Five attorneys jump ship for rival firm

TAMPA — Five attorneys have left the Tampa office of law firm of Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick to join Trenam Law, also based in the Tampa Bay region.

Attorneys C. Graham Carothers Jr., Timothy Hughes, Gregory-Scott Haney and Cate Wells join Trenam as shareholders, while Mathew Poling comes aboard as an associate, according to a press release. The five lawyers specialize in real estate and land use; three of them — Carothers, Hughes and Haney — will work at Trenam’s St. Petersburg office, the release states, with Wells splitting time between Tampa and St. Pete.