Kaye Communications Principals Bonnie and Jon Kaye Awarded Florida Atlantic University's Board of Trustees Service Award

“White Coats-4-Care” and “Your Medical School” Celebration Events
Chaired By The Kayes Recognized As Significant Fundraising Successes 

for Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University

BOCA RATON, FL (April 26, 2013) – Bonnie Kaye, President and Chief Strategist, and Jon Kaye, Chief Operating Officer and Marketing Strategist, of Kaye Communications, Inc., a South Florida-based strategic full-service marketing and public relations firm, were presented the Florida Atlantic University (FAU) Board of Trustees Service Award at the University’s 2013 Honors Convocation held in the University Theatre on the Boca Raton campus. 

Nominated by Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine Dean Dr. David Bjorkman, and presented by Chairman of the FAU Board of Trustees Anthony Barbar, the FAU Board of Trustees Service Award recognizes extraordinary service to the University by members of the greater community. The coveted award was established in honor of Nancy Blosser, a former Chair of the FAU Board of Trustees for her significant contributions on behalf of the university.

“The Kayes and Kaye Communications have fully embraced the medical school in the most meaningful of ways, using their influence as opinion leaders to rally support for it in the community,” said Barbar during the presentation. “We are delighted to present the Board of Trustees Service Award to them as a token of our great appreciation for all they have done and are doing for Florida Atlantic University and its community.”  

Bonnie S. Kaye who serves on the FAU Foundation Board and Jon Kaye who serves on the Medicine Advisory Board of the FAU Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine founded, branded, chaired and sponsored two annual White Coats-4-Care events, and chaired the medical school’s inaugural “Your Medical School” celebration that raised vital scholarship funds to attract the best and brightest future doctors to the Boca Raton community.  Their firm Kaye Communications spearheaded event messaging, community engagement, media relations, and content and graphic design strategy in collaboration with the College of Medicine’s Director of Development Kari Oeltjen, the Medicine Advisory Board, faculty and staff.

The two annual White Coats-4-Care events raised community awareness and engagement in addition to  more than $80,500 to “dress and equip” FAU’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine’s inaugural and second incoming class for healthcare career success.  Admission to the reception events attended by a cross-section of business and community leaders and media was a donation for underwriting a white coat, a need-based scholarship and academic medical education to support the incoming class each year to the first and only medical school in Palm Beach County. The “Your Medical School” celebration, in honor of Barbara and Dick Schmidt, raised more than $260,000 and set the stage for the announcement of a $3 million endowment gift by Dr. and Mrs. Mort Levitt that evening. During his presentation, Barbar noted that “this first-time celebration event sold-out long before save-the-date notices could be sent and the designed invitations could be printed.” 

“It is such an honor to be recognized by the FAU Board of Trustees with this prestigious award,” said Bonnie Kaye. "The true reward is for all of us in the community as one day, one or a few of these bright and compassionate future physicians, who we have collectively supported, may find the cure for cancer or diabetes, save the life of one of one of our loved ones, and help make aging easier and more health-full for our generation of baby boomers and beyond.”

Jon Kaye added that “throughout our personal mission on behalf of FAU, we have long valued the dedicated support of civic, business and community leaders; media; family; staff; and colleagues whose impassioned engagement, friendship, partnership, guidance, volunteerism, and generosity have contributed to the success of this young program. All has been appreciated…whether it was giving a kind word of encouragement, serving on a committee, attending events, underwriting scholarships and White Coats, making financial gifts, opening doors to new supporters, or helping us ‘spread the word’ on the advantages and benefits afforded all of us by having a medical school we can call our ‘community's own’.”

