Karen Ladis and Jane Muir The Miami-Dade Bar Association recently honored Karen Josefsberg Ladis with its Johnnie M. Ridgely President’s Award for her long-time service on behalf of countless underprivileged residents who needed legal help. Ladis is the executive director of the Miami-Dade Legal Aid Society. She joined the agency in 1991 as coordinator of […]

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The relationship between defendants’ insurance companies and the companies’ expert witnesses is discoverable and not subject to the same protections given to plaintiff attorneys who refer clients to medical providers, according to the Florida Supreme Court. In two separate opinions involving appeals from the Fourth and Fifth district courts of appeal, the court majority on […]

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A Bar rule amendment that guarantees all judicial complaints about lawyer conduct that result in a dismissal will get a Board of Governors and perhaps Supreme Court review has been approved by the court. The court on October 21 approved, with a slight change, the Board of Governors-recommended creation of Bar Rule 3-7.18. “The new […]

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Kalie Maniglia, Rachel Akram, Zuriel Denmark, and Shaina Ruth The Florida State University College of Law Trial Team won first place in the Fourth Annual Martin Luther King, Jr., National Civil Rights Competition. The competition took place virtually October 15-17 and was hosted by University of California Davis School of Law. The competition problem involved […]

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Having a pro bono summit at the next Bar Annual Convention, pepping up circuit pro bono committees, and looking for ways to help a pro bono program for government lawyers proposed by Attorney General Ashley Moody were discussed by members of the Pro Bono Legal Services Committee at its October 14 meeting. Committee Co-chair Kathleen […]

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