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UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FREDRIC G. LEVIN COLLEGE OF LAW • FALL 2008
FEBRUARY 13
Eighth Annual Richard E. Nelson Symposium
is on “The Squeeze on Local Governments.”
Presenters will include Professor James
Ely, Milton R. Underwood Chair in Free
Enterprise at Vanderbilt University Law
School; John Echeverria, currently executive
director of the Georgetown Environmental
Law and Policy Institute and, professor
of law at Vermont Law School; and Frank
Alexander, professor of law at Emory
University. The symposium will be held at
the UF Hilton Hotel on Friday, Feb. 13. For
more information, contact Barbara DeVoe at
352-273-0615.
FEBRUARY 20 & 21
The Seventh Annual Music Law Conference
is titled “From the Suits to the Stage.”
Conference includes music law symposium
and panel discussions, and will take place
Saturday, Feb. 21, in the Chesterfield Smith
Ceremonial Classroom at the UF
Levin College of Law from 9 a.m. to
6 p.m. The live music showcase will
be on the evening of Friday, Feb. 20 from
9 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. at a local music
venue. For more information contact
Conference Executive Director Sondra
Randon at sondra.randon@gmail.com.
FEBRUARY 26 – 28
The 15th Annual Public Interest
Environmental Conference is titled, “Beyond
Doom and Gloom: Illuminating a Sustainable
Future for Florida.” The conference will focus
on farsighted and innovative approaches to
our environmental problems, emphasizing
sustainability solutions from science and
technology, progressive regulation and
economics and behavioral change through
communication and social marketing.
For more info, contact Simone Harbas at
sharbas@ufl.edu.
MARCH 17
The Second Annual Wolf Family Lecture
in the American Law of Real Property is
scheduled for Tuesday, March 17, at the
law school. The lecture will be delivered
by Gregory S. Alexander, A. Robert Noll
Professor of Law, Cornell University Law
School. For more information, contact
Barbara DeVoe at 352-273-0615.
OF THE UNITED STATES
John G. Roberts Jr.
Judges UF Moot Court
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APRIL 24 & 25
100 Year Celebration/All Classes Reunion.
Join your classmates and professors for the
Levin College of Law Centennial Celebration
and All Class Reunion. Activities include The
Heritage of Leadership and Distinguished
Alumnus Ceremony, the Century Welcome
Reception, Reunion Dinners, Decade
Dinners, and a Family BBQ with Albert and
Alberta. For more information or to register,
contact Development & Alumni Affairs at
352-273-0640.
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ALSO IN THIS ISSUE:
COUNTING THE VOTE
CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF
DESEGREGATION AT UF
WEATHERING THE STORM
UP AND COMING
LETTERS TO LINDY
As a 1958 graduate of the U of F law
school I enjoy receiving UF LAW. It is a
fine publication. However, in an article on
page 10 of the spring edition, I think the
proof reader missed a beat. That article
twice mentions “Florida Bar Association.”
As a 50-year member of “The Florida
Bar,” I can tell you that “Association” has
not been a part of its name for that period
of time.
This is a minor blip. Keep up the
good work.
—CLARENCE JOHNSON (JD 58)
Congratulations on the FALL 2008
edition, your first as editor. ‘The ultimate
goal for UF LAW is to be a good read.’ It
is indeed.
However (you knew this was coming,
didn’t you?) on page 53, the editorial
comment re Ms. Lidsky’s quote in Time
Magazine, leads to the question: Do sharks
generally use cages in their killing?
—YOUNG J. SIMMONS (LLB 57)
Yours is the best statewide story on
water I’ve read in a very long time!
—CYNTHIA BARNETT,
Florida Trend senior reporter and
author of Mirage: Florida and the
Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S.
EDITOR’S UPDATE: Read the white
paper, “Reforming The Florida Water
Resources Act of 1972: Beyond the
first 35 years,” written by UF Law
professors and distributed to the Century
Commission’s 2008 Water Congress held
Sept. 24 & 25. Visit http://www.law.ufl.
edu/uflaw.
Got commentary? Whether exegetic
or approbatory, we want to know! Send
your letter to the editor — bearing in
mind submissions will be edited for
style, grammar and length — to Lindy
Brounley, UF LAW Editor, UF Law
Communications, P. O. Box 117633,
Gainesville, FL. 32611-7633, or e-mail it
to brounley@law.ufl.edu.
—LINDY BROUNLEY (JM 88)
UF LAW Editor
UF Law Student Wins Diversity Scholarship
BY DANIELLE D’OYLEY
W
ith a move from bustling Chicago to a sparsely populated Tennessee town in his early
teenage years, a stint as a 13-year-old college
student, and a Jewish Puerto Rican background, Jesse
Butler’s (2L) life has been anything but usual.
These experiences contributed to his selection as a
2008 Diversity Scholarship recipient by the Sarasota
County Bar Association, a scholarship awarded to minority students at Florida law schools with an interest in
practicing law in Sarasota County upon graduation. The
two recipients are given a $5,000 scholarship at the end
of a 10-week employment period in Sarasota County.
After writing an essay and undergoing an interview
process with both the Sarasota County Bar Association and his future summer employer, Syprett, Meshad,
Resnick, Lieb, Dumbaugh, Jones, Krotec & Westheimer, P.A., Butler was offered the scholarship and an internship with the firm.
The Chicago native moved at age 13 to a small Tennessee town with a population of about 400 people, a
stark contrast to his old home. Before he and his mother
arrived, Butler said he didn’t believe many of his new
neighbors had ever even seen new residents, let alone
Puerto Ricans or Jewish people.
In addition to this culture shock, Butler also took the
SAT when he was 13 and was accepted to University of
Tennessee at Martin as a part-time student, where he
enrolled during the eighth grade for computer science
and chemistry courses. He was the youngest person
ever accepted to the school.
“It’s almost surreal looking back and thinking about
how I was sitting there and everyone around me was
twice my size,” Butler said. “They actually had to put
phonebooks under me for my picture because I was a
foot shorter than everyone else.”
A year later he moved to Ft. Myers, Fla,. for high
school and went on to attend the University of Central
Florida for his undergraduate degree in legal studies.
He was honored to receive the scholarship and internship offer, especially as a first-year law student, and
credited his selection to luck and his UF Law education.
“Two out of the three interviewers I had were UF
graduates,’ Butler said. “It was a common ground we
had.”
Butler describes his time at Syprett, Meshad,
Resnick, Lieb, Dumbaugh, Jones, Krotec & Westheimer,
P.A. as an incredible experience that exceeded any expectations he held. He worked primarily for all the firm’s
partners and described the atmosphere as familial.
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“They didn’t treat me as a clerk,” he said. “They
treated me like an associate.”
The firm’s specialty areas spanned the gamut, but
his employers were perceptive to what Butler enjoyed
working on and accommodated his strengths. He quickly learned what he did and didn’t like to do and ended
up focusing primarily on civil and commercial litigation and insurance defense — areas he sees himself focusing on in the future.
In addition to the direction the internship gave him,
he also says he has a completely different understanding going into his second year of law school with more
practical knowledge. He’s realized how much of what
he studied was needed while working this summer.
“They didn’t treat me as a clerk,” he said.
“They treated me like an associate.”
“I never expected to have to think about adverse
possession after taking Property Law, but it came in
right away,” Butler said. “Everything I’ve studied came
into play somehow.”
Because of his impressive performance, the firm has
decided to keep Butler as a part-time employee during
the school year and asked him to return next summer. If
everything goes well, he’s been told a position will be
waiting for him upon graduation.
“They were very successful in luring me. Now I
have to say that the highest probability is that I will
be there, especially since they want me to come back
and everything went so well,” Butler said. “I don’t
think I’ll have another firm where I’ll enjoy what I do
as much as I did there.”
He encourages anyone with an interest in working
in Sarasota County to apply for the scholarship, as
he said this summer was an incredible opportunity. Everyone in the Sarasota County Bar
Association was professional, and he was afforded opportunities to attend events and
meet prominent judges and attorneys in
the area as a Diversity Scholarship
recipient.
Butler’s decision to apply for
the scholarship has been one of the
decisions he’s made that will have
the biggest impact on his life.
“I went in to the summer having no
idea what I wanted to do, not expecting the
internship to really change that,” he said.
“That was a life-changing experience.”
JESSE BUTLER
(2L)
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ON THE COVER: Chief Justice of the United States John G. Roberts Jr. (second from left) presided over the
University of Florida Campbell Thornal Moot Court Final Four Sept. 5 with fellow jurists (from left) Judge
Susan H. Black, Judge Peter T. Fay and Judge Rosemary Barkett, all UF alumni and judges in the 11th Circuit
Court of the U.S. Court of Appeals.
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DEAN
ROBERT
JERRY
Levin Mabie
& Levin
Professor
of Law
100 Years of UF Law
Q. In our last issue, we discussed changes in legal
education. As the UF College of Law nears its
100-year anniversary, what are some of the most
significant changes that have taken place?
Certainly the diversity of our faculty and student body
has changed dramatically. We recently honored the
late UF Law Professor Walter Weyrauch’s record 51
years of continuous teaching at a single institution,
and he noted that when he began teaching here that
teachers and students alike were male and white.
Today nearly half our student body are female, and
more than a quarter are minorities. We also have
grown considerably in size and scope. We opened in
1909 with 38 students and two faculty members. We
now have more than 1,200 students and 100 faculty
members (including tenure/tenure track, legal skills,
and clinical).
Q. What events do you have planned for the
college’s centennial in 2009?
Our biggest event is the Centennial Celebration/
All Classes Reunion April 24-25, 2009. We’re
inviting alumni from every class year to return
to campus to help us celebrate this significant
milestone. So far, we have planned a Century
Welcome Reception, tours, Heritage of Leadership
& Distinguished Alumnus ceremony, available
CLE credits, a family BBQ with Albert & Alberta,
decade dinners (classmates grouped by decades in
separate locations), children’s dinner and movies
(ages 5-12), an after party and a farewell brunch.
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Q. What do you think would most surprise
alumni returning to Gainesville after a
significant absence?
Gainesville, the University of Florida and the College
of Law have changed internally, of course, but the
visual differences are most compelling. Gainesville
is not a small college town anymore; it’s grown up.
Highways have replaced dirt roads, and buildings
stand where cows once grazed. Our college opened
in 1909 in one unplastered room in Thomas Hall
Dormitory. We moved to Bryan Hall in 1941, and
then to the Spessard L. Holland Law Center, our
current location, in 1968. We added Bruton-Geer
Hall in 1984 and our two classroom towers in 2005,
along with a major renovation of Holland Hall
and the Lawton Chiles Legal Information Center.
Construction is now underway on the $6-million
Martin H. Levin Legal Advocacy Center, which
will house a state-of-the-art courtroom. This will
complete the total reconstruction of the college’s
academic space during this decade. Our physical
facilities are outstanding and a marvel to those who
have not seen them within the last few years.
Q. How do you characterize the state of the
college today?
When UF Law celebrates its centennial in 2009, we
will do so proudly as a strong, thriving law school.
Applications from highly qualified students to our
J.D., LL.M. and S.J.D. programs increase each year.
We have expanded our Graduate Tax Program, which
is consistently ranked as one of the nation’s best,
and which now offers the LL.M. in International
Taxation and the S.J.D. in Graduate Taxation in
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“We opened
in 1909 with 38
students and two
faculty members.
We now have more
than 1,200 students
and 100 faculty
members.”
addition to the LL.M. in Graduate Taxation. Our
highly regarded Environmental and Land Use Law
Program now offers the nation’s first LL.M. in these
closely-related fields.
The generous support of alumni and friends
like those listed in the Honor Roll section of this
magazine has helped us pass the halfway point in
our $47-million capital campaign, and, along with
tuition devolution, has been instrumental in allowing
us to continue our progress despite Florida’s tight
budget climate.
Recent guests to our campus have included U.S.
Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O’Connor and
Ruth Bader Ginsburg and former Secretary of State
Madeline Albright. This fall we have been honored
with visits by both Chief Justice of the United States
John G. Roberts Jr. and U.S. Supreme Court Associate
Justice John Paul Stevens.
We are particularly proud of our faculty, whose
productivity and scholarship are chronicled in our 2008
Report From the Faculty, online at www.law.ufl.edu.
During the past three years, the faculty has published
53 books (including casebooks), with publishers
including NYU, Oxford, Princeton, and the University
of Chicago. The faculty has also published 251 law
review articles and book chapters, with publishers
including Ashgate, Cambridge and Harvard.
Q. As you look ahead, what do you see in the
future for the law school?
Economic indicators continue to be bleak as this
magazine goes to press, and that is cause for great
concern for all of us. As a state institution, our
fortunes, of course, are tied to Florida’s, and if budgets
continue to decrease we will have some very difficult
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decisions to make. However, on our current track the
law school has an historic opportunity created by the
tuition differential strategy and a modest forthcoming
reduction in class size to vastly increase our quality
and reshape our institution, despite the budget cuts
we have undergone. The support of our alumni and
friends is more important now than ever.
The College of Law is in the initial stages of a
major strategic planning effort called “UF Law
2015,” in part in preparation for the Strategic Plan &
Self-Study required for the ABA sabbatical site visit
in spring 2010. We have a stellar group of faculty on
our Strategic Planning Committee, and they will be
considering what we would like our law school to
look like in the year 2015. For the college to operate
at its highest level of efficiency and best serve our
students, for example, we may envision a law school
with a slightly smaller J.D. program, better studentfaculty ratios, and more skills training per student. We
might look for our tuition to be close to, but below,
the mean of our peer institutions. Our entering class
credentials might be even stronger, as we keep more
high quality Florida residents in Florida for their
legal education. And we hope to improve the broad
diversity of our students and faculty as well.
As we look at how we educate our students in the
future, we must consider choices such as class size and
selection. Legal education is changing around us, and we
must focus our attention on who we are and where we
are going as an institution. We must look at who we are
teaching, and what we are preparing our students to do.
Our alumni are an important part of this effort, and we
invite your suggestions and participation.
100 YEAR
CELEBRATION
April 24-25, 2009
Visit www.law.ufl.edu
for more information.
— ROBERT H. JERRY II
DEAN; LEVIN MABIE AND LEVIN PROFESSOR OF LAW
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NEWS BRIEFS
Chief Justice of
the United States
John G. Roberts
Jr. (center) shares
a laugh with friend
Dean Colson (left)
and UF Levin
College of Law
Dean Robert Jerry
during a reception
held in his
honor at the UF
president’s house
on Sept. 4. Chief
Justice Roberts
was in Gainesville
to judge the
UF Campbell
Thornal Moot
Court Final Four
Competition held
at the UF Phillips
Center for the
Performing Arts
on Sept. 5. Chief
Justice Roberts’
participation
marks the first
time in the UF
Moot Court’s near
100-year history
that a justice of
the United States
Supreme Court
has participated
on the panel.
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First Amendment
aspects of the
“Choose Life” license plate in the
fictional State of
Webb. Student attorneys Cary Aronovitz and Kevin
Combest served as counsel for the
plaintiff, the State of Webb Department of Motor Vehicles. They
would argue in the plaintiff’s appeal of respondent Planned Parenthood of Webb Inc.’s earlier victory
in the U.S. Court of Appeals. Robert Davis and Tara Nelson served as
counsel for the respondent.
At issue was whether the federal
courts held jurisdiction in the matter, and if they did, whether or not
‘Choose Life’ on license
plates protected speech?
T
he audience in the court chamber hushed with anticipation
as the bailiff announced in a
ringing tone, “Oye, oye, oye! All
persons having business before the
honorable Supreme Court of the
United States are advised to draw
near and give their attention, for the
court is now sitting. God save the
United States and this honorable
court.”
So began the University of
Florida Justice Campbell Thornal
Moot Court Final Four competition
held on Sept. 5. For the first time in
UF history, a sitting chief justice of
the United States, John G. Roberts
Jr., presided over the competition,
which was held in the university’s
Phillips Center for the Performing
Arts before an audience of 1,500
law students, faculty, staff and
guests.
Judge Peter T. Fay, Judge Susan
H. Black and Judge Rosemary Barkett, all UF alumni and judges in
the 11th Circuit of the U.S. Court
of Appeals, joined Roberts on the
Moot Court bench.
The case to be decided during the Moot Court hinged on the
the “Choose Life” specialty plate
violated First Amendment principles of free speech.
Under the stern gazes of the jurists, counsel for the plaintiff Cary
Aronowitz stepped up to the podium to open arguments on the case
before the court. Fighting butterflies, Aronowitz managed to maintain his composure when Chief Justice Roberts cut him off with a line
of questioning, soon joined by the
other jurists, regarding whether the
$25 purchase price for the specialty
tag was a tax, a regulatory fee, or a
contractual exchange.
“The very first question presented to me was from [Chief Justice]
Roberts and I was anticipating that
An early Moot Court competition held at UF followed a Moot Court tradition dating back
hundreds of years to the Inns of Court of England, where barristers would practice their
courtroom advocacy skills under the close supervision of the Inns. The tradition was
revived in the U.S. nearly 100 years ago by law students in law schools nationwide.
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question, but it was probably the
one question I really didn’t want
to answer,” Aronovitz said. “I got
it out of my mouth, I saw him
nodding and that was a big confidence booster.”
Despite pointed questioning
from the bench, the competitors
were confident in their answers
because of weeks of practice facing rigorous grilling from their
professors.
“What really made it much
easier than you would have
thought was that the questions
the professors asked us in practice were hard-hitting, adversarial, trying to get us to mess
up, and that prepared us to talk
to these judges and justice who
didn’t want to do that,” Combest
said. “They just wanted to talk
back and forth. We had seen the
worst, and anything less than that
was just pleasant.”
That’s not to say the jurists
didn’t ask the competitors some
tough questions, probing their
arguments to find chinks in their
reasoning regarding complex
legal questions. As an example,
Roberts questioned Davis on his
argument for the respondent that
a four-prong approach should
be adopted when determining
whether a message on a state
automobile license tag is government or private speech.
“The problem with multifactor tests, of course, is that
they delegate a huge amount of
discretion to the judiciary,” said
Roberts. “When you have four
factors, they can be manipulated
in any way, and so you’re transferring the determination from
the legislature to the courts about
what types of policies the government can support and promote.
Isn’t that problematic?”
During deliberations, UF
Law Professor Lyrissa Lidsky
addressed the audience to outline
the constitutional elements of the
case, stressing its importance despite its hypothetical nature. She
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noted Florida was the first state
to have a “Choose Life” license
plate and is also considering a
license plate with the words “I
Believe” with a picture of a cross.
Although the “I Believe” tag has
been stalled in Florida, South
Carolina recently approved an “I
Believe” license plate, and a lawsuit has already been filed in the
matter, she said.
“This is a very important
issue, it’s a hot issue, and some
very smart people in our appellate courts have split on the
constitutionality of the issue,”
Lidsky said.
Although the bench eventually ruled for the petitioner, Roberts said all of the students performed well.
“We unanimously decided that
there was not a bad one among
them,” Roberts said. “That’s not
always the case, so we appreciate
very much, as we do in our day
jobs, that a lot of work went into
the presentations. Judges and justices are very grateful when that
happens.”
Aronovitz and Combest won
the competition for the petitioner.
Aronovitz was awarded best brief
and best oral argument of the
competition, while Davis took
home the best overall participant.
The event was sponsored by the
law firms of Holland & Knight
and Zimmerman, Kiser & Sutcliffe. The Charles W. Abbott Endowment provided scholarships
for the final four, the final four
alternate, the best oralist, and to
the author of the best brief. Dr.
Joseph Rhile provided the Elizabeth Rhile scholarship for the
best overall competitor.
“We depend so heavily on the
jobs that the lawyers do, both in
the briefs and in the oral presenations,” said Roberts. “It always
makes it a more enjoyable experience to have counsel who’ve
put in long hours, as I can tell all
four of our advocates have.”
THE CASE ON REVIEW
Charles ROBERSON, Secretary,
Webb Dept. of Motor Vehicles, Petitioner
Represented by Kevin Combest and Cary Aronovitz,
vs.
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WEBB, INC., Respondent
Represented by Robert Davis and Tara Nelson.
In The Supreme Court Of The United States Of America, Fall Term, 2008
P
etitioner, Charles Roberson,
University of Florida
Justice Campbell Thornal
Secretary of the Webb
Moot Court Final Four
Department of Motor Vehicles
competitors (from left)
(DMV), enforces and administers the
Cary Aronovitz and Robert
State of Webb’s statute authorizing
Davis take a final moment
a specialty license plate with the
to study in a backstage
words “Choose Life.” The State of
hallway of the Phillips
Center for the Performing
Webb does not have a corresponding
Arts on Sept. 5.
statute allowing for a specialty license
plate with the words “Pro-Choice.”
Planned Parenthood of Webb, Inc. (PPW) filed a civil action in
federal district court against the DMV arguing that the statute
authorizing the Choose Life license plate amounts to viewpoint
discrimination by the State of Webb in violation of the First
Amendment. In response, the DMV argued that the federal
district court was deprived of subject matter jurisdiction to
hear the case by operation of the Tax Injunction Act (TIA).
Alternatively, the DMV argued that the Choose Life license plate
statute need not be neutral because any message on a stateissued license plate constitutes government speech. The district
court held in favor of PPW by finding that the TIA did not
deprive the district court of subject matter jurisdiction and that
the statute authorizing the Choose Life license plate in the state
of Webb violates the First Amendment. The DMV appealed.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Thirteenth Circuit
affirmed the district court’s decision and reasoned that because
motorists who receive a Choose Life license plate voluntarily pay
a $25 charge, the charge imposed does not constitute a tax, nor
does the charge constitute a regulatory fee; rather it is a simple
purchase price. Consequently, the TIA did not preclude the
district court from exercising federal subject matter jurisdiction.
The circuit court further reasoned that the license plate statute
violates the First Amendment because the license plate
message constitutes private speech and the statute authorizing
only the “Choose Life” message impermissibly discriminates
against other viewpoints, mainly the “Pro-Choice” view. The
Supreme Court granted the DMV’s petition for certiorari. Before
the Supreme Court are two issues: 1) whether the charge
imposed by the Choose Life license plate statute is a tax within
the meaning of the TIA and; 2) if not, whether the “Choose
Life” message constitutes private speech and viewpoint
discrimination in violation of the First Amendment.
—Ian Fisher and Lindy Brounley
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NEWS BRIEFS
Hispanic Business Ranks UF
Law 10th Among Top Law
Schools for Hispanic Students
Donna Vincent (2L)
with KPS students
Study Abroad Program
Raises Awareness to Benefit
South African School
For 19 UF Law students, the UF/
University of Cape Town Study Abroad
Program turned into more than just a
summer trip. The UF students, along
with High Springs Community School,
sponsored a pen pal project that raised
$3,400 to benefit Kalksteenfontein
Primary School (KPS) in South
Africa. UF Law students, like Donna
Vincent (2L) pictured above with
KPS students, also volunteered at
KPS during the Cape Town Study
Abroad Program over the summer.
KPS is located in Cape Flats, a poor
township 15 miles outside of Cape
Town. Many of its residents were
forced from Cape Town when District
Six became a white-only area under
apartheid. The money raised will pay
all 136 KPS students’ tuition, said
Kathie Price, UF Law associate dean
for library and technology.
Hispanic Business recently ranked UF
Law as the number 10 law school
in the nation for Hispanic students.
HispanTelligence, the research arm
of Hispanic Business Inc., annually
assesses the nation’s top law schools
to identify those offering the most
to Hispanics and at the forefront of
recruiting, retaining and offering quality
higher education. UF Law exemplified
the inclusion of diversity measures on
campus in the following categories:
Hispanic enrollment, Hispanic faculty,
Hispanic student services, Hispanic
retention rate and Hispanic reputation.
In 2007, more than 10 percent of
the student body was Hispanic. The
school specifically recruits, supports
and mentors Hispanic law students,
and the retention rate for Hispanic
students in 2006-07 was
100 percent. Student
organizations oriented
toward this group include
the Spanish American
Law Students Association
(SALSA), the Hispanic
and Latino/a Law Student
Association (HLLSA), the Caribbean Law
Students Association (Carib-Law), and
the International Law Society (ILS).
In addition, professors Berta
Hernandez-Truyol, Juan Perea and
Pedro Malavet and Assistant Professor
D. Daniel Sokol make the University of
Florida Levin College of Law a national
leader in the number of tenured Hispanic
faculty members.
UF Law Graduate Tax
Program Visits Lima, Peru
This summer, professors Michael Friel,
Lawrence Lokken, Martin McMahon
and Yariv Brauner traveled to Lima,
Peru, to speak at a joint UF/IFA Peru
sponsored conference. The faculty
represented UF Graduate Tax Program’s
new International Tax degree program
during the two-day event, which
involved members of various Peruvian
organizations, universities and private
companies. The conference was made
possible by a joint partnership between
the UF Graduate Tax Program and the
IFA Peru organization.
Florida Law Review
Breaks Ground With
Multimedia Article
For the first time in history, the
Florida Law Review has published a
multimedia article. The article,
Constitutional Advocacy Explains
Constitutional Outcomes, was
written by Stephen. A. Higginson,
an associate professor at Loyola
University New Orleans. Higginson
included 178 links to audio
recordings of oral arguments in
front of the Supreme Court.
Higginson started using audio clips
in his constitutional law class to
help students understand what the
lawyers were arguing. Both Dougherty
and Higginson see multimedia as an
increased part of law review articles
in the future. The article can be found
at http://www.floridalawreview.org/
higginson.htm.
Jurist-in-residence program to bring judges to UF Law
A
new University of Florida Levin
College of Law program will help
law students bridge the gap between
what they learn in law school and legal
practice. The Peter T. Fay Jurist-InResidence Program — named after Peter T.
Fay, a senior judge of the U.S. 11th Circuit
Court of Appeals who graduated from the
college in 1956 — will bring judges to the
college to provide insights to students and
faculty on a broad range of issues relating
to judicial process, substantive law, trial
and appellate advocacy, and the day-to-day
practice of law.
“A jurist-in-residence program is one
of the hallmarks of a great law school, and
has long been a program I’ve wanted to
see established at our school,” said Robert
Jerry, dean of the College of Law and Levin
Mabie and Levin Professor of Law. “Our
Peter T. Fay Jurist-In-Residence Program
will bring extraordinary judges to this law
school to enrich the educational experience
of our students, and because it is endowed,
it will influence the development of UF Law
students for many generations to come.”
Jerry announced the Peter T. Fay Juristin-Residence Program during a reception
Fay
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UF Conservation Clinic
Teams Up With Georgia On
River Conservation
Law students from the University
of Florida and the University of
Georgia met at the border for
something other than football — an
opportunity to canoe the St. Marys
River, the boundary water between
the two adjoining states. The UF
Law Conservation Clinic and the
University of Georgia Environmental
Law Practicum have teamed up for a
trans-boundary water law project that
involves researching and petitioning
the state of Florida for an Outstanding
Florida Water designation for the
river (if warranted by research),
while designing some sort of similar
protection for the river in Georgia —
which does not have an analogous
regulation.
The two law school-based service
learning programs are working with
the St. Marys River Management
Committee, a volunteer board
appointed by the four counties that
border the river (Nassau and Baker
in Florida; Camden and Charleston
in Georgia) and supported by the
St. Johns River Water Management
District. Students will also be looking
into shared watershed cooperation
mechanisms at the local level that
could harmonize planning and local
riverine protection regulations.
Fall 2008
Enrolled Class Profile
This year’s entering class is among the
best and brightest in the nation. With
UF Law ranked in the top 25 public
and 46th overall of the nation’s nearly
200 accredited law schools, its student
body continues to reflect the college’s
status as one of the country’s best
public law schools. With a substantial
397 students and an average LSAT
score of 160, the class of 2011
is no exception to this standard of
excellence.
Class Size: 397
Number of applicants: 3,373
Number of offers: 940
Gender: 52% male, 48 % female
Minority Representation: 25.4%*
(8.56% Asian, 5.79% Black, 10.57%
Hispanic, .5% Native American)
*8.3% self declared as other or did not
indicate race, this figure is not included
in the 25.4%
Defense Prevails in Trial
Team Final Four
The University of Florida Trial Team marked the end of its four-week selection process
by holding its annual Final Four competition Oct. 3 in the Bailey Courtroom. Final Four
advocates Amanda Brus, Katrina Gavette, Joshua Lukman and Kara Wick, who were
chosen from a pool of almost 100 students, presented their arguments for the fictitious
civil case Smith v. Lighter Corporation. Brus and Wick, counsel for the defendant, were
awarded the title of “Best Overall Team.” Wick was also named “Best Overall Advocate.”
The Honorable Judge Stephan Mickle served as the presiding judge. At the end of the
competition, Mickle congratulated both sides on their dynamic closing arguments.
Rumberger, Kirk & Caldwell, P.A., a litigation firm with offices in Florida and Alabama,
sponsored the tournament. The jury was composed of J. Scott Kirk, James A. Edwards,
Sara J. Burton and LaShawnda K. Jackson, all attorneys at the firm. (Left to right)
Joshua Lukman, Katrina Gavette, Judge Stephan Mickle, Kara Wick and Amanda Brus.
welcoming Chief Justice of the United
States John G. Roberts Jr. to campus. At
the reception, which was held Sept. 4 at
the UF President’s house, the Chief Justice
expressed his high regard for Fay and
applauded the creation of the program.
“I think it would be absolutely
wonderful for the law school to invite all
kinds of judges from around the country,”
said Fay. “This program will really give
students a chance to talk to judges and to
realize a lot of different things, number one
that judges are human beings striving to
do a good job. And number two that jurists
deal with everyday questions that are very
similar, if not identical, to the questions
that are being discussed in class.”
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The 7th Annual
University of
Florida Music
Law Conference
February 20-21
If you are a UF
alumnus experienced
in entertainment law
and interested in
sharing your knowledge
with up-and-coming
musicians and fellow
attorneys, please
email the conference
Executive Director
Sondra Randon at
srandon@ufl.edu.
Average age: 24
Residency: 80% resident and
20% non-resident.
Academic Credentials:
UGPA: 75th percentile
3.78, median 3.61,
25th percentile 3.38
LSAT: 75th percentile
162, median 160,
25th percentile 156
The idea to name the jurist-inresidence program after Fay came
from Fay’s colleague and friend, U.S.
District Court Judge Paul C. Huck, who
graduated from the college in 1965. Huck
regards Fay as a judicial mentor, and he
wanted to honor Fay in a fashion that
represented Fay’s tremendous dedication
to the professional development of young
lawyers. The program will bring judges
to the UF law campus at least once
each year for a period of several days to
interact with law students, providing them
with unusual access to judicial expertise
and insight in appellate advocacy.
“The general concept is that judges
would be invited to spend two or three
days on campus and participate in
law school activities as suggested by
a committee comprised of judges,
faculty and law students,” said Huck.
“While we expect to have judges who
are UF law alumni participate initially,
it is contemplated that eventually we
will also invite Supreme Court justices
and other nationally known jurists to
participate.”
Perhaps not surprisingly, Fay has
been tapped to serve as the school’s first
jurist-in-residence later this year.
“This honor is the highlight of my
38 years as a federal judge,” Fay said.
“I’m very honored, very embarrassed and
very humbled.”
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NEWS BRIEFS
U.S. Supreme Court
Associate Justice John
Paul Stevens (right)
and U.S. District Court
Judge Jose A. Gonzalez
Jr. (left) discussed a
broad range of legal
topics during the
inaugural Marshal
Criser Lecture Series.
Stevens is the fourth
Supreme Court Justice
to visit UF Law in
three years, following
visits by Chief Justice
of the United States
John G. Roberts Jr. and
associate justices Ruth
Bader Ginsberg and
Sandra Day O’Connor.
To view a video of the
conversation, visit
www.law.ufl.edu/uflaw
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Let’s talk: A conversation with
Justice Stevens and Judge Gonzalez
I
n an intimate and very personal conversational setting,
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice John Paul Stevens and
his close friend and colleague
U.S. District Court Judge Jose A.
Gonzalez Jr. (JD 57), a judge in
the Southern District of Florida,
shared their judicial philosophies,
insights and inside jokes with an
audience of 700 UF Law students
and faculty.
The two old friends were on
campus as part of the Inaugural
Marshall M. Criser Distinguished
Lecture at the University of
Florida Curtis M. Phillips Center
for the Performing Arts on
Nov. 17. The lecture series was
established with a gift from Lewis
Schott (LLB 46) as a tribute to
former UF President Marshall
Criser (LLB 51).
During the conversation, Stevens and Gonzalez interacted
with Professor Sharon Rush,
Professor Michael
Wolf and Florida Law Review
Editor in Chief
Larry Dougherty,
who posed questions previously
submitted by students and faculty.
The answers of
the two jurists
revealed a deep devotion to the
law and offered unique perspectives on the finer points of
legal advocacy that only judges
can impart.
“Oral argument is, if not the
most important, one of the most
important parts of the case,”
Gonzalez said, “because the
first thing you have to do as an
advocate is gain the attention of
your audience and you can do
that orally much easier than you
can with the written word.”
Wolf asked about Stevens’
perspective on
stare decisis,
the doctrine
of allowing
precedent to
stand in court
decisions.
Stevens said
he gives strong
deference to
precedence,
even if he disagrees with the
decision, as he did in Texas v.
Johnson, a 1989 Supreme Court
case which protected flag burning
as a form of free speech.
“Oral argument
is, if not the
most important,
one of the most
important parts
of the case.”
UF LAW
“I feel very strongly that case
was incorrectly decided for all
sorts of reasons… . But, I would
never suggest that it should be
overruled,” Stevens said. “I
think it was a firm decision, I
think the country has accepted
it, and I think it is part of the law
and should remain the law.”
Stevens went on to note there
are instances in which he feels
the precedent should not rule.
“I have rather consistently
disagreed with some of the sovereign immunity jurisprudence
in the court,” Stevens said.
“It just seems to me there is a
fundamental misunderstanding
about the correct relationship
between the states and the federal government that is entitled
to continuing examination.”
Both Stevens and Gonzalez
offered wise words when asked
to share general advice to the
law students in the audience.
“When you first get into the
practice, you’re going to find out
that you don’t know an awful
lot,” he said. “Don’t be afraid to
admit that…. . Go ask somebody
older than you or more experienced than you, and you’ll be
surprised how happy they will
be to help.”
Stevens advised that keeping
one’s word is most important.
“When you graduate, you become part of a profession,” Stevens said. “If your word is good
and you have the reputation for
being trusted for what you say,
both for facts and for your understanding of the law, that will
pay more dividends than you
can possibly imagine.”
“Just remember, your reputation as a person of honor is very
hard to achieve,” Stevens said,
“but nothing is more valuable to
a lawyer than his word.”
—Ian Fisher
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Marshall M. Criser distinguished lecture
honors former UF president
L
ewis Schott (LLB 46) of Palm Beach, Fla., donated $600,000 to the
university in early 2007 to establish the Marshall M. Criser Distinguished
Lecture Series. Schott’s gift for the permanent lecture series at the college
was eligible for matching funds from the state of Florida’s Major Gifts Trust
Fund, which increased the speaker series endowment to more than $1 million.
“The goal of the speaker series is to host
prestigious national and international speakers “Marshall Criser
every year on topics of particular interest to law
has devoted a
students,” said Robert Jerry, dean and Levin Mabie
major part of
and Levin Professor of Law.
“The outstanding leadership Marshall Criser has
his life to the
shown throughout his career provides an example
University of
for the aspirations we want our students to hold,”
said Jerry. “In honoring Marshall with the named Florida,” Schott
lecture series, Lewis Schott has again enhanced the
said. “It is an
law school in a way that will enrich the academic
experience of our students.”
honor to be able
Schott is a longtime contributor to UF. Law
to continue his
students, faculty, and staff are well familiar with
the Marcia Whitney Schott Courtyard at the Levin influence at UF.”
College of Law. As a result of an earlier gift from
Schott, this courtyard is named in honor of his late wife, who also earned her law
degree from UF in 1946.
Former UF President Marshall M.
Criser (LLB 51) (left) and Lewis
Schott (LLB 46) were special guests
of the College of Law during Associate
Justice Stevens’ visit to UF. Schott
established the Marshall M. Criser
Distinguished Lecture in honor of Criser.
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Desegregation
Pioneers Honored During
UF Constitution Day
B Y S C O T T E M E R S O N & K AT I E B L A S E W I T Z
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UF LAW
F
ifty years ago one man changed the
course of history for higher education in the state of Florida. African
American, academically eligible, and
eager to start his instruction, Virgil
Hawkins was denied admission to the University of
Florida College of Law based solely on his race.
In 1949, Virgil D. Hawkins applied to the UF law school and was
denied entry based on the color of his skin. With the legal assistance of
future Associate Justice of the United States Thurgood Marshall, it took
nine years, five Florida Supreme Court and four U.S. Supreme Court
rulings before Hawkins broke the color barrier for students at UF — but
at great personal cost. Hawkins abandoned his own aspirations to attend
the College of Law by agreeing in 1958 to drop his suit against the state
if Florida would desegregate university admissions.
On Sept. 15, 1958, George H. Starke Jr. enrolled in the UF College
of Law, becoming the first black student to enter the university. In 1962,
W. George Allen became the first black student to receive a degree from
the UF College of Law. In 1965, the Honorable Stephan Mickle, United
States District Judge in the Northern District of Florida, became the first
black student to earn an undergraduate degree from the university.
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Virgil D. Hawkins opened the doors at UF
to enrollment of black students in 1958.
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H
awkins went on to
graduate from New
England School of
Law in 1964 and
became a member
of The Florida Bar
in 1977. Because of
his efforts to desegregate the state university system, more than 12,000 AfricanAmericans have since earned degrees at
the University of Florida.
“Virgil Hawkins and the other students of color who followed demonstrated remarkable personal courage and
persistence,” said Robert Jerry, dean and
Levin Mabie and Levin Professor of Law.
“Today, UF has a more diverse student
body, one that more closely matches the
population of Florida and the nation.”
The 50th anniversary of desegregation was celebrated at UF on Sept. 15,
and the civil rights pioneers responsible
for changing the course of history for minority students were honored during the
university’s Constitution Day Program
hosted by the Levin College of Law on
Sept. 17. The program featured a presentation by Harley Herman, Esq. (JD 78)
of de Beaubien, Knight, Simmons, Mantzaris & Neal on the life and legacy of
Virgil Hawkins.
“In reality, Virgil Hawkins never
expected to be the Rosa Parks of Florida or
his admission to the UF’s College of Law
to be the Ft. Sumter of civil liberties,” said
Herman, the attorney who laid the groundwork to recognize and honor Hawkins.
The program also included a panel
discussion on the federal constitutional
issues in law school desegregation with
Kenneth Nunn, professor of law; Herman; Juan Perea, Cone Wagner Nugent
Johnson, Hazouri and Roth Professor of
Law; and Stephan P. Mickle, U.S. District
Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Florida.
George H. Starke Jr. addressed the
audience during the program and said
that even though he had never met Virgil
Hawkins, he appreciates the sacrifice he
made. “Virgil Hawkins made it possible
for me to attend law school,” Starke said.
“He made it all possible.”
Hawkins’ niece, Harriet Livingston, also addressed the audience, telling them that Hawkins’ faith provided
him with patience and perseverance.
“Only those who see the invisible can
do the impossible,” said Livingston.
“Virgil Hawkins taught us not to judge a
person by the color of their skin, but by
the content of their character.”
At the close of the program Dean Robert
Jerry reminded the audience to remember
the heroic efforts of Virgil Hawkins, George
H. Starke Jr., W. George Allen and Stephan
Mickle. “As we leave today, we leave with
the inspiration to do good and remember
the struggle of those who came before us.”
W. George Allen (JD 63) enrolled in
law school in September 1960, and became
the first African-American law student
to graduate from UF Law. UF Law has
changed greatly in the years since Hawkins, Allen, Starke and Mickle attended.
Allen said that the biggest change he’s
seen in UF Law was “the proliferation of
minority and women students.”
Allen is a former president of the National Bar Association, and he and wife,
Enid, are major contributors to the UF
Center for the Study of Race and Race
Relations. Allen serves as a member of
the UF Foundation Board of Directors,
and the college’s Black Law Student
Association is named in his honor.
“When I started there I was the only
black and there were only two women.
Now the class is more diverse and it represents society — but I started in 1960,”
said Allen. “Now, the law school is more
in tune to the population. The diversity
has been good for the school.” ■
GEORGE H. STARKE JR.
In his own words
N
o one will ever know how much it meant
to me to participate in the Constitution
Day Program, and to have the opportunity
to tell the story of some of my experiences at the
law school and at UF in the first days… . These
experiences were unique.
I mentioned to someone earlier that while
I would have come to school at UF in any
event once the laws changed, I have long
thought it would have been better for me as an
individual just to have had the normal struggles
to contend with… . UF had a 105-year history
of segregation when I first came, and I have to
think on reflection that was more difficult to cope
with than I anticipated — not because of the
few threats, but because of the intangibles and
subtleties.
I tried to conduct myself as simply another
student, and tried to block out all thoughts about
the historical implications of my being there. I
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FAST FACTS
■ 1946-1958: 85 black students apply to the University of Florida
and are denied admission.
■ 1949: Virgil Hawkins and William T. Lewis are denied admission
to UF College of Law.
■ 1954: Brown v. Board of Education decided by the U.S.
Supreme Court. In a companion decision, the court orders the
University of Florida to admit Virgil Hawkins. The state resists the
ruling. Virgil Hawkins brings his case before the Florida Supreme
Court five times and the U.S. Supreme Court four times.
■ 1957: Florida Supreme Court upholds Virgil Hawkins’ denial of
admission. Justice Stephen O’Connell, who later served as UF’s
president, concurs in the decision.
■ 1958: Hawkins withdraws his application to the UF College
of Law in exchange for the desegregation of UF graduate and
professional schools.
■ 1958: George H. Starke is the first African-American to be
admitted to UF’s College of Law.
■ 1959: College of Law celebrates 50th anniversary.
■ 1962: W. George Allen is the first African-American to receive a
degree from the UF College of Law.
■ 1965: Stephan Mickle is the first African-American to earn an
undergraduate degree from UF, later earning his law degree from
UF in 1970.
Early newspaper
accounts of George H.
Starke Jr.’s first day at
the UF College of Law
on Sept. 15, 1958, and
his eventual departure
after three semesters.
wanted to be treated just like everyone else,
and… I think in the main I was, although I
cannot be 100 percent certain. Fred Levin
and others in my class would know more
about that than I, since they also know
whether anything changed in how they
were treated following our third semester.
My plan (upon leaving law school after
the third semester) had been to reapply in
about five years or so, but it took longer
than that to get the negative experiences
out of my system, and even longer to get to
a point where I could even talk about it… .
Five years became 10, and 10 became 20,
and life intervened. So, I did not reapply or
decide to go elsewhere.
I participated on a panel (during the
Constitution Day activities at UF), with one
person from each of the decades from the
50s through the 90s. It was very interesting
to note how matters emerged and evolved
at UF over time, with changes in both
culture and leadership at institutional
and community levels. I think Governor
[Leroy] Collins and Dr. [John W.] Reitz
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■ Today: In fall 2007, 51,725 students were enrolled at the
University of Florida, including approximately 4,300 AfricanAmericans, 6,000 Hispanics and 3,800 Asians.
