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The Florida Supreme Court in recent court orders disciplined nine attorneys, disbarring three, suspending three, revoking the licenses of two and reprimanding one. Derek James Acree, P.O. Box 32552, Palm Beach Gardens, disciplinary revocation with leave to apply for readmission, effective immediately following an April 27 court order. (Admitted to practice: 2002) On January 4,…

The June 1 start of another Atlantic Hurricane Season, eight months after Ian’s deadly landfall, finds the 20th Judicial Circuit up and running – with fingers firmly crossed. “It starts you thinking again,” said Chief Judge Michael T. McHugh. “Definitely there’s the trepidation of, ‘No, please, don’t let it come to Florida generally, and especially not…

The Student Education and Admission to the Bar Committee (SEABC) is teaming up with the Henry Latimer Center for Professionalism for an innovative and interactive workshop for the 2023 Annual  Florida Bar Convention later this month. “Rethinking How Mentors Communicate” will be offered as a CLE during SEABC’s meeting June 23 from 11 to noon…

Venturing in a skiff somewhere north of Lower Matecumbe Key, we watched the sun set over Florida Bay. The dusk was copper-tinged. The sea was so calm it could have been glass. I broke the silence and said out loud, “What a wonderful sunset.” Upset with my failure to set a hook into any fish,…