Ft. Lauderdale lawyer Salome Zikakis won a flight aboard an L-39, a high-performance jet trainer, over the skies of Pompano Beach. ‘It was one of those things that I didn’t know was a bucket list item, but oh my God, it was epic,’ said Zikakis, who is battling multiple sclerosis. Ringing out the old year […]

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An Orange County jury last month awarded the parents of a young Missouri teen $310 million in damages after the teen fell several hundred feet to his death from the Free Fall ride at an Orlando amusement park. The Ninth Judicial Circuit jury handed down the verdict on Dec. 5 in the wrongful death case […]

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Three seats on the Bar Board of Governors will be contested in the upcoming March elections, while 18 incumbents were reelected unopposed and three newcomers were elected to the board without opposition following the close of qualifying. A contested regular election cycle board race is set for Seat 2 in the 13th Circuit. Benjamin Hill […]

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In an era where civic knowledge is on the decline, initiatives aimed at strengthening citizens’ understanding of government and law have never been more crucial. Recent surveys reveal troubling gaps in Americans’ basic civic knowledge, with many unable to name fundamental rights or understand the branches of government. To address this, The Florida Bar Trial […]

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Joe D’Amico Seventeenth Circuit Trial Court Administrator Joseph D’Amico has been named co-editor of Court Manager, a national publication that focuses on ethics and the courts, technology and the judiciary, and court management issues. The National Association for Court Management (NACM) announced the news on December 30. NACM, the publisher of Court Manager magazine, is […]

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