Kendall Coffey of Miami will be the featured speaker at an Annual Convention seminar titled “Foreclosure Jurisprudence in Florida after the Real Estate Collapse.”

The program, presented by The Florida Bar and LexisNexis, is set for June 24 from 2 to 4 p.m., at the Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center in Kissimmee.

In the wake of an economic downturn of historic proportions, Florida’s courts have been flooded with foreclosure cases, and that wave has also reached the appellate courts.

“While extreme economic developments would seemingly have a potential for revising the legal landscape, the impact upon Florida’s jurisprudence has been less dramatic than the individual hardships or the logistical challenges at the trial court level,” according to the program’s course overview. “In substantive terms, the case law developments have been more consistent with existing black letter principles than evolutions to address sympathetic borrower scenarios. In terms of judicial process, though, some decisions have emphasized that foreclosing lenders must adhere scrupulously to procedural strictures. As a result, the judicial philosophy seemingly suggests that while black letter law will continue to prevail, lenders must follow procedural rules to the letter before they can take someone’s property through foreclosure.”

Coffey is a founding member of Coffey Burlington, PL, concentrating on complex litigation at trial and appellate levels in federal and state courts. He is also the former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida.

Another Florida Bar foreclosure-related seminar, “Foreclosure Litigation in Florida,” a plaintiff education program, is available for free on the Bar’s website. It has been downloaded in excess of 4,500 times since its September 2010, launch as part of the Bar’s complimentary Law Office Management Assistance Service on-demand education programs.