■ Today: 2008 Levin College of Law minority representation: 25.4
percent. This includes Asian, 8.56 percent; African-American, 5.79
percent; Hispanic 10.57 percent; and Native American 0.5 percent.
set a tone for UF and the state — before
and after I was there, which contributed
for a long time to the climate and general
atmosphere in which minority students,
and all others, were able to grow, to
organize, to express themselves and to
work for what they wanted the University
of Florida to become. I was on the Alumni
Board of Directors a few years, and had
the opportunity to vote to establish the
Association of Black Alumni. I know there
now to be any number of such organizations
on the various campuses.
Finally, thank you again for the
invitation and the opportunity to participate
in the Levin College of Law Constitution Day
Program…. . I am glad I had an opportunity
to learn more about the life and times of Mr.
Hawkins. I knew bits and pieces but was
impressed with his story.
I appreciate his call now more than ever.
—George H. Starke
Excerpted from correspondence to Dean Robert
Jerry dated Sept. 25, 2008
“I tried to
conduct myself
as simply
another student,
and tried to
block out all
thoughts about
the historical
implications of
my being there.”
George H. Starke Jr.
stands before a plaque
commemorating a magnolia
tree recently planted in his
honor in front of the Virgil D.
Hawkins Civil Clinic at the
Levin College of Law.
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VOTE
The lasting legacy of Florida’s
2000 presidential election.
BY LINDY MCCOLLUM-BROUNLEY
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“The first lesson is this: Take it from me
— every vote counts.” —AL GORE
B
itter words from Al
Gore, a man who
should know. Gore,
who won the majority
of
the
nation’s
popular vote in the
2000
presidential
election, ultimately conceded Florida’s 25
electoral votes — and the White House
— to George W. Bush after a landmark
decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to end
Florida’s vote recount. The final margin
of victory for Bush in Florida consisted
of 537 votes, .0002 percent of the state’s
nearly 6 million certified ballots.
“What happened in 2000 is exactly
what everyone feared, that it would go
down to a few thousand votes or less,”
said Stephen N. Zack (JD 71), one of the
attorneys representing Gore following the
election and a partner in the Miami firm
Boies, Schiller & Flexner. “I think one
thing important to look at from a historical
perspective is that there is virtually no
election that is free of problems. What
usually occurs is that the margins are so
large that those problems do not become
significant. But when you have a very
narrow margin, they become very, very
significant, and that’s what happened in
Florida in 2000.”
Florida’s 2000 presidential election
was initially called in favor of Bush
by 1,784 votes. This tiny margin of
victory triggered statutorily-mandated
machine recounts of ballots in all 67
Florida counties, the results of which
narrowed the margin to a Bush lead
of little more than 300 votes. Bush’s
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tenuous majority, coupled with voter
complaints of confusing butterfly ballots
and malfunctioning voting machines in
several counties, compelled Gore, as he
was entitled to do under Florida law, to
protest the results in Broward, Dade,
Palm Beach and Volusia counties. He
pressed for recounts in those counties of
“undervotes” — ballots that did not show
a valid legal selection during machine
counting, but which might demonstrate
voter intent when examined manually.
Gore’s decision to ask for manual
recounts in these heavily Democratic
counties, which many critics described as
“strategic cherry-picking” of votes, kicked
up a legal scrum of epic proportions. After
weeks of litigation in Florida’s courts,
examination of thousands of ballots with
chads in various states of detachment,
and media attention that characterized
Florida’s election and state politics as
national jokes, the U.S. Supreme Court
intervened with a judgment — one likely
to be argued in law schools and living
rooms for generations — that effectively
ended the spectacle.
“There can be no doubt that a majority
of Americans voted for Al Gore to be
president of the United States — that more
people voted for Al Gore, or thought they
were voting for Al Gore, than for George
Bush,” said Zack, who is slated to be the
next president-elect of the American Bar
Association. “It definitely indicates that
elections are subject to human variables,
and in a contested election that is razor
thin, those human errors are going to
cause problems.”
‘FLORIDA CAN’T COUNT’
Many people are still confused by
the series of events leading up to the
U.S. Supreme Court’s intervention in
Florida’s recount of the 2000 presidential
election. By the time the nation’s highest
court ended the litigation on Dec. 12,
the battle had been raging in Florida for
36 days and a dizzying number of suits
and countersuits had made the rounds
through Florida and federal courts. The
country was obsessed with hanging
chads, but Florida law did little to shed
light on how to discern the voter intent
they might reveal.
“We’d tended to overlook the
importance of elections until the 2000
presidential election, in which we realized
we were using outdated equipment,
machines and so on, particularly in the
large populated counties,” said W. Dexter
Douglass (LLB 55), Gore’s lead Florida
counsel and long-time state politico who
previously served as general counsel
for Gov. Lawton Chiles and chair
of the Florida Constitution Revision
Commission. “The combination of
antiquated voting systems and antiquated
voting laws put us in a position when we
became pivotal to the election to cause
the court proceedings that followed.”
The first case that made its way to
the U.S. Supreme Court involved the
Florida Supreme Court’s ruling in favor
of Gore’s protest of the vote count in
Broward, Palm Beach and Volusia
counties. Central to the question was
the statutory deadline, set by section
102.111 of Florida law, for counties to
certify their election returns no later than
seven days after the election. Several of
the counties conducting manual recounts
were unsure they could complete the
recounts in time to certify their returns
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W. Dexter Douglass (LLB 55),
of the Douglass Law Firm in
Tallahassee, Fla., served as
Gore’s lead Florida counsel in
the litigation following Florida’s
2000 presidential election.
“The combination of antiquated voting systems
and antiquated voting laws put us in a position
when we became pivotal to the election.”
by the deadline. Although the deadline
was ruled to be immutable by a Florida
Circuit Court, the court also ruled the
counties conducting manual recounts
could amend their returns later and that
Secretary of State Katherine Harris, the
state’s chief election officer, had the
discretion to accept those amendments
after the deadline.
Nonetheless, at the close of business
hours on Nov. 14, Harris announced she
was in receipt of certified returns from
all 67 counties, although three were still
conducting manual recounts. She also
released criteria by which she would
accept amended filings and required
those counties intending to make one to
submit a written statement outlining the
circumstances compelling them to do so.
Broward, Dade, Palm Beach and Volusia
counties submitted written statements,
but Harris determined none of them
Florida 2000
R E C O U N T
Source: CNN, Dec. 13, 2000
NOVEMBER 7: Election Day.
November 8: Democratic
presidential candidate Al Gore
makes an early morning call
to Republican candidate
George W. Bush to concede,
then calls back to retract his
concession based on new
estimates of a statistical tie
between the two men.
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T I M E L I N E
November 9: Gore’s team, led
by former U.S. Secretary of State
Warren Christopher, requests a
hand recount of ballots in four
Florida counties — Palm Beach,
Dade, Broward and Volusia.
NOVEMBER 10: The Florida
machine recount is completed.
Unofficial Associated Press
results give Bush a lead of
327 votes out of nearly 6
million cast.
warranted an extension of the deadline.
She certified the election on Nov. 18.
The Gore legal team immediately
protested in Florida courts, a move
Douglass advised against.
“My suggestion early on was that
they should allow the secretary of state
to certify the election and then contest it.
Instead of choosing a recount, you could
choose a contest statute, which would
immediately place the question of a
statewide recount under the jurisdiction
of the courts,” said Douglass. “But
Klain [Gore Chief of Staff Ron Klain]
and others said, ‘Well, it had already
been determined that we would go with
recounts in these four counties.’ ”
Despite Douglass’ recommendation,
Gore directed his legal team to pursue
extending the certification deadline to
allow the counties to complete their
recounts. This litigation would later
prove to run the clock out on Gore’s
future contest of the vote.
“Had they allowed me to certify
on time, there would have been time
for the statewide recount,” Katherine
Harris stated in a June 2, 2008, interview
on FOX News Channel’s Hannity &
Colmes. “His [Gore’s] political team
was concerned that… would harm him
politically. So he listened to his political
advisers instead of Dexter Douglass, his
Florida counsel, who said that, indeed,
NOVEMBER 12: Palm Beach
County officials vote to
conduct a full hand recount
of presidential votes; Volusia
County begins its own hand
count; Bush’s legal team,
headed by former Secretary
of State James Baker, goes to
federal court seeking to block
manual recounts.
NOVEMBER 14: Florida
Secretary of state Katherine
Harris delays certification
of the state’s votes until 2
p.m. EST Nov. 15 so three
heavily Democratic counties
can explain why they should
conduct hand recounts of
their ballots.
NOVEMBER 15: Harris says
she will not accept further hand
recounts and asks the Florida
Supreme Court to order the halt
of manual recounts; Broward
County decides to begin a hand
recount; AP estimates shrink
Bush’s lead to only 286 votes.
NOVEMBER 21: The Florida
Supreme Court orders hand counts
to continue, and gives counties five
days to complete them.
NOVEMBER 23: Miami-Dade
County officials stop their hand
recount because they do not feel
they could complete the recount
before the Nov. 26 deadline given
by the Florida Supreme Court.
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I should certify in time according to the
will of law and as the law was written.”
The case, the first Gore v. Harris,
eventually arrived on the docket of the
Florida Supreme Court, which ruled
on Nov. 21 that the recount would take
place, that amended returns must be
accepted from the counties that were
party to the case, and that Harris could
not certify the election until Nov. 26.
“We made a statutory construction
analysis of the law, and we found there
were ambiguities in the statute which
required there to be a construction that
would permit the intent of the statute to
be carried out,” said Florida Supreme
Court Justice Charles T. Wells (JD 64),
who was chief justice at the time.
The ruling was appealed to the U.S.
Supreme Court in Bush v. Palm Beach
County Canvassing Board. The Supreme
Court remanded it back to the Florida
Supreme Court on Dec. 4 with a request
for an explanation of how it reached its
ruling.
“The United States Supreme Court
made a determination that it was not a
matter of statutory construction under
state law, but that the federal scheme for
electing presidential electors gave to the
Legislature plenary power to make the
determination as to how the selection
of electors was going to be done,” said
Wells. “They remanded the case to us,
NOVEMBER 24: To the
surprise of many observers,
the U.S. Supreme Court agrees
to hear Bush’s appeal of the
Florida high court ruling in
Bush vs. Palm Beach County
Canvassing Board allowing
hand recounts to proceed.
NOVEMBER 26: Harris
certifies the results of the
Florida vote after the Florida
Supreme Court deadline
expires, giving Bush a 537vote lead over Gore, but these
do not include results from
Palm Beach County, which
completed its manual recount
about two hours after the
deadline.
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saying that they did not understand the
basis upon which we reached the decision
to extend the time for the certification.”
Meanwhile, Harris, pursuant to the
Florida Supreme Court’s order in Gore
v. Harris, certified the election results
on Nov. 26 in which Bush was the
victor with a lead of 537 votes. Gore’s
team then filed a petition contesting the
election, the second Gore v. Harris. The
case moved through circuit and district
courts to the Florida Supreme Court,
which ruled on Dec. 8 that a statewide
recount would proceed with a deadline
for completion of Dec. 12. That date was
the federal “safe-haven” deadline for
Stephen N. Zack (JD 71) in
his downtown Miami office.
“We as a people are fully committed to the constitutional electoral process and, at all times, were going
to turn to our lawyers and not to our generals.”
NOVEMBER 27: Gore’s lawyers
move to contest the Florida
result in a circuit court in
Tallahassee.
NOVEMBER 30: Florida
lawmakers vote along party lines
to recommend a special session
to name electors if the election
contest is not resolved by Dec.
12, six days before the Electoral
College meets. The Republicanled legislature is expected to
name electors pledged to Bush.
DECEMBER 1: In Bush vs. Palm
Beach County Canvassing Board,
the U.S. Supreme Court hears
oral arguments over whether the
Florida Supreme Court overstepped
its authority by ordering Harris to
include the manual recounts in
certified state results.
DECEMBER 4: The U.S. Supreme
Court asks the Florida Supreme
Court to explain its reasoning in
extending the hand recounts,
returning the case to Tallahassee
and putting off any action in Bush’s
appeal objecting to the recounts.
DECEMBER 8: In a decision
divided 4-3, the Florida Supreme
Court in Gore vs. Harris orders
manual recounts in all counties
with significant numbers of
presidential undervotes; Bush
appeals the decision to the
U.S. Supreme Court and seeks
injunctive relief to stop the hand
recounts.
DECEMBER 9: The U.S. Supreme
Court, in a 5 to 4 ruling, halts the
manual recounts and sets a hearing
on the matter two days later.
DECEMBER 11: Arguments are
heard by the U.S. Supreme Court
in Bush vs. Gore.
DECEMBER 12: The U.S.
Supreme Court, in a 5 to 4 ruling
in Bush vs. Gore, puts an end to
the Florida recount. The ruling
coincides with the Dec. 12 “safe
haven” deadline. Gore officially
concedes the election to Bush
shortly thereafter.
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states to appoint its electors before the
Electoral College’s federally mandated
Dec. 18 meeting.
The second Gore v. Harris ruling
allowed for a statewide hand recount
of undervotes, but it did not include
voter intent that, at that point, our court
was requiring to be done statewide.
Again, those questions seem to me to
have been a difficulty of the elections
statutes, which really just didn’t address
them.”
“The [Florida] election laws really were
not designed in such a way that fit a
presidential election where the margin of
victory was within the margin of error.”
Florida Supreme Court Justice
Charles T. Wells (JD 64) speaks
to a classroom of UF Law
students regarding professional
responsibility during his Sept. 26
visit to UF Law sponsored by the
American Constitution Society.
“overvotes” — votes where selections
for president were clearly indicated,
but which also included the candidate’s
name handwritten on the ballot. Neither
state law nor the court provided uniform
standards for how to conduct the recount.
Instead, each county’s canvassing board
would use its own standards.
“In the first case, the case involving
the protest in the certification to
the secretary of state, we had been
unanimous. In the second case, we
were not,” said Wells. “I wrote in my
dissent that I felt like the majority’s
decision created a basketful of practical
problems. The statute didn’t provide any
standards for making a determination of
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SUPREMELY CONTROVERSIAL
Bush asked the U.S. Supreme Court to
intervene, which it did on Dec. 9 when
it issued a writ of certiorari for Bush v.
Gore and enjoined Florida’s recount.
“In the case of the second lawsuit,
there were a couple of federal questions
involved,” said Clifford Jones, associate
in law and lecturer at the University of
Florida Levin College of Law’s Center
for Governmental Responsibility. “One
of them had to do with whether or not the
process of counting votes and recounting
votes
satisfied
the
constitutional
protections of equal protection and due
process. A secondary issue, which was
related to the first appeal, was whether
or not what the Florida court did was
interfering with the constitutional
direction that the electors for president be
selected by direction of the Legislature as
opposed to by direction of the courts.”
The court issued a per curiam opinion
that the Florida court ruling was in
violation of the Equal Protection Clause
of the 14th Amendment because there
was no standard by which all 67 counties
could conduct the ballot recount. The
opinion stated that it applied only to
the specific circumstances of Bush v.
Gore, and should not be considered
precedential because “the problem of
equal protection in election processes
generally presents many complexities.”
In addition, a majority of the court agreed
that no constitutionally valid recount
could be conducted in time to meet the
federal safe haven deadline of Dec. 12.
The court was divided as to whether
the Florida Supreme Court’s statutory
construction to allow a recount after the
state’s Nov. 14 certification deadline was
in violation of Article II.
“Frankly, the most controversial
aspect of the Supreme Court’s decision
was to stop the recount, as opposed
to merely remanding it for further
proceedings in the court below,” said
Jones. “I think the court did that because
they considered that the Florida Supreme
Court had indicated intent to rely on
the safe harbor provision of the federal
statute.”
The Supreme Court issued its opinions
on Dec. 12. The controversial decision
left Gore little time for further action and
he soon conceded the election.
Legal scholar Cass Sunstein later
wrote, “For those who believe in the rule
of law, it is more than disturbing to find
that by far the best predictor of one’s attitude toward Bush v. Gore is whether
one voted for Bush or for Gore. … it is
extremely disturbing to find that on the
highly technical, even esoteric issues
involved in the case, the attitudes of so
many specialists — including journalists
who follow the court, political scientists,
historians, law professors and even judges — seem determined, almost all of the
time, by their political preferences.”
Nonetheless, Americans, despite
their political preferences, accepted the
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ELECTION REFORM, FLORIDA-STYLE
Florida is no stranger to presidential
election problems. Few are aware that
the congressional Electoral Count Act
of 1877 — which, ironically, established
the Dec. 12 safe haven deadline driving
litigation in Florida’s 2000 presidential
election — was enacted in part as a result
of Florida’s disputed 1876 presidential
election between Rutherford B. Hayes
and Samuel J. Tilden. The scandal of
that election involved alleged ballot box
stuffing and suppression of Republican
voters, mostly freed slaves.
With Florida’s 27 electoral votes up
for grabs and tight margins reported in
advance of the 2008 election between
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Standing on the Florida
Supreme Court steps,
spokesman Craig Waters (JD
86), announces the court’s
7-0 ruling in Tallahassee, Fla.,
Nov. 21, 2000 that amended
vote tallies must be accepted
in the state’s contested
presidential election.
AP PHOTO/PETE COSGROVE
high court’s decision as final and got on
with business as usual.
“Everyone believed this would
resolve itself and a lot of people believed,
at the end of the day, the Electoral College
would step in as it is designed to do if
necessary,” said Zack. “I’ve recently
spoken at law schools in China, Russia
and Poland, and this was a common
question. My unequivocal answer was
that we as a people are fully committed
to the constitutional electoral process
and, at all times, were going to turn to
our lawyers and not to our generals.”
That reliance on the law hasn’t
squelched cynical speculation by some
that partisan fervor motivated decisions
made by both the Florida Supreme Court
and the U.S. Supreme Court. Yet the truth
of the matter may have been in plain sight
all along.
“The [Florida] election laws really
were not designed in such a way that
fit a presidential election where the
margin of victory was within the margin
of error. The courts were trying to
deal in a very short time span with the
proverbial square peg in a round hole.
It just was not something that could be
dealt with in a very satisfactory way,”
said Wells. “What I have said, and what
I truly believe, is this was the election
of the president of the United States,
and no matter what the legal avenues or
approaches were for the United States
Supreme Court to get to it, it still was
necessary for the United States Supreme
Court to have the final say.”
“Since 2000, there have been a
series of statutory responses that
would make [a recount] much
more streamlined, standardized
and easier to conduct.”
Mills
John McCain and Barack Obama, many
worried the state could again experience
chaos. This election went smoothly,
for the most part, despite heavy voter
turnout — 73 percent of the state’s
registered voters, nearly 8.2 million
Floridians, voted (4.3 million of those
during early voting).
“The 2000 situation was unique in
history,” said Jon Mills, a UF professor
of law, dean emeritus, and director of
the Levin College of Law Center for
Governmental Responsibility (which
sponsored a post-election conference at
the Levin College of Law featuring the
principals of the court cases, including
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David Boies, Douglass, Zack and
counsels for Harris). “Since 2000,
there have been a series of statutory
responses that, if there was a recount,
would make it much more streamlined,
standardized and easier to conduct.”
After the embarrassment of its
2000 presidential election experience,
the state passed the Florida Election
Reform Act of 2001, directly addressing
inadequacies in state law regarding
voting and tabulation problems.
The act outlawed the venerable
computer punch card machines as
well as lever and manual paper voting
systems — effectively banishing the
hanging chad to history. Instead, the
act recommended electronic voting
systems, and mandated all voting
systems must be certified by the
secretary of state before the canvassing
boards can use them.
Initially, both optical-scan and
ATM-style
touchscreen
systems
replaced the old voting machines.
Concerns that the touchscreen system
was vulnerable to software glitches or
hacking, combined with the lack of a
paper trail for ballot recounts, led Gov.
Charlie Crist to ban its use in 2007
after the machine recorded 18,000
undervotes in a hotly contested 2006
Sarasota County congressional race.
Optical-scan machines, which tabulate
ANATOMY OF A
T
This political cartoon of “The Gerry-Mander,”
from which gerrymandering got its name, was
first published in the Boston Centinel in 1812.
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the vote electronically but provide a
paper record of each vote, are now the
standard in use statewide. The opticalscan machines also alert voters if they
have recorded over- or undervotes as
the ballot is scanned, giving the voter
opportunity to correct his or her ballot
before leaving the polling place.
The Florida Election Reform Act
also implemented more uniform ballot
design, and instructed the secretary of
state’s office to standardize interpretation of ballot marks and mismarks to
determine “clear indication that the
voter has made a definite choice” in
the event manual recounts are necessary. The standards adopted into the
Gerrymander
o many Floridians, tasking elected
representatives to draw nonpartisan
voting districts seems a lot like
tasking the fox to guard the
henhouse … every 10 years feathers fly.
“Reapportionment, or how we divide our
districts for the Legislature and Congress,
is one of the most important things we do
because it determines who you can vote
for in your district,” said Jon Mills, a UF
professor of law, dean emeritus and director
of the Levin College of Law Center for
Governmental Responsibility.
Mills said Florida’s constitution directs
the Legislature to review and redraw voting
districts in the second year after each
U.S. Census. The constitutional ideal of
reapportionment is to draw districts to
fairly represent the state’s population
growth or movement. Unfortunately,
legislators have historically used the
opportunity to redistrict voting blocks to
shore up re-election for themselves or
their party. This history of gerrymandered
reapportionment has resulted in legislators,
both Democrats and Republicans,
supporting redistricting that effectively
splits votes down partisan lines.
“When I was in the Legislature, I
sat on a reapportionment committee.
Were people drawing districts to favor
themselves or their political party?
Absolutely,” said Mills. “There is a mutual
self-interest in members of a legislative
body to help each other that doesn’t
necessarily favor one party or the other.”
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AP PHOTO/J.PAT CARTER
Early voters cast
electronic ballots in
downtown Miami
during the 2004
presidential election.
Florida Administrative Code were
written using ballots cast in the 2000
election as examples to assist in identifying common mismarking problems,
resulting in clear guidelines to interpret virtually any mark on a ballot as a
valid or invalid vote.
Lastly, the act removed vote
recounts from the discretion of the
county canvassing boards and no longer allows a candidate to protest votes
in specific counties. As the law stands
now, an automatic statewide machine
recount is triggered if unofficial returns for presidential elections indicate
a margin of victory less than one-half
of 1 percent of the vote. If the machine
Mills is now serving as counsel
on a legal team representing
FairDistrictsFlorida.org that includes
CGR staff attorney Tim McLendon.
The organization is the sponsor of
a constitutional amendment to set
standards the Legislature must use when
redrawing district boundaries.
The title and summary of the
amendment, which was argued before
the Florida Supreme Court Nov. 6 as
Case No. SC08-1149, reads:
STANDARDS FOR LEGISLATURE TO
FOLLOW IN CONGRESSIONAL
REDISTRICTING
Congressional districts or districting
plans may not be drawn to favor or
disfavor an incumbent or political
party. Districts shall not be drawn to
deny racial or language minorities
the equal opportunity to participate
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recount shows a difference of less than
one-quarter of 1 percent in the margin
of victory, a statewide manual recount
must take place of both under- and
overvotes, unless the combined total
of those ballots is less than the number
of votes necessary to change the outcome of the election.
“The new standards and voting
system make the election more
uniform and provide tangible evidence
for review if a recount does arise. So,
Florida is much better off than we were
in 2000 or even 2004,” said Mills.
“But, that doesn’t mean it’s perfect.”
This year, Florida’s election was
a fairly uneventful mega-event. De-
in the political process and elect
representatives of their choice. Districts
must be contiguous. Unless otherwise
required, districts must be compact,
as equal in population as feasible,
and where feasible must make use of
existing city, county and geographical
boundaries.
The primary goal of the amendment —
if the Supreme Court approves it as a ballot
measure for a 2010 general election — is
to establish nonpartisan reapportionment
standards by which districts would be
drawn. These standards would seek to
assure continuity in redistricting so that
boundaries are contiguous and compact,
preventing district lines from being drawn
in such a way that cherry-picks and
patches together disparate areas that
reliably vote one way or the other.
When districts are drawn to embrace
contiguous communities, they include a
spite long waits to vote at some
polling places and occasional malfunctioning machines, the votes
of more than 8 million Floridians
were cast and counted — with little
post-election drama. If a recount
had been necessary, new laws are in
place to standardize the process that
would, hopefully, quarantine the controversy within the bounds of Florida’s
courts.
Florida has come a long way since
its 2000 presidential election, and
one might now offer it as a model of
how to run a smooth election in a big,
hotly-contested swing state … As long
as the margins aren’t razor-thin. ■
broader range of constituencies and are not
strictly split by racial or partisan lines. The
theory is that legislators and congressmen
elected to office from such districts would
be less partisan and more balanced in
their views, resulting in an approach to
government that is less divisive and more
representative, Mills said.
“I think there are people of good
will on both sides of the aisle who
really want to see the process be as
transparent and fair as possible,”
said Stephen N. Zack (JD 71), a
partner in the Miami firm Boies,
Schiller & Flexner,
which also represents
FairDistrictsFlorida.org.
“Obviously, there are others
who just want to win, and
that is not the standard by
which we should want to
have an election.”
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Hall of
Justice
I
Andrew C. Hall fights for the rights of
victims of state-sponsored terrorism.
BY IAN FISHER
n 1992, Andrew C. Hall (JD 68)
heard a horrific story about a
stranger, also named Hall, who
endured the unthinkable.
Chad Hall, an American
working as a contractor, was
beaten and tortured after being kidnapped
from Kuwaiti territory at gunpoint by Iraqi
guards. One of the Iraqis, as Hall told the
New York Times, “put the clip in the pistol
and chambered in a round and said, ‘Well,
I have the authority to shoot you if I have
to, to take you with me.’ ”
A retired Army major, Hall was an expert in munitions, and the Iraqis wanted
his valuable knowledge.
They did almost anything to get it.
The Iraqis confined Hall to a small
prison cell with no lights, window, water
or toilet. He was frequently denied food
and water and had only limited access to
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toilet facilities. He was interrogated, accused of espionage, and physically and
psychologically tortured. At one point, the
Iraqis blindfolded him and told him they
would shoot him if he didn’t reveal information. When he refused, they cocked
their weapons, gave the “Fire!” command,
and dry-fired their weapons at him.
Hall was sure he would die in his
cramped, filthy jail cell somewhere in the
Iraqi desert.
ENTER ANDREW HALL
After five days of torture, Chad Hall was
released. He returned to his hometown of
Houston and saw his family lawyer, who
called Andrew Hall and told him Chad Hall’s
story. Andrew Hall was asked what could be
done about this, but he had no quick answer.
“[My first reaction was] probably a
stupid one, which was like, ‘They can’t do
that!’ ” Hall said. “I was so offended by the
idea that an American could be kidnapped
on Kuwaiti soil by Iraqis. I said, ‘That’s
got to be a violation of international law;
it just has to be, and there has to be something we can do about it.’ ”
As a Holocaust survivor, Andrew Hall
has seen first hand what can happen when
a government takes advantage of its power. And that is why he began his fight for
victims of state-sponsored terrorism.
“I have always been a victim-oriented
lawyer in that I have a sense of internal
outrage whenever I see an abuse of power,” Hall said. “All of that, every bit of it,
comes from the circumstances of my birth
and my early childhood.”
CHAD HALL’S STORY
Chad Hall grew up in Texas and dropped
out of high school to join the Army at the
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By the third day, American authorities had learned of Chad Hall’s abduction,
but with no diplomatic relationship with
Iraq, turned to Poland for assistance. On
the fourth day of Chad Hall’s imprisonment, the Polish government located him
and brought him food and other necessities. Two days later, Poland negotiated his
release, and he flew to freedom.
tender age of 18, where he became an
expert in disarming explosives. He was a
Mustang — an enlisted soldier who enters
the Army as a private but works his way
up to the rank of an officer — retiring
as a major. After leaving the army, Hall
went to work as a civilian contractor in
Kuwait disarming unexploded munitions
that were left from the First Gulf War.
Because of their close proximity to Iraq, Chad Hall’s crew used GPS
to identify the Kuwait/Iraq border and
clearly marked it with red stakes. Hall
was working close to the border but was
clearly in Kuwait’s territory when he was
kidnapped.
He was first taken to a remote jail
before being transferred to the now infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad
where the torture and interrogations
continued.
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THE LEGAL BATTLE
In pursuit of justice for Chad Hall, Andrew Hall researched whether sovereign
states that sponsor terrorism could be
sued by their victims. He found one case:
Prince v. Germany. Prince was a JewishAmerican who was captured by Nazis in
Poland at the start of World War II. Decades later in 1991, he sued Germany,
and a federal judge ruled that a U.S. court
could decide the case.
Relying on the Prince ruling, Hall
filed suit in the District Court for the District of Columbia but the judge dismissed
the suit on the grounds of sovereign immunity. On appeal, the Circuit Court
for the District of Columbia ruled that
citizens have no right to sue a foreign state
in American court without its consent.
Facing a temporary dead-end, Hall
sought other avenues toward justice. He
went to Congress and began lobbying.
In 1996, Congress responded and passed
the Antiterrorism and Effective Death
Penalty Act of 1996, which amended the
Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act to
allow victims of state-sponsored terror-
ism to sue foreign states for damages in
American courts.
In 2000, Hall won the lawsuit for Chad
Hall in the District Court for the District
of Columbia, but the State Department
convinced President Bill Clinton to suspend judicial process, essentially holding
that the law and judgment did not count,
Hall said.
Hall went back to Congress and lobbied further. Finally, in 2002, Congress
passed the Terrorism Risk Insurance
Act of 2002 that the judgments had to
be paid. Two American banks, Chase JP
Morgan and The Bank of New York, held
Iraq’s money, which was frozen when
Iraq was declared a sponsor of terrorism. The banks were making money on
Iraq’s frozen assets and fought in court to
keep it, but Chad Hall was eventually
paid in 2003.
Chad Hall was awarded nearly $1.8
million for the torture and loss of past and
future wages. Because his marriage failed
due to Hall’s post-traumatic stress disorder caused by his kidnapping and torture,
his ex-wife, Elizabeth Hall, was awarded
$1.5 million for loss of consortium.
For Andrew Hall, the experiences of
his early childhood made the court victory against terrorism feel especially good.
Hall, 19xx
THE HOLOCAUST
Andrew Hall was born in a coal cellar in
Warsaw, Poland, in September of 1944
to parents who were Polish Jews hiding
from the Nazis.
“I have a sense of
internal outrage
whenever I see
an abuse of
power. All of
that...comes from
the circumstances
of my birth and my
early childhood.”
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Hall’s family had hidden from the Nazis for years before he was born. Desperate
to protect his family from the death camps,
Hall’s father, Edmund Horskey, posed as a
German Aryan and rented an office on the
13th floor of the Hotel Warsaw in February of 1942. Hall’s mother, Maria Horskey,
and then 6-year-old brother, Adam Janush
Horowitz (now Allan Hall), did not leave
that office for more than two years. When
Edmund left for work, Maria and Adam hid
in a dark closet during the day, only a whisper away from disaster.
“Literally across the partition, there
was an office full of people working, and
if they would’ve heard us, that would’ve
been instant death,” said Allan Hall,
Andrew’s older brother who also graduated from UF Law in 1968. “Directly two
floors above us was the Polish headquarters of the German Luftwaffe, which was
the air force in Poland. My father’s theory
was that the closer we got to their headquarters, the less likely they were to look
for us.”
In August of 1944, the Poles rose
against their Nazi occupiers in the heroic
but doomed Warsaw Uprising. Hall’s
family moved from the office to another building’s coal cellar where he was
eventually born. Allan Hall remembers
running through sniper fire to get there.
Although the coal cellar was thought to
be safer than the rented room, it was a
miracle that the family lived through it.
“In the shelter, at that point my mother
was already pregnant, a V-2 rocket landed, and the only reason we’re here to tell
you about it is because it didn’t explode,”
Allan Hall said. “I clearly remember
walking over to where it had penetrated
the street and the ground and came all the
way down to the sub-basement where we
were. I remember seeing four or six feet
of it exposed, and we could clearly see the
German marking on it.”
“One of the things that happens to the
families of Holocaust survivors is those
experiences don’t leave your house,” Hall
said. “They’re there every day. It is the
primary subject of conversation between
your parents and friends. So you grow up
in an environment steeped in a sense of
injustice at the highest level and what it is
you can do to make sure it never happens
again. It’s very much a profound part of
my personality.”
“[Terrorism
cases] are more
visible, so the
THE ESCAPE
A few years after the war ended, Hall’s
father was arrested by Poland’s new communist regime. Hall’s mother did not
want to take any risks with the safety of
her sons, and she sent them out of Poland
with other Jewish war orphans making
their way to Palestine, now Israel.
For nine months, Hall and his brother
wandered through Europe without their
parents and without identification papers.
“We would walk 15, 20, 30 miles
a day with Andy mostly riding on my
shoulders,” Allan Hall said.
During the trip, Andrew contracted
measles and Allan stayed with him in a
German hospital while the group of orphans continued their journey. Meanwhile, the boys’ parents, after Edmund
Horskey escaped from incarceration,
searched for their children, hitting a cold
trail in Munich. In a weird twist of fate,
they recognized a cousin on a Munich
stakes are
higher.”
The Polish rebellion surrendered in
October. Warsaw’s German conquerors ordered everyone to leave and then
burned the city to the ground. Still working to avoid capture, Hall’s family escaped through the sewer system. The exhausted family made its way to Krakow,
Poland, arriving in November of 1944
and remaining until the war’s end.
Although Hall was too young to remember his life in Warsaw, it still impacts
him today.
AP PHOTO/GARY C. KNAPP
Andrew Hall, right, as
attorney for the families of
sailors killed in the bombing
of the USS Cole, speaks with
reporters outside the Norfolk
Federal Court building in
Norfolk, Va., Feb. 27, 2007.
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Allen, left, and Andrew Hall
returned to Poland in 1993
with their families to revisit
their childhood haunts.
street. That cousin had come to Munich
to take the brothers back to Palestine after
receiving a letter from Andrew asking for
help. The family was reunited at last.
COMING TO AMERICA
On Feb. 6, 1947, the reunited family flew
to New York and to freedom. They first
lived in Newburgh, N.Y. before moving
to Miami.
Both brothers earned their undergraduate degrees from the University of Florida.
Allan worked as a builder after graduation, and Andrew was pre-med, but both
eventually entered UF Law.
“I took the LSAT on a lark and basically backed in,” Andrew Hall said. “I don’t
know if this is true anymore, but if you got a
high enough score, you were automatically
admitted, so all of a sudden taking the LSAT
as a lark — it was on a dare — I got automatically admitted into law school. I figured
that must mean something.”
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Hall graduated from UF Law in
1968; if he had passed a Spanish class in
undergrad, he and Allan would’ve been
a part of the same class. Instead, Allan
finished a semester before Andrew.
Andrew Hall clerked for Judge Joe
Eaton before going to work for a firm in
Miami. In 1975, he opened his own firm,
now known as Hall, Lamb & Hall.
ANDREW HALL TODAY
Although Andrew Hall once wanted to
be a doctor, he has become an exceptional lawyer, Allan Hall said.
“In my opinion, he has one of the
best legal minds,” Allan Hall said. “I
consider myself a good lawyer, but he
leaves me in the dust.”
Since winning the Chad Hall case,
Andrew Hall has represented numerous
other victims of state-sponsored terrorism including the families of the victims
of the USS Cole bombing.
“I had no idea that it would start me
on a 16-year journey that would be as
difficult and complex as it has been,”
Hall said. “But the fact of the matter is
it’s one of those things that once I started it, I’ve never looked back; I’ve never
regretted it.”
And although state-sponsored terrorism cases are just a small part of
Hall’s practice, he takes a lot of pride in
helping the victims.
“They’re more visible, so the
stakes are higher. It’s the one case
where if I walk into a cocktail party
and there’s a guy in the military that’s
there, he will routinely walk over, shake
my hand, and thank me for the case
because he knows that there are civilians out there fighting,” he said. “That’s
the whole point. Notwithstanding
the fact that I’m a civilian, it allows
me to basically fight, in my way,
against terrorism.” ■
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Switching
Courts
From the home court to Drug Court,
Judge Andy Owens makes the goal.
BY JAMES HELLEGAARD
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having a felony on your record carries
through for the rest of your life.”
The goal of the Court Intervention Program is to help these young people make
changes in their lives that will lead them to
make better decisions. First-time offenders
who complete the program can have their
charges dismissed. For others who have
multiple offenses on their record, the hope
is the program will help them turn their
lives around.
Emotion wells up in Owens’ eyes and
in his voice when he talks about the people
whose lives literally have been saved by the
drug court. One woman walked into Owens’ courtroom in 1997 with a long list of
10 felony convictions on her record, including drugs and prostitution.
Brenda Owens-Philhower grew up in
Sarasota. She began using drugs at age 13.
By the time she went before Owens at the
age of 33, she was estranged from her family and friends, addicted to crack cocaine
and living behind a dumpster. She weighed
87 pounds.
“I was looking at a 10-year sentence,”
recalls Owens-Philhower, who is no relation to the judge, though she now affectionately refers to him as her long-lost uncle. “I
had already been in prison once, and basically Drug Court was not supposed to take
me because I was already a convicted felon
and had been to prison. But Judge Owens,
he knew I was going to die.”
Given one more chance to turn her life
around, Owens-Philhower grabbed the
opportunity with everything she had, becoming the program’s first graduate. She
returns to Owens’ court every year so the
judge can present her with a medallion to
signify her accomplishment. She eventualSARASOTA HERALD TRIBUNE STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER/CHIP LITHERLAND
I
n the old Alligator Alley, Andy
Owens (JD 72) could feel his way
around the basketball court. With
his teammates at the University of Florida in the late 1960s,
Owens sweated through countless practices, scrimmages and
games at Florida Gym, devoting endless
hours to dribbling around the well-worn
hardwood and finding those places where
he could launch shots with a feeling so true
he thought he couldn’t miss.
“Every day I’d go up early and stay late
and pick different spots on the floor and
shoot 30 or 40 jump shots,” recalls Owens,
who set school records his senior year for
points in a season in 1969-70, when he averaged 27 points per game, a UF mark that
still stands. “When the game comes and
you can get the ball in that spot, you know
you’re going to make it. To me that’s the
way I could develop confidence.”
Today, after 25 years as a circuit judge
in Sarasota, Owens tries to instill that same
persistence in young people whose lives
couldn’t be more different than the one he
has known, men and women living precariously on society’s edge.
“I’ve always had a desire to try make
a difference and help people,” Owens said
as he sat in his office in the courthouse in
downtown Sarasota. ‘I just felt that as a
judge you would be able to make a difference in your community, and I certainly
think that you can.”
A decade ago, Owens helped create a
Mental Health Court in Sarasota, as well as
a Court Intervention Program. Also known
as Drug Court, the year-long outpatient program for felony drug offenders has given
Owens a chance to reach out a hand and lift
up those who have fallen down into indescribable depths.
“Kids today all feel bulletproof,”
he said.
Young people have a very difficult time
reasoning abstractly, he explains, thinking
bad things, like getting arrested for drugs,
only happens to other people, it won’t happen to them. It’s okay if I experiment, they
think, I’ll never get in trouble.
“But regrettably, that’s not the case,”
Owens said. “And so a lot of good kids
end up making a stupid decision. And now
they’re caught, arrested for a felony and
“I think the lessons
that you learn in
athletics apply well
to life; primarily
persistence.”
ly received a pardon from Gov. Jeb Bush,
who posed for a photo with her that sits in
Owens’ office.
Owens-Philhower has gone on to
work as counselor to help others get off
drugs, and this fall opened her own outpatient drug and alcohol recovery program in Ocala called Recovery Road.
She has been a featured speaker for The
Florida Bar, the Guardian Ad Litem Program and Florida’s drug courts. She’s
been recognized with Florida’s Points of
Light Award by both Gov. Bush and current Gov. Charlie Crist.
She and Judge Owens share a special
relationship. The judge presided over
Owens-Philhower’s wedding vows. Her
youngest daughter, Elnora, 14, inspired by
the man who literally saved her mother’s life,
wants to go on to law school, and her oldest daughter, Dominique, 17, takes criminal
justice classes at night while in high school.
He’s the first person she calls when her girls
bring home their report cards.
“He cares about each individual,” Owens-Philhower said of the judge. “He believes that addicts and alcoholics deserve a
second chance. Not a lot of judges care about
us. Everything that I do in my life is because
of Judge Owens. Me getting my own business, me buying my own home, me getting
Circuit Court Judge Andrew Owens
confers with counsel on the first
day of the Carlie Brucia murder trial
on Nov. 7, 2005. Joseph Smith was
later convicted and sentenced to
death for the abduction and killing
of the 11-year-old Sarasota child.
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my new car…when I got my first new car he
was the first person I called…I’m crying. I
cry when I talk about Andy.”
Sitting in his chambers, Owens proudly
points to the photos on the shelves of Owens-Philhower and the other men and women who have successfully turned their lives
around in the Drug Court program.
“That’s the driving force,” Owens said.
“You see by saving a mother, you save a
family. I can’t tell you the number of successes that we’ve had like that.”
His own life would appear to any observer to be one long winning season.
When his playing career at UF ended
and Owens graduated with a bachelor’s
degree in finance, he wasn’t exactly
sure what he wanted to do. He’d been
selected in the National Basketball Association draft, but as a seventh round
choice, there was no guarantee he
would make the team and the money
wasn’t exactly great.
Eschewing an uncertain future
in basketball, Owens decided to take
advantage of a scholarship he’d been
offered by the NCAA and immediately entered law school at UF. But Owens, who
had always done well in school, wasn’t prepared for the academic rigors of law school,
and his grades in his first year suffered.
“I think the lessons that you learn in athletics apply well to life, and primarily persistence,” said Owens, who quickly got himself
back on track academically. “And I think if
you’re willing to do the work and are persistent, you can achieve desired goals. And
that’s just what I had to do was buckle down
and start working. I was not gifted intellectually, so I had to spend some time and read and
study and re-read and study some more.”
Owens counts himself as fortunate
that both his parents were college graduates. His father, Doug Owens, graduated
from Georgia Tech and was an engineer.
His mother, Dottie, graduated from Agnes Scott. They instilled the importance
of education in their children, says Owens, whose sister, Elizabeth Kaplon, has
a doctorate in speech pathology, while his
brother, Parker, is a certified public accountant in Tampa.
“Education was pushed in our home
from the time we were born,” Owens remembers. “You were always pushed that
you were going to go to college, and even
beyond the four-year degree.”
Born in Atlanta, Owens’ moved as a
child with his family to Tampa, where his
father opened an auto parts business, Owens Tire Company.
That’s where Owens sports career
began, initially on the North Seminole
Little League baseball fields, where
his teammates on Lou Boyles’ Phillips 66ers included two future judges,
Stan Morris (JD 71), a longtime circuit
judge in Gainesville, and Bobby Simms,
a circuit judge in Tampa who died
in 2004.
ketball in the state of Florida. While Owens and Neal Walk lit up the scoreboards
in Gainesville, Artis Gilmore was helping
turn Jacksonville University into a national title contender and Dave Cowens was
dominating the backboards at Florida State
University.
