Parks named NBA president-elect
The National Bar Association, the nation’s oldest and largest association of African American lawyers and judges, has elected Daryl Parks as its president-elect. Parks, who currently serves as managing partner of Parks & Crump in Tallahassee, was elected in August during the NBA’s Annual Convention & Exhibits in New Orleans.
Chief judges use one-time allocations to move cases
A one-time boost of $6 million to trial courts and $3.6 million to court clerks is buying desperately needed resources to dig courts out of Florida’s foreclosure backlog crisis. Beginning July 1, that total $9.6 million in nonrecurring dollars from the Legislature has been put to work in each of Florida’s 20 circuits.
Lawyers will be responsible for redacting confidential information in court filings
Quick now, do you know what the “Notice of Confidential Information within Court Filings” is? That form, part of Rule 2.420 of the Rules of Judicial Administration, must accompany any court filing as of October 1 that includes confidential information. The form lists 19 specific items that should be confidential in court records, from Social Security and bank account numbers to juvenile delinquency records and grand jury records.
He wrote the law he uses to prosecute domestic batterers
Attempted strangling, even when the victim blacks out, was no different than a poke in the chest. That flaw in the law bothered Stacy Sharp when he was a deputy for eight years with the Hernando County Sheriff’s Office, where he authored the agency’s domestic violence policy and field training program.
Paralegals ask to be Bar licensed and regulated
As part of the required three-year review of the Bar’s voluntary Florida Registered Paralegal program, the Bar is looking into the request by some paralegals that they be licensed and regulated by the Bar or the Supreme Court.