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Florida Bar panel eyes incident response plans amid rising cyber threats
The Cybersecurity & Privacy Law Committee is weighing a formal recommendation that Florida Bar members develop an “incident response plan” for ransomware attacks and other data breaches. “We have to assume everyone is going to get hit, and we have to have the best profile in place when that awful day comes,” Co-Chair Franklin Zemel […]
YLD board nominations being accepted
Nominating petitions for positions on the Young Lawyers Division Board of Governors must be received in The Florida Bar headquarters office on or before 5 p.m., December 16. Executive Director Joshua E. Doyle on October 18 certified to Ashlea Edwards YLD president, the number of YLD members of The Florida Bar in good standing in […]
Broward Judge Elijah Williams receives Archbishop Edward McCarthy Annual Award for Moral Principles
Judge Elijah H. Williams 17th Circuit Judge Elijah H. Williams has been named recipient of The Archbishop Edward McCarthy Annual Award, an honor bestowed on a member of the legal community who exemplifies the moral principles espoused by Saint Thomas More. More – a judge, statesmen and humanitarian – was canonized a saint in 1535 […]
Webster-Cooley petitions the Supreme Court for Bar reinstatement
Pursuant to Rule 3-7.10, Adrian Shiand Webster-Cooley has petitioned the Supreme Court for Bar reinstatement. Webster-Cooley was suspended from practice of law for three years effective May 18, 2020, for being affiliated with a non-lawyer referral service which solicited clients nationwide and mismanaged cases. Any persons having knowledge bearing upon ebster-Cooley’s fitness or qualifications to […]