Posts Tagged 'Florida Bar'



Never Contemplated: Surround Yourself with Amazing People

Bandy Rebecca The latest edition of the “Never Contemplated” podcast features Bar Center for Professionalism Director Rebecca Bandy, a deeply committed and energetic lawyer who developed a thirst for justice while teaching in a rural Georgia high school. Asked to define professionalism, Bandy quotes a short-hand version she learned while serving on an ABA committee.

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Scarritt teaches persuasion to high school students as part of the Great American Teach-In

Board certified civil trial attorney Tom Scarritt was invited to Freedom High School in North Tampa to teach three classes of ninth grade honors students “Aristotle’s Three Tools of Persuasion from a Trial Lawyer’s Perspective.” Scarritt used some of his most colorful and dramatic personal injury and business jury trials to illustrate how to use […]

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Scarritt teaches persuasion to high school students as part of the Great American Teach-In

Board certified civil trial attorney Tom Scarritt was invited to Freedom High School in North Tampa to teach three classes of ninth grade honors students “Aristotle’s Three Tools of Persuasion from a Trial Lawyer’s Perspective.” Scarritt used some of his most colorful and dramatic personal injury and business jury trials to illustrate how to use […]

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Grant will boost Dade Legal Aid’s bankruptcy services

Miami-Dade County’s Put Something Back Pro Bono Project received a $15,000 grant from the American College of Bankruptcy Foundation to expand available pro bono representation to clients in need of bankruptcy services. The grant funds will be used by Put Something Back to expand and promote services, distribute updated materials, recruit and train new attorneys, […]

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Grant will boost Dade Legal Aid’s bankruptcy services

Miami-Dade County’s Put Something Back Pro Bono Project received a $15,000 grant from the American College of Bankruptcy Foundation to expand available pro bono representation to clients in need of bankruptcy services. The grant funds will be used by Put Something Back to expand and promote services, distribute updated materials, recruit and train new attorneys, […]

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