After graduating from UF Law, Owens began practicing law with a firm
in Punta Gorda. The experience was a
real eye opener for Owens, who recalls
he had no clue what he was doing. Owens quickly learned the ropes under the
mentorship of former Judge Archie
Odom, mainly handling small criminal cases, and in 1977 moved with
his wife to Sarasota, where he began
a civil trial practice representing
insurance companies with the law
firm of Dickinson & Gibbons.
Although he was often so nervous
with energy and anticipation before
basketball games that he was sick
to his stomach and could hardly eat,
Owens enjoyed the competition involved in playing sports, and battling
another attorney in the courtroom brought
many of those same feelings back.
“I just switched courts,” he says.
Along with that sense of competition
came long hours of preparation, however,
and something eventually had to give. In
this case, it was Owens’ marriage. Following the split, he continued working all
the time. Luckily, it was then that Owens
caught a big break, a new circuit court
judgeship had opened up in Sarasota, and
friends encouraged him to apply.
Owens credits “some really outstanding people” who helped him and pushed
his application in front of Florida Gov.
Bob Graham, and says it probably didn’t
hurt that both he and Graham went to UF.
In fact, Owens feels his connections to
UF have been the key to his success and
the reason he’s a circuit judge today.
Although he’d made his living in the
courtroom for more than a decade, his appointment to the circuit bench in 1983 allowed Owens to see things from a different perspective. Those nervous feelings
he had known before basketball games
and prior to big cases as an attorney retuned once again as Owens prepared to
take his seat behind the bench.
“My stomach was just as upset, I was
just as nervous that first day in court,” said
“He believes that
addicts and alcoholics
deserve a second
chance. Not a lot of
judges care about us.
Everything that I do
in my life is because of
Judge Owens.”
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Owens turned his attention to basketball
in the 7th grade, when he led his team to the
city championship. After winning the title
game, Owens invited his teammates to his
house for a barbecue. It was there that his
mom, much to her son’s initial embarrassment, challenged the boys to a pick-up basketball game in the backyard.
“Well, as it turned out, my mother beat
all of us,” Owens recalls with a laugh. “And
she had actually played college basketball
for Agnes Scott. She could really shoot, and
she had a two-handed shot, and none of us
could do that. That was kind of fun.”
Owens distinguished himself as a prized
basketball recruit at Hillsborough High as
he led his team to the state finals his last
two years. College programs from around
the country offered him a scholarship, and
Owens narrowed his list to the traditional
powerhouses North Carolina and Kentucky,
along with the University of Florida, which
had yet to really distinguish itself as a basketball program.
Staying close to home, so his parents
could continue to watch him play, was a major factor in his choice to come to Gainesville. He looks back on it now as a great decision that would impact the rest of his life.
Owens’ playing career at UF coincided
with what was a golden era for college bas-
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Brenda Owens-Philhower with her
daughters Dominique Owens (17),
left, Elnora Evans (14), and husband
Donald Philhower. Philhower-Owens
is clean now and has opened her own
addiction recovery program, Recovery
Road Inc., in Ocala, Fla.
Owens, who initially split his time between
Sarasota and Bradenton doing civil and divorce cases. “It’s still nerve-wracking. I still
get nervous when I go into court. And this is
true about every judge — you always want to
make the right decision. And I’m not going to
tell you that the right decision always makes
you feel good, because the law is not always
fair for every person in every instance. But
you want to make the right decision. And if
you can help someone you like it.”
In a quarter century as a judge, Owens has presided over some high profile
cases, including death penalty cases,
which he calls “such a horrible tragedy
for everyone involved that you will never
forget them.”
Today, Owens feels the greatest satisfaction in helping others achieve victories
in their lives. Though he has no children
of his own, Owens recounts their stories
like a proud father.
Owens beams when he talks of the more
than “20 clean babies that have been born in”
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the Court Intervention Program. He tells of
the young man dressed in a suit and tie who
recently visited his office and was such a far
cry from the “horrible heroin addict” he’d
seen years earlier that Owens didn’t even
recognize him. The man had since graduated from college and now had a successful
career with a wife and children. At the program’s recent graduation, Owens marveled
at the progress made by another man who
had been estranged from his family.
“He struggled, and we had a hard time.
It took him close to two years to get out of
this year-long program, but he never quit,”
Owens said. “And there he is with his kids
and his wife. So it’s very, very rewarding.
I basically live for that.”
Owens tells participants in the program
that everybody’s life is a series of problems, and encourages them to work with
counselors to find the self-discipline they
need to make good decisions. The problem
many have is replicating the structure they
have in the program once they leave it.
Remarried several years ago, Owens
credits the support of his wife, Melissa,
a third-grade teacher at Bay Haven Elementary School, along with a very strong
faith with helping him get through the
emotional ups and downs that can come
with his job.
“I’m not going to tell you that every
night I can close the door and go home
and shut it out because a lot of times
there are a lot of cases that you’re sitting
up late at night not only doing legal research but just wondering ‘did you make
the right decision, what is the right decision,’ ” Owens said. “But in general by
applying those principles you’re able to
close the door and realize that if you’re
going to be successful in the courtroom
you have to also be successful outside
the courtroom. And you can only be
successful outside the courtroom if you
can leave the courtroom in the courtroom. So as best you can you have to be
able to do that.” ■
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Weathering the
Storm
BY SCOTT EMERSON
F
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ollow your feet on any sidewalk in any great American city
and you will eventually stumble into urban decay — blighted
cityscapes of littered streets lined with neglected and boardedup homes in neighborhoods surrounded by closed businesses.
Many of these neighborhoods once were respectable, even
grand. Now, they are relegated to the poor and disenfranchised
— dark streets most of us try to avoid.
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DAVID GRUNFELD/THE TIMES-PICAYUNE
Perhaps no city stands out more vividly
as an example of this than New Orleans. For
centuries considered the South’s most elegant
and prosperous city, New Orleans had fallen
on hard times by the time Hurricane Katrina
plowed through in 2005. Already adrift in
urban blight before the storm, New Orleans
found herself choking on it afterwards.
“Before joining NORA, ‘blight’ was
merely a legal concept to me — something
that I recalled talking about in Professor
Hunt’s preservation law seminar, Professor
Perea’s constitutional law class or professors
Nicholas or Juergensmeyer’s land use class
while studying eminent domain cases,” said
John T. Marshall (JD 97), a project manager
for the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority (NORA). “That perception changed
when I joined NORA. New Orleans is a city
of almost incomparable historic beauty and
charm, but it has suffered from nearly a halfcentury of population loss — and, as families have moved away or people have passed
away, increasing numbers of homes have become forgotten.”
NORA, formerly called the Community
Improvement Agency, was created by state
law in 1968 to “eliminate and prevent the
spread of slums and blight.” Its principal
legal tool to accomplish this is acquisition
of abandoned and blighted properties using
eminent domain — a process called expropriation.
Historically under-funded and politically
troubled, NORA played only a minor role in
New Orleans’ early redevelopment plans, but
in response to the vast devastation wrought
by hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005, the
city government breathed new life into the
tiny agency in early 2007. Money was infused into the organization, its governing
board was expanded and the state legislature
was pressed by the city to pass laws increasing the agency’s ability to assemble land.
For Marshall, NORA’s expansion would
create an opportunity to use his education
and legal skills to help the city in its redevelopment efforts, but his career path to NORA
isn’t one he anticipated. After graduating
from the Levin College of Law with honors in 1997, he clerked with U.S. Magistrate
Judge Elizabeth A. Jenkins (JD 76) of the
U.S. District Court for the Middle District
of Florida in Tampa, Fla. In 1999, Marshall
joined the Holland & Knight firm as an associate in its Tampa office, where he gained
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agement issues. He was promoted to partner in 2006.
In September of 2007, Marshall was one
of 25 mid-career professionals awarded a
Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in conjunction with the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Urban Redevelopment Excellence (CUREx). As part of his fellowship,
Marshall, along with two other fellows, was
selected to work for NORA, an agency the
foundation had identified as a Gulf Coast entity whose work it wished to support. Marshall’s fellowship is funded through March
of 2010.
“Urban redevelopment work is fascinating because it draws on so many different
disciplines, like tax law, property law, constitutional law, land use and zoning law,” Marshall said. “There’s no question in my mind
that I would not have received the Rockefeller Foundation fellowship and this opportunity to serve in New Orleans were it not for
my professors at UF Law and my mentors at
Holland & Knight, because they taught me
that revitalizing cities presents many hidden
challenges and obstacles beyond designing a
more attractive streetscape.”
AFTER THE STORM
In 2000, the U.S. Census reported 27,000
abandoned properties in New Orleans. In the
aftermath of Katrina that number ballooned
to nearly 72,000 according to Greater New
Orleans Community Data Center estimates.
Reasons vary for why properties in the
city were abandoned. For many, back taxes
owed on the property amounted to more than
its market value. Others were abandoned after hurricane storm damage. Still other properties, passed down through the generations
without the benefit of formal deed transfers,
are mired in convoluted questions of inheritance where many heirs — often the grandchildren or great-grandchildren of a deceased
owner of record — may have a claim but none
have maintained the property taxes. These
abandoned properties pose serious health and
safety threats to New Orleans’ residents and
cause property values to sink.
Desperate to save itself from drowning
in debt and squalor, the City of New Orleans
expanded use of eminent domain to seize and
rehabilitate abandoned and blighted properties. The city’s goal was to wield its eminent
domain powers through NORA to clean up
the city, build new homes for its returning
Diaspora and jump-start the city’s economic
redevelopment by returning real estate to
commerce. Marshall joined NORA just as the
agency ramped up its expropriation efforts.
“The city saw that NORA would have
to play an important role in addressing the
city’s blight problem,” said Marshall. “The
consensus among policymakers and local
elected officials was that NORA’s expropriation powers could serve as a critical tool to
combat urban blight and could dramatically
increase the number of public health and
safety expropriations.”
Marshall added that before NORA expropriates a property, the agency first offers
to purchase the property from the owner of
record for its appraised value. This involves
providing the last known owner, or the owner’s heirs, with notice of NORA’s intent to
take the property.
“The process also includes filing a civil
action in the state’s trial courts and, ultimately, trying the case before the court,” Marshall
said. “The interests of the owners and potential heirs are represented at trial by a courtappointed attorney or ‘curator.’ ”
John T. Marshall
(right) speaks with
Gentilly-Pontchartrain
Neighborhood Association
members Emanuel
Esteves Jr. (center) and
Victor Gordon (left) in
front of the Gentilly
Woods Shopping Center
in March, 2008.
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If an agreement with the owner or heirs
is not reached, expropriated properties navigate the legal channels and enter NORA’s
property pipeline for redevelopment or rehabilitation. Once title is obtained, the property
is then offered for sale to adjacent property
owners in accordance to the Lot Next Door
Ordinance. Passed in 2007, this ordinance
aims to stabilize and improve neighborhoods
comprised of blighted lots and structures. If
a neighbor does not purchase the property,
NORA works with the community to craft
redevelopment proposals.
“Based on ongoing meetings with neighborhood leadership, NORA works with the
community to craft a request for proposals
(RFPs) for rehabilitation and redevelopment
for neighborhood properties,” Marshall said.
“This RFP is published in the Times-Picayune and transmitted to a database of neighborhood leaders, interested individuals, and
non-profit and for-profit developers.”
In February 2008, Marshall helped recruit
a team of 12 outside lawyers he now manages. These attorneys are pursuing expropriation of more than 850 blighted or abandoned
properties in the city, and each case will take
roughly six to eight months to proceed to
trial from the time of filing. Using eminent
domain, NORA has or will soon obtain titles
to more than 250 blighted properties. These
properties have recently been packaged into
seven different neighborhood RFPs and put
out for bid by small entrepreneurs, for-profit
developers, and non-profit developers. Once
the new owners take title, they have nine
months to eliminate health and safety code
violations and begin redevelopment or rehabilitation.
As part of the overall recovery scheme,
NORA and the city developed recovery target zones — areas where the city would focus
use of federal disaster funds. With one of the
highest percentages of abandoned properties
in New Orleans, Pontchartrain Park, featuring one of the city’s most distinctive parks
and a loyal group of longtime residents, became a strategic area of focus for NORA’s
redevelopment efforts.
Developed in 1954, Pontchartrain Park
was one of the first areas in New Orleans designed to provide homeownership to middleand upper-income African-Americans. This
model community near the shores of Lake
Pontchartrain was built around a city-owned
park and golf-course designed by Joseph
M. Bartholomew Sr., a nationally-known
African-American golf course designer. As
families began to move into the community,
churches, businesses and schools thrived,
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including Mary Dora Coghill Elementary
School, Southern University and Dillard University. In the 1970s, like many U.S. neighborhoods, the community saw significant
residential turnover. Now, after catastrophic
damage caused by Katrina and its flood waters, the community is largely abandoned.
“Before Hurricane Katrina, Pontchartrain Park was a very nice neighborhood
where kids could safely play in its huge
park,” said Laurie Watt, president of Gentilly
Civic Improvement Association, a coalition
of 19 neighborhood groups that advocates
for rehabilitation and redevelopment of their
storm-ravaged neighborhoods. “There was a
golf course and a recently opened senior center. It was family-oriented with a lot of older
folks who were the original homeowners.
But today, the community suffers from the
‘jack-o-lantern effect.’ ”
“Louisiana voters
jumped on the anti-Kelo
bandwagon by passing
two ballot initiatives that...
placed restrictions on the
resale of property...”
“This is where a nice rebuilt home is next
door to a lot with 8-foot weeds growing next
to a dilapidated house, next to another lot of
weeds. It’s just like teeth carved in a jack-olantern, except this goes on for blocks,” Watt
explained.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau,
the population of Orleans Parrish in 2005
was 453,726. In 2007, the population had
plummeted to 239,124. Using postal records
to measure recovery, the Greater New Orleans Community Data Center determined
the number of households in Pontchartrain
Park dropped from 1,025 in 2005 to 389 in
2008.
As NORA’s community liaison, Marshall
consults regularly with community leaders
like Watt to learn the community’s wishes in
regard to redevelopment.
“John Marshall has been the voice of
NORA,” Watt said. “He has fielded thousands
of questions during community meetings and
provided information resources for countless
action committees. He and his organization
have done a great job in our community.”
Watt added that while there are other
agencies and ongoing efforts addressing abandoned property, NORA has consistently been
there to provide information to action groups
about current programs and how they work.
TROUBLED WATERS
Despite NORA’s success rehabilitating abandoned properties in New Orleans using the
strategy of expropriation, eminent domain in
the State of Louisiana has caused a political
part-in-the-water.
At the center of this legal storm was the
2005 U. S. Supreme Court ruling in Kelo v.
City of New London, in which the court decided local government could use eminent
domain to take private property for the sole
purpose of economic development.
“The decision created a sort of ‘storm
surge’ of public backlash,” said Marshall.
“Immediately, people became frightened that
the court’s decision would mean that their
local government could take their well-kept
home if the government articulated an economic development purpose for the expropriation or taking of property.”
In the wake of nationwide outrage following the Kelo decision, lawmakers rushed
to draft amendments restricting the use of
eminent domain. According to the National
Conference of State Legislatures, 39 states
successfully passed measures restricting
government’s ability to seize private land
following the Kelo decision.
Swept up in this tide of public disapproval
of the Kelo court’s holding, Louisiana voters
enacted two constitutional amendments that
eliminated the possibility that a local government could use eminent domain to achieve
economic development. The amendments
also had the potential to be interpreted as
circumscribing government’s use of eminent
domain to eliminate threats to public health
and safety — a basic governmental power
long accepted.
“Louisiana voters jumped on the antiKelo bandwagon by passing two ballot initiatives that provided a detailed definition
of ‘public purpose’ and placed restrictions
on the resale of property that the state had
previously expropriated,” said Michael Allan Wolf, a UF professor of law and chapter
author of “Hysteria versus History: Public
Use in the Public Eye,” in a book entitled,
Private Property, Community Development,
and Eminent Domain.
“It seemed as if politicians and activists throughout the nation felt the need to
respond to the anti-Kelo sentiment, to take
advantage of that sentiment to achieve
their preexisting goal of placing restraints
on government acquisition and regulation
for real property, or both,” said Wolf who
holds the UF Levin College of Law Richard E. Nelson Chair in Local Government.
The first measure passed by Louisiana voters
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KATHY ANDERSON/THE TIMES-PICAYUNE
Homes in the Pontchartrain Park
neighborhood were flooded to their
eaves following Katrina when the
levies of bordering canals were
breached. Now about two-thirds of
the homes are unoccupied.
was Amendment 5. It provided that an acceptable “public purpose” for expropriation
is the “removal of a threat to public health or
safety caused by the existing use or disuse of
the property.” However, the amendment also
states “property shall not be taken or damaged by the state or its political subdivisions
for the predominate use by any private person or entity or for the transfer of ownership
to any private person or entity.”
This provision seemed to challenge
NORA’s strategy of taking blighted private
property and transferring it to another private
entity, such as Habitat for Humanity, and
was in stark contrast to the verdict handed
down in Kelo v. City of New London. In the
Kelo decision, Associate Justice John Paul
Stevens, writing for the majority, said New
London could pursue private development
under the Fifth Amendment, which allows
governments to take private property if the
land is for public use.
“Promoting economic development is a
traditional and long accepted governmental
function, and there is no principled way of
distinguishing it from the other public purposes the Court has recognized,” Stevens
wrote, adding that local officials are better positioned than federal judges to decide what’s
best for the community. Moreover, both the
majority opinion and the dissent in Kelo fully
embraced the use of eminent domain — and
the transfer of expropriated property to third
parties — when the taking eliminates some
“harmful property use.”
Amendment 6 arguably undermines the
ability of governments to transfer expropriated property to a third party. The combined
force of the two amendments seems to be a
mandate that seized property must be held
for 30 years by the seizing authority before
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it can be transferred to a third party, and that
seized property must be first offered for sale
at fair market value to the owner, or the owner’s heirs, from which it was seized. These
could negate the city’s incentive to expropriate blighted properties and seem to gut its
strategy of using expropriation to eliminate
threats to public health and safety.
However, Marshall said NORA doesn’t
believe the 2006 constitutional amendments
prevent it from using its statutory power to
expropriate properties as a means to eliminate threats to “public health and safety.”
“The primary purpose of NORA’s expropriation of blighted property is not to transfer
the property to a third-party,” said Marshal.
“It is to accomplish removal of a proven
threat to public health or safety.”
To force examination of the constitutionality of the amendments, NORA quietly
sought an appropriate suit to make its case.
The suit found the agency first.
BURGESS V. NORA
In 1997, the City of New Orleans demolished
an abandoned building on two lots owned by
Joseph Burgess. At the time of demolition,
Burgess owed years of back taxes and fines
for health and code violations. Burgess —
believed to be deceased — is survived by
heirs who could inherit any profits from the
sale of the lots.
In 2007, Burgess, represented by a courtappointed curator, sued NORA on the grounds
that Amendment 6 prevents the agency from
transferring the property to Habitat for Humanity and makes it mandatory for NORA to
offer to sell the property back to Burgess.
“Since 1994, NORA has expropriated
thousands of blighted properties and has
never been accused of abusing its statu-
tory expropriation authority,” Marshall said.
“This lawsuit represented a direct challenge
to NORA’s critical power to return thousands
of dilapidated and blighted properties to
commerce by taking property and conveying
the land to private persons and entities who
agree to remediate the properties’ blighted
conditions.”
In May 2008, the case went before Judge
Madeline Landrieu in civil district court. In
her decision she wrote it would be “nonsensical” to offer expropriated property back to
the person responsible for the blight.
“The court finds that the amendments
passed in 2006 do not preclude the city from
expropriating properties that are blighted in
the context in which the city has historically
acted, so the exception to the constitutionality is overruled,” concluded Judge Landrieu.
Marshall joined a team of legal experts representing NORA in this landmark case that
included Chris Gobert, one of Louisiana’s
top expropriation attorneys, Frank Alexander, former dean and professor at Emory
University School of Law and John Costonis, professor and former chancellor of Louisiana State University. The Burgess case is
now on appeal to Louisiana’s intermediate
appellate court. A brief on behalf of Burgess
was filed in October, and NORA filed a response soon after.
ROUGH WATERS AHEAD?
Today, NORA’s quest to turn the tide on
urban decay continues despite voter rejection of an amendment on the Nov. 4 ballot
that would have clarified the meaning of the
troublesome Amendment 6. The law remains
that expropriated properties must be held for
30 years before being sold to a third party.
Now, all eyes are fixed on the appellate
court. If the Burgess family prevails in the
appellate and Louisiana Supreme courts,
the result will be a significant setback for
New Orleans’ efforts to use eminent domain to resuscitate dozens of neighborhoods
crippled by neglected and abandoned properties. But, the determination of the people
of New Orleans to rebuild despite these political woes is a testament to their resolve.
“Spending evenings and weekend days with
the residents in their homes, church halls,
schools and community centers has been
transformative for me,” Marshall said. “The
people who have returned to New Orleans
following the storm are the most informed
and resilient citizens I’ve ever encountered.”
Marshall is certain they will find a way
to weather the storm. ■
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Legal Technology
101
Electronic Practice Management and E-Discovery
Revolutionize the Modern Practice of Law.
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UF LAW
PART I:
Making the case for
electronic practice
management
BY ADRIANNA C. RODRIGUEZ
F
or those attorneys who
have trouble programming their VCRs — and
you know who you are
— mastering technology
to install case and practice
management systems in
their law practices might seem like the impossible dream. The good news is that case
and practice management systems result in
more efficient use of attorney and staff time
and a boost in productivity, resulting in significant savings to the firm that is a dream
come true.
The right case and practice management systems can help a firm’s attorneys
and staff streamline both administrative, or
“back office,” and professional, or “front
office” operations, such as case management, software for substantive areas of law,
docketing and calendaring, document assembly, litigation support and research.
“With a case management system, this
is really putting technology in the hands of
the lawyers,” said Andrew Z. Adkins III,
director of the Legal Technology Institute.
Adkins has been working with case and
practice management systems for more
than 20 years.
Practice management combines case
management and other front office tasks,
and back office tasks into one system.
Firms conduct back office and front office tasks every day, but there is usually an
overlap in record keeping which results in
duplication of effort. Practice management
systems allow for all those individual tasks
to be stored in a central database, resulting
in one-time data entry.
Once data is entered, the central database allows for increased efficiency, productivity and effectiveness within a firm’s
staff and attorneys, in part because multiple users can access the data simultaneously to quickly find information through
search functions.
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One of the challenges for firms establishing case and practice management systems is in identifying which of the multiple
practice management systems will work for
the entire firm and its individual attorneys.
“The ways in which lawyers practice
law are different. Even lawyers who practice the same type of law, or lawyers in the
same firm, don’t do it the same way,” Adkins said. “Technology tends to standardize
the way we do things; for instance time and
billing is cut and dry, but you can’t really
standardize the way that you practice law
and I think that’s one of the things holding
people back.”
Through the Legal Technology Institute,
Adkins travels to firms around the country
as a consultant. To date, the institute has
worked with more than 300 law firms, law
departments, courts and law schools.
As a consultant, Adkins recommends
firms implement case and practice management systems in three phases. First, the
interview phase where the firm’s needs are
identified and compiled into a report. This
is followed by the implementation phase
where the software and hardware necessary
to establish the systems are put in place.
Finally, the follow-up phase consisting of
training and testing is completed.
“Part of my job as a consultant is to
educate them as to what’s available,” Adkins said. “[The practice management systems] all basically do the same thing… .
It’s the really nitpicky stuff that has to be
discussed.”
While the set-up and implementation
might be time consuming, the benefits of
installing a system that addresses the specific needs of the firm, its attorneys and
support staff pays off in the form of “operating efficiency,” increased efficiency and
productivity.
In a presentation, “Turning CHAOS
into Cases,” Adkins estimated that implementing practice management systems
could save each attorney in a firm 15 minutes per day. At $300 per hour, an additional 15 minutes per day could translate into
$375 per week, or $1,500 per month for a
total of $18,000 per year in increased billable time.
While case and practice management
systems have come a long way, they still
have a ways to go, according to Adkins.
He estimates between 35 to 40 percent
of law firms around the country use a case
or practice management system. He expects
adoption of case and practice management
systems to peak at about 60 percent within
the next five to seven years.
Adkins has dubbed the latest in case and
practice management systems as the “fourth
generation.” This newest technology has the
added capability of managing workflow by
creating a sort of checklist that automatically routes items, tasks, documents, events
and alerts to people based on their role in
Andy Adkins (left) and Larry
Marraffino co-teach Law
Practice Management. The
class is designed to teach
upper-level law students the
ins and outs of practicing
law, from time and billing
to case and practice
management systems.
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case or matter. This is especially helpful
in streamlining operations such as opening
new matters and conflict checking.
“If you think of this process as a lot of
paper, that’s a lot of time in trying to track
that information,” Adkins said. “If you can
do everything on a computer, then you get
rid of the paper, and the
workflow system creates a checklist for the
software to automatically route necessary information to the appropriate departments.”
Another challenge in
the adoption of case and
practice management technology is lack of
experience with the software. The key, Adkins said, is to reach law students early.
To this end, the University of Florida
is one of fewer than a dozen law schools
around the country that teaches a class
on law practice management, which includes lessons on case and practice management systems.
The class focuses on teaching students
both the technological and logistical aspects of practice management. It has been
co-taught by Adkins and Gainesville-area
attorney Lawrence J. Marraffino (JD 84)
since the early 2000s.
“It gets the students ready for the real
practice of law coming out of school,” said
Marraffino, who volunteers his time to teach
the class. “I do it because I think it’s important for the students.”
The class doesn’t teach students how
to litigate, but rather prepares them for the
transition from the academic to the professional world. It blends practice management, the daily ins and outs of billing and
case management, as well as record keeping, time management and marketing.
Adkins teaches the technological side of
practice and case management while Marraffino instructs students on handling different types of clients and litigation, as well
as accessing resources, joining professional
organizations and getting a practice started.
By the end, students develop a practice management business plan as well as
the first part of filings in a practical problem in areas anywhere from estates and
trust to bankruptcy.
“This is one of the joys of teaching this
class,” Adkins said. “It’s just so cool.”
Most importantly, the students present
Adkins and Marraffino with an invoice
at the end of the semester. The invoice
must be formatted to include date, client
matter, description, and bills the professors for the amount of time spent in class,
sending e-mails, attending meetings,
working on the project and studying.
While the students set their own rates,
the mock bills remain
outstanding.
“It’s really an eye
opener for them,”
said Adkins of the
students who have
never billed attorney
fees before. “Most
of these kids have
worked for $10 an hour and here they are
charging $200, $300, $400 an hour.”
Marraffino is no stranger to technology. The solo practitioner has built his
Gainesville personal injury and civil litigation practice around technology.
“The whole reason I started my own
practice was an excuse to buy a computer,” said Marraffino jokingly remembering the monochromatic monitor and
daisywheel printer he purchased when
opening his first practice over 22 years
ago. “I love technology.”
The computer and printer was his
largest start-up investment, he said.
In his practice, Marraffino uses AbacusLaw for practice management and
Best Case bankruptcy software. Among
the advantages of the software, Marraffino cites its ability to automate his
research and filings.
In addition, Marraffino has installed
remote log-on technology so he can access his office computer and network
from anywhere. Such technology even
allowed him to complete an emergency
filing for a bankruptcy case from an Italian Internet café while on vacation.
He has also automated his messaging service and Dictaphone and is also
looking into adding Voice Over Internet
Protocol.
Marraffino’s goal is to have a near-paperless office within the next year. Among
the advantages of a paperless office, he
cites ease of document management and
access. Marraffino’s personal injury practice produces volumes of paper records,
such as medical records, which he currently has to haul to the court for trial.
“If I were paperless all I’d have to do
is bring my PC to court,” he said.
“A small firm has
got to find a way
to do more with
less and be more
productive and
efficient.”
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Florida-based company InTouch
Legal specializes in legal office technology. When identifying the needs of
her clients, InTouch Legal President
Debbie Foster said she often encounters
lawyers with the misconception that the
management system is only for the use
of their assistants.
She makes it clear that for management software to be effective, all members of a firm must be committed to dedicating the time and resources to making it work for their firm, Foster said. In
addition, because of the time investment
required up front to learn the new system, many don’t take full advantage of
systems they have implemented.
“We are just all busy and the thought
of putting the brakes on to think about
change and implementing new software is just not an easy place to get to,”
Foster said.
Foster has seen an increase in small
and mid-sized firms implementing case
and practice management systems and
thinks it will continue. She estimated
the cost for a firm of implementing management software ranges between $800
and $1,500 per person.
For small and mid-sized firms, Foster said the leading practice management software her company installed
was Amicus Attorney and Time Matters
by LexisNexis.
“A small firm has got to find a way
to do more with less and be more productive and efficient and there is no
other single investment that they can
make that will help them achieve that,”
Foster said. “It’s the most bang for your
buck when you’re looking for a way
to streamline.”
Both Foster and Adkins agree it’s the
new generation of lawyers just coming
out of school, those who have lived life
in Outlook, that will make the biggest
push towards adopting practice management systems.
“Technology is always changing and
the new generations of lawyers that are
coming who grew up with technology
are starting to demand the use of technology,” Adkins said. “They are the ones
that are pushing buttons in law firms
today. The newer crop coming in who
grew up with multitasking, cell phone
and laptops. They are not the traditional
lawyers.” ■
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PART II:
Discovering
e-discovery
Ralph Losey (right),
e-discovery author, joined
Professor Bill Hamilton
(left) in his e-discovery
class Oct. 28.
BY IAN FISHER
I
f Abraham Lincoln were to step
into the offices of a modern law
firm, chances are good he’d encounter a familiar sight — young
associates poring over reams of
legal papers.
“We’ve been graduating people out of law school who are prepared to
practice law in the 19th century,” said noted
e-discovery writer Ralph Losey, a shareholder at Akerman Senterfitt. “They’re prepared to work with Abe Lincoln, who had a
partner and an associate. They went through
papers, and they went to a trial courtroom.”
Losey said technology is driving electronic discovery into the most rapidlyevolving field in the legal profession, but
law schools and lawyers are behind the
curve in adapting. In general, law students
are still trained to review a limited number
of documents and build a case around what
is given to them. That doesn’t bode well
for efficient management of today’s cases,
which can have millions of electronic documents in a variety of formats that must be
reviewed, Losey said.
“You’re not trained to deal with 5 million documents. Cases now — with just 10
witnesses in a corporation — they’re going
to have millions of documents,” Losey said.
“You cannot look at each document. That’s
the real world; it’s not the Abe Lincoln world
of just having a few paper documents.”
Losey was one of a distinguished panel
of experts who addressed the emerging importance of electronic discovery during an
“E-Discovery Evening” held Oct. 28 at UF
which was co-sponsored by The Sedona
Conference® and the Levin College of Law.
“The Levin College of Law is one of
the first law schools in the nation to offer a
course in what is being called ‘e-discovery,’ ”
said Robert Jerry, dean and Levin Mabie and
Levin professor of law. “We’re very pleased
that, thanks to Adjunct Professor Bill Hamilton, we are also now the first to co-sponsor
a conference on the topic with the very wellrespected Sedona Conference.”
Hamilton, a Holland & Knight e-discovery expert who organized the event, teaches
an e-discovery class — one of the first in the
country — at the Levin College of Law.
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“The University of Florida should be
very excited about its leadership in this
area,” said Hamilton, who serves as cochair of Holland & Knight’s e-discovery
team. “Other law schools have got to step
up to the plate and teach electronic discovery because it’s a critical skill out there that
judges are looking for. It’s almost a survival
skill at this point. That’s why The Sedona
Conference® has come here in recognition
of Florida’s leadership in the e-discovery
education world for students.”
E-Discovery Evening panelist Patrick
Oot, Verizon’s director of electronic discovery and senior counsel, gave the example of
Verizon buying out MCI
to illustrate how complicated and expensive e-discovery issues can be. During the legal preparation
for the buy-out, more than
2.4 million documents — 1.3 terabytes
of data — were reviewed. This required
115 attorneys at one firm doing privilege
review and 110 attorneys at another firm
doing timeline review. It took four months
with attorneys working every day for 16
hours a day to finish the review, Oot said,
resulting in legal billings of $13.5 million
for outside counsel alone.
Oot recently read an article indicating
only about 200 lawyers nationwide handle e-discovery issues well. Oot said that
number needs to grow quickly and that
advances in technology will streamline
electronic discovery in the future.
“As our general counsel put it when
we first started this [e-discovery] group,
he said, ‘This is the only practice within
the company that I actually see growing,’
” Oot said. “Federal regulatory, litigation,
antitrust, intellectual property — he sees
those groups shrinking where we’re hiring people all the time.”
With the e-discovery field growing so
rapidly, The Sedona Conference® has been
at the forefront of establishing best prac-
tices in the field. One aspect of e-discovery The Sedona Conference® emphasizes
is cooperation with opposing counsel on
discovery issues.
“You want to be adversarial, obviously, but at the same time, I don’t think
you want to be adversarial on the issues
pertaining to what information is available,” said Joseph P. Guglielmo, a plaintiff e-discovery expert for Whaley, Drake
& Kallas.
Ken Withers, a distinguished e-discovery writer with The Sedona Conference®,
moderated the event. Withers said two
events have heightened
the importance of e-discovery. The first of these
were the amendments
in 1983 and 1993 to the
Federal Rules of Civil
Procedure to facilitate
greater discovery. The
other driving factor in growing influence
of e-discovery is the desktop PC and the
exponential increase and ease in accessing information the PC makes possible.
“Discovery went from being a means
to an end — getting to trial — to being the
end in and of itself,” he said. “The number
of cases that actually go to trial decreased,
and it’s now less than 3 percent of all cases filed… . The stakes of discovery were
thereby raised.”
All E-Discovery Evening speakers
agreed that this is the future of discovery
and students should try to learn about it.
“Be smart, look at where the future
is, look at the trend,” Losey said. “This
is where the opportunity lies. Take these
courses on e-discovery; learn about it. Nobody else in the firms you go to is going to
know anything about it, trust me… There
are a few firms, but there are very few, so
this is a time of opportunity. You’ve got to
study this stuff.”
For more information about e-discovery and The Sedona Conference®, visit www.
law.ufl.edu/news/events/ediscovery/. ■
E-Discovery=
$13.5 million
in billings for
outside counsel
in one case alone.
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Raising
the Bar
Jay White represents the state’s legal
profession as president of The Florida Bar.
BY ADRIANNA C. RODRIGUEZ
V
irtually
overnight,
John “Jay” G. White
III’s (JD 83) client
base swelled into
the thousands. When
White took office as
th
the 60 president of The Florida Bar, he
took on representation for the estimated
85,000 members of The Florida Bar.
And, as White points out, that number
grows with every bar examination
administered.
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“Jay is truly a lawyer’s lawyer, having
represented many lawyers and firms
in his outstanding career,” said Gerald
F. Richman, president of the Richman
Greer, P.A., firm. “It is very fitting that
his ‘clients’ will now include the 85,000
members of The Florida Bar.”
White, a shareholder, director and
partner at Richman Greer, is the fifth attorney from the firm to serve as president of The Florida Bar in nearly half a
century. He has been with the firm for
seven years practicing commercial and
complex business litigation, personal injury, wrongful death, professional malpractice litigation, class actions and officer and director representation.
“As a double Gator (BS 62, JD 64), I
am very proud of Jay White,” Richman
said.
White takes office as statewide budget
cuts put a crunch on the judiciary. He
is especially concerned about the more
than 10 percent budget cuts to the courts,
UF LAW
PHOTO BY MARK WALLHEISER
which could force delays throughout the
judicial system.
As president, White has begun
looking into alternative solutions. He
hopes to resolve the problem before
leaving office.
“We need to find an adequate,
permanent funding source for the
judiciary,” he said.
In addition to addressing the budget
cuts, during his tenure, White will also
focus on improving diversity in the legal
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profession and increasing mentorship
opportunities for young attorneys.
He stressed the importance of The
Florida Bar and all of its committees, as
well as all those committees not under
The Florida Bar, reflecting the makeup of
the bar’s population and providing broad
representation for all its members.
Among the first steps towards the
diversity goal is ensuring all members of
the bar are aware when openings occur in
the judicial system and apply for them.
This includes alerting members of the
more than 150 voluntary specialty bars
and local bars across the state, such as
bar associations for women and minority
attorneys, by e-mail when positions
become available.
Another important step is having
senior members of the bar call and
encourage younger members and
minority members of the bar to get
involved and to apply for openings.
Improving diversity requires young
attorneys get involved with The Florida
Bar and voluntary specialty bars early
on in their careers.
“The earlier you get involved the
earlier you can build your reputation,”
White said.
One way White has identified to help
get young lawyers involved in the bar
from the beginning of their careers is
through mentorship programs.
A committee is in the process of
looking into structuring a mentorship
program for students and first- and
second-year attorneys, White said.
Some law schools are also participating in the process of developing mentorship programs. For White, the earlier
students and young attorneys become
involved in mentorship and attorney
groups the better.
“It is important we teach young
attorneys that if you are professional,
civil, honest and have a good moral
compass, those things are far more
important that winning cases,” White
said. “Don’t get me wrong, winning
cases is important, but not at the extent
of being unprofessional.”
White’s commitment to mentorship
stems from dedicated mentors he had
“It is important
we teach young
attorneys that if you
are professional, civil,
honest and have a
good moral compass,
those things are far
more important than
winning cases.”
as a young professional. Among them,
he mentioned UF graduate Robert V.
Romani (JD 73) and retired attorney Ed
Campbell.
“I had wonderful mentors as a young
lawyer, not only did they teach me the
substance of law, but how we should be
professional and civil in our practice,”
White said.
White began learning those lessons
during his time as a student at the
University of Florida. He graduated in
1980 with an undergraduate degree in
political science.
“I feel like I got a wonderful education
and had a lot of fun doing it,” he said of
his time at UF.
As a law student, White received
the American Jurisprudence Award in
Administrative Law. During his time at
UF, White was a member of Phi Beta
Kappa Honor Society, Phi Kappa Phi
Honor Society, Phi Delta Phi Legal
Society and Sigma Alpha Epsilon
fraternity.
Almost 25 years after finishing
his studies at UF, White takes on the
challenge of leading The Florida Bar.
One of his many priorities during his
tenure, mentorship of young attorneys,
stems from his experiences as a student
and young attorney.
“It is really important that we teach
young lawyers and law students what is
appropriate and what is not appropriate,”
White said. “The most important message
is that you can be professional and
civil and still be a great lawyer and a
great advocate.” ■
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Move over Judge Judy
Judgeis inKaren
The House!
Karen Mills-Francis is the star of a new daytime
courtroom reality show, “Judge Karen.”
BY IAN FISHER
A
fter a chance encounter
in a parking garage in
Miami, Judge Karen
Mills-Francis
(JD
87) had an idea for
her next career step.
Mills-Francis was a county judge
for Miami-Dade County when she ran
into her colleague, Circuit Judge David
Young, in the spring of 2007. Young had
just been hired for his own TV show,
which is now in its second season.
“I saw him in the garage parking lot
and I congratulated him, and I said, ‘I
wonder why nobody has ever contacted
me about a court show,’ ” Mills-Francis
said. “About two weeks later, I got a
call from someone from Sony Pictures
Television asking if I would be willing
to come to New York to audition for a
show. I did, and here I am today.”
After a recommendation to Sony
from Young, Mills-Francis is now TV’s
“Judge Karen,” which began airing on
Sept. 8 in syndication. To differentiate
her program from others in the saturated
court-TV show market, Mill-Francis
made a few innovative additions. For
example, she is the only TV judge who
allows the litigants in her courtroom to
direct and cross examine their witnesses,
which often turns contentious.
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Further, her courtroom has a witness
stand and the witnesses are sequestered
during other testimony. This is more
representative of a real courtroom, while
the other court TV shows often have the
witnesses standing with the litigants
through the whole trial.
“When I agreed to do this show, it
was important to me that it be court and
then entertaining,” Mills-Francis said.
The show also includes an “Ask
Judge Karen” segment at the end of each
episode. Viewers send in videotaped
legal questions, and Mills-Francis
researches their questions and answers
them on-air.
Mills-Francis is satisfied with how the
show has developed, and it is doing well in
the ratings, she said.
“It’s kind of hard to be objective, because it is me on TV,” she said. “Of course
I’m going to say ‘Oh it’s a wonderful show,
because I did a great job.’ But then, others
have to say that, and I guess they have spoken because we have very good ratings.”
According to Sony, the show is one of
the highest rated shows in Miami.
Mills-Francis was born and raised in
Miami, which some might call the TV
judge capitol of the world. Five of the
judges on TV came from Miami, MillsFrancis said.
Before stepping down from the
bench in April to begin working on her
program, Mills-Francis was a county
judge in Miami. She won an election in
2000 against a 24-year incumbent judge.
Campaigning gave her a new sense of
her community, she said.
Mills-Francis handled domestic violence, criminal traffic and general misdemeanor cases as a judge.
Prior to becoming a judge, MillsFrancis served as a traffic magistrate for
two years in Miami. She also worked as
a public defender and as a private defense attorney after law school. While
working as a public defender in the
juvenile division, she began to notice
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some big problems with the juvenile
justice system.
“I was shocked when I went to juvenile court at the number of children who
were sleeping on floors at the juvenile
detention center because they had no
parent that would come and get them,”
Mills-Francis said. “People talk about
the problems and the conditions in adult
prisons, but nobody talks about what
goes on with these juveniles. It’s worse
than adult prisons.”
At one point, Mills-Francis became a
foster parent just so she could take a troubled child home with her. She continues to
be very active in children’s issues, but MillsFrancis knew she wanted to do criminal
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“People talk about
the problems and
the conditions in adult
prisons, but nobody
talks about what
goes on with
these juveniles.”
work after taking a trial advocacy class at
the UF College of Law.
“I took trial advocacy, and in trial advocacy, you have to argue both sides in front
of a jury,” she said. “They give you a mock
case, you try the case as a prosecutor, and
then you turn around and try the case as a
defense attorney. I won on both sides, and
I got such a thrill out of being in trial that I
knew that it was what I needed to do.”
Although TV judges didn’t exist when
Mills-Francis was in law school, she draws
on her real-life courtroom experience to decide cases on her show.
“A friend of mine said to me yesterday that I’m real,” Mills-Francis said.
“R-E-A-L. The person you see on TV
is the same person you’d see when you
walked into a courtroom in Miami. I am
no different from that person. I haven’t
changed anything. My clothes, I wore the
same robe as a judge, the jewelry, the hair,
things I say, my personality — it’s who I
am; I’m not putting on a show.” ■
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PARTNERS
“It is hoped
this lecture
series will
motivate tax
students to
consider tax
policy when
structuring
transactions
Tax policy lecture series established
E
xamining modern tax
policy and how its implementation affects the
economy and people’s lives is
the purpose of the newly endowed Ellen Bellet Gelberg
Tax Policy Lecture Series established at the University of
Florida Levin College of Law.
Gelberg, a 1977 graduate of
the college’s Graduate Tax Program, has pledged $500,000
from the Stein Gelberg Foundation to the college’s LL.M Tax
Programs Endowment Fund.
