Kutak Rock is pleased to announce that attorney Jere Earlywine has joined its public finance practice group in the firm’s Tallahassee office as of counsel. He brings to Kutak Rock decades of experience in providing counsel to landowners and developers regarding the use of special taxing districts to finance and manage infrastructure for development.

Mr. Earlywine focuses his practice on special taxing districts and related foreclosure bankruptcy litigation. He has represented a variety of clients, including both developer and resident-controlled districts and bondholders with interests in these districts. Before working in private practice, he served as Senior Assistant General Counsel for the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, primarily with the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin litigation and Everglades restoration issues. He previously worked as a federal judicial law clerk with the Honorable G. Kendall Sharp, a United States District Judge.

Mr. Earlywine received a J.D. from Florida State University College of Law and a B.S. from the University of South Florida. He is admitted to practice in Florida and bankruptcy courts in Florida in addition to the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Middle and Southern Districts of Florida and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.