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About Florida Atlantic University:

Florida Atlantic University, established in 1961, officially opened its doors in 1964 as the fifth public university in Florida. Today, the University, with an annual economic impact of $6.3 billion, serves more than 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students at sites throughout its six-county service region in southeast Florida. FAU’s world-class teaching and research faculty serves students through 10 colleges: the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, the College of Business, the College for Design and Social Inquiry, the College of Education, the College of Engineering and Computer Science, the Graduate College, the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing and the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science. FAU is ranked as a High Research Activity institution by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The University is placing special focus on the rapid development of three signature themes – marine and coastal issues, biotechnology and contemporary societal challenges – which provide opportunities for faculty and students to build upon FAU’s existing strengths in research and scholarship. For more information, visit www.fau.edu.

Broken Sound Club Receives Prestigious “Distinguished Emerald Club” Award From Boardroom Magazine

Broken Sound Club announced that it has been awarded the prestigious Distinguished Emerald Club award, as determined by the annual Distinguished Clubs award program conducted by BoardRoom magazine, one of the most respected trade publications serving private clubs. The Distinguished Clubs award program uses a club-specific rating system based on an extensive evaluation process that distills and measures a club’s Member Experience.

As defined by Distinguished Clubs, “Member Experience” is that special combination of “Qualities” that a private club provides its members.  It is not just the quality of service, or of the facilities, or of the product provided, it is also the quality of the staff and of the management, as well as the overall club governance they deliver.  The most important quality, however, is the quality of the intangible. While difficult to measure, the latter is comprised of those magic moments experienced, the members befriended, the memorable events and famous tournaments attended, as well as the club traditions, history, and heritage proudly recognized. 

To be a Distinguished Club is to be one of a select group of private clubs that have been recognized as providing an absolutely excellent Member Experience, but to be a Distinguished Emerald Club is to provide a Member Experience at a level attained by only the finest clubs in the world. This distinction is nuanced, yet thoroughly recognizable, for it is based on the most important of all intangible qualities.  Reputation. Reverence. Admiration.  Brand Equity.  Fame.  Whatever you call it, it is that “X” factor that separates two clubs that both provide superlative Member Experience, but where one is a great club, while the other is the most prestigious of memberships. 

“At Broken Sound Club, we strive to make members feel like they are on vacation every day of the week,” says Broken Sound Club General Manager John Crean. “We offer our members five-star level resort-style lifestyle experience and world-class service, all within walking distance from their homes. Our mission at Broken Sound Club is to accommodate our members in any way we can, because at our Club, it is all about our members.”

Crean noted that the Club’s recent completion of its newest $13 million investment, featuring a two-acre poolscape and bistro at our main clubhouse and the grand opening of our 38,000-square-foot, free-standing state-of-the-art Spa and Fitness Center and related staff training, demonstrates the Club’s continued commitment to the member experience.

“We’d like to congratulate Broken Sound Club for earning Distinguished Club status,” said John Fornaro, Publisher of BoardRoom magazine, “Special recognition also goes out to Broken Sound Club’s General Manger, John Crean, as well as the club’s board of directors, its department heads, and entire staff for their efforts in providing an excellent member experience.”

About The Distinguished Clubs Award Program

Boardroom magazine developed the Distinguished Clubs award program to recognize and share – with the private club industry as a whole – what it is that Distinguished Clubs do differently, and to do so with the specific goal of improving the member experience at every private club in America, and thereby helping to preserve the institution of private clubs for many future generations.

About BoardRoom Magazine

BoardRoom magazine is the official publication of the Association of Private Club Directors and is published in print and digital formats, and shipped to 27 countries worldwide.  BoardRoom magazine is now widely viewed as the most respected and influential magazine in the private club industry.

