Board of Governors members Paige Greenlee of Tampa and Jeff Rynor of Miami Beach have qualified as candidates for Florida Bar president-elect in the Bar’s 2026 elections. Qualifying closed December 15. Voting will be in March 2026. The News will publish platform statements and a Q&A with the candidates, both online and in the February printed edition. […]

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Five seats on the Bar Board of Governors will have a contested race in the upcoming March elections, while 15 board members were reelected without opposition and four new board members were elected without opposition when qualifying ended December 15. The contested board race include: In the First Circuit, Seat 1, Randle D. Thompson will […]

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Seven candidates are running in three contested races for the Young Lawyers Division Board of Governors in the Bar’s March 2026 elections while 13 young lawyers have been elected without opposition. Filing for the races closed on December 15. There are contests in the Second, Fourth, and 18th circuits The contested races include: Click Here […]

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As The Florida Bar marks its 75th year, we continue to look back at the decisions, programs, and good intentions that — sometimes in unexpected ways — helped shape the modern, integrated Bar. In the summer of 1968, the war in Vietnam raged on, and dozens of Florida lawyers were serving in combat zones from […]

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The latest edition of Florida Bar News Briefs, a weekly podcast dedicated to what’s happening in the legal profession, is now available with stories including: Justice Charles Canady closing the final oral argument of his Florida Supreme Court service with words that were as reflective as they were emotional. Gov. Ron DeSantis releasing a $117 billion […]

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