“Practicing tax attorneys
spend little to no time thinking about the policy behind the
tax code. In fact, most of the
time the tax code dictates how
you structure a transaction,
that is, the tax tail wags the
dog,” said Gelberg, a practicing tax attorney and partner in
the Miami law firm Lamont
Neiman Interian Bellet P.A. “It
is hoped this lecture series will
motivate tax students to consider tax policy as a career option
working to influence and change
tax policy in the public sector
— because the government’s
tax policy affects us all.”
Her desire to give back
to the college led Gelberg
to establish the Ellen Bellet
Gelberg Tax Policy Lecture
Series,
which
will
bring a prestigious lecturer to
the college every year to
speak on tax policy topics
to students and faculty.
Her pledge of $500,000
will become eligible for
50 percent state matching
dollars through the state’s
Major Gifts Trust Fund Program, which would increase the
endowment to $750,000.
“Ellen’s exemplary gift will
benefit our graduate tax students
in perpetuity,” said Dennis A.
Calfee, UF professor of law and
alumni research scholar.
Dean Patrick honored by scholarship
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Assistant Dean Michael Patrick, left, thanks alumnus Frank Goldstein
during the Mike Patrick Scholarship presentation, which took place Oct. 24
following UF’s Homecoming Parade.
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ssistant Dean of Admissions
Michael Patrick was honored
Oct. 24 with a scholarship
endowed in his name. Frank
Goldstein (JD 93) of The Goldstein
Law Group donated $40,000
towards scholarships for UF Levin
College of Law students in Patrick’s
name. The fund will be known as The
Goldstein Law Group Endowment in
Honor of University of Florida College
of Law Dean Michael Patrick.
Goldstein, a double Gator,
practices in South Florida where
he established The Goldstein Law
Group. He focuses on the civil
prosecution of insurance fraud
claims and the defense of insurance
and corporate related matters.
The scholarship recipients will
be chosen by the dean and/or law
school financial aid/scholarship
committee. Third-year law students
in financial need with an LSAT
score of 159 or higher are eligible
to receive the scholarship, and
must submit a 100-word essay.
—Ian Fisher
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Florida Tomorrow
The Campaign for the University of Florida Levin College of Law Update
N
early every aspect of society relies
on the rule of law — and the decisions and counsel of generations of
those who have studied it. The importance
of legal education to the vitality of the rule
of law cannot be overstated. That is why
we are so proud of the generous support
of our alumni and friends that has helped
UF Law pass the halfway point in its
$47-million capital campaign. Your support
through the Florida Tomorrow campaign
not only has an immediate and obvious
effect on your area of choice but also creates ripples of change that will resonate
for many years to come. Florida Tomorrow,
in short, will be when private generosity
translates into the public good, and membership in the Gator Nation and UF Law
is recognized everywhere as being synonymous with excellence.
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$15,080,188
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$946,789
$407,674
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$2,432,999
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Ellen Bellet Gelberg
(LLMT 77) made a
pledge of $500,000
to establish the Ellen
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Policy Lecture Series.
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donor established
an unrestricted
insurance policy
bequest endowment
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20000000
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recent gifts and
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Commitments by Purpose as of Oct. 31, 2008
Gifts &
Pledges
David L. Roth
(JD 68) made a
bequest pledge of
$50,000.
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The Joseph W.
Little Pro Bono
Support Fund was
created by Philip A.
& Phyllis S. DeLaney
through an annual
gift of $5,000 and a
life insurance bequest
of $100,000, which
will permanently
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Alumni
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Maximum professional impact
W. Reece Smith Jr. (JD 49)
BY SPENSER SOLIS
W
Smith
“I was seeking
to enhance
access to the
legal system
for societal
purposes. The
poor and the
disadvantaged
did not have
that access.”
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ith a legal career spanning more than 50 years,
William Reece Smith Jr.
(JD 49) shows few signs of slowing
down.
His impact on the legal profession and society as a whole has
been a lasting one achieved through
serving as president of The Florida
Bar, the American Bar Association
(ABA) and the International Bar
Association (IBA). Smith has also
served as attorney for the City of
Tampa and president of the Greater
Tampa Chamber of Commerce.
“I am very devoted to the law and
to the contributions that it can make
to a civilized society,” Smith said.
Smith, who grew up in Plant
City, Fla., gained an understanding
of the importance of helping others
from a grandmother who was fully
engaged in community affairs.
“She was a very active woman,
interested in literature and higher
learning,” he said. “She was a leader
and I observed her.”
Upon graduating from the University of South Carolina, Smith was
commissioned by the Navy in 1946.
While aboard ship, he read a book by
Howard Fast about the pioneers’ relationship with the American Indian.
“Reading Fast’s book about how
we mistreated the Indians raised my
social consciousness,” he said.
Smith came out of the service
in 1946 still unsure about what to
do with his life. Although he was
trained as an engineer, he decided
against a career in math and sciences.
“My gifts, if any, were in the
humanities, coming from the training that my grandmother had given
me years before,” he said. “I decided
to go to law school and went to the
University of Florida.”
Entering law school in 1946
under the G.I. Bill, Smith didn’t immediately catch on to the lingo of
the legal field.
“When they talked to me about
a legal instrument, I was a bit befuddled,” he said. “An instrument to me,
from my engineering training, was a
screwdriver or something like that.”
At UF Law, Smith served as
president of the Student Bar Association and was selected as a member of
Florida Blue Key.
During his senior year, a professor urged him to apply for a Rhodes
Scholarship.
“I thought it would be wise to
do what my professor suggested,”
he said. “To my surprise, I was selected.”
Before heading to Oxford, Smith
started a law office as a sole practitioner in Plant City with only his law
books and a vacant office. He had
only one client who paid him a fee.
“There was no public defender
in those days and no organized legal
aid, so I defended indigents accused
of crime.”
After studying private international law at Oxford, he was invited
by Dean Henry A. Fenn to teach at
UF Law.
“I taught for over a year and then
I was recruited by the firm that I’m
still with, Carlton Fields,” Smith said.
Smith became curious about the
ABA at the beginning of his career.
“Nobody at Carlton Fields at that
time was a member of the ABA,” he
said. “A lot of lawyers weren’t.”
The ABA has continued to grow
in importance and now plays a powerful role in improving the legal field
as the national voice of the profession, Smith said.
“It certainly has an influence on
lawyer conduct and lawyer training,”
he said.
When he first became involved
with the ABA, Smith joined what
was then known as the Junior Bar
Conference. As a member of the conference, Smith networked with and
befriended other young lawyers from
different parts of the country.
“I sort of worked my way to
the top and became chairman of the
Junior Bar Conference two years
down the road.”
One might say he did the same
in 1980, when Smith served as president of the ABA. As ABA president,
Smith was instrumental in establishing legal aid entities in private bar
settings across the country.
“I was seeking to enhance access
to the legal system for societal purposes,” he said. “The poor and the disadvantaged did not have that access.”
During his term as ABA president,
Smith led a march of bar associations
on Washington, D.C. The bar association members lobbied Congress
to maintain funding of the Legal
Services Corporation (LSC), a congressionally-sponsored, non-profit
corporation that provides legal services to the poor across the country.
“President Reagan didn’t like
the LSC and his attorney general
announced that they were going to
defund the program,” Smith said.
“We called upon our representatives,
senators and congressmen and made
our pitch on behalf of the Legal
Services Corporation.”
Reagan’s measure was ultimately
defeated. To this day, the LSC continues to assist the poor.
By virtue of becoming involved
with the organized bar, Smith has
been able to make contributions to
the legal profession and to the community that he could not have otherwise made, he said.
“I became interested very early
in legal aid and ultimately that became sort of an avocation for me.”
Smith believes that a lawyer
should possess a strong character, a
commitment to society and professional improvement, and a high level
of professional competency.
“Don’t go into law solely to make
money,” he said. “A lawyer must be
willing to make a contribution to the
profession and to society.” ■
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1951
William T. Harrison Jr., shareholder
with Williams Parkers Harrison Dietz &
Getzen, received the Sarasota County
Bar Association’s Distinguished Community Service Award during the
association’s annual installation and
awards dinner Sept. 19. Harrison
was recognized for his dedication to
community service and his life-long
commitment to the legal profession.
1960
The St. Johns County Commission
renamed and dedicated the St. Johns
County Court house the “Richard O.
Watson Judicial Center” in honor
of Senior Circuit Judge Richard O.
Watson.
ment address to Florida International
University’s College of Law on May 18.
1964
Gerald F. Richman has been appointed
by Gov. Charlie Crist to serve as a
member of the Fourth District Court
of Appeals Nominating Commission.
The commission is comprised of nine
members with the role of identifying
and nominating individuals to fill open
judiciary positions in the Fourth District. Richman is president of the law
firm of Richman Greer, P.A.
1967
Benjamin F. Overton received the
Lifetime Achievement Award from the
Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.
1962
1969
Florida State University President
Emeritus Talbot “Sandy” D’Alemberte
has been honored by the International
Academy of Mediators with its Lifetime
Achievement Award for his work in
developing the alternative dispute
resolution movement. D’Alemberte
received the award during a ceremony
in Coral Gables on May 16. In addition,
D’Alemberte delivered the commence-
Litigation attorney Alan G. Greer, a
partner with the law firm of Richman
Greer, P.A. has been named The
Florida Bar Certified Lawyer of the
Year for 2008. Greer was selected for
his exemplary professionalism, excellence, character and commitment to
The Florida Bar’s certification program and to the practice of law. Greer
has also been named president of
Making the list
Florida Trend Magazine
Legal Elite/ Up & Coming
Steven L. Beiley (JD 91)
Jack R. Reiter (JD 94)
Steven J. Solomon (JD 91)
Nicole L. Goetz (JD 77)
T. Robert Bulloch (JD 02)
Reuben A. Doupe (JD 02)
Scott Shuker (JD 93)
Richard M. Benrubi (JD 88)
Elizabeth Green (JD 86)
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the Florida Supreme Court Historical
Society, an organization dedicated to
the preservation of the history of the
Florida Supreme Court and educating
the public on its role in the state’s
government and law enforcement.
A. McArthur Irvin of Atlanta, Ga.
has been elected as a fellow into the
College of Labor and Employment
Lawyers. Being elected as a fellow
is the highest recognition by one’s
colleagues of sustained, outstanding performance in the profession,
exemplifying integrity, dedication and
excellence.
Jacksonville attorney Joseph P. Milton
became the first recipient of the Fran
Peacock Coker Florida Chapter of
American Board of Trial Advocates
Community Service Award for his
outstanding leadership as the ABOTA
Foundation president in 2006 and
2007. Milton also was recently
appointed by Chief Justice Fred Lewis
of the Florida Supreme Court to the
Florida Board of Bar Examiners Testing
Commission, and has been elected as
the second vice president of the Florida
Supreme Court Historical Society.
Watson 60
D’Alemberte 62
Richman 64
Greer 69
1971
Ira H. Leesfield has been named the
next president of The Melvin M. Belli
Society, a charitable organization
comprised of attorneys from around
the world. Leesfield is the founder and
managing partner of the Miami law
firm Leesfield Leighton & Partners.
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Note from the editor: The individuals below self-reported their selections to the following lists.
Florida Super Lawyers
Leslie J. Lott (JD 74)
Michael T. Moore (JD 74)
Steve Walker (JD 74)
Dennis J. Wall (JD 77)
Kimberly Leach Johnson (JD 81)
Brian D. Stokes (JD 84)
Guy Whitesman (LLMT/JD 85)
Tuwana J. McMillan (JD 87)
David K. Friedland (JD 88)
Richard M. Benrubi (JD 88)
Stuart R. Morris (JD 89)
Mark E. Stein (JD 89)
Leesfield 71
Chambers USA 2008
Richard Fildes (JD 77)
Hal Kantor (JD 72)
Nicholas Pope (JD 76)
Terry Young (JD 75)
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Kantor 72
Rosenthal 73
Lott 74
Pole 75
1972
1973
Cesar L. Alvarez was named one of the
top most powerful Hispanics by Poder
Power Issue, and “The 25 Best Latinos
in Business,” Hispanic Magazine’s
Power Issue, both in 2008. Alvarez is
the chief executive officer of the firm
Greenberg Traurig.
Gerald A. Rosenthal has been named
to Best Lawyers in America for the
15th consecutive year.
Hal Kantor will be featured in a new
edition of the book The Rainmaking
Machine, published by Thomson
Reuters. Kantor will be included in the
chapter “Building a Practice Around a
Passion,” written by nationally known
author Phyllis Weiss Haserot. Kantor
recently presented the first annual
Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor &
Reed Law Review Book Award at The
Florida Law Review’s senior banquet.
Jeffery W. Warren was presented
with the Douglas P. McClurg Professionalism Award by The Tampa Bay
Bankruptcy Bar Association for his
outstanding ethical conduct and
professionalism over the course of
his career. Warren was also listed in
the 2008 edition of Super Lawyers
Magazine as being among the top
10 attorneys in Florida. Warren is
president and founding shareholder of
Bush Ross, P.A.
1974
Leslie J. Lott has been appointed to
the Board of Trustees of the Historical Museum of Southern Florida. Lott
also was named as one of Florida’s
Top 50 Female Super Lawyers and
as a top attorney in the intellectual
property category. In addition, Lott
and David K. Friedland (JD 83)
celebrated the 25th anniversary in
September of Lott & Friedland, the
Coral Gables firm Lott founded in
1983.
1975
Susan S. Demers was honored with
the Ralph Richards Award by the
Clearwater Bar Association.
Debra E. Pole, a litigation partner
in Sidley Austin’s Los Angeles office,
was named to the Daily Journal’s
2008 “Top Women Litigators in
California.” Only 75 women were
selected for the honor. Pole is a
seasoned trial attorney with experience in multi-district litigation, class
Wright 75
Goetz 77
Gators in Afghanistan U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander Alex Harper (JD 04)
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Dallas attorney Frances Johnson
Wright recently visited Beverly Hills,
Calif., where she was working on a
movie deal for a Dallas client about
the life of Sammy Davis Jr., based
on the book Yes I Can. During this
visit, she and her daughter, Leila,
dined with Hugh Hefner at his mansion in Los Angeles, Calif.
Terry C. Young was named as a
top attorney in Florida for 2008 by
Florida Super Lawyers magazine,
and as a highly ranked individual
firm lawyer by Chambers, USA, a
London-based worldwide guide to
the legal profession.
1976
Nicholas A. Pope was named by
Florida Super Lawyers magazine as
a top attorney in Florida for 2008,
and as a highly ranked individual
firm lawyer by Chambers, USA, a
London-based worldwide guide to
the legal profession.
1977
Richard J. Fildes was named by
Florida Super Lawyers magazine as
a top attorney in Florida for 2008,
and as a highly ranked individual
firm lawyer by Chambers, USA, a
London-based worldwide guide to
the legal profession.
Nicole L. Goetz, formerly known as
Nicole L. Smith, managing shareholder of the law firm of Asbell,
Ho, Klaus, Goetz & Doupé, has been
named co-chair of the Equitable
Distribution Committee of
the Family Law Section of The
Florida Bar for 2008-2009.
Pope 76
Wall 77
actions, and products liability litigation. She was also named to the list
in 2002, 2003 and 2004.
carries his Gator spirit with him to the Khost Province, Afghanistan, near the Pakistani border,
where he has been serving since February 2008. Harper, pictured wearing the yellow shemaug,
or scarf, is on leave from the Kern County, Calif., District Attorney’s Office where he is a deputy
district attorney. Harper is scheduled to return home in time for Thanksgiving this year.
Dennis J. Wall is the author of
Litigation and Prevention Insurer
Bad Faith, Second Edition, and a
supplement, printed by West Publishing Company. In addition, the
Excess and Surplus Lines Claims
Association has just published “Big
Claim, Low Limits,” an article that
Wall co-authored with ESLCA Past
President Ed McKinnon of California.
Wall is also the co-author of CAT
Claims, Insurance Coverage
for Disasters, to be published by
Thomson West in Summer 2008.
He was appointed subcommittee
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The magic touch
Derek Bruce (JD/MBA 98)
BY DANIELLE D’OYLEY
W
hen someone asks Triple
Gator Derek Bruce (JD/
MBA 98) to describe himself in one word, they hear one answer
— blessed. Thankful for the opportunities he’s been afforded, he now devotes his career to a place that makes
dreams come true for others.
As director of government relations for Walt Disney World, he
describes the position as a role that
works with both internal and external
stakeholders to protect and promote
Walt Disney World through the development of legislation and government
policies and procedures.
Bruce said his current career is
highly rewarding with a great deal of
intangible benefits.
“Sometimes when you work at a
certain place, you can forget about just
how much of an impact the work you
do has on people,” he said. “But here
at Walt Disney World, I’m reminded
on almost a daily basis by interacting
with people that we provide memories
— magical memories — that last for a
lifetime for people and their families.
Just coming to work is remarkable.”
One of his greatest accomplishments as the director of government
relations was a recent project — an
initiative to bring the United States
Bowling Congress’ Open Championship and Women’s Championship
tournaments to Central Florida between 2011 and 2029. On behalf of
Walt Disney World, Bruce worked
with Osceola County government and
the Central Florida Sports Commission to help garner the community
support and financing necessary to
secure these tournaments.
This is expected to bring tens of
thousands of bowlers and spectators
to Orlando, Fla., for 13 tournaments,
each lasting approximately 20 weeks.
A powerful economic impact for Central Florida and the entire state is anticipated — a predicted three-quarters
of a billion dollars.
“My favorite component of the
job is that I get to work on projects
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that will shape policy and have a significant impact on shaping both the
economic and recreational climate for
not just Walt Disney World but for
our Central Florida community and
the state of Florida in a lot of cases,”
Bruce said.
Another large aspect of his work
is collaborating with elected officials
on community-based and charitable
initiatives. For example, in 2007,
Bruce worked tirelessly with community and business leaders who helped
win support from city and county
officials for three Orlando-area projects — a new performing arts center,
a renovated Florida Citrus Bowl and
a new events center that will be home
to the Orlando Magic. These projects
will enhance recreational and entertainment offerings for Central Florida
residents and visitors.
But he hasn’t always worked at
“the happiest place on earth.” In fact,
while at law school, he never imagined
using his law degree for lobbying and
shaping public policy from a business
perspective. An avid Trial Team competitor, one of his most memorable
experiences at UF Law was participating in the Trial Team Final Four competition. It’s no surprise that he spent
his first two years out of law school
focusing on litigation.
He quickly determined that his
skill set was better suited to a different
type of practice — that of government
law. Before finding his niche with
Walt Disney World in 2006, he spent
eight years at GrayHarris in Orlando
(changed to GrayRobinson in 2005)
and was elected shareholder in 2005.
“It was just a slight career path
shift because so much of what I did
was representing private clients in
their dealings with government entities and agencies,” he said, explaining
his move to Walt Disney World. “But
now I do a similar kind of work for
one of the world’s most recognizable
companies.”
Bruce described his UF Law degree as invaluable, highlighting the
Bruce
“A UF Law degree can open doors
in ...areas that a person may not be
thinking of when they’re just making
the decision to go to law school.”
success of fellow UF Law graduates.
In the business world, he has interacted with UF Law alumni in high profile
and important positions, such as chairpersons, CEOs and general counsels
of companies.
“A UF Law degree can open doors
in so many areas that a person may not
be thinking of when they’re just making the decision to go to law school,”
he said. “I’m a good case in point.”
Bruce was also a winner of the
Orlando Business Journal’s 2002 Up &
Comers, which originally published his
self-description as a blessed individual.
He said his good fortune relied in part
on his parents, teachers and professional mentors, emphasizing the strong
support he’s had throughout his life.
“While I like to think I’m a talented professional who works hard
and has a lot of capabilities, when
you step back and reflect on it, you
know that everything you do and
accomplish you’re standing on the
shoulders of people who’ve helped
to make that accomplishment possible,” he said. ■
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chair of the International Association
of Defense Counsel Property Law
Committee and to the I.A.D.C.
Reinsurance, Excess and Surplus
Lines Committee. Wall has been
named by Florida Super Lawyers
magazine as a top attorney in Florida
for 2008. In addition, he is the only
Orlando attorney named among the
20 top Florida attorneys listed in
Insurance Coverage Florida Super
Lawyers 2008.
1978
Frey 82
Gelfand 82
Mandelkern 82
Ellen S. Morris, Esq. has been
named The Florida Bar Elder Law
Section’s “Member of the Year.”
She shared this honorable distinction with Representative Elaine
Schwartz. This award was presented
at the 2008 Annual Elder Law Section Retreat in Clearwater Beach
in July. Morris is a partner of Elder
Law Associates PA. She was named
to Florida Trend magazine’s Florida
Legal Elite in 2007 and has an AV®
Peer Review Rating, the highest
rating afforded an attorney from
Martindale-Hubbell.
1979
David M. Layman was the recipient
of Palm Beach County Legal Aid
Society’s 2008 Pro Bono Award for
Nonprofit Law.
1981
Osborne 82
White 83
Neukamm 84
Kimberly Leach Johnson, a comanaging partner for Quarles and
Brady’s Naples office and Naples
office chair for trusts and estates,
was named a 2008 Florida
Super Lawyer by Law & Politics
Media, Inc.
James L. Leet, a McDonough Holland & Allen PC shareholder, was
elected to the Sacramento Area
Commerce and Trade Organization
(SACTO) Board of Directors. SACTO
is the Sacramento region’s leading
facilitator of economic development,
bringing together the organizations,
information and resources in pursuit
of the jobs, talent and investment
needed to ensure regional prosperity
and global competitiveness.
Nelly N. Khouzam was appointed
by Gov. Charlie Crist to serve on the
Second District Court of Appeal in
Lakeland.
1982
1983
Julia Frey has been appointed to the
Florida Probate Rules Committee for
The Florida Bar with service continuing through 2010. She will attend
the major bar meetings around the
state to serve in this capacity critical
to the administration of justice.
West Palm Beach civil trial attorney
John “Jay” G. White III became The
Florida Bar’s 60th president when
he took the oath of office during the
Bar’s 2008 annual convention in
June.
The Hon. Patti A. Christensen
was elected to her second full
term as the county judge for
St. Johns County, Fla.
Michael J. Gelfand was appointed
by Gov. Charlie Crist to Florida’s
Fifteenth Circuit Judicial Nominating
Commission. Gelfand’s article “The
Plaza East Trilogy: Not a Nursery
Rhyme, But Scary Warfare” was
recently published in 82 Fla. Bar
Journal 4 (April 2008).
Gary M. Kaleita was named by
Florida Super Lawyers magazine as
a top attorney in Florida for 2008.
Paul Mandelkern commented on
a case argued before the Florida
Supreme Court regarding the constitutionality of a special legislative act
in a recent issue of Florida Medical
Business newspaper. The multi-page
article quoted Mandelkern on the act
that gives a for-profit hospital in St.
Lucie County, rather than the medical staff, control over the medical
staff’s bylaws.
Marie Osborne was honored May 30
with the John Balikes Professionalism Award at the Miami Juvenile
Justice Center.
1984
John Neukamm of the Mechanik
Nuccio law firm in Tampa was
recently elected to serve as chairelect of The Florida Bar Real
Property, Probate & Trust Law
Section. As chair-elect, Neukamm
will oversee the section’s 19 general
standing committees and 17 liaisons
with other organizations and will
become chair of the section in July
of 2009.
Brian D. Stokes was elected
managing partner of Unger, Stokes,
Acree, Gilbert, Tressler and Tacktill,
P.L., formerly the Unger Law Group,
of Orlando.
Mitchell E. Widom, a partner
with the Miami firm of Bilzin
Sumberg Baena Price and
Axelrod was recently recognized
by Florida Super Lawyers as one
of the top 100 lawyers in South
Florida. Additionally, he was a
finalist for the Dorothy Shula
Award for Outstanding Volunteerism
for his work on the board of the
Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation. His
event, The Keymorada Invitational
Fishing Tournament, raised
$492,000 for the Crohn’s
Foundation this year.
Carol Browner (JD 79) has been
appointed to the Advisory Board
of the Obama-Biden Transition.
Browner is a principal of The
Albright Group in Washington, D.C.,
and former administrator of the
Environmental Protection Agency
during the administration of President
Bill Clinton. Browner is a board
member for the UF Levin College
of Law Center for Governmental
Responsibility, serves as a member
of the Environmental and Land
Use Law Program Advisory Board
and periodically returns to teach
environmental law classes at UF
and the UF Summer Study Abroad
Program in Costa Rica.
Stokes 84
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UF LAW
COURTROOM SKETCH COURTESY OF DANA VERKOUTEREN
Before the bench Scott Makar (JD 87)
BY ADRIANNA C. RODRIGUEZ
S
cott Makar received a barrage of tough questions while
arguing his first case before
the U.S. Supreme Court in March,
but the toughest one came from his
7-year-old son Aaron, who watched
in the courtroom with his mom,
Nancy Hogshead-Makar.
“Did you answer them right?”
was the first thing Aaron wanted to
know as he greeted Makar (JD 87)
on the steps of the U.S. Supreme
Court after oral arguments.
While Makar wasn’t able to
answer Aaron’s question at that moment, he can now.
In June, the court ruled 7-2 in
favor of Makar, who represented the
Florida Department of Revenue in
Fla. Dep’t of Revenue v. Piccadilly
Cafeterias, Inc.
“It really is awe inspiring,” said
Makar of the historic courtroom and
its architecture. “It’s very intimate,
but also has this grandeur about it.
It’s a very comfortable environment
in which to argue a case.”
Makar argued the case as Florida’s
solicitor general, a post he was appointed to by Attorney General Bill
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McCollum (JD 68) in February 2007.
Makar is the third to hold the position,
which was established in 1999 and
whose term coincides with the attorney
general’s four-year term.
a multidisciplinary journal that allows students both in the Levin
College of Law and other colleges
around campus to tackle current
law and policy issues. The journal,
which celebrated its 20th anniversary in the spring, gives students
another opportunity to participate
in a law journal at UF.
“The Supreme Court chamber is very intimate,
but also has this grandeur about it. It’s a very
comfortable environment in which to argue a case.”
As solicitor general, Makar oversees civil appeals in all state and federal
courts involving Florida interests, serves
as legal policy adviser to the attorney
general, and teaches at Florida State
University College of Law as the Richard W. Ervin (JD 28) Eminent Scholar.
The eminent scholar chair was named
after a former Florida attorney general.
Makar’s interest in teaching
began during his time at the University of Florida, when he taught
the undergraduate business law
course at the College of Business
while juggling earning two master’s
degrees in business, a law degree,
and a Ph.D. in economics.
As a law student he founded the
Journal of Law and Public Policy,
“Law review had just cut their
invited membership in half, from
top 10 percent to top 5 percent,
leaving many law students without
a similar educational opportunity. I
wanted them, as well as other motivated students, to have an option,”
said Makar, who served on the law
review and was the Journal of Law
and Public Policy’s first editor–inchief.
Makar views the solicitor general position as combining the best
aspects of academic teaching and
practicing appellate law.
“I consider this a capstone job,”
Makar said. “This job is one of the
best I could imagine ever having as
a lawyer or legal educator.” ■
Makar with son Aaron (7),
and wife Nancy in the
nation’s capitol.
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CLASS NOTES
1986
Bedell 86
Frank M. Bedell of Orlando has
become chair of the Trial Lawyers
Section of The Florida Bar. Bedell has
previously served the bar as president
of the Young Lawyers Division and
as chair of the 2003 Annual Meeting
Committee.
Lynne Borsuk of Atlanta, Ga. has
been elected president of the Georgia
Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
Borsuk 86
Ruffier 86
Elizabeth Green, of the Orlando firm
Latham, Shuker, Eden, and Beaudine
was named to Florida Trend magazine’s Florida Legal Elite.
William E. Ruffier, a partner with the
law firm Dellecker, Wilson, King, McKenna & Ruffier, has been appointed
general counsel for the Boy Scouts
of America, Central Florida Council.
He also serves on the organization’s
executive board and holds the rank of
Eagle Scout.
1987
Finney 87
McMillan 87
Madonna M. Finney of Tallahassee
was awarded the Florida Adoption
Council’s highest honor, the Adoption
Star Award, for her work in the area of
adoption.
Tuwana J. McMillan was named by
Florida Super Lawyers magazine as a
top attorney in Florida for 2008. She
also began a one-year term as chair of
the Workers’ Compensation section of
The Florida Bar on July 1.
Louis Nostro was named to the Best
Lawyers in America Guide 2009 in
the areas of Tax Law and Trusts &
Estates.
Nostro 87
1988
Jaqueline Bozzuto was named by
Florida Super Lawyers magazine as a
top attorney in Florida for 2008.
Hickman 89
Cathryn A. Mitchell has become partner with Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman.
in New York, and will be spearheading the firm’s new office in Princeton.
cam@cll.com
Richard M. Benrubi, a partner at
Liggio, Benrubi & Williams in West
Palm Beach, received the Legislative
Leadership “Shoe Leather” Award by
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the Florida Justice Association for his
contributions on behalf of the FJA’s
legislative efforts. Benrubi has been
named as one of the 2008 Florida
Legal Elite and has also been included
in Florida Super Lawyers for the third
consecutive year.
1989
Scott E. Ray was recently appointed
as a deputy chief in the Major Crimes
Section for the United States Attorney’s
Office in the Southern District of Florida.
David P. Milian was selected
as one of the Best Lawyers in
America in the specialty of
Commercial Litigation.
Amy U. Hickman of Delray
Beach was awarded the Florida
Adoption Council’s highest honor,
the Adoption Star Award, for her
work in the area of adoption.
Delray Beach City Commissioner
Mackenson ‘Mack’ Bernard (JD 02 / LLMT 03)
M
ackenson ‘Mack’ Bernard
stepped into political office
this August fulfilling a call to
serve he’s felt since high school and
setting a first, not just for himself, but
for many in Palm Beach County, Fla.
When Bernard (JD 02 / LLMT 03)
accepted appointment to the Delray
Beach City Commission this summer,
he became the first person of Haitian
descent to hold political office in the
county. Although about 10 percent of
Delray Beach’s population is of Haitian descent, he is among fewer than
a dozen persons of Haitian descent to
hold political office anywhere in the
state of Florida.
“I love Delray Beach and I wanted
a chance to make it a little bit better, to
give something back,” Bernard said. “I
was raised in Delray Beach and I spent
most of my life in Delray Beach.”
Bernard emigrated to Delray Beach
from Haiti in 1986 at the age of 10.
After earning his undergraduate
degree in political science and criminology from Florida State University
in 1997, Bernard came to the University of Florida to earn his JD and LLM
in taxation.
At UF, Bernard also met his wife
Shawntoyia N. Bernard (JD 03) and
partner at Bernard & Auguste, Parnel
D. Auguste (JD 05).
“My professors really pushed me
to consider tax law and they nurtured
me to follow my goal,” he said. “The
skills that they taught me are the skills
Bernard
that I’m using at the city commission.”
As the only attorney on the commission, Bernard’s education at UF and
work through his firm, which primarily
focuses on tax, real estate and family
law, have prepared him to deal with the
city’s home foreclosure woes.
Bernard has several goals during
his time on the commission. He plans
to help bring more affordable housing
to the city. He will work to help the city
deal with the budget crunch and work
to make several streets in the city safer.
Bernard took the place of a commissioner who stepped down midterm. In his first political office, he said
he still has a lot to learn but is happy to
be a public servant. His political ambitions remain focused on being a commissioner for now as he plans to run
for the commission seat in March.
“I’m a public servant, the people
will decide,” Bernard said. ■
UF LAW
Making the cut Scott Sheftall (JD 76)
BY IAN FISHER
S
cott D. Sheftall (JD 76) hadn’t
seriously golfed for 35 years
before he decided to pick up his
clubs and play in a few tournament
qualifiers.
Sheftall entered a 2008 Senior
U.S. Open sectional qualifier in
Boynton Beach, Fla., on June 27. To
say he didn’t expect to qualify would
be an understatement.
Sheftall birdied the 18th hole to
force a sudden-death playoff to qualify
for the Senior U.S. Open, which
was held at Broadmoor in Colorado
Springs, Colo. On the third hole of the
playoff, he and his wife Regina, who
was caddying, walked up to the green
and couldn’t believe what they saw.
“It was a pretty special moment,”
Sheftall said. “I turned to my wife as
we walked up to the green and saw
that I only had a one-and-a-half-foot
putt, and I told her, ‘It looks like
we’re going to Colorado, baby.’ ”
Sheftall sank the short putt, and
he and his wife were off to Colorado for practice rounds on July 28.
Sheftall practiced with former Gator
golfer Andy Bean, whom he had
coincidentally played against as an
undergraduate at Davidson College.
And although Sheftall didn’t make
the cut or even play his best, he will
never forget the trip.
“It was an amazing, once-in-alifetime experience, one that I truly
never expected to happen to me given
the fact that I hadn’t really played
serious golf for about 35 years since
college, until about two summers ago,
when I decided I would play in a few
tournament qualifiers,” Sheftall said.
“Once I qualified and went to Colorado Springs with my wife for the
U.S. Open, I was awestruck by how
wonderful it was to play in a national
championship — to be inside the
ropes, to be in the locker room with
the great players, and to just enjoy the
entire spectacle, which I did.”
Sheftall’s extra confidence during
the qualifying tournament came both
from watching his alma mater Davidson in an unlikely NCAA Basketball
Tournament run and from having his
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wife at his side the whole tournament.
“I got to see what Coach Bob
McKillop of Davidson was getting
at when he was telling his players
about the importance of translating a
dream into a belief, a genuine belief,
and not just a wish,” Sheftall said.
“To see the players buy into his philosophy of competition and actually
make it happen with limited talent
was very inspiring and it really sort of
galvanized in me a new sense of confidence. … That coupled with the fact
that my wife Regina caddied for me
in the qualifier. She had never seen
me play competitive golf before; she
had never caddied for anyone. But
having someone believe in me and be
there to keep me calm and focused
and to persevere through leg cramps
and everything — I think that was the
final secret ingredient that made the
recipe for success work.”
Back in his day job, Sheftall is
a trial lawyer for Sheftall & Torres,
P.A, which he founded in 1996, and
his practice is mostly complex civil
litigation. The firm has developed
an affinity for issues involving children after Sheftall hooked up with
Dr. R. Rodney Howell, the chairman
emeritus of pediatrics at the University of Miami. Howell is also a
Davidson graduate.
Sheftall is very involved with
children-related community service,
and his wife teaches elementary
school in inner-city Miami.
“Not too many people could understand and still can’t understand
why an ardent Gator like myself
— I’ve been a Gator since I was 5
years old — could be contributing
so much to the University of Miami,”
Sheftall said. “But I’ve lived down
here for 30 years. As I said, the invitation I received from Dr. Howell,
who was a Davidson graduate, got
me involved. I do have a passion for
children’s health care and believe that
lawyers should be involved in their
communities in a positive and visible
way. For all those reasons, it just
solidified a connection with the University of Miami down here, which
Scott Sheftall claps on his way to the
fourth hole of the U.S. Senior Open,
held at the legendary Broadmoor golf
course in Colorado Springs, Colo.
“I was awestruck by how wonderful
it was to play in a national championship — to be inside the ropes... and
to just enjoy the entire spectacle.”
was about as unlikely as me qualifying for the U.S. Open.”
But Sheftall is still a Gator at
heart. His father went to UF in the
1930s, when it was an all men’s
school with about 2,300 students,
he said.
Sheftall grew up in Jacksonville
and came to many historic Gator
games over the years. He attended
the game against Auburn in which
Steve Spurrier kicked a game-winning field goal to clinch the 1966
Heisman Trophy.
Sheftall even named his two
boykin spaniel retrievers Tebow
and Saurian, which fans used to call
Gator football players. A saurian
is an ancient ancestor to modern
reptiles.
“If there were any doubt in your
mind about my allegiance to the
University of Florida in spite of my
comments about Davidson and the
University of Miami, that should
put it to rest,” Sheftall said. “You’ll
note that I did not name my dogs
Wildcat and Hurricane.” ■
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CLASS NOTES
1990
Fisher & Phillips LLP is pleased to
announce that Steven Bernstein has
been appointed regional managing partner of the firm’s Tampa office.
Lopez 90
Beiley 91
The law firm of Hinshaw & Culbertson
announced that Burke G. Lopez has
joined the firm’s Tampa office as a
partner. Lopez handles cases involving
coverage issues, commercial disputes,
personal injury, products liability,
premises liability and wrongful death
litigation.
Florida Trend magazine recognized
board certified criminal trial lawyer,
Stephen M. Walker, as one of the 2008
Florida Legal Elite. Walker is a sole
practitioner in Sarasota specializing in
criminal defense.
Camerlengo 91
1991
Brooderson 96
Adorno & Yoss announced that litigation and bankruptcy attorney Steven L.
Beiley has joined the firm’s Miami office
as a partner. Beiley also have been
included by Florida Trend magazine
in its Florida Legal Elite list for 2008,
which recognizes the top 1.8 percent of
Florida’s 56,000 lawyers.
Prescott 96
Johnson 97
Joseph Camerlengo was sworn in as
the president of the Jacksonville Bar
Association on June 12. Camerlengo
also was honored as a 2008 Florida
Super Lawyer and named to the
Jacksonville Business Journal’s
2008 top 40 under 40 list.
jcamerlengo@theplaintiffsfirm.com.
The Florida Bar has reappointed Miami
attorney Julio C. Jaramillo to a threeyear term on the board of directors of
The Florida Bar Foundation, a statewide
charitable organization that fosters
law-related public service programs on
behalf of Florida’s legal profession.
Beth S. Schick has joined the Orlando
law firm of ShuffieldLowman. Her
primary areas of practice are corporate,
estate planning and administration, as
well as employment law.
Lazarus 97
Oyer 98
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Steven J. Solomon, a member of the
Bankruptcy and Insolvency Department of Adorno & Yoss, LLP, has been
included by Florida Trend magazine
in its annual Florida Legal Elite list for
2008.
John V. Tucker of Tucker & Ludin, P.A.
in Clearwater recently spoke at the 11th
National Advanced Forum on Litigating
Disability Insurance Claims on the topic
of “Techniques for Using Medical and
Vocational Experts to Prove or Refute a
Claimant’s Disability” held in Boston,
Mass. in June.
Daniel Uhlfelder was chosen as one
of Florida’s future leaders by Florida
Trend magazine. Uhlfelder is the first
non-minority member of the NAACP’s
Okaloosa County branch, where he
chairs the legal redress committee.
In May Tad A. Yates took the office of
president of the Orange County Bar
Association. Yates practices criminal
defense law with Kirkconnell, Lindsey,
Snure & Yates, in Winter Park.
1997
1993
Scott Shuker, of Orlando-based law
firm Latham, Shuker, Eden & Beaudine,
has been named by Florida Trend magazine as one of Florida’s Legal Elite.
1994
Florida Trend magazine recognized
Jack R. Rieter as one of the 2008
Florida Legal Elite. Reiter is a partner of
Adorno & Yoss, LLP and concentrates
his practice the areas of state, federal
and administrative appeals, as well as
general commercial litigation.
1995
Jeffrey M. Taylor was recently elected
to the board of directors of the Central
Atlantic Region of the America-Israel
Chamber of Commerce. Taylor also
has been elected to the advisory committee of the Middle Atlantic Chapter
of the Society of Corporate Secretaries
& Governance Professionals. Taylor
is a partner at Blank Rome, LLP, in
Philadelphia, Penn. Taylor focuses his
practice on representing public and
private companies in securities law,
mergers and acquisitions, and corporate law matters.
1996
Richard J. Brooderson has joined the
Altamonte Springs law firm of Chaires,
Brooderson & Guerrero, P.L. as a
named partner. The firm represents
health care practitioners and entities
and focuses in the areas of health law,
business law and administrative law.
Joanne Prescott, a shareholder in
the Orlando firm Zimmerman Kiser
Sutcliffe, has become board certified
in workers’ compensation through The
Florida Bar, effective Aug. 1. As a board
certified attorney, Prescott is identified
as a lawyer with special knowledge,
skills, and proficiency distinguishing her
as a specialist in workers’ compensation law.
Sherri L. Johnson, of Dent & Johnson,
Chartered in Sarasota, received the
2008 Lynn Futch Most Productive
Young Lawyer Award from the Young
Lawyers Division of The Florida Bar.
The award is given to the young lawyer in Florida who has worked most
diligently in bar activities and/or law
related public activities and who has an
excellent reputation for legal abilities and
integrity. Johnson also was recognized
as the 2008 Woman Lawyer of the Year
by the Manatee County Chapter of the
Florida Association for Women Lawyers.
Donald B. Stuart (LLM), a partner
in the tax practice at Waller Lansden
Dortch & Davis, LLP in Nashville, Tenn.,
has been appointed to serve a one-year
term as vice chairman of the Tax and
Finance Practice Group of the American
Health Lawyers Association
Jason D. Lazarus, an attorney in Holland & Knight’s West Palm Beach office,
received the “And Justice for All” award
from the Legal Aid Society of Palm
Beach County. The award was in recognition of one of Lazarus’ recent pro bono
cases, as well as his continued pro bono
service to Legal Aid over the years. The
award was presented at the Legal Aid
Society’s 20th Annual Pro Bono Recognition Evening, on May 10 at the Palm
Beach County Convention Center.
The law firm Broad and Cassel
announced that Orlando associate Peter
Schoemann (LLMT) has been recognized as being among the brightest and
most promising young business people
in Orlando in the Orlando Business
Journal’s “40 Under 40” listings.
1998
Shutts & Bowen partner, Harvey E.
Oyer III, was selected to join the United
States Committee of the Blue Shield,
which is the cultural equivalent of the
Red Cross. The Blue Shield provides
emergency response to cultural property
at risk during periods of armed conflict.
Lori V. Vaughan has been elected shareholder of Trenam Kemker of Tampa and
St. Petersburg.
UF LAW
A man of firsts
Alfredo Garcia (JD 81)
B Y J A S O N S I LV E R
A
s the first Cuban-born dean
of a U.S. law school at the St.
Thomas University School of
Law in Miami, Fla., Alfredo Garcia
(JD 81) takes great pride in being
the first in his family to graduate
from college and law school.
Garcia, who was president of the
Hispanic and Latino Law Student
Association at UF Law, remembers
the school giving him an opportunity to be successful by working hard.
“It was a distinct honor for me
because I was a first-generation college and graduate school student,”
he said. “UF Law gave me an opportunity to further my education
and represent my heritage and roots,
which is a privilege.”
After graduating UF Law,
Garcia became an assistant state
attorney under Janet Reno during
Miami’s infamous high-crime “Cocaine Cowboys” era. During that
time he handled felony and narcotics-related cases, gaining experience
working against the best criminal
attorneys, he said.
“Being an assistant state attorney was an incredible experience
because I got great on-the-job training against the best criminal defense
lawyers like Roy Black,” he said.
“It really sharpened my criminal
litigation skills, which prepared me
go into private practice in criminal
defense law.”
There was never a dull moment
in Miami during the 1980s as a
criminal attorney, Garcia said.
“I always tell my students that
five years of the Miami Vice days
gave me all the excitement I needed
for a lifetime of practicing criminal
law,” Garcia said. “I had scary clients who even smashed in my car
windows, but I have no regrets.”
Garcia’s first love was always
academics, and there’s nothing else
he’d rather do than teach his students
and learn from them as well, he said.
