Contributors
Meet the voices behind our coverage — attorneys, advocates, and experts sharing insights on how legal issues shape lives and communities nationwide.
Chris Borzell
Chris Borzell is a trial attorney at Morgan & Morgan, serving clients in the Tampa Bay area with a focus on car accidents, slip-and-fall, and personal injury. He brings experience from defending insurance companies to advocate for the injured.
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Legal Examiner Staffer
Legal Examiner staff writers come from diverse journalism and communications backgrounds. They contribute news and insights to inform readers on legal issues, public safety, consumer protection, and other national topics.
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Yvette C. Hammett
Yvette C. Hammett is a journalist who spent much of her career in newsrooms, including The Tampa Tribune, The Mobile Register, and The Stuart News, covering issues from courtroom to environmental battles, a busy cop beat, and international news.
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Elaine Silvestrini
Elaine Silvestrini is a career journalist with more than 25 years of experience covering legal issues. She has written for the Tampa Tribune in Florida and the Asbury Park Press in New Jersey, in addition to legal websites.
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Katherine Snow Smith
Katherine Snow Smith, a UNC–Chapel Hill graduate, has covered business, parenting, and the arts. She worked at the Greenville News and Charlotte Business Journal before spending 23 years at the Tampa Bay Times as reporter, columnist, and editor.
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Sheila Mullane Estrada
Sheila Mullane Estrada has written for various publications, including the Sarasota Herald Tribune, the Lakeland Ledger, the Evening Independent, Tampa Bay Times, and The Bull & Bear Financial Report. She has won several journalism awards.
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Craig Kopp
Craig Kopp has been in the media business since 1974, serving in various positions in Ohio and Florida, including news director, talk radio host, general manager of a community radio station, and teaching at USF and the Poynter Institute.
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Philip Morgan
Phil Morgan has been a reporter for 50 years. He worked at the Tampa Tribune and Tampa Bay Times (formerly the St. Petersburg Times). He has covered courts, police, city and county government, poverty, and social aid programs.
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Nick Carroll
Nick Carroll builds publishing and digital identity tools for lawyers and writes about that work here on The Legal Examiner.
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Sheryl Nance-Nash
Sheryl Nance-Nash is a freelance writer, specializing in personal finance, business, travel, and lifestyle topics. Her work has appeared in Newsday, the New York Times, Money.com, Business Insider, CNTraveler.com, and Newsweek.com, among others.
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