About Broken Sound Club:

Whatever one’s passion or interest…their active enviable home life, business life, sporting life, and social life complement each other perfectly at Broken Sound Club. Known as the “friendly” club for its signature blend of warmth, elegance and genuine hospitality, this award-winning private gated golf and country club community offers a choice of 27 lushly landscaped intimate residential villages, each with its own character. All are just minutes away from its main 100,000-square-foot clubhouse with indoor and outdoor dining, two GEO Certified™ (golf’s ecolabel with the international mark of sustainability assurance of the international non-profit Golf Environment Organization) and Audubon Sanctuary Certified signature golf courses (one host to the PGA Champions Tour’s season opener, Allianz Championship), a new two-acre $6 million poolscape with bistro, a new $7 million 38,000-square-foot spa and fitness center, and 23 tennis courts. This 5-Star Platinum Club of America, which is also a designated Distinguished Emerald Club and one of “America’s Healthiest Clubs”, is conveniently close to two international airports, and just a few miles from the private Boca Raton Executive Airport, Boca’s burgeoning Class A office parks and vibrant Downtown, pristine beaches, A-rated public and award-winning private schools, two universities and one state college, sports arenas and stadiums, and an exciting world of shopping, dining, art and culture, recreation, and nightlife. For more information on Broken Sound Club, its residential villages, and club membership program, visit www.brokensoundclub.org, facebook/brokensoundliving, and facebook/brokensoundclub, or contact Maureen Schreiber, Director of Membership at (561) 241-6820, or Maureen_Schreiber@BrokenSoundClub.Org.

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Broken Sound Club Unveils $13 Million Lifestyle Investment As The Completion Of Final Phase Of $26 Million Transformation

Broken Sound Club, a 5-Star Platinum Club, unveiled today its latest $13 million lifestyle investment completed as the final phase of a three-year $26 million transformation program. The new Club amenities – debuted to a cross-section of South Florida civic, business and community leaders and news and lifestyle media – include the $6+ million design and construction of an expansive two-acre resort-style poolscape and bistro oasis at the 100,000-square-foot main clubhouse, and a free-standing $7 million, 38,000-square-foot spa and fitness center.

According to Broken Sound Club Board of Governors President Ivan Snyder, the latest phase follows the Club’s prior $13 million enhancement completed in 2011 that included the addition of a new clubhouse wing and upgrades to the design and décor. Spearheaded by the Club’s Board of Governors and dedicated member committees, and developed, directed and supervised by John Crean, CCE, General Manager and Chief Operating Officer, all new lifestyle features were designed by Peacock + Lewis Architects and constructed by The Weitz Company. The final phase of transformation generated an increase of 50 new jobs to support the expanded services at the pool, bistro, spa and fitness center.

A Resort-style Tranquil Oasis On The Club Course Green
Set amidst the Joe Lee designed/Gene Bates renovated and lushly landscaped Club golf course overlooking the driving range, Broken Sound Club’s new poolscape features a sprawling contemporary free-form pool accented with a tropical style grotto, lush landscaping and waterfalls; a five-lane lap pool; kids’ pool area and heated whirlpool. The 254 Valencia-style chaise lounges surround the entire pool area complementing the luxurious ambiance of the new facility. Its children’s area that Crean refers to as the “Disney Waterpark of Boca Raton” plays to fun with a water slide, a splash pad and a jungle gym.

What was once the “Pool Bar” has been transformed into “The Bistro”, a casual 4,000-square-foot restaurant with an outdoor terrace featuring both bar and table seating, three 70-inch and two 52-inch flat screen LED TVs, Wi-Fi, Bose Surround Sound and a top shelf bar. The interior showcases an ultimate avant-garde design with an open plan kitchen and a variety of seating options including banquettes, bar seating and tables overlooking the pool deck. With a display grand enough to compete with a full-service yogurt store, The Bistro serves up nine flavored frozen selections with 30 topping choices at its self-serve yogurt corner.

Signature Gem: Moonstone, The Spa At Broken Sound
Inspired by the mystical healing power of the stone for which it is named, the 13,100-square-foot Moonstone Spa was conceptualized by Peacock + Lewis Architects with treatment concepts and protocols, product selection, and operational fluidity created by American Leisure that has developed and managed spa programs for the Spa at Fisher Island, Spa at Williams Island in North Miami, The Spa at the landmark Plaza Athenee, NYC and Setai Club & Spa, Wall Street.

