County hires outside conflict attorney

Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. Jefferson County commissioners approved the hiring of an outside conflict counsel on Thursday morning, June 6. Hired as outside conflict counsel, upon the recommendation of Jefferson County Attorney Heather Encinosa, was Terrell K. Arline, with the Ansbacher Law Firm in Tallahassee. As Encinosa explained it, she and her colleagues at Nabors, Giblin and Nickerson (NGN) often represent the board on quasi-judicial matters, which thus prevents them from simultaneously representing county staff on the same matters. These would be the times when the special outside conflict counsel would represent the staff on as-needed basis, Encinosa said. Arline, she sa