- November 21, 2024
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By: Kistemaker Business Law Group
Every year since 2012, Kistemaker Business Law Group has selected students for its summer internship program. The program is for prospective law students looking to gain valuable legal experience and greater insight into the practice of real estate, business, condo/HOA, and/or construction law.
This year, the firm has again welcomed Cameron Tocci, of Ormond Beach, who will be a senior at the University of Florida and has been an intern with the Kistemaker Business Law Group the past two summers. Additionally, the firm has hired an incoming junior, Annabella Torres, who is matriculating in the AICE program at Seabreeze High School. Along with assisting at the firm, the summer interns may participate in professional development workshops and are provided with opportunities to interact with the local legal community. In addition, students receive an attorney mentor for the duration of the internship. Most of these interns have gone on to pursue law degrees and are practicing attorneys.
“It is always a sincere pleasure to welcome and work with our interns — and this year I am proud to say they are each from one of my alma maters,”said Erum Kistemaker, the firm's founder. “We are looking forward to providing tools and opportunities to these students that are applicable throughout not only their academic careers, but in their professional pursuits."
Kistemaker attended Seabreeze High School as well as UF for undergrad.
Each member of the Kistemaker Business Law Group valued their own internship experiences. Kistemaker was a certified legal intern for the Office of the Public Defender in Miami, as well as for a federal court judge there. In law school at the University of Miami, she also served as a teacher’s assistant. Her first summer of law school, Senior Attorney Erin Glover-Frey interned for a student-run non-profit group called Unemployment Action Center, Inc., which operated out of eight law schools in the New York City and Long Island region.
Glover-Frey went on to found a chapter of UAC at her law school in her second year and served as the board of directors chair her third year. She also interned for two criminal defense firms in New York City before coming to Ormond Beach to practice full time. Paralegal Rima Suleiman interned for former Senator Bill Nelson and served as a research assistant to Professor Mustapha Mouloua, analyzing the relationships between brain waveforms and spoken languages for publication. In law school, she clerked with the Honorable Judge Bryan Feigenbaum of the Seventh Judicial Circuit Court.
For more information about the Kistemaker Business Law Group Summer Internship program, go to daytonabusinesslawyers.com
