Navigation A. Bryant Applegate, recipient of the 2022 Claude Pepper Outstanding Government Lawyer Award, and outgoing Florida Bar President Gary Lesser. A. Bryant Applegate, county attorney for Seminole County, is the recipient of the 2022 Claude Pepper Outstanding Government Lawyer Award. The award recognizes Florida lawyers who have made exemplary contributions as practicing government lawyers. It […]
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Chief Justice Carlos Muñiz: Despite the successes of the past year, the third branch faces challenges
Chief Justice Carlos Muñiz The state of Florida’s judiciary is “great,” but judges will have to work harder to maintain the public’s trust and confidence, warned Chief Justice Carlos Muñiz. Addressing hundreds of lawyers and judges gathered in a Boca Raton ballroom for the 2023 Annual Florida Bar Convention Judicial Luncheon, Muñiz pronounced the recent […]
Stetson’s Theresa Radwan named Law Faculty/Administrator Award winner
Stetson Law interim Dean Theresa Radwan and Bar President Gary Lesser. Theresa Radwan, interim dean at Stetson University College of Law, won The Florida Bar’s Standing Committee on Professionalism’s Law Faculty/Administrator Award. The award, presented at the Bar Annual Convention in Boca Raton, recognizes a faculty member or administrator of one of Florida’s accredited law […]
Group Professionalism Award goes to the Virgil Hawkins Florida Chapter National Bar Association and the Florida Hispanic Bar Association
Florida Hispanic Bar Association President Victoria Mesa-Estrada, from the left, Virgil Hawkins Florida Chapter National Bar Association President Valeria Obi, and Bar President Gary Lesser. The Virgil Hawkins Florida Chapter National Bar Association and the Florida Hispanic Bar Association received the Group Professionalism Award for their Civil Litigation Boot Camp. The award, presented by the […]
Sarah E. Kay leads the Family Law Section
Tenesia Hall, Aimee Gross, Christopher Rumbold, Sarah Kay, and Phil Wartenberg. During the Family Law Section’s Annual Membership Awards and Installation Presentation June 21 in conjunction with the Annual Florida Bar Convention, Sarah E. Kay was sworn in as chair for the 2023-2024 Bar year. Kay is managing partner of Kay Family Law in the […]