Navigation Legal Services of Greater Miami honorees from the Heart of Giving Celebration and Judicial Reception include, from the left, Miami-Dade County Commissioner Sally A. Heyman, commission Chair Jose “Pepe” Diaz, Chief Judge Nushin G. Sayfie, Judge Michael A. Hanzman, and Morris Copeland, Miami-Dade County chief community services officer. In the back is Monica Vigues-Pitan, Legal Services of […]
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Judge Hobbs suspended and fined
Second Circuit Judge Barbara Kaye Hobbs has been suspended for 60 days without pay and ordered to pay a fine of $30,000 for her involvement in her son’s arrest. The Supreme Court, acting May 19 in Case No. SC-20605, also ordered Hobbs to appear for a public reprimand and attend an employee management program. The […]
Bar’s Committee on Professionalism recognizes the Solo and Small Firm Section for it’s yearly conference
The The Florida Bar’s Solo and Small Firm Section has won the Standing Committee on Professionalism’s Group Professionalism Award. This award honors one program instituted and coordinated by a bar association, judicial organization, Inn of Court, or law school organization aimed at enhancing professionalism among lawyers and law students and that can be implemented by […]
Palm Beach County clerk offers online certified court documents
The Palm Beach County Clerk of the Circuit Court & Comptroller is offering E-Certify, a service that allows online ordering of electronic certified court documents. Now customers do not need to travel to one of the clerk’s five offices and instead are able to purchase their electronic certified court documents from anywhere with a smartphone, computer, […]
Clearwater Bar Association hosts Law Day poster contest
Justice may be blind, but a trio of Tampa Bay judges made a very visual ruling. Sixth Circuit Judges David Ellis, Patricia Muscarella, Keith Meyer decide the winners of this year’s Law Day Poster Contest and Exhibition. They choose from among the several hundred posters made by Pinellas County students festooning the old Clearwater Courthouse, weighing which posters best expressed this year’s theme, “Toward […]