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Criminal Law Section seeks Selig Goldin Award nominations

Selig Goldin The Criminal Law Section is seeking nominations for its 2025 Selig I. Goldin Memorial Award to recognize outstanding contributions to Florida’s criminal justice system. Previous recipients include Florida Supreme Court justices, district courts of appeal and circuit court judges, a former U.S. attorney general, state attorneys, public defenders, private defense lawyers, and law […]

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Judge rejects lawsuit calling for Palm Coast ballot measure on borrowing to be nullified

A judge recently gave the go-ahead to count the votes on a Palm Coast charter amendment that would have given the city greater authority to borrow money, despite a lawsuit calling the measure’s ballot language misleading and urging the vote to be nullified. On Nov. 4, Judge Christopher France of the Seventh Judicial Circuit Court […]

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Bradley Named “Law Firm of the Year” for Construction Law in 2025 Edition of Best Law Firms®

Bradley is pleased to announce that the firm has been named the “Law Firm of the Year” in the area of Construction Law in the 2025 edition of Best Law Firms. This marks the fifth time since 2018 that Bradley has earned a “Law Firm of the Year” award for its Construction Practice Group, including three awards in […]

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Statewide meeting tackles issues facing Florida’s local professionalism panels

Should a judge participate in a local professionalism panel’s informal, “peer-to-peer mentoring?” Should LPPs accept referrals from federal courts? How should they maintain records of a confidential process? Those are just some questions that the chairs of Florida’s 20 local professionalism panels, or their designees, discussed Monday in a first statewide mandatory meeting. “Right now, […]

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