Seven Miami shareholders are leaving Akerman Senterfitt, and current and former lawyers with the firm worry more departures are on the way due to economic reasons and growing pains.

Litigators Larry Silverman, James Sammataro and Scott Cosgrove plan to start their own boutique firm; labor and employment shareholders James Crosland, David Miller and Denise Heekin bolted for Bryant Miller & Olive in Miami; and litigator Sean Santini is joining Boyd Mustelier Smith & Parker in Miami. The departures “are completely unrelated. It’s a normal course of business when you get to the size that we are,” Robert Zinn, president of the 420-attorney national firm, told the Daily Business Review.

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