“Moonstone, referred to as nature’s gift with an elusive light moving through its heart, is a very personal, captivating stone,” notes Michael Tompkins, Broken Sound Club Director of Fitness, Spa and Aquatics. “It is a reflection of the person who embraces it, representing one’s intuition, inner core, flow, growth, strength, and passion. The warm and welcoming signature environs and treatments offered at Moonstone Spa are designed to captivate, awaken and illuminate one’s inner light for ultimate balance, healing and inspiration of body and spirit.”

The spa, designed in warm natural tones, features six treatment rooms, plus a “Moonstone Suite” couples room, men’s and women’s locker rooms with showers, steam rooms, and whirlpools. Its Relaxation Rooms, one for men and one for women, offer the comfort of custom lounges, quiet lighting, and calming scents, as guests retreat and enjoy sipping on a hot tea, fruit water and other nutritious indulgences prior to a treatment or service.

To offer a diverse menu of services and treatments, American Leisure created signature massages, facials, and wraps using cutting-edge esthetics equipment and natural products for women as well as a special “men’s only” spa treatment and services menu that includes traditional barber services and manicure and pedicure options. For women there is a 2,200-square-foot salon with stylist, two hair blow dry bars, two princess rooms for private pampering, and manicure and pedicure treatments.
At the Moonstone Signature Blend Bar Mix Station, every guest designs and creates their own exfoliating Body Scrub and Whipped Body Crème using all natural, vitamin-rich grape seed oil based ingredients and high quality aroma oils for the ultimate handcrafted body product. A choice of six aromas at the Blend Bar, including the signature, Broken Sound Silk made with lemongrass and eucalyptus.

Fitness & Wellness: First In Area To Feature Precor Equipment; State-of-the-Art Spin Room Rivals Any Area Spin Facility In A Private Residential Club Community Fitness Center
Just outside the door of the spa is the new 7,000-square-foot state-of-the-art fitness center offering the latest in fitness equipment, along with scheduled group classes in aerobics, zumba, cardio kickboxing, tai chi, yoga, pilates, sculpting, and children’s fitness classes in two exercise studios, and by-appointment private training sessions. The first in the area to feature Precor exercise machines, the Broken Sound Club’s new fitness center is equipped with 15 elliptical machines, 12 treadmills, 2 stair steppers, 11 recumbent bikes, a weights circuit of 20 machines, and TRX multi-mount monkey bars. Its dedicated Pilates area is equipped with six different types of equipment.

According to Tompkins, the fitness center’s 800-square-foot state-of-the-art virtual spin room “rivals any area spin facility in a private residential club community fitness center.” It is fitted with the industry’s top-of-the-line Keiser bikes and a Blu-Ray projected video wall by which members can choose to be cycling through Europe, Spain, and Hawaii. A separate side screen monitors each participant’s heart rate, and gauges their calories burned and distance results so members can compete with each other.
Special 2,500-square-foot section of the fitness center is devoted to wellness services, offering convenient on-site physician consultation, physical therapy, and lecture rooms. A soon-to-be announced collaboration with regional medical center will give members a distinctive wellness and healthcare advantage, not yet found at other private residential club communities.

“Already recognized as one of ‘America’s Healthiest Clubs’ with the highest rating to date in the national competition’s history, our new spa and fitness center along with our lap pool and healthy dining menu options at our main clubhouse are game-changing when it comes to the Club’s health and wellness benefits for those who call Broken Sound Club home or are considering a move to a residential club community,” added Crean.

Other center amenities, include:

• Moonstone Café overlooks the Broken Sound Club 23 Har Tru court Tennis Center, with 1,500 square feet of indoor and outdoor terrace seating, serving health-full dining, lite bites, smoothies, yogurt, gelato, and more. Perfect for comfortable relaxation and gathering before or after tennis/fitness/spa time.
• The Game Room, where the tween set gathers, features a variety of games, from air hockey, ping pong, to fuzz ball, plus two televisions: one for cartoons and movies and the other for video games.
• The Toddler Room is dedicated for supervised play for children ages 3 months to 5 years old, while parents and grandparents focus on fitness, wellness or rejuvenation at the center.
• Pro Shop for the latest in fitness and tennis fashions and equipment.

