Navigation The Criminal Law Section’s inaugural 2025 class of Fellows, Laura Chiu, from left, Brooke Pemberton, CLS Young Lawyers Committee Chair Alexis Cline, Freddie Menard, and Kyra Lucas-Millbrook at the 2025 Annual Florida Bar Convention in Boca Raton. The Criminal Law Section has selected four young lawyers to participate in the section’s first-ever Fellowship Program, a […]
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14th Circuit and Bay County have judicial openings
The 14th Judicial Circuit’s Judicial Nominating Commission, pursuant to a request from Gov. Ron DeSantis, and through Chair Waylon Graham, announces the process concerning the taking and reviewing of applications from members of The Florida Bar who are interested in applying for the new Bay County Court judgeship and Circuit Court judgeship positions created by […]
Denise Harle leads FSU Law’s new First Amendment Clinic
Denise Harle describes the program, Florida’s only First Amendment Clinic and one of roughly a dozen such clinics in the country dealing with First Amendment rights, as an initiative to protect and promote freedom of speech, religious liberty, and other key First Amendment rights, through the education process in the law school and through direct […]
Sean McCormack takes leadership of the Workers’ Comp Section
The 2025-26 Workers’ Compensation Section officers at the 50th Anniversary Gala in Boca Raton on June 26. From the left are Sean P. McCormack, Tracey Hyde, Karen Cullen, W. Rogers Turner, and Richard Manno. Sean McCormack, a board-certified workers’ compensation attorney with Colling Gilbert Wright in Orlando, has been named chair of The Florida Bar’s […]
Supreme Court Clerk John Tomasino honored with James C. Adkins Award
Supreme Court Clerk John Tomasino is the recipient of this year’s Appellate Practice Section James C. Adkins Award for his efforts to modernize and streamline Florida’s appellate courts. Pictured from the left are Justice Meredith Sasso, Tomasino, Justice Jamie Grosshans, and Justice John Couriel. “Clerk Tomasino’s vision, expertise, and unwavering dedication to improving Florida appellate […]