“Your work should be your hobby and your hobby should be your
work,” Garcia said. “I always wanted
to be a teacher since I was a kid, and
it’s great to see your students develop
and then teach you things.”
When Garcia arrived at the St.
Thomas University School of Law
20 years ago, it had only 14 faculty
members and was newly approved by
the American Bar Association. Now,
under Garcia’s leadership, the school
boasts 40 faculty members and more
than 600 students. As an attorney and
leading legal scholar, Garcia says students need to know the key to success
is hard work and preparation.
“My favorite quote from Chuck
Close is ‘Inspiration is for amateurs, the rest of us just show up
for work,’ ” Garcia said. “The best
attorneys I see in action are the ones
who prepare better than anyone, and
Gregory S. Weiss has joined the law
firm of Leopold-Kuvin in Palm Beach
Gardens.
Bryan S. Gowdy became a boardcertified appellate attorney and an
equal shareholder in his firm, formerly
Mills & Creed, which is changing its
name to Mills, Creed & Gowdy.
1999
John Badalamenti, an appellate
attorney with the federal defender’s
office in Tampa, was quoted in the
recent ABA Journal article “Crime
Registries Under Fire” concerning
the constitutionality of the Adam
Walsh Act.
Orlando attorney A. Brian Phillips
(LLMT) has been appointed adjunct
professor of law at the University of
Florida Levin College of Law.
Vee Leonard, general counsel for
Florida Gulf Coast University, has
Garcia
“A lawyer who works harder than
his opponent is the most successful.”
a lawyer who works harder than his
opponent is the most successful.”
Garcia, who has Gator football
season tickets, said the most rewarding aspect of being the dean of St.
Thomas University School of Law
is what he gets back from students.
“You learn a lot from your
students; it’s a two-way street,” he
said. “I’m very proud and excited
because my background mirrors the
mission and the values of the law
school.” ■
been reappointed to a three-year term
as an at-large director of The Florida
Bar Foundation, a statewide charitable
organization that fosters law-related
public service programs on behalf of
Florida’s legal profession.
Weiss 98
Richard P. Rollo was elected director of Richards, Layton & Finger
in Wilmington, Del. in July. Rollo
practices in the firm’s Corporate
Litigation Department, representing
Delaware corporations and their
Leonard 99
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CLASS NOTES
directors in shareholder class actions,
contested mergers and acquisitions,
and similar litigation.
John A. Williams has been elected
shareholder of Trenam Kemker of
Tampa and St. Petersburg.
2001
Rollo 99
Renee E. Thompson of Ocala firm
Mateer Harbert won The Florida Bar
Young Lawyers Division 2008 Outstanding Board Member Award.
Harmon 00
The Sarasota law firm of Williams
Parker Harrison Dietz & Getzen
announced that Michael J. Wilson, a
shareholder with the firm, has been
granted board certification in taxation
by The Florida Bar Board of Legal
Specialization and Education.
2000
Nikole D. Garcia has been elected
shareholder of Trenam Kemker of
Tampa and St. Petersburg.
Piatt 00
Thomas 00
Carter 01
Valle 01
Heatwole 03
Jill Harmon will serve on the 2009
Lake Nona Relay for Life Committee,
chaired by Orange County School
Board member Daryl Flynn.
Richard Hornsby has become board
certified in criminal trial law by The
Florida Bar. Board certification is
the highest level of evaluation by
The Florida Bar of competency and
experience within an area of law,
and professionalism and ethics in the
practice of law. Less than 1 percent of
all lawyers in Florida are board certified in criminal trial law.
Michael Best & Friedrich announced
that John N. Giftos has been elected
to partnership in the firm. Giftos is
member of the firm’s litigation practice group.
Penelope B. Perez-Kelly has been
named a partner with the Orlando
firm McClane Tessitore. Perez-Kelly’s
practice centers on commercial litigation, trademarks, copyrights and
international business law.
Lauren E. Piatt has joined the law
firm of Parker, Hudson, Rainer &
Dobbs in the Atlanta, Ga. office as
an associate on the tax & employee
benefits team. Piatt’s practice areas
include corporate law and federal tax
law with a focus on entity formation,
corporate governance, and the taxation of corporations and pass-through
entities.
McConnaughhay, Duffy, Coonrod,
Pope & Weaver, P.A. announced the
addition of a new partner, Brian P.
Carter of Pensacola. Carter joined
the firm in July 2001 and began
practicing in the Pensacola area in
October 2002. He concentrates his
practice in workers’ compensation
defense.
The litigation practice at Greenberg
Traurig’s Tampa office announced
the addition of associate Richard
J. Mockler, who will focus on
working with clients in Florida on
commercial, real estate, land use,
environmental and other complex
litigation.
The law firm of Weiss Serota Helfman Pastoriza Cole & Boniske
announced that Blanca Maria Valle
has joined its Miami office, where
she will focus her practice on commercial litigation.
Lonn Weissblum recently started his
own firm, the Law Offices of Lonn
Weissblum in Boca Raton. The firm
handles appeals in the Florida state
courts and in the Eleventh Circuit
Court of Appeals, and provides legal
research and writing services for
other attorneys nationwide. lonn@
weissblumlaw.com.
Dear Editor...
2002
T. Robert Bulloch, an attorney in Quarles & Brady’s Trusts & Estates practice
in the Naples office, has been named
to Florida Trend magazine’s “Up &
Comers” list in the magazine’s fifth
annual edition of the “Florida Legal
Elite.”
Leonard Keen has joined Myers &
Kaplan, Intellectual Property Law,
L.L.C. as a partner in the firm’s
Orlando office. A registered U.S. patent
attorney, Keen focuses on intellectual
property law, encompassing patents,
trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets,
licensing and related matters, and
including IP prosecution, enforcement,
litigation and business transactions.
2003
The litigation practice at Greenberg
Traurig’s Tampa office announced the
addition of associate Don Crawford,
who will focus on working with clients
in Florida on commercial, real estate,
land use, environmental, and other
complex litigation.
Ben Diamond has been named one
of Florida’s future leaders by Florida
Trend magazine. Diamond serves as
special counsel to state Chief Financial
Officer Alex Sink and is her senior legal
and policy adviser.
JoAnn M. Guerrero has been
promoted to named partner in
the Altamonte Springs law firm of
UF Law welcomes
your feedback.
Send letters to Lindy Brounley,
UF LAW Editor, UF Law
Communications, P. O. Box
117633, Gainesville, FL
32611-7633, or e-mail it to
brounley@law.ufl.edu.
Terri N. Thomas has joined Shutts &
Bowen’s Tampa office. Thomas will
join the firm’s litigation department.
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UF LAW
Pro bono pays off
Jason Lazarus (JD 81)
BY SPENSER SOLIS
F
or one UF Law graduate, the
phrase “And Justice for All,”
rings especially true in the
courtroom. Throughout his legal
career, Jason D. Lazarus (JD 97), a
double Gator from Miami, Fla. and
an attorney for Holland & Knight
LLP, has racked up more than 200
hours of pro bono service.
“I knew that I would want to use
my law degree to the extent I could
to help people,” he said. “Including
those who were less fortunate.”
Lazarus was recently honored
for his service to those in need at
the Legal Aid Society’s 20th Annual
Pro Bono Recognition Evening. For
Lazarus, an interest in serving the
public runs in the family. His father,
grandfather, stepmother and sister
are all attorneys.
“My grandfather meant a lot to
me,” Lazarus said. “He always took
pride in being a lawyer.”
Although Lazarus graduated
from UF with a finance degree, he
quickly decided that he was destined
for the legal profession, he said.
At UF Law, Lazarus was in the
top 10 percent of his class and served
as a senior editor of the Florida Law
Review. Before working at Holland &
Knight, Lazarus served as an assistant
state attorney for the Fourth Judicial
Circuit in Jacksonville.
“To me it was much more
appealing to help victims than to
represent criminal defendants.”
In the State Attorney’s Office
felony unit, Lazarus was exposed
to serious crimes, including grand
theft, burglary, armed robbery and
attempted murder. Lazarus then
moved on to the Special Assault
Division at the State Attorney’s
Office, where he prosecuted many
of the most serious crimes in the
office, including child abuse, felony
domestic violence and sex crimes.
“The most horrific crimes in
that unit were the sex crimes against
children,” he said.
In his current position in the
litigation department at Holland &
Knight LLP, Lazarus has continued
to serve those in need by providing
representation to those who cannot
afford it. While many attorneys
simply write a check to the Legal
Aid Society, Holland & Knight LLP
actively encourages its attorneys to
do pro bono work, Lazarus said.
Lazarus typically takes on
between two and three cases a year
from the Legal Aid Society. He is
always handling at least one case for
the society, he said.
“There have even been times
that I have called Legal Aid myself
asking for cases.”
In one of his most recent pro
bono cases, Lazarus represented
an elderly couple in a construction
dispute. The pro bono clients hired
a roofing company to replace their
roof. The roofer failed to complete
the job as contracted but continued
to demand full payment, Lazarus
said.
“After several months of presuit negotiations with the roofer’s
attorney, the roofer filed a lawsuit
against the pro bono clients,” he
said. “I represented the clients
during the months of litigation that
followed.”
The roofing company ultimately
dropped the lawsuit.
Lazarus developed a good
relationship with the clients, who
were extremely thankful, he said.
“They praised me in letters to
Legal Aid and to my superiors here
at the firm.”
Throughout his legal career,
the pro bono clients Lazarus has
represented have been genuinely
deserving of quality legal help, he
said.
“These are people that without
good legal representation would
have nowhere to turn,” he said. “On
many occasions, they have been
on the right side and have had very
legitimate complaints.” ■
Chaires, Brooderson & Guerrero. The
firm represents health care practitioners and entities and focuses in the
areas of health law, business law and
administrative law.
the Atlanta, Ga., office of Greenberg
Traurig, LLP in the litigation/products liability group and Ashleigh
is an attorney with the Fulton
County Office of the Public Defender
in the complex felony trial division.
The Merchant family resides in Marietta, Ga.
2005
Arnstein & Lehr LLP has announced
that Gilda G. Romano has joined the
firm’s Fort Lauderdale office as an
associate. She is a member of the
firm’s litigation group and will focus
her practice in the area of complex
commercial litigation.
2006
Lauren Heatwole was sworn in as
the Young Lawyers Section secretary
of the board of directors for 20082009 for the Orange County Bar
Association.
John and Ashleigh (Bartkus) Merchant welcomed their daughter, Elle
Elizabeth, into the world on Aug.
23, 2007. John is an attorney with
FALL 2008
The law firm Broad and Cassel
announced the addition of Angela
Lipscomb, who joins the firm’s Ft.
Lauderdale office as an associate in
the commercial litigation practice
group.
Dustin N. Dailey, of Freeport, Fla.,
has joined Burke Blue Hutchison
Walters and Smith. He is maintaining office hours in both the Burke
Blue Downtown Panama City office
Lazarus
“I knew that
I would want
to use my
law degree
to the extent
I could to
help people.”
Lipscomb 05
Dailey 06
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CLASS NOTES
and the Sandestin office. Dailey has
based his preferred areas of practice on his interests in real estate
transactions and disputes, contract
law, government law, land use and
business law.
Tomasic 06
Zelmer 06
Spoont 07
Sasha A. Klein (LLMT), attorney for
Comiter, Singer, Baseman & Braun,
has been recognized by Cambridge
Who’s Who for showing dedication,
leadership and excellence in all
aspects of the law.
Brikena Tomasic was recently
admitted to practice before the
United States District Court of the
Northern District of Florida as well
as to the Middle and Southern
Districts of Florida. Tomasic is an
associate in the Orlando firm of
Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor
& Reed, P.A.
Diane J. Zelmer recently qualified
to be appointed as a Florida Department of Transportation Dispute
Resolution Board practitioner for
construction matters. Zelmer is
an associate in the Miami firm of
Shutts & Bowen’s construction
litigation group.
2007
Hillary A. Hussin has joined the
Baltimore, Md. firm of Gallagher
Evelius & Jones LLP as an associate. Hussin will practice in the
firm’s litigation group principally
on matters involving business
disputes, employment, property
disputes and the defense of medical
malpractice claims. She will also
work with the firm’s religious
clients on matters involving
employment and tort defense.
Farooq Mitha has been awarded a
Fulbright Grant for the 2008-2009
academic year.
The law firm of Richman Greer
announced that attorney Joshua L.
Spoont has joined the firm as an
associate in the West Palm Beach
office. Spoont received the highest
score on the February 2008 Florida
Bar Examination for the Fourth District and as a result, he was invited
to speak at the induction ceremony
for new attorneys at the Florida
Supreme Court in Tallahassee
Veniese A. Wilkinson was recently
elected treasurer of the Caribbean
Bar Association. Founded in 1994
and based in Miami, the association
is a volunteer bar organization made
up of attorneys in South Florida
working in both the public and
private sectors from an array of law
backgrounds.
2008
Zimmerman Kiser Sutcliffe in
Orlando announced that Carnesha J.
Craft has joined the corporate practice group as an associate attorney.
Craft 08
IN MEMORIAM
Robert M. Montgomery Jr. (JD 57) passed away Aug.
4, he was 78. Montgomery — known for his success
in arguing multi-million dollar cases and representing
high-profile clients — was a longtime advocate and
supporter of the UF Levin College of Law.
During his 40-year career, Montgomery, who
lived and practiced in West Palm Beach, Fla., won an
estimated 65 settlements of $1 million or more. He
represented many high-profile clients, including Burt
Reynolds during his divorce from Lonnie Anderson, and Theresa LePore,
the Palm Beach County supervisor of elections during the “butterfly” ballot
controversy of the 2000 presidential election.
But it was his case against the tobacco companies that drew the most
notice. Montgomery served as Florida’s lead attorney, forcing an $11.3
billion settlement from tobacco companies to compensate the state for its
Medicaid expenses related to Floridians’ smoking-related diseases.
Montgomery’s most lasting legacy may be his generous philanthropy.
He donated an estimated $100 million to charity during his lifetime and
was a devoted supporter of the arts, serving as chairman of the Palm
Beach Opera for 25 years. Montgomery has been an influential and supportive alumnus of the UF College of Law, and he served on the college’s
Law Advisory Council for many years. Montgomery’s most recent gift to the
law school supported the building fund for the Martin H. Levin Legal Advocacy Center, which broke ground this summer.
Montgomery is survived by his wife Mary and daughter Courtney.
Paul G. Rogers (JD 48), who earned the nickname
“Mr. Health” during his time in Congress, passed away
Oct. 13 of lung cancer. He was 87.
Rogers earned the title during his 24 years as a
Democratic representative from West Palm Beach, Fla.,
for his work on environmental and health care legislation.
His accomplishments during his time in Congress
include serving as the main sponsor of the Clean Air
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Act of 1970, leading legislation to establish the National Institute of Aging,
and working on legislation that assured used cars adhere to federal safety
requirements.
He was reportedly an advocate of healthy habits and did not smoke.
Rogers, a WW II veteran who received a Bronze Star for his action
in the European theater, was reelected 11 times to his seat representing
Florida’s Ninth Congressional District.
After leaving Congress in 1979, Rogers joined the Washington law firm
Hogan & Harston where he began the firm’s health law practice.
He is survived by his wife of 46 years, Rebecca, his daughter, Rebecca
Laing Sisto, a brother and four grandchildren.
T. Paine Kelly Jr. (JD 36) passed away Aug. 5 from
complications of a stroke. He was 95.
Kelly practiced law until he was 92 and built his
nearly 70-year career in his hometown of Tampa, Fla.
Most of his 56-year career in trial law was with
Macfarlane Ferguson & McMullen.
Well known and liked in Tampa courtrooms,
Kelly’s personality was larger than life, as the story
of his WWII service demonstrates. He was captured
by Germans as a young colonel in command of the 589th Field Artillery
Battalion during the Battle of the Bulge in 1944. Following his capture,
he orchestrated a successful escape with two others from a German POW
camp, reportedly using a compass hidden in his jacket to make it back to
Allied lines.
His involvement in the Tampa community earned him an Outstanding
Citizen award. He also served on the State Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, local Red Cross committees, the Committee of 100, the Tampa Boys’
Club and as president of the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce.
In addition to his community involvement, Kelly was a devoted supporter
of the UF College of Law, serving as an active trustee for many years.
He is survived by his wife of 68 years, Jean, and two daughters, Josie
and Carla.
UF LAW
Golden opportunity
Evelyn Davis Golden (JD 76)
BY IAN FISHER
F
rom where Evelyn Davis
Golden (JD 76) has been,
her career path comes as no
surprise.
Golden is now an attorney with
the U.S. Department of Housing and
Urban Development in Atlanta and
has worked as a public servant for
almost all of her career since law
school.
Golden’s office is responsible for
enforcing regulation of multifamily
housing developments insured by
the Federal Housing Administration
(FHA) and making sure owners keep
their property in decent, safe and
sanitary condition for the tenants.
“Before going to New York I had
somewhat of a background and life
experiences that indicated that civil
rights would be something I’d be
interested in,” Golden said. Golden
watched her parents and neighbors
carpool to go to the polling place to
vote for John F. Kennedy. “There
was security in going to the poll
together.”
Golden was born in 1951 in
segregated Moultrie, Ga., and lived
there until moving to New York in
1963. Since graduating from the UF
College of Law in 1976, she has
held numerous government jobs,
including assistant attorney general
for Florida, assistant public defender
for Orange County and Orange
County judge.
Although Golden had done
well in the segregated schools in
Moultrie, many in her new home
of New York did not expect her
education to be up to par.
“When I first came, they said,
‘Oh these A’s can’t be representative
of what her educational level is,’ ”
Golden said. “They tested me and
found out, in fact, that they were.
They placed me in gifted classes,
called special progress classes up
there… Things changed for me after
that.”
Golden attributed her success
throughout school to both her
FALL 2008
parents and her teachers back in
Moultrie. She was taught by an
all-black faculty in Moultrie that
pushed her to work her hardest.
“They didn’t accept that
because you were black and poor
that you couldn’t learn — that
you came from poverty, so you
weren’t worth the effort,” Golden
said. “Everybody was challenged;
everybody was expected to succeed,
and the majority did.”
When Golden transferred to UF
Law after her first year at Brooklyn
Law School, she had a new obstacle
to face — gender discrimination.
Although she was raised in
the South during segregation, the
gender discrimination was bad to
her because she was older and more
conscious of it.
“When you’re young, you kind
of know that you’re being slighted,
but you’re not sure,” Golden said.
“Of course, some things were very
obvious. Every summer we went
to the vacation reading club at the
public library. There was a Negro
section and there was a white section
when I was in elementary [school].
Every year, I got my little certificate
for completing all of the vacation
reading for the summer, and I was
always very proud of that.”
At UF, a couple of professors
were openly sexist to her, but that
was relatively common in the early
1970s, she said.
“When I went to the University
of Florida, it was kind of scary
because I had never had some of
the challenges that I faced there,”
Golden said. “I went to school at a
time when we’d (women) walk into
the library, people would shuffle
their feet because I was a woman.”
Golden, who was married,
got pregnant in law school and
continued through law school
pregnant. An employment law
professor constantly questioned
her in class about pregnancy
discrimination laws, and an evidence
“I went to school at a time when
we’d [women] walk into the
library, people would shuffle their
feet because I was a woman.”
professor did not give her a research
position because she was pregnant.
“He said that I should be home
knitting blue booties, not knitting
booties, but blue booties for the
baby,” Golden said (Golden has two
grown daughters). “So I had some
interesting experiences there, but
overall, the faculty was very fair
and I enjoyed property classes, so
I ended up doing property. Even
though the professor was horrible to
me, I enjoyed employment law.”
Although Golden did not notice
any obvious racial discrimination
toward her at UF, it has come up in
her career.
“When I was a judge, it was
weird, there were people that didn’t
like me because I was black and I
was a judge, and they didn’t mind
showing me,” Golden said. “Here
I have the power to put you in
jail, and you’re disrespecting me.
It was a total disconnect. I found
that interesting. But in most of my
career, I can’t say that, even though
I felt there were some judges that I
felt were discriminatory, I can’t say I
suffered tremendously from that.”
Golden began working for
HUD in 2000 as attorney advisor
in the Departmental Enforcement
Center (DEC) before a stint in the
Fair Housing Division, where she
assisted in clearing up a backlog of
pending fair housing complaints. In
July, she moved back to the DEC. ■
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100 Year Anniversary
UF LAW ALUMNI REUNION
Celebrate UF Law’s Centennial with an all classes
reunion, family fun, and honoring your own! Albert
and Alberta will be there. You should be, too!
FRIDAY, APRIL 24
Century Welcome Reception
SATURDAY, APRIL 25
Continental Breakfast
College Tours
Heritage of Leadership & Distinguished
Alumnus Ceremony
Family BBQ Lunch with Albert &
Alberta
CLE Offerings
Children’s Dinner (ages 5-12)
Decade Dinners
After Party at 2-Bits Lounge
SUNDAY, APRIL 26
Farewell Brunch
For more information, contact
the Office of Development
and Alumni Affairs
at (352) 273-0640.
As chair of the Law Center
Association, I want to
express my appreciation to
our donors for their generous
support of the Levin College
of Law. These contributions
are vital to UF Law’s drive to
excellence.
We need your financial support and
your involvement.
Tuition at UF Law currently funds a small percentage of the cost of educating our students.
In comparison with the tuition charged by the 195 law schools reporting information to the
ABA, our tuition is the 174th lowest. As a result, we must look to external funding sources
to achieve our goals of maintaining and increasing quality.
That’s why your support is so important. Alumni and friends are the foundation of UF
Law. Not only do you provide mentoring to our students, placement opportunities for our
graduates and training in UF Law classrooms, you are dedicated to the financial support of
our college. UF Law donors have contributed $747,715 to the college’s Annual Fund and
more than $26 million dollars to the college’s Capital Campaign — nearly 56 percent of
our goal! Increased funding for UF Law is the key to our shared aspiration of elevating the
University of Florida Levin College of Law into one of the nation’s great law schools.
It has been support from alumni like you that has enhanced the outstanding educational
experience of students at UF Law. They are instructed by nationally-acclaimed faculty
members teaching in the state-of-the-art facilities, and they have free access to
unsurpassed information technology. Construction on the Martin H. Levin Legal Advocacy
Center began this summer, the completion of which will provide an enormous complement
to facilities that are the finest offered by any law school in the country.
You have an opportunity to see these new facilities for yourself during the UF Law
Centennial Reunion April 24-26, 2009. I urge you to make plans to attend this memorable
occasion to reconnect with old friends, make new ones, visit with students and faculty
members, and to rekindle your pride of place in UF Law.
I hope you will return to UF Law for its Centennial Celebration this spring. You will be
impressed. In addition, please get involved with your Law School — we need your financial
support and your involvement.
GO GATORS!
Bruce H. Bokor (JD 72)
Chair, University of Florida Law Center Association
2007-2008
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UF LAW
UF LAW CENTER ASSOCIATION, INC.
2007-2008
Bruce Bokor (JD 72), Chairman
Peter Zinober (JD 69), Vice Chair
W.C. Gentry (JD 71), Immediate Past Chair
Dennis A. Calfee (JD 75), Treasurer
Ladd Fassett (JD 79), Secretary
Active Members
Charles W. Abbott (JD 53), Jacqueline Allee
Smith (JD 78), Cesar Alvarez (JD 72), Mark
A. Avera (JD 89), Jean Bice (JD 75), Bruce
H. Bokor (JD 72), Leslie W. Burke (JD 68), J.
Thomas Cardwell (JD 66), Lawton M. Chiles,
III, Richard B. Comiter (JD 80), Charles E.
Commander (JD 65), Barry R. Davidson (JD
67), John A. DeVault, III (JD 67), John H. Dyer
Jr. (JD 87), Ladd H. Fassett (JD 79), Andrew
Fawbush (JD 74), Michael L. Ferguson (JD 89),
Betsy E. Gallagher (JD 76), Ellen Bellet Gelberg
(JD 76), W. C. Gentry (JD 71), Ellen R. Gershow
(JD 83), Linda R. Getzen (JD 82), Gene K.
Glasser (JD 72), Robert Glennon (JD 74), K.
Lawrence Gragg (JD 74), Scott G. Hawkins
(JD 83), Michael Heekin (JD 78), Elizabeth
M. Hernandez (JD 83), Elizabeth A. Jenkins
(JD 76), Kimberly L. Johnson (JD 81), Hal H.
Kantor (JD 72), Frederick Wayne Leonhardt (JD
74), Christine N. Markussen (JD 72), Clifton A.
McClelland Jr. (JD 69), Donald Middlebrooks
(JD 72), Michael D. Minton (JD 81), James
Moody Jr. (JD 72), Brian M. O’Connell (JD 79),
Lindy Paull (JD 80), S. Austin Peele (JD 63), F.
Wallace Pope Jr. (JD 69), Becky A. PowhatanKelley (JD 76), Mark Proctor (JD 75), Gerald
F. Richman (JD 64), Jesse W. Rigby (JD 77),
Juliet M. Roulhac (JD 87), Oscar Sanchez (JD
82), Everett J. Santos (JD 66), Ernest A. Sellers
(JD 62), Lawrence E. Sellers Jr. (JD 79), Linda
L. Shelley (JD 77), W. Crit Smith (JD 78), Mark
A. Somerstein (JD 82), Laura J. Thacker (JD
87), Marjorie Bekaert Thomas (JD 76), Frank D.
Upchurch III (JD 74), John J. Upchurch IV (JD
68), George A. Vaka (JD 83), William A. Weber
(JD 76), Peter W. Zinober (JD 69).
Ex-Officio
J. Bernard Machen, Paul A. Robell,
Robert H. Jerry II, Rahul Patel
LAW ALUMNI COUNCIL EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE 2007-2008
Rahul Patel (JD 97), President
Mark Klingensmith (JD 85),
Immediate Past President
Gary L. Printy (JD 82), President-Elect
Carter Andersen (JD 98), Secretary
At Large Members
Tim Cerio (JD 95), C. Randolph Coleman (JD
78), Jeffrey D. Feldman (JD 81), Gregory Harrell
(JD 99), Joseph C. Mellichamp III (JD 70),
Matthew N. Posgay (JD 94), Cecil D. Rolle (JD
03), Sarah Elizabeth Rumpf (JD 03), Misty
Chaves-Taylor (JD 95).
I would like to thank each of you who supported our law school
during the ’07-’08 fiscal year. Your private contributions are directly
responsible for our law school’s success.
I am pleased to report that during this past year, our Annual Fund
had a record performance, raising $747,715. The average
contribution from those who gave was a record high $569. This is
important because the Annual Fund is the source of money the dean
allocates to many academic and co-curricular student programs
which bring national recognition to our law school.
That was the good news. The even better news is there is room for
improvement. As we have noted in prior letters, our Annual Fund
participation rate is lower than both our peer institutions, as well as
many law schools that are perennially ranked lower than UF.
The current state budget crisis is putting severe pressure on the
funding that the law school receives from the state. As a result, there
is an increasing need for our alumni to do their part in helping our
law school. In short, we must change the culture of our alumni giving
by increasing the percentage
of alumni that give back to the
Annual Fund to a level that is at
least on par with, if not higher,
In order for the dean and his staff
than those schools with which
to do their jobs, we must do ours.
we compete. In order for the
dean and his staff to do their
jobs, we must do ours.
Your Alumni Council is working to broaden our base of alumni support
through appeals to classmates, and by encouraging firms with two
or more Gators to achieve 100 percent participation through the
Law Firm Giving Program. We also need more individuals and firms
to sponsor Book Awards. If you contributed to the Annual Fund last
year, we look forward to your continued participation. If you did not
contribute to the Annual Fund last year, please consider making a
contribution this year.
We have a great law school, and your support and participation are
needed more now than ever before. Thank you for your involvement.
Rahul Patel (JD 97)
President, University of Florida Law Alumni Council
H O N O R
FALL 2008
R O L L
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Financial Summary
OF GIVING JULY 1, 2007 - JUNE 30, 2008
Donor Types:
Donor Pie Chart
Donors
Gift Count
Gift Total
1,771
28
111
38
1
35
19
107
12
8
35
1
2,166
$1,306,763.10
$62,490.00
$868,123.10
$24,218.74
$200.00
$43,120.00
$48,985.00
$256,254.00
$85,591.00
$101,000.00
$41,172.46
$150.00
$2,838,067.40
Law Alumni
1,487
Alumnus
22
Friend
104
Parent
16
Student
1
UF Faculty
8
Community/Charitable Fund 10
Corporation
89
Family Foundation
10
Foundation
8
Other Organization
16
Religious Org.
1
TOTAL
1,772
Total Cash Received:
Donors & Gifts
2005-2006: Represents all gifts
to the Levin College of Law. State
match money has been excluded.
Fiscal Year
2004
3,000
2,500
Amount
$1,929,432
2005
$3,791,324
2006
$5,741,724
2007
$4,224,013
2008
$2,838,067
2,782
2,503
2,000
2,130
2,440
2,088
2,434
2,166
2,097
1,890
1,772
1,500
Donors
Gifts
1,000
500
0
2004
2005
2006
Fiscal Year
Total Participation:
Total Giving Participation
(all donor types)
9.8%
Total Alumni Giving Participation
8.3%
Annual Fund Participation
7.5%
2008
Fund Balance
Endowment Income
Gifts to the law school’s endowment are not
spent, but instead are carefully invested to
yield a dependable, stable source of income
in perpetuity. Approximately 4 percent of
earned interest from the market value of the
endowment fund balance was transferred
and spent for specific uses designated by
donors and by college administrators for
annual operating and administrative costs.
(The additional earned interest above the
4 percent is returned to the fund balance.)
The fund is managed by the University of
Florida Foundation Investment Company
(UFICO), which oversees investments and law
school endowment income.
2007
Interest
Transferred
1998-1999
$43,410,446
$1,197,483
1999-2000
$57,931,929
$2,129,167
2000-2001
$58,442,477
$2,907,585
2001-2002
$59,837,880
$2,971,718
2002-2003
$46,903,630
$2,287,087
2003-2004
$52,975,580
$1,582,204
2004-2005
$59,588,895
$1,634,109
2005-2006
$67,250,539
$2,004,200
2006-2007
$81,594,986
$2,512,741
2007-2008
$83,571,816
$2,929,866
Finance
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Annual Fund Participation:
Annual Fund Contributions
Contributions received to non-endowed, non-building funds
Fiscal Year
Donors
Participation
2004
1571
9.20%
2005
1595
9.34%
2006
1623
9.51%
2007
1,439
8.21%
2008
1,315
7.5%
2008 Average Gift: $569.03
$722,826
$640,121
$600,000
$552,703
$529,672
$500,000
9.20% 9.34%
$450,000
9.51%
8.21%
1500
7.5%
$400,000
$350,000
1000
$300,000
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
Fiscal Year
500
0
$747,715
$700,000
$550,000
2000
Participants
$800,000
2004 2005 2006 2007
2008
Fiscal Year
Gator Law Alumni Receptions
“Beat the Bulldogs” UF Law
Alumni Reception
October 30, 2008
FIRM SPONSORS
Volpe, Bajalia, Wickes,
Rogerson & Wachs
INDIVIDUAL SPONSORS
Jim Theriac
Charlie Commander III
Even Yegelwel
Chris Hand
L.E. Hutton
Corinne Hodak
W.C. Gentry
Florida Bar Mid-Year Meeting
January 17, 2008
FIRM SPONSORS
Akerman Senterfitt
Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg,
Paul, LLP
White & Case
Lott & Friedland
INDIVIDUAL SPONSORS
Bruce Harris
Stumpy Harris
Malcolm B. Wiseheart Jr.
M. Therese Vento and Peter M.
MacNamara
Marc Wites
Ronald J. Antonin
Stephen N. Zack
GATOR LAW ALUMNI RECEPTIONS Alumni receptions and
other events around the nation are made possible by annual fund
contributions from firms and individuals who understand the long-term
value of close ties to the law school, alumni and legal profession.
FALL 2008
F. Wallace Pope Jr.
Scott G. Hawkins
Ellen C. Ham
Florida Bar Annual Meeting
June 19, 2008
FIRM SPONSORS
Boies, Schiller, and Flexner LLP
Greenberg Traurig
Jones Foster Stubbs
Akerman Senterfitt
Ruden McClosky
Avera and Smith
INDIVIDUAL SPONSORS
Scott Atwood
Barry Rigby
F. Wallace Pope
W.C. Gentry
Dubose Ausley
Bruce H. Bokor
Oscar A. Sanchez
Grier Pressly
Scott G. Hawkins
Betsy Ellwanger Gallagher
Ginny R. Neal
Lawrence E. and
Cathy M. Sellers Jr.
Crit Smith
Malcolm B. Wiseheart Jr.
J. Dudley Goodlette
Rahul Patel
Peter M. MacNamara &
M. Therese Vento
Alumni Receptions
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I loved my time at UF as an undergrad, and staying in
Gainesville for my law degree was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. I recently joined a firm where
all the lawyers are Gator alumni. To me, supporting
the law school helps ensure that generations of Gator
lawyers to come will continue to have the wonderful
opportunities I have been privileged to have.
—SARAH ELIZABETH RUMPF (BA 00 / JD 03)
Vose Law Firm, LLP
Winter Park, Fla.
The Endowed Fund
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Chairs & Professorships
Dennis A. Calfee Eminent Scholar
Chair in Federal Taxation
Abel Band
Terrance B. Adamson & Edith E. Holiday
Matthew J. Ahearn
David J. & Jerrie Akins
David S.& Myrna L. Band
Barnett, Bolt, Kirkwood, Long & McBride
Philip B. & Barbara Barr Jr.
S. C. Battaglia Family Foundation, Inc.
W. Michael Black
R. Mason & Amelia Blake
Darryl M. & Mary Bloodworth
Bovay, Cook & Ossi, P.A.
Boyer, Dolasinski, Miller & Martin P.C.
William A. & Laura Boyles
Stephen J. & Sharon Bozarth
Paul D. Fitzpatrick & Mary Jo Buckingham
Jane D. Callahan
Marc D. & Tracy D. Chapman
Gary J. Cohen
Alan B. & Lauren K. Cohn
Richard B. Comiter & Associates P.A.
Christopher R. D’Amico
Alan H. Daniels
Terrence T. & Jeanne Dariotis
Dean Mead
Lauren Y. Detzel
Nathaniel L. & Debra Doliner
Charles H. & Karen A. Egerton
David H. & Kathryn Evaul
Alfred M. & Eleanor Falk
Alan S. & Marcia Gassman
John N. & Ruth T. Giordano
Robert E. Glennon Jr.*
Scott E. & Cheryl L. Gordon
Bradley R. & Vanessa R. Gould
James A. Hauser
Lynn J. & Evelyn R. Hinson
Peter T. & Karla Dann Kirkwood
Steven C. Lee
Stephen A. Lind
William V. & Shirley Linne
Stephen R. & Paige B. Looney
Peter M. MacNamara & M. Therese Vento
Erick S. & Nancy B. Magno
Robert W. & Barbara J. Mead Jr.
Michael D. & Mary P. Minton
Louis & Janet M. Nostro Jr.
Brian M. & Joan B. O’Connell
Robert E. & Jeanne Panoff
Lindy L. Paull
David H. & Cheryl R. Peek
Note: Names in the Honor Roll listing followed by
an asterik (*) are members of the 1909 Society.
UF LAW
Chad T. & Pamela O. Price
J. Stephen Pullum
Purcell, Flanagan & Hay, P.A.
Richard M. & Gail M. Robinson
Sarah E. Rumpf
Randolph J. & Sue N. Rush
Schwab Charitable Fund
John J. & Lynn G. Scroggin
Hans G. & Deborah M. Tanzler III
Tescher & Spallina, P.A.
David P. & Debbie M. Webb
Williams, Parker, Harrison, Dietz & Getzen
Ronnie H. Walker Scholarship Fund
Anna C. Shea
James J. Freeland Eminent Scholar Chair
in Federal Taxation
Harry S. Colburn Jr.
Allen L. Poucher Legal Education
Series Fund
Betty K. Poucher
Richard B. Stephens Eminent Scholar
Chair in Federal Taxation
Harry S. Colburn Jr.
Allen Norton & Blue Endowed Book
Award in Employment Discrimination
Allen, Norton & Blue
Richard E. Nelson Chair in Local
Government
Jane B. Nelson
Marion J. & Ellyn A. Radson
Brian M. O’Connell Estates and Trusts
Book Award Endowment
Brian M. & Joan B. O’Connell
Scholarships
Coker, Myers, Schickel, Cooper and
Sorensen, P.A. Trial Team Scholarship
Raymond M. Dominick
J. Phillip Warren
Kurt M. Zaner
Edwin Presser Scholarship in Law
Stephen Presser & Diane Archer
Daniel J. Collin
Justin Hillenbrand
Phillip E. & Valerie B. Von Burg
Evan J. Yegelwel Fellowship
Yegelwel Family Foundation
Evan J. & Arlene S. Yegelwel
Goldstein and Ray Scholarship in Honor of
Assistant Dean of Admissions Michael
Patrick
Goldstein & Ray, P.A.
Frank S. Goldstein
GrayRobinson, P.A. Endowed Scholarship
The Freedom Forum
Malcom Kirschenbaum
Law School Faculty Scholarship
Aaron R. & Lisa C. Cohen
Michael D. Eriksen
Brian J. & Cherie M. Gavsie
Kevin Gunning & Sharon T. Sperling
John H. & Linda K. King
James R. & Erin G. Lavigne
Thomas M. Parker
Blan L. Teagle & Lilijean Quintiliani
Gerald B. & Betty L. Stewart
John A. & Lana N. Sunner
Lewis “Lukie” Ansbacher Memorial
Scholarship
Barry B. & Elaine K. Ansbacher
Sybil B. Ansbacher
McLin & Burnsed Scholarship Fund in
Honor of Walter S. McLin & R. Dewey
Burnsed
McLin & Burnsed, P.A.
FALL 2008
Terrye Coggin Proctor Merit Memorial
Scholarship
Kim O’Connor
Theriac-Moore Families’ Scholarship Fund
Yolanda C. Jackson
James S. & Sharon Theriac III
Other Endowed Gifts
Center for Race and Race Relations
Lecture Series Fund
W. George & Enid Allen
Edward Downey Academic Endowment
for Trusts, Estates and Fiduciary
Administration
Edward & Julia D. Downey
Florida Constitutional Law Book
Award Endowment in
Honor of Bill McBride
Robert S. Bolt
Adelaide A. Sink
Gene K. Glasser and Elaine Glasser Fund
Robert G. & Francyn T. Berrin
Bruce H. & Joanne K. Bokor
Ross N. & Candy Clark
Maureen B. Clemente
Alan B. & Lauren K. Cohn
James F. & Gayle T. Comander
Gail Cornblatt
Itzhak & Anna Ezratti
Seymour J. & Barbara Frankfurt
Maurice M. & Judith L. Garcia
Herschel & Susan G. Gavsie
Gene K. & Elaine Glasser
Michael B. & Susan Goldberg
William C. & Ronni Gompers
Sandra & Leon G.
Gulden Private Fdtn.
Barbara C. Hartley
Robert H. & Lisa Jerry II*
David L. & Maida S. Kahn
Russell H. & Karen H. Kasper
Mitchell A. & Amy L. Kaye
Susan L. Lopatin
Samuel & Rose Riemer
Private Foundation
William E. Rosenberg Foundation
Jeffrey M. & Barbara C. Rosenberg
Ronald J. & Cheri M. Rothschild
Stuart A. & Evelyn Schechter
Joyce Silverman
Martin J. & Faith Sperry
J. Harold & Patty Stanley
Jonathon F. & Lesly Wise
Gerald T. Bennett Prosecutor/Public
Defender Training Program
Berry, Day & McFee, P.A.
Brown, Suarez, Rios & Ruhl, P.A.
Denis M. De Vlaming
Matt Destry
Douglas N. & Cathy J. Duncan
FL Public Defender Association, Inc.
The Florida Bar
Florida Bar Foundation
Florida Prosecuting Attorneys Association
GrayRobinson, P.A.
Robert S. & Nannette M. Griscti
Rudy R. Gurrola Jr.
Jeffrey M. Harris
Leslie & Margaret Hess
Holland & Knight LLP
M. James Jenkins
Benedict P. Kuehne
Abraham Lynn Laeser
Law Offices Lyons & Sanders
Frederick P. Mercurio
C. Richard & Kathryn A. Parker
Lisa M. Porter
Candace Sylvia Preston
Rothman & Associates, P.A.
Kevin M. Schmitt
Stidham & Stidham, P.A.
Adam & Regina Tebrugge
Turner & Hodge LLP
David G. Vinikoor
William R. Wade
Don & Pauline Waggoner
Law Review Endowment
Jolyon D. & Christine M. Acosta
Drew M. & Miriam R. Altman
J. Carter & Dana Andersen
Cory L. Andrews
Robert R. Pedlow & Mary Jane Angelo
Robert W. Anthony Jr.
Kendall Coffey & Joni Armstrong Coffey
Kristina L. Arnsdorff
Frank A. & Sharon Ashton
Reubin O. & Donna-Lou Askew
F. Eugene Atwood & Dabney D. Ware
Mark O. Bagnall & Maria I. Urbina-Bagnall
Baker & Hostetler LLP
G. Thomas & Sharon Y. Ball
Dane A. & Jennifer Baltich
Martha W. & Richard R. Barnett
Scott R. & Dana Bauries
Joshua L. & Sara S. Becker
David L. & Angela F. Benjamin
Cecilia M. Bidwell
David L. Bilsker
R. Mason & Amelia S. Blake
Bruce H. & Joanne K. Bokor
Richard K. Bowers Jr. & Janice K. Bowers
David S. & Christine Boyce
Matthew C. & Catherine D. Brewer
Theotis & Jeanelle G. Bronson
Gain Brown & Megan A. Kelly
Joshua R. & Monica R. Brown
David D. & Jamey B. Burns
Rocky M. Cabagnot
James D. & Suzanne Camp Jr.
L. Kinder & Barbara S. Cannon III
Robert A. Caplen
Christopher & Lauren Carmody Jr.
Robert J. & Kathryn A. Carr
Mr. Justin M. Casp &
Courtney Bradley Casp
Jon C. Chassen
Andrew R. Cheslock
Ryan S. Cobbs
R. John & Mary M. Cole II
Community Foundation for
Palm Beach & Martin County
Sarah Cortvriend
Adam E. & Kristin M. Crall
Evans & Sara T. Crary
Jerry B. & Anne O. Crockett
Marion M. Cromwell
Raul A. & Mary L. Cuervo
Deborah E. Cupples
Joshua D. Curry
Stephen E. & Barbara E. Dalton
William B. & Sara C. Dana
Paul W. & Georgia R. Danahy Jr.
Aaron M. & Kelly L. Davis
Kelly F. & Cary B. Davis
C. LeAnn Davis
Kimberly A. Davis
Lauren Y. Detzel
John A. & Sue S. DeVault III
Juan M. Diaz
Derek J. Dilberian
Russell W. & Janice M. Divine
Andrew T. & Anne Dixon
Lawrence J. Dougherty
Charles T. Douglas Jr.
Mayanne Downs
Kenneth J. & Michelle T. Drab Jr.
Dunwody, White & Landon, P.A.