Trailblazing Vision Continues To Keep Broken Sound Club Market Relevant
Crean, the trailblazing lead behind the major re-developments at Broken Sound Club, is known throughout the community and club industry for his commitment to sustainability and for leading Broken Sound to the become and remain a prestigious Five-Star Platinum Club of America by the Club Managers Association of America since 2009, a distinction shared by fewer than 4 percent of the country’s 6,000 private clubs. Under his leadership, Broken Sound Club became the first in Florida and second in the nation to be GEO Certified™ -- the sustainability assurance of the international non-profit Golf Environment Organization (GEO).

Born during the Generation X period, Crean understands the significance of embracing and responding to evolving demographic trends when attracting prospective members and retaining current ones, the lifeblood of any private country club.

“Broken Sound has always focused on delivering high quality and valuable experiences to its membership,” noted Crean. “By utilizing new initiatives, social and recreational programming, technologies and services, and maintaining the culture of a true ‘resort-style community lifestyle’, the Club remains relevant and enviously financially stable enabling us to take advantage of opportunities that best serve our members and attract new ones.”

While many residential country clubs in South Florida and throughout the country have been significantly impacted the past few years by the economy, Crean added that Broken Sound Club has remained financially sound while continuing to literally “build” lifestyle value on so many levels for its members, while increasing job opportunities in Boca Raton. But Crean declared, “the best part of Broken Sound is that members enjoy all of the prestige they desire in a private golf club community without any pretense. From your first visit, you know we are the ‘friendly’ club!”

For more information on Broken Sound Club, its residential villages, and club membership program, visit www.brokensoundclub.org, www.facebook/brokensoundliving, www.facebook/brokensoundclub, or contact Maureen Schreiber, Director of Membership at (561) 241-6820, or Maureen_Schreiber@BrokenSoundClub.Org.

About Broken Sound Club:
Whatever one’s passion or interest…their active enviable home life, business life, sporting life, and social life complement each other perfectly at Broken Sound Club. Known as the “friendly” club for its signature blend of warmth, elegance and genuine hospitality, this award-winning private gated golf and country club community offers a choice of 27 lushly landscaped intimate residential villages, each with its own character. All are just minutes away from its main 100,000-square-foot clubhouse with indoor and outdoor dining, two GEO Certified™ (golf’s ecolabel with the international mark of sustainability assurance of the international non-profit Golf Environment Organization) and Audubon Sanctuary Certified signature golf courses (one host to the PGA Champions Tour’s season opener, Allianz Championship), a new two-acre $6 million poolscape with bistro, a new $7 million 38,000-square-foot spa and fitness center, and 23 tennis courts. This 5-Star Platinum Club of America, which is also a designated Distinguished Emerald Club and one of “America’s Healthiest Clubs”, is conveniently close to two international airports, and just a few miles from the private Boca Raton Executive Airport, Boca’s burgeoning Class A office parks and vibrant Downtown, pristine beaches, A-rated public and award-winning private schools, two universities and one state college, sports arenas and stadiums, and an exciting world of shopping, dining, art and culture, recreation, and nightlife. For more information on Broken Sound Club, its residential villages, and club membership program, visit www.brokensoundclub.org, facebook/brokensoundliving, and facebook/brokensoundclub, or contact Maureen Schreiber, Director of Membership at (561) 241-6820, or Maureen_Schreiber@BrokenSoundClub.Org.

