Navigation The Guardianship Improvement Task Force will hold a virtual meeting on Thursday, September 2, from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m., EDT. The Guardianship Improvement Task Force includes clerks of court, legislators, judges, lawyers, guardians, and others, and members set out the goals they hope to accomplish in the next few months. The task force is […]
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Meeting the world on his terms
Tom Hall, the retired Supreme Court clerk, who now practices appellate law and does consulting, mastered the ability to work and attend meetings remotely long before the COVID-19 pandemic forced most meetings to go online. Live, from North Dakota, it’s Tom Hall! Or rather, Live from India!
Bar leadership wants the membership to weigh in on the recommendations of the Special Committee to Improve the Delivery of Legal Services
Mike Tanner As the Board of Governors prepares to respond to the recommendations made by the Supreme Court’s Special Committee to Improve the Delivery of Legal Services, it wants to know what Florida lawyers think. The court created the special committee in 2019 to study “whether and how the rules governing the practice of law […]
Bar’s Ft. Lauderdale office is in need of volunteer inventory lawyers
The Ft. Lauderdale office of The Florida Bar is requesting volunteer attorneys to assist in handling inventory proceedings concerning deceased attorneys. Inventory attorneys are reimbursed by The Florida Bar for out of pocket costs only. Inventory attorneys are currently being sought for the following matters: An attorney who practiced in Ft. Lauderdale passed away in […]
A summer as a judicial intern in Judge Bloom’s chambers
Every summer, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida welcomes a sizable group of summer interns from law schools across the country. In years past, a summer intern’s experiences would vary depending on the particular judge’s chambers in which they worked. The COVID-19 pandemic required an innovative approach, converting the traditionally in-person […]