Navigation Stacy Leonard and her family family are one of 65 Jacksonville families JALA has assisted in the last year through the City of Jacksonville’s Foreclosure Intervention Program, which helps residents stay in their homes and stop the foreclosure process by providing mortgage counseling, direct mortgage “catch-up” assistance, loan modification and refinance counseling, and a course […]
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Ask Judge Smith: A Sea Change for Lawyers
Q. Judge Smith, how has law practice changed since you started? Quinton A. I became a lawyer in 1987. As a newbie, my boss tasked me with legal research, writing, and reviewing documents that the parties had produced for lawsuits. Let’s compare how I did that work then and now. Nineteen-Hundred-and-Eighty-Seven
Judicial Circuit Assessment Committee takes public comments
Florida’s 20 Judicial Circuits Prosecutors, public defenders, trial lawyers, and other critics of a proposal to consolidate Florida’s 20 judicial circuits delivered a united message Friday to a Supreme Court panel. “We don’t want any changes,” said Key Largo attorney David Hutchinson. “If it’s not broke, don’t fix it.”
Committee to consider lawyer’s cybersecurity responsibilities
Franklin Zemel The new Standing Committee on Cybersecurity & Privacy Law will work with other Bar committees to help lawyers appreciate the growing threat of data breaches, and how to mitigate them. That’s the message the co-chairs stressed at the committee’s first meeting on August 24.
152 Florida lawyers earn board certification
The Board of Legal Specialization and Education congratulates the 152 lawyers who recently earned Florida Bar board certification, which recognizes attorneys’ special knowledge, skills, and proficiency in various areas of law and professionalism and ethics in practice. Board certified lawyers are “Evaluated for Professionalism and Tested for Expertise.” Florida’s legal ranks currently feature over 5,000 […]