Boca Raton Bridge Hotel Invites Community To Enjoy A "Thanks For The Memories" Grand Finale Before Closing For Complete Transformation

Special "Guest Appreciation" Happy Hour, Dining and Room Offers
To Make A Splash At The Iconic Waterfront Hotel 

To Run Through April 28th

BOCA RATON, FL (April 8, 2013)— In appreciation for their continued patronage and support during the past 37 years, the new ownership of the Boca Raton Bridge Hotel invites the greater Boca Raton community and past guests from near and far to enjoy a “Thanks For The Memories” grand finale before closing for complete transformation on April 28th. Running through April 27th, special “Guest Appreciation” happy hour, dining and guest room offers set to make a splash include:

• Special “Stay” Pricing-Guests that book the hotel’s best available rate for their first night stay will get a second night for only $19.76, in commemoration of the year that the hotel first opened on the Boca waterfront. This special rate is available April 14th through April 27th. The package is only available by calling the hotel directly at (561) 368-9500.
• “A Rollback” in Price of the famed Sunday Champagne Brunch at Carmen’s Restaurant at the Top of the Bridge—every Sunday in April, guests can enjoy a delicious spread of gourmet food and drink offerings for just $34.00 per person.
• “Double the pleasure” at WaterColors restaurant, the only open-to-the-public waterfront dining in Boca Raton, featuring half-price on all well brand drinks all day long, and 50% off appetizers every day from 4:00 p.m. to closing.

The Bridge Hotel remains one of Boca’s most notable, as new ownership reinvents it to be more relevant and exciting to meet the desires and needs of today’s discerning vacationers as well as social and business guests. Led by a seasoned team of hotel ownership, management, designers, and marketing consultants, the reinvention plans will reposition the hotel into a premier South Florida experience with its own distinctive signature for the destination. The design direction and inspiration for the aesthetic and structural reinvention of the Bridge Hotel was recently revealed at a special “Preview Reception” held in Carmen’s Top of the Bridge, showcasing the new designs and the breathtaking views of Lake Boca, the Intracoastal and Atlantic Ocean.

The complete transformation to a luxury four-star hotel status will include the introduction of entirely new hospitality and dining concepts, with plans to take optimal advantage of the property’s most distinctive assets: its prime location – on the Intracoastal Waterway and Lake Boca with direct access to Atlantic Ocean – and its breathtaking water views. The preliminary phase of the Bridge Hotel’s major “reinvention” was launched in November 2012 with the construction of the hotel’s new dock-to-dine “waterfront promenade” that flanks the property’s entire Lake Boca perimeter to expand hotel guest and community food and beverage enjoyment opportunities.

According to Russ Flicker, managing member of AWH Partners, LLC that in partnership with The Lane Organization purchased the boutique hotel property in August 2012, the extensive property architectural reorientation will feature a new “sense of arrival” and relocation of hotel’s entrance, innovative interior design renovation concepts for the lobby, registration area and guest rooms, and the addition of an indoor waterfront restaurant as well as expanded outdoor waterfront dining and public spaces conceived by the commissioned Gensler design and architectural firm.

“Through our countdown celebration offers, we want to thank all in the community who have made the Bridge Hotel their personal ‘guesthouse’ for visiting family, friends and colleagues and their evening ‘celebration’ location for personal milestones since its opening in 1976,” said Flicker. “We cannot wait to welcome everyone back in the fall when we unveil and re-open the new four-star jewel on the Boca Raton waterfront.”

The Boca Raton Bridge Hotel, one of Palm Beach County’s boutique icon hotels with panoramic water views from every guest room, is located where the Intracoastal Waterway and Lake Boca Raton meet at 999 East Camino Real in Boca Raton. Hotel reservations are available until April 27th; visit www.bocaratonbridgehotel.com or call (561) 368-9500. For dining updates at WaterColors or reservations for Carmen’s award-winning Sunday Champagne Brunch, call (561) 886-4570 or visit www.opentable.com. Reservations are open now and throughout the summer and fall for advanced booking of post “re-opening” private dining functions and holiday parties; for more information call Fran Bannon at (561) 368-9500 or email her at f.bannon@bocaratonbridgehotel.com.

