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Article: Kitchen to lead Second Circuit's new Professionalism Committee.
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- Florida Bar News
- Article date:
- November 15, 2003
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Chief Judge Charles A. Francis has reappointed the Second Judicial Circuit Committee on Professionalism. The committee--a Florida Supreme Court mandate for each judicial circuit--is headed by Chair E.C. Deeno Kitchen, and seeks to assess the status and conditions of professionalism within the Second Circuit.
To promote professionalism and ethics with the establishment of such a committee, members agree, accomplishes several goals.
"It heightens everyone's awareness; it helps to raise the bar for professional behavior; and it provides a mechanism for identifying problems early," said Mike Glazer, a member of the committee, who also represents the Second ...