Hizzoner goes back to the future

James Humphrey, the mayor of Fort Myers who guided the city's downtown redevelopment during the real estate boom, is back with the partners of a law firm he founded in 1982.

During his tenure as mayor from 2000 to 2009, Humphrey joined the statewide law firm of Fowler White Boggs. He says he needed the bigger firm to help him shoulder the twin responsibilities of elected office and managing longtime clients.

Recently, Humphrey joined the Fort Myers firm Knott Ebelini Hart, joining attorneys with whom he practiced at Humphrey Jones & Myers, the firm he founded in 1982. “All three names I hired into the firm,” he says.