Throughout a decade of experience helping farmers solve their legal problems, Katie Edwards-Walpole worried that South Florida’s continual urban sprawl would eventually cause her clients to sell to developers, forcing her to shift her practice to something outside of her agricultural background.

She was right about the first part: Farmland is declining as the current migration into the region boosts property values and creates water management issues at the urban development boundary. But as Edwards-Walpole settles in at Gunster’s West Palm Beach office as an of counsel in its real estate practice, joining in late June after a 20-month stint at Becker & Poliakoff, she’s finding that more development of farmland means more clients with agricultural issues.

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