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Cooley Law School moot court team wins best brief at Florida competition
Cooley Law School’s Tampa Bay Moot Court team won the Best Brief award at Florida State University’s Claude Pepper Elder law Moot Court competition. Pictured from left to right are: Safa Kudia, Colby Weron, and Gabriella Logiudice. Cooley Law School’s Moot Court team won the Best Brief award at Florida State University’s Claude Pepper Elder […]
Pets and their humans compete for prizes at SFAWL’s Fifth Annual Yappy Hour
Rebekah Taylor and Sirius Black, from the left; Mary Cogg and Roxy; Jessica Travis and Pepper; Judge Melissa Souto and her dog with guests; Reginald Penn, Young Lawyers Division board member for the 18th Circuit; Samendio Mathieu, YLD board member for the 18th Circuit; Ashley Baillargeon, Animal Law Section; Hannah Crume, SFAWL president-elect and Sophia; […]
Criminal Law Section seeks Selig Goldin Award nominations
Selig Goldin The Criminal Law Section is seeking nominations for its 2025 Selig I. Goldin Memorial Award to recognize outstanding contributions to Florida’s criminal justice system. Previous recipients include Florida Supreme Court justices, district courts of appeal and circuit court judges, a former U.S. attorney general, state attorneys, public defenders, private defense lawyers, and law […]
Statewide meeting tackles issues facing Florida’s local professionalism panels
Should a judge participate in a local professionalism panel’s informal, “peer-to-peer mentoring?” Should LPPs accept referrals from federal courts? How should they maintain records of a confidential process? Those are just some questions that the chairs of Florida’s 20 local professionalism panels, or their designees, discussed Monday in a first statewide mandatory meeting. “Right now, […]