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Supreme Court certifies need for 25 new trial court judges

The Florida Supreme Court has certified the need for 13 additional circuit court judgeships and 12 more for the county courts in its annual certification opinion. Acting November 26 in Case No. SC2025-1808, the justices also said there was no need for additional district court judgeships this year. The ask for 25 new judicial positions […]

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Bar’s Speakers Bureau helps Florida lawyers connect with communities

South Florida attorneys Helen Warner, Tiffany-Ashley Disney, Marivette Gonzalez Rivera, Johnathan Davis, Natalie Lanz, Mara Ritchie Poncy Hatfield, and Mario Urizar participated in the “Careers in Law” panel at iPrep Academy North in Miami on October 10. Kristianna Soto, who is building her solo practice in Ft. Myers after a decade working as a public […]

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December 1, 2025, Letters

The History of the Bar I am a more than 60-year member of The Florida Bar. While I was a student at Duke Law School in 1963, I was required to travel from Durham, North Carolina, to Tallahassee for a Florida Board of Bar Examiners hearing before I was cleared to take the Florida bar […]

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December 1, 2025, News and Notes

Erin L. Deady of Delray Beach spoke on, “Legal Policy and Project Case Studies in Vulnerability Planning and CRS Watershed Planning,” at the Florida Resilience Conference in Charlotte Harbor. Michael Napoleone of Day Pitney in West Palm Beach was featured in the podcast, “Celebrity Estates: The John Amos Estate Dispute with Michael Napoleone,” published by […]

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