ABOUT US
WHO WE ARE
We provide top-quality legal advice without charging high-end fees.
We design your experience to be friendly and client-focused and enjoy making a difference for small businesses through personalized guidance.
Meet Our Team
Tina Dunsford
Shareholder
tdunsford@ldlfirm.com
(813) 517-1662
PRIMARY PRACTIE AREAS:
Business & Corporate / Tax / Healthcare
Business, tax and healthcare attorney with more than 30 years of experience advising businesses, healthcare organizations, physicians and business owners on complex transactional, regulatory and strategic matters.
BUSINESS & CORPORATE
Business formation and structuring, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, financing, business-owner arrangements and disputes, and business succession.
TAX
Tax planning, tax-sensitive business transactions, tax-exempt organizations, and strategic planning for businesses, business owners and physicians.
HEALTHCARE
Healthcare transactions, managed care contracting, reimbursement, regulatory compliance, fraud and abuse, HIPAA, and operational matters.
ABOUT TINA:
Tina Dunsford is a business, tax and healthcare attorney with more than 30 years of experience advising businesses, healthcare organizations, physicians and business owners on complex transactional, regulatory and strategic matters. Her practice combines extensive corporate and healthcare experience with an advanced background in taxation, allowing her to advise clients on both the legal and business implications of significant transactions and organizational decisions.
Tina counsels clients on business formation and structuring, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, financing, business-owner arrangements and disputes, tax planning, business succession, and tax-exempt organizations. She also advises physicians, medical groups, hospitals, managed care organizations and other healthcare businesses on healthcare transactions, managed care contracting, reimbursement, regulatory compliance, fraud and abuse, HIPAA, and operational matters.
Prior to returning to private practice, Tina served as general counsel to two managed care organizations and as division counsel to a national hospital system. That experience provides her with a practical understanding of the operational, financial and regulatory issues facing businesses and healthcare organizations and enables her to approach legal matters from both an attorney's and an executive's perspective.
In addition to her law practice, Tina serves as a mediator and arbitrator in healthcare, business and commercial disputes, providing neutral services separately from her legal representation practice.
SPEAKING & THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
Tina is a frequent speaker and writer on healthcare, business and tax matters. Representative speaking topics include:
• Healthcare mergers, acquisitions and transactions
• Healthcare regulatory compliance and risk management
• Managed care and healthcare contracting
• Medicare, Medicaid and reimbursement issues
• HIPAA, medical privacy and confidentiality
• Business succession and exit planning
• Tax planning for businesses and business owners
• Business structuring and ownership matters
• Healthcare operational and strategic issues
BAR ADMISSIONS
Florida
Georgia
EDUCATION
Emory University School of Law - Juris Doctor
Emory University School of Law - LL.M. in Taxation
Dave Jennis
Of Counsel
djennis@jennislaw.com
(813) 229-2800
Dave Jennis is known for his experience, intelligence, and integrity. Recognized by the American Board of Certification as a certified business bankruptcy attorney, and AV Peer Review Rated™ by Martindale‐Hubbell, Jennis has extensive experience in a wide variety of insolvency and business litigation issues. His tenacity and unwavering dedication to obtaining successful outcomes for his clients has established him amongst the best bankruptcy lawyers in Florida.
PROFESSIONAL LICENSES/CERTIFICATIONS:
Admitted to State Courts of Florida
Admitted to U.S. District Court in Florida (Northern, Middle and Southern Districts)
Board Certified in Business Bankruptcy Law by the American
Board of Certification
Katelyn Vinson
Of Counsel
kvinson@jennislaw.com
(813) 229-2800
Katelyn M. Vinson graduated and received her BA in Political Science from East Tennessee State University in 2011. She graduated law school in August 2015 from Western Michigan University with the honor of Cum Laude.
Katelyn has been a member of the Florida Bar since June 2016. Katelyn has focused her practices majorly in consumer bankruptcy debtor work, family law, estate planning, and civil litigation. She is an active member of the Tampa Bay Bankruptcy Bar Association.
Michael Stavros
Of Counsel
mstavros@jennislaw.com
(813) 229-2800
Michael Stavros is a recent graduate from the University of Florida Levin College of Law who passed the Florida Bar exam in the summer of 2021 and was sworn in December 20, 2021.
Michael will focus his practice primarily on state and federal litigation, including adversaries.
Before coming to Jennis Morse Etlinger, Michael was a Judicial Intern for the Honorable Michael J. Williamson with the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of Florida (Tampa) and a Judicial Intern for the Honorable Marcia Morales Howard with the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida (Jacksonville).
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