Miami-based boutique Heise Suarez Melville is bringing on a former managing partner for Squire Patton Boggs’s Miami office after he spent almost two decades there.

Alvin Davis began his career in the U.S. Airforce, where he served as a staff judge advocate in Southeast Asia. Shortly after, he started practicing civil law in D.C., focusing on election law, where he defended Jeb Magruder, one of the people who pled guilty for involvement in the Watergate scandal.