Donald A. & Gene S. Dvornik
John H. Dyer Jr. & Karen Caudill Dyer
James E. & Megan J. Ellis II
Kenneth C. & Mary B. Ellis
Theodore A. Erck III
Patricia Combs Fawsett & Neil Oehlstrom
Peter T. & Pat Fay
Fee Foundation, Inc.
Frank H. & Levan N. Fee III
Joel R. Feldman & Allison D.
Skatoff-Feldman
Waldman Feluren
Brian J. & Stacy B. Fender
Leslie E. Stiers & Melissa Fernandez
Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund
Meredith C. Fields
Daniel R. & Micah G. Fogarty
M. Lanning & Jane P. Fox
S. Katherine Frazier
Michael K. Freedman
James E. & Allison A. Frye Jr.
Andrew M. Fussner
Betsy E. Gallagher
W. C. & Susan Gentry
Patrick E. & Barbara H. Geraghty, Sr.*
Alan M. Gerlach Jr.
THE ENDOWED FUND provides a permanent foundation for the college
and is indispensable in supporting important programs and activities.
Donors give to this fund for many reasons: to provide scholarships,
honor distinguished careers, memorialize loved ones, serve as an
estate-planning tool, or to simply thank and support the college. The
benefits from those gifts are immeasurable and allow the college to
weather state cuts and plan for the future. The donors recognized on
these and the following pages gave in the 2007-2008 fiscal year.
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John M. Gillies
Daniel J. Glassman
Mandell & Joyce Glicksberg
Allison M. Gluvna
Jonathan C. & Mary S. Gordon
Meaghan C. Gragg
Richard C. & Marjory E. Grant
Alexander Grass
Richard D. & Beverly W. Green
E. John & Yali C. Gregory
Robert D. Keliher, Sr. & Linda Suzzanne
Griffin
John F. & Nancy P. Halula
Nicolas Hamann
Gregory C. & Whitney C. Harper
Tim D. & Dyanne F. Henkel
Richard H. & Jane G. Hiers
William T. & Peggy T. Hodges
Holland & Knight Charitable Foundation,
Inc.
Mark L. & Susan J. Horwitz
Charles A. & Joy M. Intriago
Daniel C. & Sheena T. Irick
Edward M. & Mary Jackson
Jeffrey A. Jacobs
Michael L. & Elizabeth P. Jamieson
Elizabeth A. Jenkins & Charles E. Hudson
Robert H. & Lisa Jerry II*
Timothy W. & Jennifer M. Jones
John A. & Margarette L. Jones
JustGive
Hal H. & Vicki Kantor
Stephen E. Kelly
Kimberly R. Keravouri
Michael G. & Lucy W. Kerman
Jesse B. & Carolyn M. Kershner
Robert D. & Elenore C. Klingler
David T. & Carla C. Knight
James N. Knight
Brian H. Koch
Russell Koonin
Kubicki Draper
Steve & Penny Langston
The Law Firm of Robert S. Griscti, P.A.
Alexandra N. Lehson
Robert E. & Kathryn E. Lewis
Rutledge R. & Noel D. Liles
Don R. Livingstone
Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & Reed
M T R, Inc.
Philip E. & Caroline Marshall
Lorie A. Mason
Matheson Appellate Law, P.A.
Gerald G. Matheson & Maureen Monaghan
Matheson
Thomas M. & Shannon C. McAleavey
Michael J. & Marisa L. McDonald
Brian M. & Britton E. McPherson
Ryan G. & Tiffani F. Miller
Lew I. & Jennifer I. Minsky
Daniel F. Molony
John H. & Joan K. Moore II
Andrew A. & Jessica A. Morey
M. Scotland & Margaret K. Morris
Julie A. Moxley
Greg T. Mullane & Joy Sabino Mullane
Edward M. Rima Y. Mullins Jr.
Keith E. Myers
Noel H. & Marianne H. Nation
Shelly E. Nixon
Norris & Foreman, P.A.
Orlando P. & Jennifer L. Ojeda Jr.
John C. & Elizabeth L. Oliver
Toby V. & Berkley A. Olvera
Taylor C. & Misty R. Pancake
Lindsay M. Patrick
Matthew D. & Amber N. Patterson
Carl R. & Madge S. Pennington III
Charles P. & Judith H. Pillans III
Michael A. Piscitelli & June Turner Piscitelli
Scott D. & Ingrid H. Ponce
F. Wallace & Christine R. Pope Jr.
James G. & Kathryn S. Pressly Jr.
Gary R. & Sharon H. Proctor
Paige E. Provenzano
Albert D. Quentel
John H. Rains IV
Patrick C. Rastatter & Mary A. Towne
William P. & Laura M. Reich
Richard M. & Garland L. Reid
Resource Consulting Group, Inc.
Harley E. & Posey C. Riedel II
Joshua H. & Cori W. Roberts
James N. & LaTeshia R. Robinson II
Robin L. Rosenberg
Louis K. & Denise D. Rosenbloum
Matthew L. & Nancy K. Rosin
Thomas K. Ruppert
Randolph J. & Sue N. Rush
Lanny & Denise M. Russell
Christopher J. Ryan
Albert A. & Carolyn E. Sanchez Jr.
Steven E. & Rosalie M. Sanderson
Michael A. Sayre
Daniel L. & Diane L. Schaps
Michael J. & Praewnapa Schefer
Tura L. Schnebly
David C. & Caryn Watsky Scileppi
John H. & Julie H. Seibert
Lawrence E. & Cathy M. Sellers Jr.
Stephen W. & Diana J. Sessums
Abraham M. & Joy M. Shashy Jr.
Lewis E. Shelley & Linda Loomis Shelley
John W. & Eleanor W. Sheppard
Kevin M. Shuler
Rebecca Shwayri
Kenneth M. Sigelman
Bert C. & Joyce M. Simon
Corinne R. Simon
Michael D. & Diane Simon
David T. & Sandra G. Smith
L. Ralph Smith Jr.
Rod & Deidra C. Smith
Rodney W. Smith
W. Kelly & Ruth S. Smith
W. Russell & Iralyn C. Snyder
William R. Snyder Jr.
Joel S. & Stacy F. Speiller
Brian J. & Elizabeth T. Stack
H. Bradley & Audrey L. Staggs
James P. & Colleen C. Stevens
Dustin P. Stevens
Stewart, Tilghman, Fox & Bianchi, P.A.
Kimarie R. Stratos
Robert L. & Terri Tankel
Jeffrey M. & Lisa S. Taylor
Lynsey A. Templeton
Donald R. Tescher
Gregg D. Thomas
Don & Sara Tolliver
Diane A. Tomlinson
Seth P. & Shawna N. Traub
Tara V. Trevorrow
Richard G. Laurie B. Wack
Bill & Ruth W. Wagner
Rachel B. Wagner
Glenn J. & Sheryl Waldman
Zachary D. Warren
Janelle A. Weber
Winifred L. Wentworth
Steven J. Wernick
Scott L. & Lynda J. Whitaker
White & Case LLP
Wilbert’s
Jake R. Williams
Winton E. Williams
Allen C. & Alicia Winsor
Wiseheart Foundation, Inc.
Malcolm B. Wiseheart Jr.
Marc A. & Jennifer Wites
Dale S. & Kristeen R. Witt
Richard M. & Elizabeth B. Zabak
Kurt M. Zaner
Andrew D. & Erica S. Schultz Zaron
Robert R. & Diane J. Zelmer
LLM Tax Law Programs Endowment Fund
The Deaver Phoenix Foundation, Inc.
Marshall M. Criser Distinguished Lecture
Series
The Lewis Schott Foundation
Lewis M. Schott
Peter T. Fay Jurist-In-Residence Program
R. Lanier & Nancy B. Anderson III
Reubin O. & Donna-Lou Askew
David A. & Melissa S. Baker
Rosemary Barkett
Susan H. & Louis E. Black III
Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP
E. G. & Alfreda S. Boone
Ed & Becky Carnes
James I. Cohn
Dean C. & Melinda B. Colson
Anne C. Conway*
Marcia G. Cooke
Jose A. Gonzalez Jr. & Mary S. Copeland
Virginia M. Covington
Marion M. Cromwell
William P. & Natalie B. Dimitrouleas
Michael T. & Paula S. Fay
Peter T. & Pat Fay
W. Ray & Jacquelyn Fortner
William S. & Lyn C. Frates II
Barry L. Garber
Alan S. & Susan F. Gold
Donald L. Graham
Alan G. Greer & Patricia Seitz
Shelby & Mary J. Highsmith
Robert L. Hinkle
William M. Hoeveler
James M. Hopkins
Paul C. & Donna H. Huck
Frank M. Hull
Daniel T. Hurley
Karen S. Jennemann
Adalberto J. & Lazara E. Jordan
Gregory J. Kelly
James L. King
Russell Koonin
Kozyak, Tropin & Throckmorton
Phyllis Kravitch
Richard A. & Celeste L. Lazzara
Joan A. Lenard
Leslie J. Lott & Michael T. Moore
R. Layton Mank & Mary Stuart Mank
Louise Marra
Jose E. Martinez
Chris M. McAliley
Catherine P. McEwen
Howell Melton, Sr. & Catherine W. Melton
George Mencio Jr.
Steven D. Merryday
Stephan P. & Evelyn M. Mickle
Donald M. & Victoria J. Middlebrooks
Leroy H. Moe
James S. & Kelli O. Moody Jr.
Kevin M. & Eva C. Moore
John H. & Joan K. Moore II
Federico A. & Cristina M. Moreno
John & Cathy O’Sullivan
Peter R. Palermo
Robert L. & Lyn S. Parks
Alexander L. Paskay
S. Daniel & Nancy Ponce
Philip E. Rothschild & Robin S.
Rosenbaum
Kenneth L. Ryskamp
Harvey E. & Lois B. Schlesinger
Buddy & Mary Lou Schulz
Barry S. Seltzer
Howard & Nancy Snyder
John E. & Lynda Steele
Stewart, Tilghman, Fox & Bianchi, P.A.
Sidney A. & Annette Stubbs Jr.
Tigert Fund
Ursula M. Ungaro-Benages
Ann E. Vitunac
A. Ward & Ruth Wagner Jr.*
Vic & Vicki J. Weinstein
Michael G. Williamson
Thomas G. Nancy M. Wilson
William J. Zloch
Rebecca Jakubcin Labor & Employment
Law Book Award Fund
Janne C. Foster
Fisher & Phillips LLP
Joseph W. & Darcy Gagnon
Richard H. Simons Charitable Trust
Faculty Professional Development Fund
Richard H. Simons Charitable Trust c/o
Robert & Judith Kramer
W. Kelly and Ruth Smith Law Endowment
W. Kelly & Ruth Smith
White Collar Crime Endowed Book Award
in Honor of Charles P. Pillans
Cynthia G. Edelman Family Foundation
Daniel M. Edelman & Cindy Stein
Wolf Family American Property Law
Lecture Endowment
Michael A. & Betty M. Wolf
Please report any corrections to Sara Cocolin at
cocolin@law.ufl.edu or call 352-273-0640.
The Endowed Fund
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UF LAW
I feel sincerely honored to receive
a book award. Through the
generous support of alumni,
book awards are a tradition that
link the past with the future generations of lawyers from UF Law.
After I graduate, I hope to be able
to help continue the tradition.
Immigration Law
Mark Citrin, Esq.
—EMILY BANKS (3L)
International Business Transactions
John C. & Tifi Bierley (Endowed)
Administrative Law
Timothy M. & Lorena J. Cerio
Advanced Bankruptcy
Stichter, Riedel, Blain & Prosser, PA
Advanced Litigation
Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster,
Kantor & Reed, PA
Advanced Problems in Bankruptcy
& Debtor Creditor Law
Jacksonville Bankruptcy Bar Association
In Memory of The Honorable
George L. Proctor
Agricultural Law & Policy
Ernest A. Sellers
Appellate Advocacy
Hicks & Kneale, PA
Gary Lee Printy, Esq.
Bruce Rogow/Rogow Greenberg Foundation
George A. Vaka
Business Organizations
William A. Weber
Child, Parent & State
The Hon. Barbara Pariente &
The Hon. Fred Hazouri
Civil Procedure
Fox, Wackeen, Dungey, Sweet, Beard, Sobel
& McCluskey, LLP
Gwynne A. Young
W.C. Gentry, Esq.
Civil Tax Procedure
R. Lawrence Heinkel, Esq.
Conservation Clinic
Alton & Kathleen Lightsey.
Constitutional Law
Patrick E. Geraghty, PA
Kenneth R. Johnson &
Kimberly Leach Johnson
Bruce Rogow, Esq./
Rogow Greenburg Foundation
Oscar A. Sanchez, Esq.
Contracts
Bilzin Sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod LLP
Foley & Lardner
Richard C. Grant (JD 72)
In Honor of Professor Ernest Jones
Corporations
Marshall M. Criser, Esq. & Glenn L. Criser, Esq.
Rahul Patel, Esq.
Mayanne Downs, Esq.
W. Crit Smith
Corporate Taxation LLM
Jerald D. & Susan August
Robert Glennon
Creditors’ Remedies & Bankruptcy
Jeffrey W. Warren, Esq.
Ian Leavengood
In Memory of Richard T. Leavengood,
Esq.
Criminal Clinic – Public Defender Clinic
The Hon. W. Fred Turner Memorial
(Endowed)
Criminal Law
Anthony S. Battaglia, Esq.
Thomas Edwards
R. Timothy Jansen, Esq.
Harris, Guidi, Rosner, Dunlap & Rudolph, PA
Criminal Procedure – Odversary System
Phillip J. Mays, Esq., In Honor of
Professor Kenneth B. Nunn
Criminal Procedure – Police & Police
Practices
Linnes Finney Jr., Esq.
Deferred Compensation
Andrew J. Fawbush, Esq.
Eminent Domain & Takings
Bruce M. Harris, Esq. & Stumpy Harris, Esq.
Employment Discrimination
Allen, Norton & Blue, PA (Endowed)
Environmental Law
Professor Mandell Glicksberg Award
Established by Robert A. Mandell
Estate Planning
C. Randolph & Cheryl R. Coleman
Edward F. Koren, Esq. (Endowed)
Estates & Trusts
Jones, Foster, Johnston & Stubbs, PA
Brian M. O’Connell (Endowed)
Evidence
Clarke, Silverglate, Campbell, Williams
& Montgomery, PA
Class of 1955 (Reunion Class Gift)
GrayRobinson, PA (Endowed)
Wm.Terrell Hodges
Family Law
Roberta F. Fox
In Memory of Irmgard Charlotte Fox
Federal Courts
F. Wallace Pope Jr., Esq.
First Amendment Law
Becky Powhatan Kelley
Florida Administrative Law
Lawrence E. & Cathy M. Sellers
Florida Constitutional Law
Alex Sink & Bob Bolt (JD 71) In Honor of
Bill McBride (JD 75) (Endowed)
Partnership Taxation
Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor
& Reed, Pa (LL.M.)
Income Taxation Of Estates & Trusts
Emmanuel, Sheppard & Condon, PA
Procedures in Tax Fraud Cases
A. Brian Phillips
Insurance
Merlin Law Group, PA
Professional Responsibility
& The Legal Profession
Dean, Mead, Egerton, Bloodworth,
Capouano & Bozarth, PA
In Memory of Andy Fredricks (Endowed)
Doug & Jack Milne
Hill, Ward & Henderson, PA
K. Judith Lane
Intellectual Property
Lott & Friedland, PA
Intellectual Property Litigation
Feldman Gale, PA
Property
Professor Emeritus Mandell Glicksberg,
Established by Andrew C. Hall, Esq.
& Lames A. Hauser, Esq. (Endowed)
David C. Sasser
Jeffrey Brock
International Law
Marjorie & Bryan Thomas
International Litigation & Arbitration
Michael J. McNerney, Esq.
Jurisprudence
Bill Hoppe, Esq.
Remedies
Fassett, Anthony & Taylor, PA
Labor & Employment Law
Fisher & Phillips, LLP (Endowed)
In Memory of Rebecca Jakubcin
Securities Regulation
Daniel Aronson
Land Finance
Rick and Aase Thompson
Land Use Planning & Control
Casey Ciklin Lubitz Martens & O’Connell
Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster Kantor &
Reed, Pa
Law & Psychiatry
Lawrence Keefe
Law Review
Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & Reed,
PA (Endowed)
Shook, Hardy & Bacon, LLP (Endowed)
Legal Accounting
Brett Hendee, PA
Legal History
Bruce and Brad Culpepper
Legal Research & Writing
Constance K. & Grover C. Freeman
Robert H. & Lisa Jerry II & Tracy Rambo
Catherine Barclift Memorial
Mediation
James F. Page Jr., PA/Page Mediation
Media Law
Thomas & Locicero, Pl
State and Local Taxation
Ausley & McMullen, PA
Taxation of Gratuitous Transfers
Richard H. Simons Charitable Trust
Tax Policy
Tax Analysts, Inc.
Torts
R. Vinson Barrett, Esq.
Paul Linder, Esq.
Charles M. Rand, Esq.
Gerald Schackow
Trial Practice
Barry L. Davis/Thornton, Davis & Fein, PA
Bill Bone, Esq.
Bush Ross, PA
Milton, Leach, Whitman, D’Andrea,
Charek & Milton, PA
Monte J. Tillis Jr. Memorial (Endowed)
Scott D. Sheftall
Vaka, Larson & Johnson, Pl
Volpe, Bajalia, Wickes, Rogerson & Wachs
U.S. International Tax I
Richard A. Jacobson, PA
Medical Technology And The Law
James E. Thomison
Negotiation, Mediation & Other Dispute
Resolution Processes
Johnson, Auvil, Brock, & Wilson, PA
Partnership Taxation
Peter J. Genz, Esq. (J.D.)
Sports Law
Frances Greer Israel,
Established by William C. Israel
White Collar Crime
In Honor Of Charles P. Pillans, III (Endowed)
Workers’ Compensation
& Other Employment Rights
Rosenthal & Weissman, PA
BOOK AWARDS honor academic achievement by recognizing the top
student in each course, while providing essential unrestricted Annual Fund
support for UF Law students, student organizations, faculty and programs.
Awards are sponsored for five years with $2,500 annually, or endowed
in perpetuity with $50,000. For more information, please contact:
Development & Alumni Affairs, Levin College of Law, 352-273-0640.
Book Awards
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While on our life’s journey, we must never forget those
people and institutions that contributed to our personal
successes. I am always proud to be a member of the
legal profession. I am always grateful that I received
my legal education at the University of Florida.
—EVAN J. YEGELWEL, ESQ. (JD 80)
Terrell Hogan Ellis Yegelwel, P.A.
Jacksonville, Fla.
Founders Society - gold
Charles W. & Betty Jo E. Abbott
Terrance B. Adamson & Edith E. Holiday
AT&T
Attorneys’ Title Insurance Fund
Bank of America v. Felisa Lallana
John Bargas
The Robert S. & Mildred M. Baynard Trust
John C. & Tifi Bierley
E. G. & Alfreda S. Boone
Mary B. Bryant
Lynn E. Burnsed
James D. & Suzanne W. Camp Jr.
Walter G. Campbell Jr.
Carlton Fields
Warren M. & Dorothy C. Cason
Luther W. Coggin Jr.
Coker, Schickel, Sorenson & Daniel
Howard C. Coker
Marshall M. Criser
Irving Cypen
John H. & Mary Lou D. Dasburg
Dean Mead
Jack C. Demetree
Edward & Julia D. Downey
The Dunspaugh-Dalton Foundation
Jessie Ball duPont Fund
Ray F. Ferrero Jr.
The Florida Bar
Florida Bar Foundation
W. C. Gentry Family Foundation
W. C. & Susan Gentry
GrayRobinson
William & Eva Gruman
Andrew C. Hall & Gail S. Meyers*
Wayne Hogan
Holland & Knight Charitable Foundation
Holland & Knight
Icard, Merrill, Cullis, Timm, Furen & Ginsburg
Justice Story Book Exchange
Nick Kapioltas
Robert G. Kerrigan
Kerrigan, Estess, Rankin & McLeod
Gerald J. Klein
The Kresge Foundation
Lane, Trohn, Bertrand & Vreeland
Allen L. Poucher Jr. & Diane Larson
Levin & Papantonio Family Foundation
Fredric G. & Marilyn K. Levin
The Lewis Schott Foundation
Stephen A. Lind
Lake H. Lytal Jr.
John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Macfarlane, Ferguson & McMullen
Margaret MacLennan
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Distinguished Donors
FOUNDERS SOCIETY
Members receive permanent
recognition in the annual report.
GOLD: Annual Gifts and five-year
pledges of $100,000 and up.
SILVER: Annual Gifts and five-year
pledges of $50,000-$99,999.
DEAN’S COUNCIL
Members receive full President’s
Council benefits and recognition,
invitations to special events, and
distinguished recognition in the
annual report.
BARRISTER: Gifts and five-year
pledges of $25,000-$49,999.
PARTNER: Gifts and five-year
pledges of $10,000-$24,999.
ASSOCIATE: Gifts and five-year
pledges of $5,000-$9,999.
Michael C. Maher
Martin Z. Margulies
McLin & Burnsed
John M. McNatt Jr.
Robert G. & Joelen K. Merkel
Mershon, Sawyer, Johnston,
Dunwody & Cole
Montgomery Family Charitable Trust
Morgan & Morgan
John B. & Ultima D. Morgan
Motley Rice
James H. Nance
National Center for Automated Info
Research
Jane B. Nelson
Brian M. & Joan B. O’Connell
Benjamin F. Overton
Whit Palmer Jr.
Kitty Phillips
Betty K. Poucher
Justus W. Reid, Sr.
Stephen H. & Elizabeth P. Reynolds
Mikel M. Rollyson
William E. Rosenberg Foundation
Gerald A. & Ingrid M. Rosenthal*
J. Quinton Rumph
Saliwanchik, Lloyd & Saliwanchik
John J. Schickel, Sr.
Lewis M. & Marcia Whitney(d) Schott
Security Sales
T. Terrell Sessums, Sr.
Benedict A. Silverman
Richard H. Simons Charitable Trust
W. Kelly & Ruth S. Smith
Gerald Sohn
Lynn D. Solomon
Steel, Hector & Davis
Sidney A. & Annette Stubbs Jr.
1909 SOCIETY
The 1909 Society commemorates
the founding year of the law
school and honors individuals
who support the law school’s
annual fund program. See page
75 for more details. Annual fund
gifts (contributions designated to
non-endowed, non-building funds)
of $2,000-$4,999. All current
members of the 1909 Society are
designated in this report by an
asterisk (*).
TRUSLER SOCIETY
Annual gifts of $1,000-$4,999
Members receive special
recognition in the annual report.
ENRICHMENT SOCIETY
Annual gifts of $100-$999.
Donors are recognized in the
annual report.
Glenn W. Sturm
The Carl S. Swisher Foundation
James S. & Sharon L. Theriac III
Robert L. & Doris M. Trohn*
United Way of Miami-Dade
Upchurch Watson White &
Max Mediation Group
Jeffrey W. & Susan P. Warren*
Michael A. & Betty M. Wolf
Samuel J. & Evelyn Wood Foundation
Frank Wotitzky
Yent Bayou Properties Partnership
C. Steven Yerrid
Zimmerman, Kiser & Sutcliffe
Founders Society - silver
C. Wayne & Kethryn Alford
Allen, Norton & Blue
C. DuBose & Sallie M. Ausley
David S. & Myrna L. Band
Barnett, Bolt, Kirkwood, Long & McBride
Bedell, Dittmar, DeVault, Pillans & Coxe
Joseph Benzinger
Bruce H. & Joanne K. Bokor
Carol M. Brewer
Broad & Cassel
Bush Ross
Daniel J. Collin
Community Foundation of Tampa Bay
Hugh F. Culverhouse Jr.
Meredyth Anne Dasburg Foundation
George H. DeCarion
Kenneth C. Johnson & M. Debra L. Donner
Dunwody, White & Landon
Philip I. & Barbara L. Emmer
Robert M. Ervin
Ladd H. & Renee M. Fassett
Henry A. Finkelstein Memorial
Fisher & Phillips
The Florida Bar Tax Section
Fonvielle, Lewis, Foote & Messer
Michael K. & Jacqueline Friel
Ellen B. Gelberg
Gene K. & Elaine R. Glasser
Ruth Goodmark
Stumpy & Dorothy L. Harris*
James A. Hauser
Justin Hillenbrand
Corinne C. Hodak
Wayne & Patricia Hogan Family Foundation
David & Marie Hyman
E. C. Deeno Kitchen
Edward F. Koren
Krome Realty
LexisNexis
Lawrence A. Lokken
Kevin A. & Jeanette Malone
Francis T. McCoy
Gene Moore III
Jon C. Moyle
National Conference of Bar Examiners
Mark A. Nouss
F. Wallace & Christine R. Pope Jr.
James G. & Kathryn S. Pressly Jr.
Mark J. Proctor
Reid, Ricca & Rigell
David M. Richardson
Richman Greer
Richard M. & Gail M. Robinson
Rumberger, Kirk & Caldwell
Buddy & Mary Lou Schulz
Searcy Denny Scarola Barnhart & Shipley
Shutts & Bowen
Richard B. Stephens Jr.
Hans G. & Deborah M. Tanzler III
Terrell, Hogan, Ellis & Yegelwel
John Thatcher
U.S. Sugar Corporation
Philip E. & Valerie B. Von Burg
A. Ward & Ruth S. Wagner Jr.*
Charles T. & Linda F. Wells
Scott L. & Lynda J. Whitaker
Winderweedle, Haines, Ward and
Woodman
Susan Winn
Yegelwel Family Foundation
Evan J. & Arlene S. Yegelwel
Yerrid Foundation
Barristers
Mark O. & Maria I. Urbina-Bagnall
S. C. Battaglia Family Foundation
Robert S. Bolt
Lauren K. & Alan B. Cohn
Cynthia G. Edelman Family Foundation
The Deaver Phoenix Foundation
Daniel M. Edelman & Cindy Stein
John N. & Ruth T. Giordano
Goldstein & Ray
Frank S. Goldstein
K. Lawrence Maureen G. Gragg
William V. & Eva Gruman
John H. Haswell
Hal H. & Vicki Kantor
Chris M. & Kathleen D. Limberopoulos
Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & Reed
Peter M. MacNamara & M. Therese Vento
Erick S. & Nancy B. Magno
William H. McBride Jr. & Adelaide A. Sink
Michael J. McNerney
Cynthia F. O’Connell
A. Brian Phillips*
White & Case
Stephen N. Zack
Partners
Thomas C. & Elisa V. Allison
Dan Aronson*
Jerald D. & Susan R. August*
Ausley & McMullen
Philip B. & Barbara L. Barr Jr.
Bilzin Sumberg
Bill Bone*
Bovay, Cook & Ossi
Jeffrey P. & Jan M. Brock*
Casey Ciklin Lubitz Martens & O’Connell
Timothy M. & Jayne Cerio*
Mark & Andrea H. Citrin
C. Randolph & Cheryl Coleman
Richard B. Comiter & Associates
Anne C. Conway*
Bruce & Virginia M. Culpepper
Brad Culpepper II
Brian T. Degnan*
Lauren Y. Detzel
Mark P. Dikeman
Mayanne Downs
Thomas L. & Christine F. Edwards*
Peter T. & Pat Fay
FL Public Defender Association
Florida Prosecuting Attorneys Association
Foley & Lardner
Peter J. Genz*
Patrick E. & Barbara H. Geraghty, Sr.*
Robert E. Glennon Jr.*
Richard C. & Marjory E. Grant*
Sandra & Leon G. Gulden Private
Foundation
Harris, Guidi, Rosner, Dunlap, Rudolph &
Catlin
Brett T. & Rhonda K. Hendee
Hicks & Kneale
Mark Hicks
Hill, Ward & Henderson
Bill & Angela A. Hoppe
Jacksonville Bankruptcy Bar Association
Richard A. & Lisa G. Jacobson*
R. Timothy Jansen
Kenneth R. & Kimberly L. Johnson*
Leonard H. Johnson
Jones, Foster, Johnston & Stubbs
Becky Powhatan Kelley*
Peter T. & Karla Dann Kirkwood
K. Judith Lane*
Lewis, Longman & Walker
Paul R. Linder
Brian J. McDonough
Milton, Leach, Whitman, D’Andrea &
Milton
Michael D. & Mary P. Minton
Louis & Janet M. Nostro Jr.
James F. & Dianne S. Page Jr.
Rahul & Swati R. Patel*
Lindy L. Paull
David H. & Cheryl R. Peek
Stephen Presser & Diane Archer
DISTINGUISHED DONORS are individuals, businesses and
organizations contributing at the following levels: Founders Society,
Dean’s Council, 1909 Society, Trusler Society and Enrichment Society.
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Gary L. & Suzanne Printy*
J. Stephen Pullum
Jorge F. Ramirez Tubilla
John M. Rawicz
Oscar A. Sanchez & Lida R.
Rodriguez-Taseff*
Randolph J. & Sue N. Rush
David C. & Ronna G. Sasser*
Gerald D. & Joanne W. Schackow*
John J. & Lynn G. Scroggin
David M. Seifer
Lawrence E. & Cathy M. Sellers Jr.*
Ernest A. & Norma M. Sellers
Scott D. Sheftall
W. Crit & Dee Ann Smith*
Stichter, Riedel, Blain & Prosser
Thomas & LoCicero
Bryan M. & Marjorie B. Thomas*
James E. Thomison
Rick & Aase B. Thompson
George A. Vaka
William A. Weber
White & Case
K. Taylor White
Gwynne A. Young*
Associates
Akerman Senterfitt
W. George & Enid Allen
Cory L. Andrews
Barry B. & Elaine K. Ansbacher
Sybil B. Ansbacher
Elinore Aronovitz
Baker & Hostetler
Boies, Schiller & Flexner
Boyer, Dolasinski, Miller & Martin
William A. & Laura M. Boyles
Paul D. Fitzpatrick & Mary Jo Buckingham
Richard B. Bush
Maria C. Carantzas
Mercer K. Clarke
Cobb Family Foundation
Gary J. Cohen
Dean C. & Melinda B. Colson
Raul A. Mary L. Cuervo
Nathaniel L. & Debra L. Doliner
Jeffrey R. Dollinger
Thomas M. Ervin Jr.
Michael T. & Paula S. Fay
Frank H. Levan N. Fee III
Donald J. Forman
William S. & Lyn C. Frates II
Richard T. Garfield
Michael B. & Susan Goldberg
Scott E. & Cheryl Gordon
Stephen H. & Fay F. Grimes
Eric Stanley Gruman
Perry G. Gruman
Paul C. & Donna H. Huck
Yolanda C. Jackson
Richard C. Jans
Russell H. & Karen H. Kasper
Kluger, Peretz, Kaplan & Berlin
Christine N. Markussen & James P. Walsh
George I. Milev
Please report corrections to Sara Cocolin at
cocolin@law.ufl.edu or call 352-273-0640.
Daniel F. Molony
James B. Murphy Jr.
Darrell W. Deborah J. Payne
Mark S. Peters
Matthew N. & Kathleen B. Posgay
Chad T. & Pamela O. Price
Purcell, Flanagan & Hay
Albert D. Quentel
John T. & Leah A. Rogerson III
Dale M. Swope & Diane Ross
Stephen F. Rossman
Juliet M. & Derick J. Roulhac
Albert A. & Carolyn E. Sanchez Jr.
Sarah Helene Sharp
Jacqueline Allee Smith
Mark & Shari L. Somerstein
Stewart, Tilghman, Fox & Bianchi
Andrew K. & Marie S. Strimaitis
Tescher & Spallina
Donald R. Tescher
Timothy W. & Roslyn B. Volpe
John K. & Marie L. Vreeland
Jack A. & Jordana S. Weiss
Samuel G. Wells
J. J. & Susan L. Wicker II
Williams, Parker, Harrison, Dietz & Getzen
Michael K. Wilson
Leighton D. & Phyllis H. Yates Jr.*
Trusler Society
Abel Band, Chartered
T. W. & Margrette P. Ackert*
Akerman Senterfitt
David J. Akins
Herbert L. Allen
Robert & Rebecca Altman
J. Carter & Dana Andersen
Timothy G. & Carole W. Anderson*
Reubin O. & Donna-Lou Askew
Richard C. Ausness
Avera & Smith
Fletcher N. & Nancy T. Baldwin Jr. *
G. Thomas & Sharon Y. Ball
Earl M. Barker Jr. & Ann I. Wingate
Martha & Richard R. W. Barnett, Sr.
R. Vinson & Carlene A. Barrett*
Suzanne C. Bass Trust
Jean A. Bice
David L. Bilsker
W. O. Birchfield & Dana L. Ferrell*
R. Mason & Amelia S. Blake
Darryl M. & Mary Bloodworth
Jeffery A. & Shirley L. Boone*
Danaya C. Wright & Kendal L. Broad*
Richard D. Fultz & Patricia L.
Burquest-Fultz*
J. Thomas & Kathy A. Cardwell
Robert J. & Kathryn A. Carr
Sylvia F. Carra-Hahn & William E. Hahn
Central Florida Bankruptcy Law
Association
Allan P. & Betsy F. Clark*
Richard P. Cole*
Charles E. Commander
Community Foundation for Palm Beach &
Martin County
Gary D. & Nancy K. Condron*
Drew S. Fine & Susan E. Cook*
Sarah Cortvriend
Cousins Law Firm
Glenn L. & Michele Criser
Barry R. & Paula Davidson
George L. & Sally K. Dawson*
John A. & Sue S. DeVault III
Rosanne M. Duane
James E. Eaton Jr.
Charles H. & Karen A. Egerton
Dennis J. & Debra W. Eisinger*
Kenneth C. & Mary B. Ellis
Patrick G. & Olivia B. Emmanuel*
Peter C. K. & Janet W. Enwall*
ESR Foundation
Fassett, Anthony & Taylor
Andrew J. & Melinda W. Fawbush
Fee Foundation
Feldman Gale*
William Goza
Jeffrey D. Feldman*
Michael L. & Jane M. Ferguson*
William H. Ferguson*
Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund
Tony M. Fineman
James C. & Mary K. Fleming*
Florida Lawyers Legal Insurance
Corporation
W. Ray & Jacquelyn Fortner
The Freedom Forum
Andrew M. Fussner
James A. Gale*
Betsy E. Gallagher
Juan J. Rodriguez & Marvie Ann GarciaRodriguez
Gassman, Bates & Associates
James L. & Emily P. George
Ellen R. & James A. Gershow
Linda R. Getzen
Meaghan C. Gragg
Alexander Grass
Peter J. & Amy S. Gravina
Greenberg Traurig
Marie C. Hansen Trust
Daniel B. & Kathy E. Harrell
Christy F. & Martha C. Harris
Alan T. Hawkins
Scott G. & Lisa Hawkins*
Barbara J. Pariente &
Frederick A. Hazouri*
R. Lawrence & Elizabeth E. Heinkel*
Dennis W. & Kathleen M. Hillier*
B. Douglas Hind-Marsh
John L. Holcomb
Steve C. & Maxine S. Horowitz
Mark L. & Susan J. Horwitz
E. L. Roy Hunt
Thomas R. & Elizabeth M. Hurst*
Scott C. Ilgenfritz &
Margaret D. Mathews*
Elizabeth A. Jenkins
Alan C. & Ellen Jensen
Robert H. & Lisa Jerry II*
JustGive
TLC Stanley Kaplan Test Prep
David B. Mishael & Barbara Kaszovitz*
Lawrence & Lynn M. Keefe*
Kimberly R. Keravouri
James N. Knight
Donald S. & Marilynn Kohla*
Kozyak, Tropin & Throckmorton
Kubicki Draper
James R. Lavigne
Frederick W. & Victoria C. Leonhardt*
Virginia A. Lipton*
Bequests
J. Parker Ailstock
Timothy C. Blake
Michael A. Bedke
John C. Bierley
Susan H. Black
James D. Camp Jr.
Warren M. Cason
James F. Conner II
Debra A. Doherty
Howard L. Garrett
Robert Eugene Glennon
Harold A. Gokey
Ransom Griffin
Robert E. Gunn
Stumpy Harris*
James R. Holmes
Mark Hulsey
Jeffery Q. Jonasen
David T. Knight
Betty LaFace
Frederick W. Leonhardt*
Sam H. Mann Jr.
Harlan E. Markham
Michael J. McNerney
Mark W. Merrill
Gene Moore III
John H. Moore II
Robert W. Morrison
Corneal B. Myers Jr.
Brian M. O’Connell
Benjamin F. & Marilyn(d) Overton
Edward C. Rood
Robert P. Rosin
J. Quinton Rumph
David C. Sasser*
Ronald Y. Schram
Roger Dean Schwenke
T. Terrell Sessums, Sr.
Eric B. Smith
W. Reece Smith Jr.
Robert G. & Susan L. Stern
James S. Theriac III
Don Q. Vining
A. Ward Wagner Jr.*
Sandra L. Warren
Frank Wotitzky
Art Wroble
Stephen N. Zack
William K. Zewadski
(d) denotes deceased
Distinguished Donors
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Don R. Livingstone
Scott Lodin
Donna L. Longhouse
Lott & Friedland
Michael T. Moore & Leslie J. Lott
MTR
R. Layton & Mary Stuart Mank
Margaret D. Mathews & Scott C. Ilgenfritz
Phillip J. & Stacey L. Mays*
William J. & Helen W. McAfee
Thomas M. & Shannon C. McAleavey
Clifton A. & Kathleen H. McClelland Jr.*
Dorothy S. McCurry Trust
Robert W. & Barbara J. Mead Jr.
Joseph C. Mellichamp III &
Barbara J. Staros*
Donald M. & Victoria J. Middlebrooks
Wilton R. Susanne Miller
Jon L. & Beth B. Mills*
Douglas J. & Nora P. Milne*
Leroy H. Moe
James S. & Kelli Moody Jr.
John H. & Joan K. Moore II
Julie A. Moxley
Peter P. & Christina S. Murnaghan*
Nat’l Assn. of Environ. Law Societies
Guy & Dawn Neff Jr.
Gregory A. Nelson
Joseph M. & Mindy C. Nowakowski
James B. & Jingli C. O’Neal
Eduardo Palmer
Julius F. Parker Jr.
Robert L. & Lyn S. Parks
Darwin R. & Kathleen Paustian
S. Austin & Fredda T. Peele
J. Carter & Barbara Perkins, Sr.
David L. Roth & Paula Peterson-Roth*
S. Daniel & Nancy Ponce
Daniel A. & Carla Powers*
Gary R. & Sharon H. Proctor
Eric C. & Barbara Puestow
Mrs. Glenn S. Rankin
Joseph E. Rhile
Gerald F. & Gwen Richman*
Harley E. & Posey Riedel II
Samuel & Rose Riemer Private Foundation
Jesse W. & Margo S. Rigby
Richard M. & Gail M. Robinson
Doyle & Barbara Rogers
Paul G. & Rebecca Rogers*
Rogow Greenberg Foundation
Bruce S. Rogow
Rosenthal & Levy
Matthew L. & Nancy Rosin
William F. Sheffield
Ruden, McClosky, Smith, Schuster & Russell
Johnson S. & Mary Savary
David A. Schmudde
Clifford A. & Michele Schulman
Schwab Charitable Fund
John W. & Eleanor Sheppard
Ned F. Sinder
Barry S. & Carole Sinoff*
Smith, Hulsey & Busey
Sarah J. Spear
Tax Analysts
Grace “Betty” W. Taylor*
Testmasters
Clarence L. & Jo O. Thacker
Uhlfelder & Associates
Daniel W. Uhlfelder
Frank D. & Katherine Upchurch III*
John J. & Karen Upchurch IV
David H. Vickrey*
Volpe, Bajalia, Wickes & Rogerson
Bill & Ruth Wagner
Richard S. Weinstein
Gregory F. Susan K. Wilder*
Wiseheart Foundation
Malcolm B. Wiseheart Jr.
Marc A. & Jennifer Wites
Dale S. & Kristeen Witt
Douglas A. & Patricia Wright
James E. & Vanda Yonge
William K. Zewadski
Peter W. & Joan W. Zinober*
Law Firm Giving
Attorneys in firms across Florida, Georgia and other key areas worked hard
to achieve 100 percent participation of UF Law grads in the Law Firm Giving
Program. This program encourages Gators to make a gift to the Levin College
of Law and support a variety of worthwhile programs. Listed below are the
firm names, office locations and volunteer champions of the participating
firms in three categories: 100 percent, 90-99 percent, and 75-89 percent.
100% Participation Firms
Enrichment Society
1000 Friends of Florida
Barry A. Abbott
Robert G. & Catherine Abood
Luis A. & Sallie B. Abreu
Jolyon D. & Christine M. Acosta
Nathan R. & MaryBeth Adams
Mark A. & Mary Addington
Matthew J. Ahearn
David M. Hudson & J. Parker Ailstock
Ben & Katie Alexander
Larry B. & Susan M. Alexander
Steffan K. Alexander
Linda A. Alley
James W. & Anne W. Almand
Adam L. Alpert
Drew M. & Miriam R. Altman
Joseph L. & Kimberlee Amos Jr.
K. Dino Anastasiades &
Nancy H. Jackson
C. LeDon Anchors Jr.
Stephen A. Medina & Michelle
Anchors
Bruce R. & Donna K. Anderson Jr.
Everett P. & Martha P. Anderson
R. Lanier & Nancy Anderson III
Wallace B. Anderson Jr.
Mary Jane Angelo & Robert R. Pedlow
Ronald P. & Kay W. Anselmo
Robert W. Anthony Jr.
Ronald J. Antonin
Kendall Coffey & Joni Armstrong Coffey
Thomas R. & Dayna Arnold
Kristina L. Arnsdorff
Beth L. Green Aronson &
Michael R. Aronson
Frank A. & Sharon Ashton
Robert S. & Jena R. Atlass
F. Eugene Atwood & Dabney D. Ware
Scott E. & Janet D. Atwood
Thomas F. Slater & Amy L. Austin Slater
Alton D. & Kelly S. Bain
Fred R. Baisden Jr.
Peter & Elizabeth Baker
Janice M. Baker
Haywood M. & Anne Ball
Dane & Jennifer Baltich
Michael R. & Marice Band
Oliver D. & Patricia Barksdale
Brad F. Barrios
Douglas D. & Julia Batchelor Jr.
Bruce McGrew & Joni Batie-McGrew
Evan R. Batoff & Dana A. Friedlander
Charles H. & Molly Baumberger
Scott R. & Dana Bauries
Ryan E. Baya
James P. Beadle
Casey Ciklin Lubitz Martens &
O’Connell, West Palm Beach
Champion: Jessica Callow
Vose Law Firm, Orlando
Champion: Wade Vose
75-99% Participation
Dean, Mead, Egerton, Bloodworth,
Capouano & Bozarth, P.A., Orlando/
Melbourne
Champions: A. Felipe Guerrero
& Laura Young
Bush Ross, P.A., Tampa
Champion: J. Carter Andersen
Harris Harris Bauerle & Sharma, P.A.,
Orlando
Champion: Bruce Harris
Fowler, White, Boggs & Banker, P.A.,
Ft. Myers & Tampa
Champions: Heather Brock,
Richard Jacobson & Jack Weiss
Johnson Pope Bokor Ruppel Burns,
P.A., Clearwater/Tampa
Champion: F. Wallace Pope Jr.
