Navigation Baker and Marchman act reforms championed last year by an Okaloosa lawmaker, and a $50 million appropriation, are helping improve the way Florida treats addicted and mentally ill suspects, a state official told a House panel last week. Rep. Patt Maney The funding and HB 7021 by Rep. Patt Maney, a retired judge, are making […]
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Free cybersecurity incident response plan webinar is today at noon
Comprehensive cybersecurity incident response plans are now a standard global operational need, not a nice-to-have. Although the October 20 jump-scare with the Amazon Web Service outage that affected a wide plethora of web-product users from Alexa to Zoom across the eastern United States was found by the company to have been caused by a bug […]
St. Thomas University College of Law sweeps Earle Zehmer Memorial Mock Trial Competition
The St. Thomas University College of Law team of Juan Estevez, from the left, Frances Lissabet, Rhod Belizaire, and Nadia Bernal won the 2025 Florida Justice Association Earle Zehmer Memorial Mock Trial Competition in Orlando. The St. Thomas teams were coached by Professor Houston Lafrance, Karina Harduvel, Conor Sloan, Idan Livnat, and Ernesto Leo. St. Thomas […]
Former Cuban political prisoner José Daniel Ferrer headlines CABA Human Rights Forum
A prominent Cuban dissident and former political prisoner will be the keynote speaker at a Cuban American Bar Association forum November 18 at the University of Miami. José Daniel Ferrer, who was allowed to flee to Miami last month after spending four years in a Cuban prison, will keynote a CABA “Cuban Voices” forum, “Rights, […]
Florida Bar rules proposals
The Board of Governors of The Florida Bar gives notice of filing with the Supreme Court of Florida, on or about January 5, 2026, a petition to amend the Rules Regulating The Florida Bar. A summary of the proposed amendments is printed below. The full text of the proposed amendments in this submission is available […]