Posts Tagged 'Florida Bar'



September 1, 2023 News and Notes

Leslie Kroeger of Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll received the Florida Justice Association’s 2023 Women’s Caucus Ruth Bader Ginsberg Award. Stephanie Reed Traband of Levine Kellogg Lehman Schneider + Grossman LLP in Miami was admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court. Nicholas Johnson of Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll was named chair of the […]

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September 1, 2023 Letters

CLE Costs On behalf of the Family Law Section, I am writing to address the questions and concerns voiced by William J. Leininger’s letter in May and Rosely Torres’s June letter regarding the costs of CLEs offered by Bar sections. I am pleased to report that the section has been for many years offering free […]

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Florida Bar News Briefs is set for download

The latest edition of Florida Bar News Briefs, a weekly podcast dedicated to what’s happening in the legal profession, is now available with stories including: Prosecutors, public defenders, trial lawyers, and other critics of a proposal to consolidate Florida’s 20 judicial circuits delivering a united message last week to the Judicial Circuit Assessment Committee. Florida at […]

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Jeff Adelman leads ABOTA Florida

Jeffrey A. Adelman One of ABOTA Florida president Jeff Adelman’s first official acts was issuing an alert about a proposal to consolidate the state’s 20 judicial circuits. “FLABOTA encourages all ABOTA leaders and members in the state to please speak up to make it clear that this change would hurt our clients’ access to the […]

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YLD needs volunteers to assist those affected by Hurricane Idalia

With Hurricane Idalia bearing down on Florida’s Gulf Coast, widespread property damage and displacement is expected. Once the storm passes, residents will face a bevy of legal questions without a lot of answers. The Young Lawyers Division has opened its Disaster Legal Services Hotline, which answers legal questions for hurricane victims on a pro-bono basis, in […]

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