J. Parker Ailstock, P.A., Gainesville
Champion: J. Parker Ailstock
Kubiki Draper, Jacksonville/Miami/
Tallahassee/Tampa/West Palm Bch
Champion: Matthew Posgay
Pressly & Pressly, P.A.,
West Palm Beach
Champion: Grier Pressly
Joseph W. & Geremy G. Beasley
Dan Hamm & Judith E. Beasley
Edward R. & Jill F. Bechtold
Joshua L. & Sara Becker
Thomas J. Becker
Robert J. & Emily Beckham
Frank M. & Ashley Bedell
Dennis J. & Joan F. Beer
John M. & Brannon B. Belcastro
Nancy H. Belli
John E. Leighton & Caryn L. Bellus
David L. & Angela Benjamin
Bernardo Lopez & Janice L. Bergmann
Michael J. & Nancy Bergold
Bill Berke
Berman PLC
Christopher D. & Patricia Bernard
E. Sue Bernie
Yahn W. Bernier
Paul B. Bernstein
Robert G. & Francyn Berrin
Berry, Day & McFee
Cecilia M. Bidwell
Brandon C. & Rachel Biederman
Jay P. Cohen & Christine K. Bilodeau
Christine N. Bird
James O. & Ann L. Birr Jr.
Thomas E. & Elizabeth E. Bishop
Susan H. & Louis E. Black III
W. Michael Black
Dell Graham, Gainesville
Champion: Liz McKillop
King, Blackwell & Downs,
Orlando
Champion: Mayanne Downs
Mateer & Harbert, Ocala
Champion: Gregory Harrell
Shook, Hardy & Bacon, P.A., Tampa
Champion: Darrell Payne
White & Case LLP, Miami
Champion: James Robinson
Gary & Kimberly Blanchard
M. Robert & Julia Blanchard
Block Land & Finance Co.
Byron B. Block
Seymour S. & Gertrude Block
Bart L. Cohen & Hazel Blockman-Cohen
John A. & Lisa Bobango
Andrew J. & Carol Bohlmann
Brian K. & Amy Bokor
Richard A. Bolton
Eve A. Bouchard
David E. & Mollie Bowers
Richard K. & Janice Bowers Jr.
Charles W. & Terri M. Bowles
David S. & Christine Boyce
Christopher W. & Kristine Boyett
Robert J. & Alice Boylston
Stephen J. & Sharon Bozarth
Staci N. Braswell
David A. & Kimberly T. Brennen
Matthew C. & Catherine Brewer
K. Clayton & Sarah M. Bricklemyer
Penny H. Brill
Todd C. Brister
Rebecca L. Brock
W. Bard & Kathryn Brockman
Theotis & Jeanelle Bronson
Terry A. & Christina Brooks
Brown, Suarez, Rios & Ruhl
Gain Brown & Megan A. Kelly
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Greg & Sonya Brown
Joshua R. & Monica Brown
Thomas R. & Margaret Brown
Steven R. & Karen Browning
Hunter J. Brownlee
Michael J. & Rochelle Brudny
Wayne P. & Jennie Bryan
Ernest T. & Susan Buchanan III
Allen & Elmira Buckley
AnneMarie H. Bui
Brian D. Burgoon
Roy D. & Julianna Burke
Jason B. Burnett
David D. & Jamey B. Burns
Tobi B. Butensky
James F. & Patricia Butler III
Rocky M. Cabagnot
Michael C. Caborn
Emily R. Cacioppo
David K. & Donna Cahoone
Jane D. Callahan
Jessica M. Callow
Joseph V. & Karen Camerlengo
John D. & Elizabeth Campo
L. Kinder & Barbara Cannon III
Robert A. Caplen
Christopher & Lauren Carmody Jr.
Joseph P. & Lynn Carolan, III
Elizabeth A. Carrie
Terra N. Carroll
Steven W. Carta
Allan L. Casey
Douglas W. & Nancy Cason
Courtney Bradley Casp & Justin M. Casp
Casey M. & Kelli Cavanaugh
David M. & Sandra Cayce
Marc D. & Tracy Chapman
Jon C. Chassen
Richard R. Chaves &
Misty M. Chaves-Taylor
Andrew R. Cheslock
Christopher M. Chestnut
Elias N. & Carla Chotas
Thomas B. Christenson II
Russell P. Chubb
Ross N. & Candy Clark
George W. Selby Jr. & Maryann Clifford
Ryan S. Cobbs
Martha L. Cochran
Kaitlin Coffinbarger
James I. Cohn
Harry S. Colburn Jr.
R. John & Mary Cole II
Steven R. & Rebecca Cole
Jonathan S. Coleman
Paul S. Rothstein & Suzy Colvin
James F. & Gayle T. Comander
Christopher G. & Barbara Commander
Community Foundation of Greater Lakeland
Congregation B’Nai Israel
Kraig A. & Heather Conn
Dabney L. & Beverly Conner
Valerie A. Conzo
Cooper, Ridge & Lantinberg
Derek S. Cooper
Jose A. Gonzalez Jr. & Mary S. Copeland
Robert J. Corcoran Jr.
Stephen L. & Debra Cordell
Gail Cornblatt
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Dennis G. & Pamela Corrick
Frederick C. Craig Jr.
Evans & Sara Crary
Bryan W. & Jodie Crews
Jerry B. & Anne Crockett
Marion M. Cromwell
Duane H. & Pamela Crone
Robert Scott & Ellen G. Cross
Mary C. Crotty & Daniel S. Livingstone
Samuel L. & Lola Crouch, Sr.
Elizabeth M. Crowder
T. Spencer Crowley III
Paul M. & Jolie M. Cummings
Martin F. Cunniff
Deborah E. Cupples
J. Edward & Janice Curren
Barry A. & Marilyn Currier
Joshua D. Curry
Lauren E. Cury
Enio M. & Andrea P. da Silva
Mark H. & Kimberly C. Dahlmeier
Duane A. & Teresa K. Daiker
Howard A. Swett & Amira Dajani-Swett
Stephen E. & Barbara C. Dalton
Willem A. Daman
Christopher R. D’Amico
William B. & Sara C. Dana
Paul W. & Georgia R. Danahy Jr.
James N. & Linnea J. Daniel III
Alan H. Daniels
Steven L. & Alys N. Daniels
Srinivas R. Dantuluri
Darby, Peele, Bowdoin & Payne
Terrence T. & Jeanne E. Dariotis
Aaron M. & Kelly L. Davis
Hayward H. & Carol Davis
Kelly F. & Cary B. Davis
C. LeAnn Davis
Jeff & Robin Davis
Joseph H. & Lorenia O. Davis III
Kimberly A. Davis
Timothy M. Davlantes &
Teresa Heekin-Davlantes
Denis M. De Vlaming
The Decker Law Firm
Theodore A. Deckert
David M. & Tami C. Delaney
Stephen J. Delaney
V. Robert Denham Jr.
Matt Destry
Christopher A. Detzel
Alexander D. DeVitis
Edward Diaz
Juan M. Diaz
Nelson D. Diaz
John R. & Lavinia D. Dierking
Derek J. Dilberian
Miriam C. Dillard
William P. & Natalie B. Dimitrouleas
Russell W. & Janice M. Divine
Andrew T. & Anne Dixon
David L. & Caroline H. Dixon
Jerome F. & Linda C. Dolan
Andrew J. & Maureen N. Donelson
Carrie R. McDonald & Michael S. Dorris
Lawrence J. Dougherty
Charles T. Douglas Jr.
W. Dexter & Terese Douglass
Donald C. & Nancy E. Dowling Jr.
Kenneth J. & Michelle T. Drab Jr.
Randal H. & Julie J. Drew, Sr.
James O. Lila S. Driscoll
Tammi J. Driver
W. Ford & Freda Duane
We make a living by what we get, but
we make a life by what we give.
—Winston Churchill
Aubrey Harry Ducker Jr. &
Laurie K. Weatherford
Douglas N. & Cathy J. Duncan
David D. & Dayna G. Duncan
Victoria K. & Thomas C. Dunn
William E. & Virginia H. Dunwody III
Stephen M. & Brenna M. Durden
Ronald G. & Mary A. Duryea
Robert V. & Winfield R. Duss
Amitava K. & Harolyn Dutt
Donald A. & Gene S. Dvornik
John H. Dyer, Jr &. Karen Caudill Dyer
Robert A. Dykan
Steven E. & Cari R. Earle
Lisa Easler
Daniel D. & Virginia A. Eckert
Douglas C. Edenfield
Charles F. & Allison C. Edwards
Gregory L. & Donna H. Edwards
Harry P. Edwards
M. Chris & Lisa K. Edwards
Steven S. Eichenblatt
Jeffrey R. & Linda R. Elkin
Thomas A. & Carolyn A. Elliot
James E. & Megan J. Ellis II
Steven & Stacey Ellison
Curtis H. & Belinda W. Engelmann
Theodore A. Erck III
Michael D. Eriksen
Scott B. Strange & Lisa A. Esposito
William A. & Carol D. Evans
David H. & Kathryn E. Evaul
Itzhak & Anna Ezratti
Jennifer M. Faggion
Alfred M. & Eleanor Falk
John M. Farrell
Patricia Combs Fawsett & Neil Oehlstrom
Christopher M. & Carol Fear
Joel R. Feldman & Allison D.
Skatoff-Feldman
Jonathan A. Feldman
Anthony P. Felice
Waldman Feluren
Brian J. & Stacy B. Fender
Kenneth G. & Robyn Ferguson III
Eduardo J. Fernandez
John D. & Linda D. Fernandez
Leslie E. Stiers & Melissa Fernandez
Franklin D. & Teresa G. Fields Jr.
Meredith C. Fields
Gregg H. & Jessica Fierman
Richard J. & Deborah Fildes
Jack J. & Cherie H. Fine
Shawn M. & Kathryn D. Flanagan
Florida Blue Key
Michael T. & Rosanna M. Flury
James L. & Nancy H. Fly
Daniel R. & Micah Fogarty
Stephen E. Fogel
Janne C. Foster
Christopher & Jacqueline Fountas
Michael D. Fowler
Gregory A. & Barbara E. Fox
M. Lanning & Jane P. Fox
Ronald S. Frankel &
Sharon Perlman Frankel
Seymour J. & Barbara Frankfurt
Michael K. Freedman
Wilson & Erna Freeman
W. John McHale III & Nancy S. Freeman
R. Wilson & Sharyn K. Freyermuth
Elizabeth B. Frock
James E. & Allison A. Frye Jr.
Peter J. & Diane M. Fryefield
Jerry A. Funk
George D. & Judith Gabel Jr.
Charles M. & Jean B. Gadd Jr.
Joseph W. & Darcy M. Gagnon
Oshia S. Gainer
Robert P. & Doris B. Gaines
Sherrie B. Galambos
Paul R. & Ann Z. Game
Maurice M. & Judith L. Garcia
Stephen D. Gardner
John A. & Sarah M. Garner
Christopher M. Garrett
Alan S. & Marcia Gassman
Beth Ann Gause
Brian J. & Cherie M. Gavsie
Herschel & Susan Gavsie
Alan M. Gerlach Jr.
Bradford C. & Nancy J. Gibbs
Francis B. Gibbs
Robin & Jean H. Gibson
Joel B. & Anne D. Giles
John M. Gillies
Jill Haberman Giordano
Ashley N. Girolamo
Evan S. Glasser
Daniel J. Glassman
Mandell & Joyce Glicksberg
Allison M. Gluvna
Don E. & Kimberly Goebel
Alan S. & Susan Gold
Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund
Paul M. & Mollene Goldman
Mark E. & Stacey Goldstein
Marcelo R. Gomez
William C. & Ronni Gompers
Don H. Goode & Patrice D.
Pendino-Goode
Freddie L. Goode
John Dudley & Barbara Goodlette
Robert F. & Karen Goodrich
Matthew S. & Shaw Q. Goodrich
James W. & Natalie Goodwin II
Jason Gordon
Jonathan C. & Mary Gordon
Michael A. Levey & Linda Gorens-Levey
Bradley R. & Vanessa Gould
Stanley A. & Mary S. Gravenmier
J. Charles & Saundra H. Gray
Richard D. & Beverly W. Green
Paul A. Greenspan
Alan G. Greer & Patricia Seitz
N. West Gregory
Robert D. Keliher, Sr. &
Linda Suzzanne Griffin
Laurence S. & Courtney Grimm
Robert S. & Nannette Griscti
Bradley C. & Candace Grossenburg
A. Felipe Guerrero
Distinguished Donors
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Vitauts M. Gulbis & Lynn S. Kiehne
William J. Gundlach
Keving Gunning & Sharon T. Sperling
Jack O. & Mary O. Hackett II
Melody A. Hadley
Timothy D. & Patricia G. Haines
John E. & Shirley W. Hale
Eric J. & Kathryn L. Hall
Wallace H. & Tracy L. Hall
Patti W. Halloran
John F. & Nancy P. Halula
Ellen C. Ham
Nicolas Hamann
Laurence C. & Jane Hames
James L. & Lenore Hanapel
Linda C. Hankins
David F. & Elizabeth C. Hannan
Karl B. & Myrna A. Hanson Jr.
Larry D. Hardaway
Gregory C. & Whitney Harper
Gregory C. & Stephanie Harrell
Bruce M. & Medea D. Harris*
John F. & Jane Harris
Jeffrey M. Harris
William T. Harrison Jr.
J. Larry & Sherry Hart
Cecile B. Hartigan
Stephen B. & Rebecca Hatcher
Cynthia A. Hawkins
Scott G. & Lisa Hawkins*
J. Michael & Jackie P. Haygood
Michael P. Haymans
Christopher C. & Sally Hazelip
James & Maureen Hazen
Jeffrey M. & Joan Hazen
Kenneth P. Hazouri
Robert J. & Elizabeth M. Head Jr.
Lauren C. Heatwole
Robert A. & Elizabeth J. Heekin
William J. & Nina Heffernan Jr.
Jeanette K. Helfrich
William L. & Etta M. Hendry
Tim D. & Dyanne Henkel
Robert D. & Maria Henry
Russell D. & Jennifer C. Hepler
Todd E. Herberghs
Eugenio & Elizabeth Hernandez
Charles B. & D. Kathleen Hernicz
Craig R. & Patti M. Hersch
Leslie & Margaret Hess
Robert S. & Florence Hewitt
Richard H. & Jane Hiers
Shelby & Mary Highsmith
Robert L. Hinkle
Lynn J. & Evelyn R. Hinson
David L. Hirschberg
William T. & Peggy J. Hodges
William M. Hoeveler
Allan L. Hoffman
Craig P. Hoffman
Lacey D. Hofmeyer
Holden Law
Martin Lance Holden
Maurice D. & Odetta M. Holloway
James C. & Suzanne Hoover
Stuart N. Hopen
James M. Hopkins
Hopping, Green & Sams
Edwin F. & Janice G. Hornbrook
Glenn R. Hosken
Jane A. Houk
Lynn Huang
Louis F. Hubener III
Frank M. Hull
Miriam B. & Norman L. Hull
Nancy B. Hunt
Scott E. & Susan J. Hunt
Daniel T. Hurley
Gary W. & Mary E. Huston
Gregg E. Hutt
Steven D. & Bonnie B. Hutton
Thomas P. & M. Rebecca Hutton
International Carbon Bank Exchange
Charles A. & Joy M. Intriago
Daniel C. & Sheena Irick
A. McArthur & Jan T. Irvin
Jerold H. & Tanya Israel
Ivan D. Ivanov
Edward M. & Mary Jackson
Jeffrey A. Jacobs
James R. Lussier & Nancy C. Jacobson
Kevin E. & Martha Jakab
Michael L. & Elizabeth P. Jamieson
Philippe C. & Susan O. Jeck
M. James Jenkins
Karen S. Jennemann
Matthew S. & Adria M. Jensen
John F. Jewell & Debra L. Roman
Kevin M. Jinks
C. Gray & Elizabeth Z. Johnsey
Edmond D. & Ann S. Johnson
James F. & Mary Beth Johnston
Richard A. Johnston Jr.
Jones & McCorkle
John A. & Margarette Jones
Peter C. Jones
Jeffry R. & Sharyn Jontz
Brian B. & Lisa M. Joslyn
Robert A. & Suzanne Judas
Charles J. & Janet S. Kahn Jr.
David L. & Maida S. Kahn
Randy M. Kammer
Murray & Fredda Kanetsky
Lewis M. & Marcia J. Kanner
Kimon P. Karas
Mitchell A. & Amy L. Kaye
Donald E. Kelly
Stephen E. Kelly
Michael G. & Lucy W. Kerman
Jesse B. & Carolyn Kershner
Mark S. & Laurette S. Kessler
Janis B. & Gregory M. Keyser
Nicole C. Kibert
Robert A. & Emilie Kimbrough
William A. & Frances Spinale King
James L. King
Marvin A. & Rhona L. Kirsner
Adam C. & Marie E. Kjeer
Gerald R. & Sarah S. Kleedehn
Stanley D. Klett Jr.
Robert D. & Elenore C. Klingler
David T. & Carla C. Knight
Carla V. Knight
Sarah J & Kenneth W. Knight
Brian H. Koch
Eric S. Kolar
Russell Koonin
Donald L. & Patricia Korb
Michael J. & Pamela V. Korn
Kosto & Rotella
Jeffrey D. & Cyndie I. Kottkamp
Phyllis Kravitch
Elizabeth R. Krentzman
Benedict P. Kuehne
Kwall, Showers & Barack
Louis Kwall
Theodore S. & Jennifer L. Kypreos
Lafleur & Associates
1909 Society
The 1909 Society commemorates the founding year and approaching
centennial of the University of Florida law school, while recognizing
alumni and friends who sustain and advance the college with gifts to the
annual fund in the amount of $2,000 – $4,999 during a single fiscal
year. Support at this level improves the quality and innovation of programs
for students, student organizations, teaching and research, academic
programs and services, and outreach efforts. Gifts to the annual fund
include those designated to nonendowed, non-building funds.
T. W. & Margrette P. Ackert
Timothy G. & Carole W. Anderson
Dan Aronson
Jerald D. & Susan R. August
Fletcher N. & Nancy T. Baldwin Jr.
R. Vinson & Carlene A. Barrett
W. O. Birchfield & Dana L. Ferrell
Bill Bone
Jeffery A. & Shirley L. Boone
Jeffrey P. & Jan M. Brock
Patricia L. Burquest-Fultz
Timothy M. Cerio & Jayne Cerio
Allan P. & Betsy F. Clark
Richard P. Cole
Gary D. & Nancy K. Condron
Anne C. Conway
Drew S. Fine & Susan E. Cook
George L. & Sally K. Dawson
Brian T. Degnan
Thomas L. & Christine F. Edwards
Dennis J. & Debra W. Eisinger
Patrick G. & Olivia B. Emmanuel
Peter C. K. & Janet W. Enwall
Jeffrey D. & Susan Feldman
Michael L. & Jane M. Ferguson
William H. Ferguson
James C. & Mary K. Fleming
James A. Gale
Peter J. Genz
Patrick E. & Barbara H. Geraghty, Sr.
Robert E. Glennon Jr.
Richard C. & Marjory E. Grant
Andrew C. Hall & Gail S. Meyers
Bruce & Medea Harris
Stumpy & Dorothy L. Harris
Scott G. & Lisa Hawkins
Frederick A. Hazouri & Barbara J. Pariente
R. Lawrence & Elizabeth E. Heinkel
Dennis W. & Kathleen M. Hillier
Thomas R. & Elizabeth M. Hurst
Scott Ilgenfritz & Margaret Mathews
Richard A. & Lisa G. Jacobson
Robert H. & Lisa N. Jerry II
Marcos Laguna & Lynette Silon-Laguna
Roger C. & Ellen J. Lambert
William R. & Sylvia H. Lane Jr.
Steve & Penny Langston
Roger A. & Melinda K. Larson
Roy H. & Elizabeth Lasris
Latham, Shuker, Eden & Beaudine
The Law Firm of Robert S. Griscti
Law Offices Lyons & Sanders
John E. & Joan C. Lawlor III
Law Office of W. C. Gentry
Richard A. & Celeste Lazzara
Kenneth R. & Kimberly L. Johnson
Lawrence & Lynn Keefe
Becky Powhatan Kelley
Donald S. & Marilynn Kohla
K. Judith Lane
Frederick W. & Victoria C. Leonhardt
Virginia A. Lipton
Phillip J. & Stacey L. Mays
Clifton A. & Kathleen H. McClelland Jr.
Joseph C. Mellichamp III &
Barbara J. Staros
Jon L. & Beth B. Mills
Douglas J. & Nora P. Milne
David B. Mishael & Barbara Kaszovitz
Peter P. & Christina S. Murnaghan
Rahul & Swati R. Patel
A. Brian Phillips
Daniel A. & Carla Powers
Gary L. & Suzanne Printy
Gerald F. & Gwen Richman
Paul G. & Rebecca Rogers
Bruce Rogow
Gerald A. & Ingrid M. Rosenthal
David L. Roth & Paula Peterson-Roth
Oscar A. Sanchez &
Lida R. Rodriguez-Taseff
David C. & Ronna G. Sasser
Gerald D. & Joanne W. Schackow
Lawrence E. & Cathy M. Sellers Jr.
Barry S. & Carole N. Sinoff
W. Crit & Dee Ann Smith
Grace “Betty” W. Taylor
Bryan M. & Marjorie B. Thomas
Robert L. & Doris M. Trohn
Frank D. & Katherine G. Upchurch III
David H. Vickrey
A. Ward & Ruth S. Wagner Jr.
Jeffrey W. & Susan P. Warren
Gregory F. & Susan K. Wilder
Danaya C. Wright & Kendal L. Broad
Leighton D. & Phyllis H. Yates Jr.
Gwynne A. Young
Peter W. & Joan W. Zinober
Martin E. Leach
Ian R. Leavengood
Cynthia J. Lee
Serena B. Lee
Steven C. Lee
Kristyn B. Leedekerken
Gregory M. Lefkowitz & Elizabeth M.
Perez-Lefkowitz
Alexandra N. Lehson
Leonidas & Robin C. Lemonidis
Lawrence Y. & Rosemary G. Leonard
Joshua & Susan S. Lerner
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Ross T. & Silvana Lessack
Chauncey W. & Martha Z.Lever Jr.
Jack A. & Eileen G. Levine
Robert E. & Kathryn Lewis
Mark F. & Rochelle N. Lewis
Rutledge R. & Noel Liles
Mark K. & Sherri Lindenberg
Robert R. & Cheryl K. Lindgren
William J. Lindsay Jr.
Michael J. Linn
William V. & Shirley Linne
William J. Liss
Michael G. & Analisa Little
Joseph W. & Lucille Little
Christina V. Lockwood
James J. Long
Stephen R. & Paige Looney
Susan L. Lopatin
Ryan A. Lopez
Elliott H. & Leanore Lucas
Alissa K. Lugo
Meredith D. Lukoff
Jacquelyn P. Lumpkin Wooden
Donald J. & Helen Lunny, Sr.
Donald A. & Linda S. Lykkebak
Teresa J. Lynch
Cynthia Z. & Mr. Alexander C. MacKinnon
Hugh MacMillan Jr. & Carol Goddard
MacMillan
Lester & Anita Makofka
Robert C. & Jill R. Maland
John D. & Lynette Malkowski
Robin Paul & Margaret A. Malloy
Marilyn M. Mallue & Henry E. Mallue Jr.
Robyn L. Mandel
I. Paul & Holly Mandelkern
Robert Jay Manne & Grace Nixon Manne
Rodney S. & Elizabeth Margol
Anthony P. Mario Jr.
Marks Gray
Patrick F. & Sheryl R. Maroney
Samuel A. & Sarah G. Maroon
Philip E. & Caroline E. Marshall
Thomas & Elizabeth Marshall
W. Wesley Marston
Richard L. Martens
William E. & Katherine Martin Jr.
Antonio & Brenda Martinez Jr.
Jose E. Martinez
Lorie A. Mason
Morris C. Massey
Matheson Appellate Law
Gerald G. Matheson & Maureen Monaghan
Matheson
James M. & Joan T. Matthews
C. Parkhill & Mason Mays Jr.
Alan K. & Karen K. McCall
William R. & Laura A. McCall Jr.
Patrick M. & Donna McCann
Kevin M. McCarty
Daniel D. & Sigrid S. McCawley
Paul B. & Suzanne McCawley
Chad M. & Vicki L. McClenathen
Rick H. & Nancy McClure
Marybeth McDonald & Eric W. Jarvis
Michael J. McDonald & Heather L. Gatley
G. Carson & Laurinda F. McEachern III
Barbara B. McGriff
Scott R. McHenry
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Daniel F. & Elizabeth McIntosh
Frank M. & Nancy McMillan
Kathleen M. McRoberts
Jameil C. & Arleathia McWhorter
Natalia Medina
Howell & Catherine Melton, Sr.
Howell W. Melton III
Drew T. Melville
George Mencio Jr.
Clancy V. Mendoza
Anthony & Kathryn Mennella
Frederick P. Mercurio
Steven D. Merryday
Meredith M. Metzler
Andrew J. & Dawn M. Meyers
Irvin A. & JoAnn Meyers
Stephan P. & Evelyn M. Mickle
David W. & Susan L. Mikolaitis
Frank E. & Michelle M. Miller
Steven E. & Kimberly F. Miller
Robert L. & Penne Miller
Tiffani F. & Ryan G. Miller
Pamela J. Mills
Michael J. Minerva
Lew I. & Jennifer I. Minsky
James R. & Nanette Mitchell
Mark S. Mitchell
Charles S. & Carol Modell
Robert C. L. Moffat
Mark R. & Marlisa Mohler
Ashley D. Money
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Kevin M. & Eva Moore
Robyn E. Moore
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Charles R. & Laurie P. Morgan
Jon A. & Betsy Morris
Thomas E. Morris
James E. & Mari Moye
Greg T. Mullane & Joy Sabino Mullane
Edward M. & Rima Y. Mullins Jr.
John B. T. & Heather Murray Jr.
Douglass E. & Janet Myers Jr.
Keith E. Myers
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Judith W. & Charles I. Nash
Noel H. & Marianne Nation
Ginny R. Neal
Shalonda T. Neal
Michael R. & Laura L. Nelson
James C. & Diane Nicholas
Shelly E. Nixon
Hubert C. & Lynn K. Normile Jr.
Norris & Foreman
David B. & Wendy Norris
R. B. & Sylvia Norris
Thomas G. & Elizabeth Norsworthy
Kathleen M. O’Connor
Terrence P. & Susan J. O’Connor
Kenneth A. Tomchin & Lisa S. Odom
Orlando P. & Jennifer Ojeda Jr.
Matthew R. & Julie H. O’Kane
John C. & Elizabeth Oliver
Keith M. Olivia
Eric T. & Julie Olsen
Kent L. & L. Delane Olson
Toby V. & Berkely Olvera
Michael L. & Barbara O’Neill
Jennifer A. Orlando
John & Cathy O’Sullivan
David E. & Gail Otero
Neil M. O’Toole
Richard E. & Eileen Ouellette
Wm. A. & Leila Oughterson
Murray W. Overstreet Jr.
Dennis E. Owen & Anne E. Raduns-Owen
Frederick D. & Lisa Page
Peter R. Palermo
Taylor C. & Misty Pancake
Robert E. & Jeanne Panoff
C. Richard & Kathryn Parker
Dale L. & Erin F. Parker
Thomas M. Parker
Edwin W. & Heather Parkinson III
Elaine I. Parris
Alexander L. Paskay
Marshall R. Pasternack
Lindsay M. Patrick
Matthew D. & Amber Patterson
B. Darin Patton
Elizabeth S. Paulk
Frank A. & Joanne C. Pavese Jr.
Kevin L. & Sherry B. Pearson
Carl R. & Madge S. Pennington III
Marilyn Wolf Peterson
T. C. Phillips & Andrea E. Zelman
Robert A. & Caryl G. Pierce
Francis E. & Rebecca Pierce III
Charles P. & Judith Pillans III
Charles Pillitteri
Michael A. & Piscitelli & June Turner
Piscitelli
Dean R. & Lisa C. Plattner
Adina L. Pollan
Scott D. & Ingrid H. Ponce
David F. & Katie Pope
Kenneth C. Pope
Nicholas A. & Patricia Pope
John M. Porter
Lisa M. Porter
Robert V. & Beth Z. Potter Jr.
Stephen J. & Barbara Powell
Mark A. Prater
J. Grier & P. Kristen Pressly III
Raymond C. & Colleen Preston Jr.
Robert H. & Kelly B. Pritchard
Paige E. Provenzano
Marion J. & Ellyn A. Radson
John H. Rains IV
Jodi H. Ramanelli
Dennis F. & Donna Ramsey Jr.
Rahul P. Ranadive
Charles M. Rand
John W. & Katherine Randolph Jr.
Patrick C. Rastatter & Mary A. Towne
Kurt A. Raulin
Daniel C. Re & Terry Monson Re
Austin F. & Mary L. Reed
Glenna Joyce Reeves
Kevin E. Regan
William P. & Laura Reich
Richard M. & Garland Reid
Robert G. & Rhonda Reid
Charles A. & Catherine Reinhardt Jr.
Julius B. & Jan O. C. Remmen
William C. Rencher
Paul & Kimberly Rezanka
Douglas A. & Barbara L. Richard
Darryl R. & Kristen Richards
Edward J. & Theresa Richardson
Hugh A. & Melissa Richeson Jr.
Barry W. Rigby
Ryland T. Rigsby
Matthew R. & Allison R. Ringler
Peter A. Rivellini
Class Gift
Students in the Fall 2007
and Spring 2008 classes
gave back to their law
school in participation rates
exceeding alumni this year,
contributing a combined
$87,265 towards the class
gift campaign for the law
school annual fund.
Both classes helped establish
groundwork for a culture of
giving, with the Fall 2007
class generating $28,375
in gifts and pledges to be
paid over a five-year period.
Sixteen percent of the
students participated in the
campaign. The class gift
committee chair was Neil
Patel.
The Spring 2008 class raised
the third highest class gift
amount, with 30 percent
of the class contributing
$58,890. The class was
led by committee chair Luis
Delgado.
The purpose of the class gift
campaign is not only to give
back to the school but also
to recognize how past alumni
generosity has enhanced
the law school experience.
These students, who are
now alumni, have created
a legacy that will provide
meaningful support to the
future scholars of law at the
University of Florida.
Distinguished Donors
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David L. & Theda B. Robbins
William H. Robbinson Jr.
Charles E. & Kathleen Roberts
Joshua H. & Cori W. Roberts
James N. & LaTeshia Robinson II
Robert C. Rogers Jr.
William H. & Carmen Rogner
David S. Romanik
Taylor K. & Manjiri Rose
Walter T. Rose Jr.
Marshall E. Rosenbach
Jeffrey M. & Barbara C. Rosenberg
Robin L. Rosenberg
Howard M. Rosenblatt &
Eve D. Ackerman
Louis K. & Denise Rosenbloum
Rosenthal & Weissman
Caran L. Rothchild
Rothman & Associates
Ronald L. & Barbara Rowland
Lansing J. & Joanne Roy
Raymond W. & Catherine Royce
John D. Ruffier
Sarah E. Rumpf
Lanny & Denise Russell
Christopher J. Ryan
Kerry A. Ryan
Kenneth L. Ryskamp
Christopher M. & Sharon Sacco
Eliot J. & Barbara Safer
Richard G. & Elizabeth Salazar
Jennifer B. Salpeter & J. H. Williams
Douglas L. & Lisa Salzer
Steven E. & Rosalie Sanderson
Charles T. & Linda Sands
John A. & Cheryl L. Sapora
Michael K. Saunders
Edward O. & Rebecca Savitz Jr.
Michael A. Sayre
Edwin A. Scales III
Alan F. & Kelly S. Scharf
Stuart A. & Evelyn Schechter
Michael J. & Praewnapa Schefer
Harvey E. & Lois B. Schlesinger
Kevin M. Schmitt
Tura L. Schnebly
Al L. & Camilla Schneider
Brian A. Schneider
Michael N. Schneider
Jonathan F. Wershow & Pamela A.
Schneider
Carl C. & Wendy Schreck
Wayne A. & Lorinda Schreier
Derek A. & Anna Schroth
David C. & Caryn Watsky Scileppi
Paul V. Scott
Pierre J. & Joanmarie Seacord
Stephen W. Seemer
John H. & Julie Seibert
Sheila L. Seig
Susan M. Seigle
Barry S. Seltzer
Jeremy M. & Christine Sensenig
Barbara L. Serokee
Stephen W. & Diana Sessums
Bruce G. & Pamela Shaffner
Dorothy A. B. & Thomas R. Shahady
Nicholas A. & Carol Shannin
Abraham M. & Joy Shashy Jr.
Anna C. Shea
L. David & Casey Shear
Lewis E. & Linda Loomis Shelley
Adam M. & Elizabeth Shonson
Kevin M. Shuler
Andrew D. Zaron & Erica S. Shultz Zaron
Rebecca Shwayri
Edward & Helen Siegel
Ronald L. Siegel
Kenneth M. Sigelman
Harold & Beatrice Silver
Fredrick W. & Barbara S. Silverman
Joyce Silverman
Sidney S. & Ruthie Simmons II
Bert C. & Joyce Simon
Corinne R. Simon
Michael D. & Diane Simon
Cynthia L. Singerman
Manisha Singh
Nathan A. Skop
James P. & Sarah Slaughter
Robert T. Brittany Smith
Schuyler S. & Carrie Smith
Daniel E. Smith II
David T. & Sandra Smith
Rod & Deidra Smith
Dexter A. Smith & Bonita J. Young
Douglas A. Smith
Frederick D. Smith
James W. & Phyllis Smith III
Phillip S. & Lori Smith
L. Ralph Smith Jr.
M. Stephen & Maureen T. Smith III
Michael W. Smith
Rupert J. Smith
Timothy L. Smith
Julian M. Smothers
Howard & Nancy Snyder
W. Russell & Iralyn Snyder
William R. Snyder Jr.
Lori A. Sochin
Henry T. & Sheila Sorensen II
Joel S. & Stacy Speiller
Jodie L. Spencer
Martin J. & Faith Sperry
Mitchell H. & Jacqueline Spingarn
Peter M. & Maura O. Spingola
Brian J. & Elizabeth Stack
Richard E. & Dale Stadler
H. Bradley & Audrey Staggs
James F. & Shelley Stanfield
J. Harold & Patty Stanley
Stephen G. & Kim Stanton
Hugh E. & Judy Starnes
John E. & Lynda Steele
Gina D. Stein
Ali & Rosemary Steinbach
Laurie E. Stern
James P. & Colleen Stevens
Dustin P. Stevens
Larry M. & Lisa L. Stewart
Larry S. & Pat K. Stewart
William H. & Colleen Stolberg
Judith W. Stone
Mr. & Mrs. Roger W. Stotzer
Kimarie R. Stratos
Charles S. & Susan Stratton
Michael H. Streater
Stutsman Thames & Markey
Fradyn Suarez
Victor M. & Millie Suarez
Gary L. & Gretchen Summers
John H. & Mardelle Sutherland
J. Michael & Mary Swaine
Brian K. Szilvasy
Frank M. & Cathleen Talbot II
Robert L. & Terri Tankel
Robert L. & Elizabeth Taylor
James A. & Lisa Taylor III
Jeffrey M. & Lisa Taylor
John C. Taylor Jr.
L. Haldane Taylor
Robert J. Telfer Jr.
Harry & Vivian Tempkins
Lynsey A. Templeton
David Tetrick Jr.
Gregg D. Thomas
Loretta J. Thompson
Thomas P. & Renee Thompson III
Robert G. & Amy J.P. Thornhill III
Thomas H. & Sandra Thurlow Jr.
James B. & Elizabeth Tilghman
Mark N. Tipton
Byron A. & Julie S. Todman
Don & Sara Tolliver
Diane A. Tomlinson
Schnelle K. Tonge
Seth P. & Shawna N. Traub
Christine L. Weingart
Vic & Vicki Weinstein
Greg S. & Bettina Weiss
John M. & Lane Welch Jr.
M. Bernadette Welch
Winifred L. Wentworth
Steven J. Wernick
Thomas P. & Teresa Wert
Gail L. & Jennifer A. West
William P. & Judith White III
B. Thomas & Carol H. Whitefield III
Wilbert’s
Wilcox Firm
James B. & Sharon Wiley
Thomas J. & Jean Wilkes Jr.
Robert F. & Alaine Williams
Joseph H. & Carole Williams
Dirk A. & Kristine Williams
Gerald A. Williams
No person was ever honored for
what he received. Honor has been
the reward for what he gave.
—Calvin Coolidge
Brian P. & Jennifer Trauman
Kenneth A. & Cynthia Treadwell
Tara V. Trevorrow
Tritt & Franson
Jeffrey T. Troiano
William A. & Lisa Troner
John K. & Deborah Tucker
Turner & Hodge
Douglas W. & Deborah Tuttle
S. Thomas & Ann J. Ullman
Scott A. & Erica Underwood
Ursula M. Ungaro-Benages
Jose F. & Teresa Valdivia Jr.
Lauren L. Valiente
Laura J. Varela
Dale W. & Frances Vash
W. Eric & Glenda Venable
Alfred J. Ventura
David R. & Deborah Vetter
David G. Vinikoor
Ann E. Vitunac
Wallace C. & Joan von Arx III
Barry A. & Gretchen Rebecca Vose
Wade C. & Jennifer Vose
Richard G. & Laurie Wack
William R. Wade
Don & Pauline Waggoner
Rachel B. Wagner
Glenn J. & Sheryl Waldman
Clinton G. Wallace
John R. & Erin Wallace
J. Phillip Warren
Zachary D. Warren
Water & Air Research
Daniel H. & Julie Waters Jr.
James A. & Kay S. Watson
H. Adams & Bonnie Weaver
David P. & Debbie Webb
Janelle A. Weber
Gerard F. & Joann Wehle Jr.
Jake R. Williams
Lorna Sohn Williams & Rhys L. Williams
Winton E. Williams
Michael G. Williamson
Samuel A. & Tracy Williamson
Dale S. & Pamela J. Wilson
Richard H. & Shirley Wilson
Thomas G. Wilson III
Melinda F. Wimbish
C. Douglas Wingate
George & Gail Winson
Allen C. & Alicia Winsor
William A. Winter
Jonathon F. & Lesly Wise
Richard I. Withers
Matthew L. Wolfe
Craig G. Wolfson
Brian R. & Josephine A. Wright
Art & Mary E. Wroble
Elizabeth A. Wulff
Wyatt & Blake
J. Frank & Rosemary Wyatt
Bruce I. & Betsy Yegelwel
Ormend G. & Mary Yeilding
Robert E. & Laura M. Young
Robert L. & Mary Young
Richard M. & Elizabeth Zabak
Carl J. & Sharon A.V. Zahner
Joseph & Susan Zahniser
Kurt M. Zaner
Thomas A. & Leigh A. Zehnder
Robert R. & Diane Zelmer
Anton H. & Janet Zidansek
Steven J. Zimath
Matthew Z. & Wendy Zimmerman
Barry L. & Eunice Zisser
Joseph W. & Kylene Zitzka Jr.
Howard L. & Beth Zoller
William P. & Jeannie Zox
Sarah E. Zuckerman
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As a May 2006 graduate, I spent half my law school experience in the
‘Alpine Rooms’ and half in the college’s new, state-of-the-art classrooms and library. Consequently, I am keenly aware of how alumni
can shape the student experience. Regardless of facilities, one thing
was always constant at UF…quality education and professors. I serve
on the Law Alumni Council and donate to the law school because I
want to ensure that UF Law continues to rise to new heights!
—EDDIE J. FERNÁNDEZ, ESQ. (JD 06)
Shutts & Bowen LLP
Orlando, Fla.
J.D. Alumni
Class of 1940
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
Enrichment Society
Wilson Freeman
Class of 1945
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
Enrichment Society
Harry P. Edwards
$100.00
22
5%
$150.00
6
17%
Class of 1946
Class Total:
$462,100.00
No. in Class:
12
Participation:
33%
Founders Society - gold
Lewis M. & Marcia Whitney(d) Schott
Trusler Society
Patrick G. Emmanuel*
Enrichment Society
Robert S. Hewitt
Class of 1948
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
Trusler Society
Paul G. Rogers*
Enrichment Society
Howell W. Melton, Sr.
Class of 1949
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
Trusler Society
Alexander Grass
Richard S. Weinstein
Enrichment Society
Bart L. Cohen
Samuel L. Crouch, Sr.
John A. Jones
Al L. Schneider
Class of 1950
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
Enrichment Society
John M. Farrell
Wm. A. Oughterson
Rupert J. Smith
John H. Sutherland
$2,200.00
73
4%
$2,800.00
88
7%
$475.00
76
8%
Please report corrections to Sara Cocolin at
cocolin@law.ufl.edu or call 352-273-0640.
J.D. Alumni
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Class of 1951
Class Total:
$11,602.46
No. in Class:
89
Participation:
6%
Founders Society - gold
James D. Camp Jr.
Enrichment Society
Mandell Glicksberg
William T. Harrison Jr.
Winifred L. Wentworth
Class of 1952
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
Trusler Society
Doyle Rogers
Enrichment Society
Evans Crary
Hayward H. Davis
$1,800.00
39
10%
Class of 1953
Class Total:
$10,200.00
No. in Class:
45
Participation:
7%
Founders Society - gold
Charles W. Abbott
Enrichment Society
James L. King
Murray W. Overstreet Jr.
Class of 1954
Class Total:
$5,600.00
No. in Class:
42
Participation:
10%
Founders Society - gold
E. G. Boone
Robert L. Trohn*
Associates
Stephen H. Grimes
Trusler Society
Ned F. Sinder
Class of 1955
Class Total:
$2,805.78
No. in Class:
31
Participation:
16%
Founders Society – silver
Francis T. McCoy
Trusler Society
W. Ray Fortner
Enrichment Society
Robert J. Beckham
W. Dexter Douglass
Edward Siegel
Class of 1956
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
Barristers
William V. Gruman
Partners
Peter T. Fay
Trusler Society
Reubin O. Askew
Johnson S. Savary
John W. Sheppard
Enrichment Society
Jerry B. Crockett
Marion M. Cromwell
Robert P. Gaines
$128,200.00
37
22%
Class of 1957
Class Total:
$205,500.00
No. in Class:
44
Participation:
16%
Founders Society - silver
A. Ward Wagner Jr.*
Trusler Society
James E. Yonge
Enrichment Society
Paul W. Danahy Jr.
James O. Driscoll
Jose A. Gonzalez Jr.
William L. Hendry
Class of 1958
Class Total:
$5,700.00
No. in Class:
60
Participation:
10%
Founders Society - silver
David Hyman
Enrichment Society
William T. Hodges
Edward M. Jackson
Lewis M. Kanner
Donald J. Lunny, Sr.
John W. Mooers
Class of 1959
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
Associates
Albert D. Quentel
Enrichment Society
Robert J. Boylston
Stephen W. Sessums
Class of 1960
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
Trusler Society
Bill Wagner
Enrichment Society
Thomas R. Brown
Robert A. Kimbrough
L. David Shear
Class of 1961
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
Trusler Society
Robert J. Carr
John H. Moore II
Enrichment Society
Paul M. Goldman
C. Parkhill Mays Jr.
Irvin A. Meyers
Raymond W. Royce
Thomas H. Thurlow Jr.
