Fort Lauderdale investor George Levin, whose $775 million in investments were the biggest losers in Scott Rothstein’s $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme, said in a deposition Monday that he “absolutely did not know” Rothstein was running a fraud.

In the third and final sale of possessions of Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein, more than 700 items will be on the auction block collected from his four homes in Fort Lauderdale, Manhattan and Rhode Island.

Atkinson Diner Stone Mankuta & Ploucha has signed an agreement to merge with Fowler White Boggs, creating a powerhouse Fort Lauderdale office with two former Florida Bar presidents. All 12 Atkinson Diner attorneys will join Fowler White, boosting its lawyer headcount to 142.

Chicago-based Hinshaw is adding eight attorneys to its Miami and Fort Lauderdale, Fla., offices from what remains of Yoss LLP. Kansas City, Mo.-based Polsinelli Shughart has recruited 11 lawyers from Faegre & Benson in Denver.

Yoss plans to close its main Fort Lauderdale, Fla., office April 1 with the departure of the firm’s newly named litigation chief and 11 other attorneys, according to former partners.