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Chief Justice Canady issues new and amended pandemic administrative order

Mentoring benefits the mentors and the mentees

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Want to serve on a Bar committee?

Nov 29, 2020

The annual committee preference form for Bar members seeking appointment for the upcoming 2021-22 Bar year will be available December 1 at floridabar.org and are due no later than January 15, 2021.…

December 1, 2020 Disciplinary Actions

Nov 29, 2020

ABOTA Ft. Lauderdale educates its members on remote proceedings

Nov 25, 2020

South Florida judges urge lawyers to accept remote jury selection

Nov 24, 2020

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Trends, Prevention, and Loss Recovery for Victims of Real Estate Wire Fraud and Other Cybercrimes

November/December 2020

With closing just days away, a first-time home buyer receives an email from the closing agent attaching loan documents and wire instructions for his “cash to close.” His lawyer and his real…

Can You Get Stuck with Stucco? Coverage Under an EIFS Exclusion for Property Damage Caused by Construction Defects

November/December 2020

Social Media and the Progressive Limitations on Public Sector Employees’ First Amendment Right to Free Speech

November/December 2020

We Can See the Bright Side, and We Keep Lawyering On

November/December 2020

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Suspended judge resigns

Nov 25, 2020

Little petitions for Bar reinstatement

Nov 23, 2020

Proposed criminal jury instruction concerning unlicensed carrying a concealed [weapon] [firearm]

Nov 23, 2020

Foundation seeks Medal of Honor Award nominees

Nov 17, 2020

UPL public hearing set for January 15

Nov 16, 2020

The Florida Bar Foundation seeks director applicants

Nov 16, 2020

Legal Services Corporation seeks comments before awarding its 2021 grants

Nov 13, 2020

Proposed new Rule of Judicial Administration 2.423 (‘Marsy’s Law’ Crime Victim Information Within Court Filing)

Nov 12, 2020

Proposed amendments to Rules of Criminal Procedure 3.131 (Pretrial Release), 3.220 (Discovery), 3.800 (Correction, Reduction, and Modification of Sentences), 3.9855 (Juror Voir Dire Questionnaire), and 3.987 (Motion for Postconviction Relief)

Nov 12, 2020

Proposed amendments to Rules of Criminal Procedure 3.112 (Minimum Standards for Attorneys in Capital Cases)

Nov 12, 2020

Proposed amendments to Bar Rule 5-1.1(g) (Interest on Trust Accounts (IOTA) Program)

Nov 12, 2020

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Terrain, Taxes, and Land Trusts: Saving the Florida Panther Through the Use of Conservation Easements

Real Property, Probate and Trust Law November/December 2020

Discovery in Administrative Proceedings: Whose Right and Who’s Right?

Administrative Law November/December 2020

Expatriation from the United States: The Exit Tax

Tax November/December 2020

Aircraft Lien Law

Aviation Law November/December 2020

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