Navigation Connie Bookman The Florida Bar Foundation has approved $2.5 million in grants to 22 legal aid organizations across the state to help low-income clients with COVID-19-related legal problems. The Foundation Board of Directors recently approved the grants, which were allocated as a second round of COVID-related funding. The Foundation had last year granted more than […]
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Court to consider diversity CLE speaker rule without oral argument
The Supreme Court will not hear oral arguments in a Bar rules case regarding speaker diversity in CLE programming. An August 6 order signed by Supreme Court Clerk John A. Tomasino announced that “the case has been submitted to the Court without oral argument.” On April 15, the court on its own motion adopted amendments […]
Justice Muñiz teaching a new FSU Law course
Justice Carlos Muniz This fall, Supreme Court Justice Carlos G. Muñiz is teaching a new course, “Textualism and its Rivals,” at The Florida State University College of Law. Using Scalia and Garner’s “Reading Law” as the principal course book, students will learn in depth about textualism, a dominant mode of statutory interpretation in federal and […]
Proposal to delete Ch. 405 (Defamation) from the Standard Jury Instructions in Civil Cases
Publication Notice on Instruction Ch 405 – FINAL (002)
Nominations sought for annual pro bono awards
The Florida Bar has issued a call for nominations for the annual pro bono service awards, which honor lawyers, judges, law firms and associations that have contributed extraordinary pro bono service. The deadline for most nominations is October 8. Pro bono publico means “for the public good,” and pro bono legal service is just one […]