in Fort Lauderdale and raised in Boca Raton, Mr. Halsey graduated magna cum laude from New York University in 1999, where he received a Bachelor of Education while majoring in communications. After graduating from NYU, Mr. Halsey worked as a General Assignment Reporter and News Anchor at a Fox News affiliate in Michigan.

Mr. Halsey was admitted to the Florida Bar in 2006.

Bar Admissions:

* Florida, 2006

Bar Affiliations:

* Dade County Bar Association, 2006-08
* Miami Beach Bar Association, 2007-08

Education:

* University of Miami, School of Law, Miami, Florida (J.D. 2005)
* New York University, New York, New York (B.E. 1999)

Community Affiliations:

* President, Business Networks International, Success Links Chapter, 2008
* Dade County Bar Association

Welcome to the web site of The Law Office of Paul B. Christensen, P.A. Our client-centered law practice is committed to providing legal services devoted to immigration law.

We represent corporations, governmental organizations, universities, and individual clients from all points of the world and we pledge to provide you with professional customer service at every step toward achieving your immigration goals.

When considering an immigration attorney in matters requiring complex technical and business matters, seek out an attorney with experience and a formal education in the sciences and business. Ask the attorney for a copy of his or her curriculum vitae. When requiring immigration representation based on investment, a national interest waiver, or where a business plan, balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash-flows is critical during an adjudication, do you want an attorney who has had no formal exposure to those academic disciplines? Quiz the attorney to explain key financial concepts like Net Present Value and ratio analysis. Likewise, if your case requires complex analysis in the sciences, quiz the attorney about his or her knowledge of statistical and networking analysis -- or concepts involving microbiology and physics.

As a corporate executive of more than twenty years for the AT&T, MediaOne, and Continental Cablevision organizations, Attorney Christensen has attained extensive experience in engineering and human resources staffing requirements, and holds his baccalaureate of science degree from Northern Illinois University, and a Masters Degree in Business Administration from the University of North Florida.

Please take a moment and review our menu of immigration legal services. If you would like to arrange for a personal consultation by telephone, e-mail, or internet phone, please contact us. We look forward to hearing from you.

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Daniel Woodring was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but has lived in Florida for the past twenty years. In Florida, he has lived and worked in Pensacola, Clearwater, Jacksonville, Gainesville and Tallahassee. His wife Jean, who is also an attorney, was born in Miami, and grew up in Ft. Myers.

Daniel Woodring is a member of the Florida and Georgia Bars, and is admitted to practice before the Florida Federal Southern, Middle and Northern District Courts, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court. He has worked at the trial level on cases in many of Florida's 20 judicial circuits, in addition to cases in state administrative tribunals, and has argued cases at the Florida Supreme Court and Florida District Courts of Appeal, and briefed cases at the U.S. Supreme Court.

He graduated from the University of Florida, College of Law with a Juris Doctorate, Cum Laude, and received his B.A. degree from Clearwater Christian College, Summa Cum Laude.

After law school, Mr. Woodring was in private practice doing general civil and appellate work. He then left for a two year appellate clerkship at the First District Court of Appeal. During his time at the court, he worked on cases including, but not limited to: criminal; family law; administrative law; workers' compensation; civil and constitutional law.

Mr. Woodring next worked as a counsel in the Executive Office of the Governor, Office of the General Counsel. During his time in Governor Bush's Legal Office he had diverse responsibilities, including oversight and strategic litigation management of significant legal matters at numerous Governor's agencies, including the Department of Education; Department of Management Services; Department of Business and Professional Regulation; Department of Health; Agency for Health Care Administration; Department of Children and Families; Department of Community Affairs; Department of Elder affairs; Agency for Workforce Innovation; Department of Transportation, and the Department of State. He was also legally responsible for topics as diverse as emergency operations; advising the Governor on the selection of judges; implementation of civil service reform; reform of workers' compensation; budget and appropriation matters; Indian gaming law; and advice to the Florida Cabinet sitting in its many capacities, such as the Florida Land and Water Adjudicatory Commission.

Daniel Woodring was then asked to be the General Counsel for the Florida Department of Education, which encompassed Pre-K though 12th Grade, community colleges and the Florida University System. He was also the Charter General Counsel for The Board of Governors, when that board was constitutionally created to manage the State University System. During his tenure at the Department of Education, Mr. Woodring advised and litigated on matters including, but not limited to: constitutional challenges to Florida's education programs, including Opportunity Scholarships and the charter school approval and appeal process; doing away with race as a preference in university admissions and state contracting; teacher and professional discipline cases; union, labor and employment matters; state procurement and bid protest proceedings; administrative rule challenges and rule making proceedings; IDEA and Section 504 proceedings; public records, government in the sunshine and ethical matters; contract negotiations and disputes.

Since 2007, Mr. Woodring has been back in private practice as the principal of the Woodring Law Firm, located in Tallahassee, Florida, and practicing statewide and in Georgia. He concentrates his practice on appeals; constitutional cases instate and federal court; education law matters; and state administrative matters, including state procurement, regulation and licensing.