Recently added articles from Florida Bar News:
Prosecuting high-threat detainees: Florida lawyer manages criminal investigations in nine Iraqi provinces.
Sep 15, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As I stepped off the plane at the Air Force base in western Baghdad in April, my excitement was high despite jet lag and lack of sleep. Having been born and raised in Tampa, I'd survived many steamy Florida afternoons, which unknowingly prepared me for the ...
Panel works to build consensus on office of children's advocate.
Sep 15, 2009; ... Consensus-building can be thorny--especially when it's a repeat trek through a prickly patch. The Legal Needs of Children Committee met August 26 in Orlando to work out differences on proposed legislation it had already worked on for a year and approved in May: to create a ...
Court ponders access to records rules.
Sep 15, 2009; ... Chief Justice Peggy Quince put the goal simply: "We want to make sure the public has access, and we want to make sure that confidential matters remain confidential." At issue, laid out in In re: Amendments to Rules of Judicial Administration, case no. SC07-2050, were proposed ...
Examiners' Facebook policy sets cyberworld all atwitter.
Sep 15, 2009; ... The blogosphere has been abuzz over the Bar News story that the Florida Board of Bar Examiners may want to take a peek at what some applicants post on Facebook or MySpace social networking sites during character and fitness investigations. The September 1 story outlining the ...
Probate first to go to e-filing.(electronic filing system)
Sep 15, 2009; ... Probate-related filings will be the first area of Florida's court system to go to a new legislatively mandated electronic filing system. Officials from the court system and clerks of courts have been meeting over the summer and said they have agreed the best place to start with ...