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Lesser, Lesser, Landy & Smith, PLLC Attorney Luis J. Delgado Inducted as President of Palm Beach County Hispanic Bar Association

WEST PALM BEACH (March 5, 2013) — Lesser, Lesser, Landy & Smith, PLLC (LLL&S) attorney Luis J. Delgado has been inducted as President of the Palm Beach County Hispanic Bar Association (PBCHBA). Elected by his peers, Delgado will serve a one-year term, and is responsible for working closely with his fellow officers and board of directors, as well as arranging monthly programming, social events, and community service. Prior to his election, Delgado served on the PBCHBA board and as President-Elect.

The evening was perfectly set at the Richard and Pat Johnson Palm Beach County History Museum in downtown West Palm Beach, as over 100 people, including Judges, Florida Bar leaders, Palm Bach County Bar leaders, other voluntary bar leaders, prominent local attorneys as well as friends supported the installation of the PBCHBA officers and directors. Judge Ronald Alvarez of 15th Judicial Circuit swore in the nine board members and four officers.

"Our firm is proud to have such a dedicated community leader as a part of our team,” said LLL&S Managing Partner Gary Lesser. “Lou has shown initiative throughout his life and I am certain he will take the Hispanic Bar Association to a new level this year.”

The Palm Beach County Hispanic Bar Association understands the Spanish speaking populations' struggles and seeks to provide pro bono efforts to those in need, and seek to help those individuals that lack representation in the judicial process due to language barriers. The PBCHBA was also established to provide help for the Hispanic community by creating a group that will stand behind those seeking a judiciary seat in Palm Beach County.

Delgado’s law practice focuses on the areas of personal injury, automobile accidents, premises liability and products liability. Prior to joining LLL&S, Delgado served as a prosecutor for the State Attorney’s Office for which he prosecuted defendants using Florida’s “Career Criminal” and “Violent Career Criminal” statutes. As prosecutor he handled thousands of court hearings ranging from simple thefts to serious cases such as gang crimes, drug sale, drug trafficking, attempted murder, and murder, taking approximately 100 cases to verdict.

Delgado is a graduate of the University of Florida where he simultaneously earned bachelor’s degrees in Journalism and Political Science. Delgado is also a veteran of the United States Marine Corps., enlisting as a Private First Class while in college, and throughout his service he maintained conduct and proficiency ratings in the top 5 percent of all Marines. During his first year at the University of Florida’s College of Law, Delgado was activated by “Presidential Recall Orders” for active service and deployed with the 4th ANGLICO (Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company) to Iraq for Operation Iraqi Freedom. He was the Non-commissioned Officer in charge of Motor Transportation that provided combat support for an area covering 16,000 square miles of hostile territory. He was honorably discharged after reaching the rank of Sergeant.

Delgado is also a graduate of the Leadership Palm Beach County and also serves as a member on the University of Florida Law Alumni Council, Treasurer of the Palm Beach County Bar Young Lawyers Section, and is a board member of Seagull Industries for the Developmentally Disabled.

Lesser, Lesser, Landy & Smith, PLLC, the third oldest law firm in Palm Beach County, was established in 1927 by Joseph H. Lesser in West Palm Beach, and has been serving clients throughout Florida for over 85 years, focusing on serious personal injury and wrongful death cases. LLL&S (www.lesserlawfirm.com) enjoys a reputation in the community for superior legal skills, hard work, client service and high ethical standards. All Firm partners are "AV" rated by Martindale-Hubbell, the highest rating in ethics and legal ability. LLL&S is active in the community, and has donated significant time and financial support to numerous charities. The Firm has obtained substantial settlements and verdicts over the years and is well known to insurance companies and insurance defense lawyers as skillful advocates. This experience and reputation allows the Firm to obtain the best possible results for its clients.

For more information on LLL&S with offices in West Palm Beach, Boca Raton and Stuart, call Gary Lesser at (561) 655-2028 or visit www.lesserlawfirm.com.

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