Navigation After a three-year hiatus, The Florida Bar’s Henry Latimer Center for Professionalism has released its 2022-24 Professionalism Handbook. The document outlines the center’s role in promoting professionalism and civility and combines everything Florida’s legal community needs to know on the subject into one handbook. “We typically update it [the handbook] every two years, however, the […]
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Freed to Run marathon series expected to reach its $2.25 million goal with a little help from an Olympian
Mike Freed Jacksonville native and Olympic athlete Garrett Scantling will be the lead runner kicking off the Freed to Run 5k, which will finish at the Duval County Courthouse Saturday, November 19, at 4 p.m., when the event is expected to have reached or exceeded its $2.25 million goal to endow Jacksonville Area Legal Aid’s […]
Soldiers who transitioned to become Florida lawyers recall their service to the nation
Christopher Odgers, on the left, served from 2009 to 2015 — four years of active duty and two years in the Army Reserves — before he decided to go to law school. For about a year, between 2011 and 2012, Odgers’ unit was deployed to Iraq and Kuwait. From deployments to Iraq and Kuwait as […]
Be a hospitable lawyer
Jim Vickaryous Offering a cup of coffee is often the first act of hospitality shown by one lawyer to another. It not only identifies one as a good host, but also sets the stage for the expectation of civil behavior and provides an introductory icebreaker before beginning to work together. In a rare in-person deposition […]
Appellate jurists retained, voters decide 11 trial court runoffs
Voters retained all five Florida Supreme Court justices as well as all 28 district court of appeal judges up for retention on the November 8 general election ballot and they also settled runoffs in three circuit and eight county court judicial races. At the Supreme Court, Justices Charles Canady, John Couriel, Jamie Grosshans, Jorge Labarga, […]