Wake Up Call: First Black Florida Supreme Court Justice Dies

In today’s column, Fox Rothschild added an Atlanta-based trusts and estates boutique and its four veteran tax and wealth lawyers; Katten Muchin’s 2020 revenues fell 3.5% to $646.6 million but its profits per equity partner rose on cost cuts and a shrinking partnership; Chevron is still fighting a $9.5 billion verdict in an Ecuador pollution lawsuit decided 28 years ago.

• Leading off, former Akerman partner Joseph W. Hatchett, who in 1975 became the first African American to serve on the Florida Supreme Court, died April 30 in Tallahassee at age 88, according to reports. In 1979, President Jimmy Carter named ...