$65,225.00
62
6%
$1,700.00
70
6%
$5,750.00
73
10%
Class of 1962
Class Total:
$20,660.00
No. in Class:
104
Participation:
16%
Founders Society - silver
C. DuBose Ausley
Partners
Ernest A. Sellers
Associates
W. George Allen
Trusler Society
Don R. Livingstone
R. Layton Mank
Wilton R. Miller
Grace “Betty” W. Taylor*
Enrichment Society
Byron B. Block
J. Edward Curren
Robin Gibson
J. Charles Gray
Jane R. Harris
James C. Hoover
Peter C. Jones
Antonio Martinez Jr.
Barry L. Zisser
Class of 1963
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
Trusler Society
W. O. Birchfield*
S. Austin Peele
Bruce S. Rogow*
Enrichment Society
Ronald P. Anselmo
John F. Harris
Murray Kanetsky
Larry S. Stewart
Class of 1964
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
Trusler Society
Gerald F. Richman*
Enrichment Society
Haywood M. Ball
Thomas J. Becker
George D. Gabel Jr.
Stephen D. Gardner
Michael L. Jamieson
Walter T. Rose Jr.
L. Ralph Smith Jr.
Hugh E. Starnes
$7,850.00
94
7%
$4,300.00
132
7%
Class of 1965
Class Total:
$50,821.56
No. in Class:
135
Participation:
11%
Founders Society - gold
Sidney A. Stubbs Jr.
Founders Society - silver
Stumpy Harris*
Partners
Gerald D. Schackow*
Associates
Paul C. Huck
Trusler Society
Charles E. Commander
Steve C. Horowitz
Leroy H. Moe
Enrichment Society
C. LeDon Anchors Jr.
Russell P. Chubb
Wallace H. Hall
Michael J. Minerva
Thomas R. Shahady
J. Michael Swaine
Richard H. Wilson
Class of 1966
Class Total:
$60,180.00
No. in Class:
174
Participation:
9%
Founders Society - gold
W. Kelly Smith
Founders Society - silver
Richard M. Robinson
Trusler Society
J. Thomas Cardwell
Allan P. Clark*
Enrichment Society
Charles H. Baumberger
Ernest T. Buchanan III
L. Kinder Cannon III
Thomas C. Dunn
Charles A. Intriago
Rutledge R. Liles
Frank M. McMillan
Charles P. Pillans III
Stephen J. Powell
Class of 1967
Class Total:
$44,110.00
No. in Class:
219
Participation:
8%
Founders Society - silver
C. Wayne Alford
Partners
Bill Hoppe
Associates
William S. Frates II
Trusler Society
Barry R. Davidson
John A. DeVault III
Frederick A. Hazouri*
Barry S. Sinoff*
Enrichment Society
Susan H. Black
Stephen E. Dalton
W. Ford Duane
Robert J. Head Jr.
Louis Kwall
Roger A. Larson
Alexander C. MacKinnon
Hubert C. Normile Jr.
David L. Robbins
Class of 1968
Class Total:
$23,575.00
No. in Class:
187
Participation:
10%
Founders Society - gold
Andrew C. Hall*
Partners
Patrick E. Geraghty, Sr.*
Trusler Society
Richard C. Ausness
Earl M. Barker Jr.
Dennis W. Hillier*
Douglas J. Milne*
David L. Roth*
John J. Upchurch IV
Enrichment Society
Fred R. Baisden Jr.
Douglas D. Batchelor Jr.
Stephen J. Bozarth
Ronald S. Frankel
Jonathan C. Gordon
ALUMNI FROM MANY GRADUATING CLASSES made financial
commitments to help the college grow stronger and expand programs and
services, thereby permitting the college to reach toward its full potential.
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M. Stephen Smith III
Rodney W. Smith
James F. Stanfield
James B. Tilghman
Ursula M. Ungaro-Benages
Jose F. Valdivia Jr.
Richard G. Wack
Vicki J. Weinstein
John M. Welch Jr.
Gerald A. Williams
Craig G. Wolfson
Class of 1976
Class Total:
$44,920.50
No. in Class:
382
Participation:
12%
Founders Society - silver
Kevin A. Malone
Hans G. Tanzler III
Scott L. Whitaker
Barristers
Peter M. MacNamara
M. Therese Vento
Partners
Becky Powhatan Kelley*
Marjorie B. Thomas*
Associates
William A. Boyles
Trusler Society
R. Vinson Barrett*
William H. Ferguson*
Betsy E. Gallagher
James L. George
Daniel B. Harrell
Elizabeth A. Jenkins
Enrichment Society
Michael R. Band
Richard A. Bolton
Elias N. Chotas
James N. Daniel III
Carolyn A. Elliot
Jack J. Fine
Michael D. Fowler
Jill Haberman Giordano
Laurence C. Hames
J. Larry Hart
Mark F. Lewis
James J. Long
Richard L. Martens
Alan K. McCall
Marilyn Wolf Peterson
Nicholas A. Pope
Glenna Joyce Reeves
Charles A. Reinhardt Jr.
Tura L. Schnebly
Stephen W. Seemer
Kenneth M. Sigelman
Charles S. Stratton
Class of 1976
Class Total:
$44,920.50
No. in Class:
382
Participation:
12%
Enrichment Society
Gregg D. Thomas
John R. Wallace
B. Thomas Whitefield III
Class of 1977
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
$15,280.00
326
10%
LEVIN ADVOCACY CENTER Thanks to support from Levin College of Law alumni and friends, UF Law faculty, staff
and students will soon enjoy a legal advocacy center second to none. The Martin H. Levin Legal Advocacy Center, a
$6 million construction project, will expand legal advocacy education and provide state-of-the-art trial facilities for the
college. Fred Levin, a 1961 alumnus of the UF law school, contributed $2 million for the center as the lead gift to
the University of Florida Levin College of Law. In addition to significant gifts from others, Levin’s gift was matched by
the State of Florida Alec P. Courtelis Facilities Enhancement Challenge Grant Program to bring the total contribution to
$5.2 million. Other donors included the Baynard Trust, the late Robert Montgomery of Robert M. Montgomery Jr. &
Associates in West Palm Beach, and Robert Kerrigan of Kerrigan, Estess, McLeod & Thompson in Pensacola.
Founders Society - gold
Edith E. Holiday
Partners
Lauren Y. Detzel
John J. Scroggin
Trusler Society
Virginia A. Lipton*
Jesse W. Rigby
Barbara J. Staros*
Enrichment Society
Michael R. Aronson
Joan F. Beer
David S. Boyce
David H. Evaul
Richard J. Fildes
Don H. Goode
Freddie L. Goode
Patti W. Halloran
Leslie Hess
Charles J. Kahn Jr.
Roy H. Lasris
Charles S. Modell
Michael K. Saunders
Lewis E. Shelley
Linda Loomis Shelley
Bert C. Simon
Victor M. Suarez
Alfred J. Ventura
Howard L. Zoller
Class of 1978
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
Partners
Cheryl R. Peek
David H. Peek
W. Crit Smith*
Associates
Cheryl L. Gordon
Daniel F. Molony
Albert A. Sanchez Jr.
Jacqueline Allee Smith
Dale M. Swope
Trusler Society
James E. Eaton Jr.
Richard D. Fultz*
Peter J. Gravina
Peter P. Murnaghan*
Enrichment Society
Wallace B. Anderson Jr.
Peter Baker
E. Sue Bernie
Jeanelle G. Bronson
Theotis Bronson
Kendall Coffey
Jay P. Cohen
A. J. Donelson
Charles F. Edwards
Myrna A. Hanson
Randy M. Kammer
Mark S. Kessler
Steven C. Lee
Chauncey W. Lever Jr.
Grace Nixon Manne
Frank E. Miller
Francis E. Pierce III
Colleen A. Preston
Sandra G. Smith
Michael H. Streater
Thomas J. Wilkes Jr.
Richard M. Zabak
$51,800.00
375
10%
Class of 1979
Class Total:
$54,709.13
No. in Class:
326
Participation:
12%
Founders Society - gold
Brian M. O’Connell
Founders Society - silver
Ladd H. Fassett
Partners
Peter T. Kirkwood
Lindy L. Paull
David C. Sasser*
Lawrence E. Sellers Jr.*
Trusler Society
John L. Holcomb
Scott Lodin
Enrichment Society
Joni Armstrong Coffey
James P. Beadle
Nancy H. Belli
Christopher D. Bernard
Christine K. Bilodeau
Terry A. Brooks
V. Robert Denham Jr.
Ronald G. Duryea
Robert S. Griscti
Jack O. Hackett II
Larry D. Hardaway
Jeanette K. Helfrich
Craig P. Hoffman
Stuart N. Hopen
Glenn R. Hosken
Nancy B. Hunt
Donald E. Kelly
Michael J. Korn
Pamela A. Schneider
Richard E. Stadler
Jennifer A. West
Gail I. Winson
Class of 1980
Class Total:
$57,091.00
No. in Class:
357
Participation:
9%
Founders Society - gold
Ultima D. Morgan
Founders Society - silver
Evan J. Yegelwel
Partners
Peter J. Genz*
Leonard H. Johnson
Randolph J. Rush
Associates
Mark S. Peters
Trusler Society
Dennis J. Eisinger*
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Enrichment Society
Richard K. Bowers Jr.
Penny H. Brill
Jon C. Chassen
Russell W. Divine
Michael D. Eriksen
Mark E. Goldstein
Cynthia A. Hawkins
Jennifer C. Hepler
Philippe C. Jeck
Gregory M. Keyser
Ross T. Lessack
Robin Paul Malloy
Chad M. McClenathen
Kathryn L. Mennella
James R. Mitchell
Neil M. O’Toole
Marshall R. Pasternack
Dean R. Plattner
Charles M. Rand
Paul S. Rothstein
Lanny Russell
C. Douglas Wingate
Class of 1981
Class Total:
$33,193.50
No. in Class:
380
Participation:
11%
Founders Society - silver
Kenneth C. Johnson
Partners
Kenneth R. Johnson*
Kimberly L. Johnson*
Michael D. Minton
Associates
Gary J. Cohen
Trusler Society
R. Mason Blake
Patricia L. Burquest-Fultz*
Susan E. Cook*
Jeffrey D. Feldman*
David H. Vickrey*
Enrichment Society
Luis A. Abreu
Frederick C. Craig Jr.
Alan H. Daniels
Joseph H. Davis III
Cherie H. Fine
Stephen E. Fogel
Robert D. Henry
Steven D. Hutton
Nancy H. Jackson
Richard A. Johnston Jr.
Brian B. Joslyn
Marvin A. Kirsner
Cheryl K. Lindgren
Robert R. Lindgren
Barbara B. McGriff
James E. Moye
Kathleen M. O’Connor
C. Rufus Pennington, III
Howard M. Rosenblatt
Gary L. Summers
Robert L. Tankel
Wallace C. von Arx III
Carl J. Zahner
Sharon A. V. Zahner
Class of 1982
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
$54,375.00
399
11%
Please report corrections to Sara Cocolin at
cocolin@law.ufl.edu or call 352-273-0640.
Founders Society - gold
John B. Morgan
Barristers
John N. Giordano
Partners
Richard A. Jacobson*
Paul R. Linder
Louis Nostro Jr.
Gary L. Printy*
Oscar A. Sanchez*
Associates
Mark Somerstein
Timothy W. Volpe
1909 Society
Margaret Mathews*
Trusler Society
Robert Altman
Jeffery A. Boone*
Kathryn A. Carr
Linda R. Getzen
R. Lawrence Heinkel*
Margaret D. Mathews
Gregory A. Nelson
Enrichment Society
Robert W. Anthony Jr.
Bryan W. Crews
Alys N. Daniels
Alan S. Gassman
Joel B. Giles
Robert F. Goodrich
Michael P. Haymans
Janis B. Keyser
Frances Spinale King
Susan S. Lerner
James R. Lussier
Marybeth McDonald
David B. Norris
Kevin L. Pearson
Michael A. Piscitelli
Robert V. Potter Jr.
Darryl R. Richards
Edward J. Richardson
Sheila L. Seig
Schuyler S. Smith
Class of 1983
Class Total:
$14,115.00
No. in Class:
338
Participation:
10%
1909 Society
Scott C. Ilgenfritz*
Trusler Society
James A. Gale*
David B. Mishael*
Enrichment Society
Thomas R. Arnold
M. Robert Blanchard
Lavinia D. Dierking
Gregory A. Fox
Linda Suzzanne Griffin
John E. Hale
Cecile B. Hartigan
Scott G. Hawkins*
Dyanne F. Henkel
Elizabeth M. Hernandez
Eugenio Hernandez
Richard H. Hiers
Martin Lance Holden
Edmond D. Johnson
William A. King
Caroline B. Marshall
Laura A. McCall
Terrence P. O’Connor
T. Clay Phillips
Lorinda S. Schreier
Sidney S. Simmons II
Glenn J. Waldman
William A. Winter
Class of 1984
Class Total:
$63,986.00
No. in Class:
324
Participation:
8%
Founders Society - gold
Edward Downey
Barristers
Alan B. Cohn
Partners
Bill Bone*
Trusler Society
David J. Akins
Enrichment Society
Nancy E. Bergold
Randal H. Drew, Sr.
Stephen M. Durden
Kenneth G. Ferguson III
Christopher C. Hazelip
M. Teresa Heekin-Davlantes
Charles B. Hernicz
Nancy C. Jacobson
Stanley D. Klett Jr.
Cynthia Z. MacKinnon
Elizabeth C. Marshall
Michael L. O’Neill
Brian J. Stack
Kimarie R. Stratos
William A. Troner
David R. Vetter
Andrea E. Zelman
Class of 1985
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
Associates
Raul A. Cuervo
Enrichment Society
Bill Berke
Patricia G. Butler
Donald C. Dowling Jr.
Brenna M. Durden
Steven Ellison
Gregg H. Fierman
Stanley A. Gravenmier
Timothy D. Haines
Linda C. Hankins
Michael G. Kerman
Elizabeth R. Krentzman
John E. Leighton
Robert E. Lewis
Mark K. Lindenberg
Lila I. McHenry
Daniel F. McIntosh
Dennis F. Ramsey Jr.
Michael W. Smith
Ali Steinbach
Class of 1986
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
Partners
Mark Citrin
Thomas L. Edwards*
Associates
Jeffrey R. Dollinger
Trusler Society
Nancy K. Condron*
Lawrence Keefe*
$5,080.00
364
10%
$25,587.67
391
7%
Juan J. Rodriguez
Douglas A. Wright
Enrichment Society
Robert G. Abood
J. Parker Ailstock
Frank A. Ashton
Frank M. Bedell
Steven R. Browning
Mary C. Crotty
Jeffrey R. Elkin
Belinda W. Engelmann
Paul R. Game
Scott E. Hunt
Lucy W. Kerman
Morris C. Massey
Kevin M. McCarty
Frank A. Pavese Jr.
Barry W. Rigby
Rosalie M. Sanderson
Susan M. Seigle
Thomas F. Slater
James A. Taylor III
Class of 1987
Class Total:
$9,605.00
No. in Class:
376
Participation:
8%
Partners
Mayanne Downs
Associates
Juliet M. Roulhac
Trusler Society
Helen W. McAfee
Kathleen M. Paustian
Jo O. Thacker
Enrichment Society
Mary Jane Angelo
Jane D. Callahan
Nancy E. Dowling
Harolyn H. Dutt
John H. Dyer Jr.
Karen Caudill Dyer
Steven S. Eichenblatt
John F. Halula
Jeffrey D. Kottkamp
Robin C. Lemonidis
Maureen Monaghan Matheson
Andrew J. Meyers
Dawn M. Meyers
Pamela J. Mills
L. Delane Olson
Lisa M. Porter
William H. Robbinson Jr.
Christopher J. Ryan
Alan F. Scharf
Sharon T. Sperling
Class of 1988
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
Associates
Barry B. Ansbacher
Trusler Society
Beth B. Mills*
Katherine G. Upchurch
Enrichment Society
Bruce R. Anderson Jr.
Jonathan S. Coleman
Kraig A. Conn
Robin K. Davis
Jacqueline Fountas
Nancy Pond Halula
Pierre J. Seacord
Michael D. Simon
$8,712.81
365
5%
J.D. Alumni
80
UF LAW
Douglas A. Smith
H. Bradley Staggs
Gerard F. Wehle Jr.
Class of 1989
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
Associates
John T. Rogerson III
Trusler Society
Michael Ferguson*
Enrichment Society
Judith E. Beasley
William B. Brockman
Julianna K. Burke
Marc D. Chapman
Martin F. Cunniff
Donald A. Dvornik
Craig Robert Hersch
Steven E. Miller
Eric T. Olsen Jr.
Gail M. Otero
Stephen G. Stanton
Howard A. Swett
$5,646.00
355
7%
As a member of the UF Law Alumni Council, I have the
privilege of speaking to students and alumni about the
importance of giving back to the law school. I recognize
that because of the support of many Gators who came
before me, I received a first-rate legal education. It is the
responsibility of each student and alumnus to give back
to the school ensuring that future students continue to
build on its distinguished tradition.
—A. FELIPE GUERRERO, ESQ. (JD 05)
Class of 1990
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
Associates
Yolanda C. Jackson
Jack A. Weiss
$7,990.00
378
5%
Dean, Mead, Egerton, Bloodworth, Capouano
& Bozarth, P.A., Orlando, Fla.
Trusler Society
David L. Bilsker
Glenn L. Criser
Julie A. Moxley
Enrichment Society
Joseph L. Amos Jr.
Casey M. Cavanaugh
Tracy D. Chapman
M. Chris Edwards
Suzanne M. Judas
Bernardo Lopez
John D. Malkowski
W. Wesley Marston
Edward M. Mullins Jr.
Kenneth C. Pope
William H. Rogner
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Class of 1991
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
Trusler Society
Phillip J. Mays*
Enrichment Society
Michelle Anchors
Christopher W. Boyett
David A. Brennen
Valerie A. Conzo
Pamela J. Crone
John R. Dierking
John M. Gillies
Jon A. Morris
Rima Y. Mullins
Sylvia A. Norris
Dale L. Parker
Kelly B. Pritchard
Robert H. Pritchard
Kimberly B. Rezanka
Robin L. Rosenberg
Richard G. Salazar
Edwin A. Scales III
Mark N. Tipton
Tracy P. Williamson
Class of 1992
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
Trusler Society
Barbara A. Puestow
Enrichment Society
Jena R. Atlass
Oliver D. Barksdale
Christine N. Bird
Thomas E. Bishop
Elizabeth A. Carrie
Lisa A. Esposito
Nancy S. Freeman
Marcelo R. Gomez
Courtney K. Grimm
Jane A. Houk
Eric S. Kolar
John B. T. Murray Jr.
Frederick D. Page
John M. Porter
John W. Randolph Jr.
John A. Sapora
Diane A. Tomlinson
Douglas W. Tuttle
Susan M. Zahniser
Andrew D. Zaron
Class of 1993
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
Barristers
Mark O. Bagnall
Frank S. Goldstein
Partners
K. Judith Lane*
Trusler Society
Nancy T. Baldwin*
Donna L. Longhouse
Enrichment Society
Yahn W. Bernier
$7,955.00
379
7%
$6,288.00
365
8%
$21,598.50
405
6%
Please report corrections to Sara Cocolin at
cocolin@law.ufl.edu or call 352-273-0640.
Robert J. Corcoran Jr.
Edward Diaz
Sherrie B. Galambos
Bruce M. Harris*
Heather Parkinson
Caran L. Rothchild
Phillip S. Smith
Robert G. Thornhill III
Julie S. Todman
Thomas P. Wert
Rhys L. Williams
Steven J. Zimath
Class of 1994
Class Total:
$10,067.00
No. in Class:
381
Participation:
8%
Associates
Matthew N. Posgay
Trusler Society
Tony M. Fineman
Thomas M. McAleavey
Sharon H. Proctor
Marc A. Wites
Enrichment Society
Evan R. Batoff
Kimberly B. Blanchard
Joseph V. Camerlengo
Duane A. Daiker
Dana A. Friedlander
Kenneth P. Hazouri
Megan A. Kelly
Martin E. Leach
Jacquelyn P. Lumpkin Wooden
Paul B. McCawley
Mark R. Mohler
Thomas M. Parker
P. Kristen Pressly
Barbara L. Richard
Carol B. Shannin
Nicholas A. Shannin
Manisha Singh
Lori A. Sochin
Cathleen A. Talbot
Laura J. Varela
Class of 1995
Class Total:
$6,440.75
No. in Class:
380
Participation:
6%
Partner
Timothy M. Cerio*
Trusler Society
Kimberly R. Keravouri
Matthew L. Rosin
Enrichment Society
Scott E. Atwood
Caryn L. Bellus
Misty M. Chaves-Taylor
Christopher G. Commander
Willem A. Daman
Stephen J. Delaney
Jennifer I. Minsky
Lew I. Minsky
Thomas G. Norsworthy
William C. Rencher
Christine R. Sensenig
Lynette Silon-Laguna
Lori W. Smith
Jeffrey M. Taylor
Lisa S. Taylor
Thomas A. Zehnder
Class of 1996
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
Trusler Society
Daniel W. Uhlfelder
Enrichment Society
Patricia D. Barksdale
Andrew J. Bohlmann
Greg Brown
Brian J. Gavsie
Shaw Q. Goodrich
James F. Johnston
Jennifer A. Orlando
John D. Ruffier
Carl C. Schreck
Wendy V. Schreck
Jeremy M. Sensenig
Henry T. Sorensen II
David Tetrick Jr.
Dabney D. Ware
Class of 1997
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
Partners
Rahul Patel*
Associates
Maria C. Carantzas
Enrichment Society
F. Eugene Atwood
John M. Belcastro
Brian D. Burgoon
Richard R. Chaves
David M. Delaney
Rosanna M. Flury
Jeffrey A. Jacobs
Sigrid S. McCawley
Kurt A. Raulin
Bonita J. Young
$4,790.00
373
5%
$7,360.00
374
5%
Class of 1998
Class Total:
$6,040.00
No. in Class:
388
Participation:
7%
Trusler Society
Jeffrey C. Andersen
Enrichment Society
Linda A. Alley
Mrs. Brannon B. Belcastro
Rebecca L. Brock
Michael C. Caborn
Dennis G. Corrick
Michael S. Dorris
Francis B. Gibbs
Natalie A. Goodwin
Ellen C. Ham
Jeffrey M. Hazen
Ivan A. Morales
Ingrid H. Ponce
Scott D. Ponce
Taylor K. Rose
Jodie L. Spencer
Brian K. Szilvasy
Gregory S. Weiss
Class of 1999
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
$7,540.00
388
7%
Partners
Jeffrey P. Brock*
Trusler Society
Andrew M. Fussner
Enrichment Society
David L. Dixon
Aubrey Harry Ducker Jr.
Jonathan A. Feldman
Brian J. Fender
Gregory C. Harrell
Maureen M. Hazen
Cynthia J. Lee
Christina V. Lockwood
Samuel A. Maroon
Sarah G. Maroon
Katherine Martin
Joy Sabino Mullane
Ginny R. Neal
J. Grier Pressly III
Jodi H. Ramanelli
Renee E. Thompson
Thomas P. Thompson III
Brian P. Trauman
Ormend G. Yeilding
Class of 2000
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
Trusler Society
Mindy C. Nowakowski
Enrichment Society
Adam L. Alpert
Paul B. Bernstein
Brandon C. Biederman
David M. Cayce
Sandra G. Cayce
Mark H. Dahlmeier
Steven E. Earle
Franklin D. Fields Jr.
Beth Ann Gause
Paul A. Greenspan
Eric J. Hall
Russell Koonin
Ian R. Leavengood
Marshall E. Rosenbach
Derek A. Schroth
Paul V. Scott
Laurie E. Stern
Sara A. Tolliver
Class of 2001
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
Trusler Society
James N. Knight
Enrichment Society
Ben Alexander
Rocky M. Cabagnot
T. Spencer Crowley III
Bradley R. Gould
Keith E. Myers
Christopher M. Sacco
Erica S. Shultz Zaron
Frederick W. Silverman
Class of 2002
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
Barristers
Erick S. Magno
$4,362.50
393
7%
$2,920.00
384
4%
$9,597.00
402
7%
J.D. Alumni
82
UF LAW
Enrichment Society
Sara S. Becker
John D. Campo
Nancy E. Cason
Srinivas R. Dantuluri
C. LeAnn Davis
James E. Frye Jr.
Evan S. Glasser
Melody A. Hadley
Brian H. Koch
Jennifer L. Kypreos
Theodore S. Kypreos
Jameil C. McWhorter
Elaine I. Parris
Matthew D. Patterson
James N. Robinson II
David C. Scileppi
Julian M. Smothers
Maura Q. Spingola
Fradyn Suarez
Allen C. Winsor
It is the duty of each generation to provide for the education of future generations. In my student days at UF, I was
fortunate to have been the beneficiary of this philosophy,
and now I am honored to be the benefactor. It is exciting to
think that some bright, ambitious students will have assistance in their quest for a legal education at the University
of Florida. It is a privilege and a joy to help these students.
Class of 2003
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
Trusler Society
Sarah Cortvriend
Enrichment Society
Mark A. Addington
Joshua L. Becker
Jessica M. Callow
Ryan S. Cobbs
Juan M. Diaz
Miriam C. Dillard
Linda C. Dolan
Megan J. Ellis
Melissa Fernandez
Lauren C. Heatwole
Todd E. Herberghs
David L. Hirschberg
Kevin E. Jakab
Nicole C. Kibert
Elenore C. Klingler
Robert D. Klingler
Robyn L. Mandel
Susan L. Mikolaitis
Shelly E. Nixon
B. Darin Patton
Anne E. Raduns-Owen
Kevin E. Regan
Sarah E. Rumpf
Dexter A. Smith
Leslie E. Stiers
Scott A. Underwood
Wade C. Vose
J. Phillip Warren
—JAMES S. THERIAC III (JD 74)
$7,980.00
431
12%
Howze, Monaghan, Theriac,
and Kramer PLC
Cocoa, Fla.
H O N O R
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Class of 2004
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
Enrichment Society
Joni L. Batie-McGrew
Matthew C. Brewer
K. Clayton Bricklemyer
Joshua R. Brown
David D. Burns
Derek S. Cooper
Elizabeth M. Crowder
Lauren E. Cury
Nelson D. Diaz
Joel R. Feldman
Micah G. Fogarty
Christopher M. Garrett
Allison M. Gluvna
Jason Gordon
Whitney C. Harper
Gregg E. Hutt
Daniel C. Irick
Sheena T. Irick
Adria M. Jensen
Marie E. Kjeer
Michael J. Linn
Lorie A. Mason
Tiffani F. Miller
Amber N. Patterson
Paige E. Provenzano
Allison L. Ringler
Michael J. Schefer
Anna C. Shea
Rebecca Shwayri
Stacy F. Speiller
Loretta J. Thompson
Clinton G. Wallace
Jake R. Williams
Elizabeth A. Wulff
Laura M. Young
Matthew Z. Zimmerman
$9,660.50
399
15%
Class of 2005
Class Total:
$19,495.00
No. in Class:
375
Participation:
18%
Partners
Brian T. Degnan*
Associates
Cory L. Andrews
Trusler Society
Alan T. Hawkins
Enrichment Society
Ronald J. Antonin
Scott R. Bauries
Jill F. Bechtold
Angela F. Benjamin
David L. Benjamin
Todd C. Brister
Tobi B. Butensky
Robert A. Caplen
Christopher L. Carmody Jr.
Christopher M. Chestnut
Deborah E. Cupples
Kimberly A. Davis
Andrew T. Dixon
Tammi J. Driver
Robert A. Dykan
Douglas C. Edenfield
Gregory L. Edwards
Meredith C. Fields
Daniel R. Fogarty
Michael K. Freedman
N. West Gregory
A. Felipe Guerrero
Carolyn M. Kershner
Ryan A. Lopez
Meredith D. Lukoff
Marisa L. McDonald
Michael J. McDonald
Meredith M. Metzler
Robyn E. Moore
Charles R. Morgan
Jennifer L. Ojeda
Lisa Easler
Anthony P. Felice
Eduardo J. Fernandez
Oshia S. Gainer
Ashley N. Girolamo
Daniel J. Glassman
Lacey D. Hofmeyer
Ivan D. Ivanov
Kevin M. Jinks
Stephen E. Kelly
Carla V. Knight
LLMT Tax
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle
and plant a flower wherever the flower
would grow in thought and mind.
—Abraham Lincoln
Orlando P. Ojeda Jr.
Toby V. Olvera
Taylor C. Pancake
Lindsay M. Patrick
Enrichment Society
Adina L. Pollan
Laura M. Reich
William P. Reich
Robert G. Reid
Michael A. Sayre
Adam M. Shonson
Elizabeth A. Shonson
Daniel E. Smith II
Seth P. Traub
Janelle A. Weber
Thomas G. Wilson III
Melinda F. Wimbish
Matthew L. Wolfe
Sarah E. Zuckerman
Class of 2006
Class Total:
$15,341.83
No. in Class:
408
Participation:
20%
Partners
Thomas C. Allison Trusler Society
Meaghan C. Gragg Enrichment Society
Jolyon D. Acosta
Steffan K. Alexander
Drew M. Altman
Dane A. Baltich
Brad F. Barrios
Amy N. Bokor
Brian K. Bokor
Eve A. Bouchard
Terri M. Bowles
Staci N. Braswell
AnneMarie H. Bui
Emily R. Cacioppo
Lauren F. Carmody
Courtney Bradley Casp
Kaitlin Coffinbarger
Joshua D. Curry
Sara C. Dana
Mrs. Cary B. Davis
Kelly L. Davis
Derek J. Dilberian
Charles T. Douglas Jr.
Michelle T. Drab
David D. Duncan
Dayna G. Duncan
Sarah J. Knight
Serena B. Lee
Gregory M. Lefkowitz
Alissa K. Lugo
Natalia Medina
Howell W. Melton III
Drew T. Melville
Andrew A. Morey
Shalonda T. Neal
Elizabeth S. Paulk
Brian A. Schneider
John H. Seibert
Barbara L. Serokee
Kevin M. Shuler
Cynthia L. Singerman
Nathan A. Skop
Sarah A. Slaughter
William R. Snyder Jr.
Gina D. Stein
Lynsey A. Templeton
Schnelle K. Tonge
Tara V. Trevorrow
Jeffrey T. Troiano
Lauren L. Valiente
Christine L. Weingart
Kurt M. Zaner
Diane J. Zelmer
Class of 2007
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
Trusler Society
Kristeen R. Witt
Enrichment Society
Kristina L. Arnsdorff
Ryan E. Baya
Cecilia M. Bidwell
Andrew R. Cheslock
Jennifer M. Faggion
Elizabeth B. Frock
Nicolas Hamann
Alexandra N. Lehson
John C. Oliver
John H. Rains IV
Garland L. Reid
Joshua H. Roberts
Corinne R. Simon
Dustin P. Stevens
Rachel B. Wagner
Steven J. Wernick
Class of 1975
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
Barristers
K. Lawrence Gragg
Partners
Robert E. Glennon Jr.*
Enrichment Society
Harry S. Colburn Jr.
David M. Hudson
William V. Linne
Charles E. Roberts
Class of 1976
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
Trusler Society
James B. O’Neal
Enrichment Society
Jack A. Levine
Robert A. Pierce
Ronald L. Rowland
$5,025.00
39
15%
$2,205.00
42
14%
Class of 1977
Class Total:
$20,057.24
No. in Class:
39
Participation:
18%
Founders Society - silver
Hans G. Tanzler III
Barristers
Peter M. MacNamara
Partners
Philip B. Barr Jr.
Associates
Nathaniel L. Doliner
Enrichment Society
Michael D. Fowler
James A. Watson
$4,980.00
445
4%
Class of 1978
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
Associates
William A. Boyles
Paul D. Fitzpatrick
Enrichment Society
David H. Evaul
Don H. Goode
Richard D. Green
Bradley C. Grossenburg
Ronald L. Siegel
Howard L. Zoller
Class of 1979
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
$4,100.00
68
12%
$17,350.00
47
19%
Please report corrections to Sara Cocolin at
cocolin@law.ufl.edu or call 352-273-0640.
LLMT Alumni
84
UF LAW
Stephen L. Cordell
Alan H. Daniels
Alan S. Gassman
Michael A. Levey
Robert L. Miller
James P. Stevens
James B. Wiley
Partners
David H. Peek
John J. Scroggin
Associates
Cheryl L. Gordon
Enrichment Society
Laurence C. Hames
C. Gray Johnsey
Kimon P. Karas
Steven C. Lee
William J. Lindsay Jr.
Class of 1980
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
Founders Society - gold
Brian M. O’Connell
Partners
Peter T. Kirkwood
Lindy L. Paull
Enrichment Society
Alfred M. Falk
Gerald R. Kleedehn
Patrick M. McCann
Charles I. Nash
Robert C. Rogers Jr.
Class of 1981
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
Partners
Randolph J. Rush
Enrichment Society
David E. Bowers
Jennifer C. Hepler
Craig P. Hoffman
William R. Lane Jr.
Daniel C. Re
Anton H. Zidansek
$33,756.25
47
21%
Class of 1985
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
Barristers
Alan B. Cohn
Enrichment Society
Christopher A. Detzel
John A. Garner
Stephen R. Looney
$7,459.00
67
15%
Class of 1982
Class Total:
$5,315.00
No. in Class:
61
Participation:
11%
Partners
Michael D. Minton
Associates
Gary J. Cohen
Trusler Society
Patricia L. Burquest-Fultz*
Enrichment Society
Steven R. Cole
Stephen B. Hatcher
Marvin A. Kirsner
I. Paul Mandelkern
Class of 1983
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
Barristers
John N. Giordano
Trusler Society
Ellen R. Gershow
R. Lawrence Heinkel*
Gregory F. Wilder*
Enrichment Society
Wayne P. Bryan
Class of 1984
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
Enrichment Society
John A. Bobango
Linda Suzzanne Griffin
Rick H. McClure
Sharon A. V. Zahner
$14,970.00
60
25%
Class of 1986
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
Trusler Society
J. Carter Perkins, Sr.
Enrichment Society
David K. Cahoone
David P. Webb
Class of 1987
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
Partners
Louis Nostro Jr.
Trusler Society
Douglas A. Wright
Enrichment Society
Shawn M. Flanagan
James W. Goodwin II
Scott E. Hunt
Lisa S. Odom
Mark A. Prater
Class of 1988
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
Enrichment Society
Jane D. Callahan
Dirk A. Williams
Class of 1989
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
Enrichment Society
Allen Buckley
Vitauts M. Gulbis
Thomas P. Hutton
John E. Lawlor III
Michael R. Nelson
Class of 1990
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
Barristers
A. Brian Phillips*
Enrichment Society
Don E. Goebel
$1,185.00
73
7%
$6,325.00
74
9%
$1,515.00
49
8%
$7,005.00
62
16%
$750.00
43
5%
$1,350.00
63
8%
Class of 1991
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
Enrichment Society
Michael G. Little
Charles Pillitteri
Douglas L. Salzer
Daniel H. Waters Jr.
Class of 1992
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
Associates
Jack A. Weiss
Enrichment Society
W. Wesley Marston
Class of 1993
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
Trusler Society
Rosanne M. Duane,
Enrichment Society
Elizabeth A. Carrie
Jane A. Houk
John F. Jewell
Douglas A. Smith
William P. Zox
Class of 1994
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
Trusler Society
Donna L. Longhouse
Enrichment Society
David A. Brennen
Gary W. Huston
Class of 1995
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
Enrichment Society
Evan R. Batoff
Nancy J. Gibbs
Maurice D. Holloway
Lawrence Y. Leonard
Frank M. Talbot II
Class of 1996
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
Enrichment Society
Hunter J. Brownlee
Jennifer I. Minsky
Matthew R. O’Kane
Peter A. Rivellini
$4,150.00
53
6%
Memorials
In Memory of Catherine Barclift
Debra Barclift
In Memory of Dr. Joseph R. Julin
Prof. & Mrs. Jerold H. Israel
$850.00
63
8%
In Memory of Lewis Ansbacher
Mr. & Mrs. Barry B. Ansbacher
In Memory of Walter S. McLin III
Block Land & Finance Company
Darby, Peele, Bowdoin & Payne
In Memory of Robert G. Sommer
Mandell & Joyce Glicksberg
$1,450.00
60
5%
$2,190.00
57
11%
$1,550.00
63
8%
$550.00
74
8%
$700.00
74
5%
In Memory of Sidney Aronovitz
Elinore Aronovitz
In Memory of the
Honorable George L. Proctor
Akerman Senterfitt
Robert & Rebecca Altman
Gail S. Baker
Janice M. Baker
Janet F. Barber
Berman PLC
Edrie T. Brown
Jason B. Burnett
Central Florida Bankruptcy Law
Association
Cooper, Ridge & Lantinberg
Robert J. Corcoran Jr.
The Decker Law Firm
Dennis Levine & Associates
Jerry A. Funk
Leonard H. & Jean B. Gilbert
Keving Gunning & Sharon T. Sperling
Karen S. Jennemann
Jones & McCorkle
Jeffry R. & Sharyn Jontz
Kosto & Rotella, P.A.
Lafleur & Associates LLC
Latham, Shuker, Eden & Beaudine
Kristyn B. Leedekerken
Carrie B. Lesser
Thomas & Mary Lobello III
Marks Gray
Douglas N. Menchise
Mark S. Mitchell
Adina L. Pollan
Alan L. & Susan L. Proctor
Daniel P. Rock
John T. & Leah A. Rogerson III
Lansing J. & Joanne Roy
Jennifer B. Salpeter & J. H. Williams
Michael T. & Remedios Shadburn
Susan H. Sharp
Smith, Hulsey & Busey
Schuyler S. & Carrie Smith
Jodie L. Spencer
Judith W. Stone
Stutsman Thames & Markey
Wilcox Firm
J. Herbert Williams
Michael G. Williamson
GRADUATES OF THE GRADUATE TAX PROGRAM — ranked in
the nation’s top two — provided significant financial support so the
college could continue to meet the challenge of achieving top-tier
excellence in legal education.
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This Honor Roll includes the
names of all donors to the UF
Levin College of Law from July 1,
2007 to June 30, 2008. If your
name is not included and you think
it should be, one of the following
may be the reason it is not:
• The gift was made before July 1,
2007, (and was recognized in a
previous report) or after June 30,
2008, (and it will be recognized
in a future Honor Roll).
• You made a pledge instead
of a gift and planned to fulfill
your commitment after June
30, 2008. (Only actual pledge
payments made between July 1,
2007 and June 30, 2008 are
listed.)
• A personal gift was made
using your company’s check
or letterhead. In this case, you
may be listed in the corporate
and organization section of the
Honor Roll.
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of our best efforts, errors and
omissions occur. If so, please
accept our apologies and
notify the UF Levin College
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Class of 1997
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
Enrichment Society
Teresa J. Lynch
Keith M. Olivia
Class of 1998
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
Associates
Andrew K. Strimaitis
Enrichment Society
Matthew J. Ahearn
Mark R. Mohler
Class of 1999
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
Enrichment Society
William J. Liss
Rahul P. Ranadive
Class of 2000
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
$255.00
53
8%
$1,610.00
69
4%
$300.00
45
4%
$875.00
64
6%
Enrichment Society
Christopher R. D’Amico
Christina V. Lockwood
Clancy V. Mendoza
Class of 2001
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
Enrichment Society
Alton D. Bain
$1,085.00
64
13%
Kathleen M. McRoberts
Robert H. Pritchard
Robert T. Smith
Sara A. Tolliver
M. Bernadette Welch
Class of 2002
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
Enrichment Society
Julius B. Remmen
Kerry A. Ryan
Joseph W. Zitzka Jr.
Class of 2003
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
Barristers
Erick S. Magno
Enrichment Society
Srinivas R. Dantuluri
Terrence T. Dariotis
Joy Sabino Mullane
Class of 2004
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
Partners
J. Stephen Pullum
Enrichment Society
Nathan R. Adams
Alexander D. DeVitis
Ashley D. Money
Matthew R. Ringler
Class of 2005
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
Enrichment Society
W. Michael Black
Thomas B. Christenson II
Allison L. Ringler
$625.00
63
6%
$6,175.00
80
8%
Class of 2006
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
Enrichment Society
Mrs. Micah G. Fogarty
Phyllis C. Smith
Timothy L. Smith
Class of 2007
Class Total:
No. in Class:
Participation:
Trusler Society
Sarah J. Spear
Enrichment Society
Jolyon D. Acosta
Jeffrey T. Troiano
Christine L. Weingart
Richard I. Withers
$1,155.00
64
6%
$3,125.00
78
8%
$10,900.00
79
6%
DECEASED DONORS
$785.00
77
6%
Mildred M. Baynard
Robert B. Cole
Lealand L. Lovering
Robert M. Montgomery Jr.
Marcia Whitney Schott
W. Paul Shelley Jr.
Blakeley R. Waite
Belledeane W. Warren
1935
1959
1957
1946
1939
1975
Making a Contribution
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alumni activities and fundraising for the College of Law,
including activities of the Law Center Association Inc.
Board of Trustees and the Alumni Council. To make a
contribution, please make your check payable to UF Law
Center Association to the address below. Donations are
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making an endowed or estate gift, please contact: Office of
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Thank you for your support!
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UF LAW
NOTAS BENE
Faculty Scholarship & Activities
Mary Adkins
Legal Skills Professor
■ Published “Seven Qualities for
Beginning Appellate Attorneys,” 16
The Record (2008) (the journal of the
Appellate Practice Section, Florida
Bar)
■ Received scholarship grant from
the Association of Legal Writing
Directors to support development of an
article on the effect of trial courtroom
technology on appellate practice and
standard of review (2008)
Mary Jane Angelo
Associate Professor
■ Published “Harnessing the Power of
Science in Environmental Law: Why
We Should, Why We Don’t, and How
We Can,” 86 Texas Law Review 1527
(2008)
■ Published “Where Did Our Water
Go? Give the Law a Chance” (op-ed,
with Richard Hamann and Christine
Klein), Orlando Sentinel (Sept. 23,
2008) and Ocala Star-Banner (Sept.
28, 2008)
■ Published “Reforming the Florida
Water Resources Act of 1972: Beyond
the First 35 Years” (monograph,
with Richard Hamann and Christine
Klein), in connection with the Century
Commission for a Sustainable Florida,
2008 Water Congress, Orlando (2008)
■ Presented “When the Rivers Run
Dry: Water Challenges in Florida” (with
Richard Hamann and Christine Klein),
Common Reading Program, University
of Florida (October 2008)
■ Presented “Stumbling Toward
Success: A Story of Adaptive Law and
Ecological Resilience,” Symposium on
Environmental Resilience and the Law,
University of Nebraska College of Law
(September 2008)
■ Presented “The Killing Fields:
Reducing the Casualties in the Battle
Between U.S. Endangered Species and
Pesticide Law,” Vermont Law School
(July 2008)
■ Presented “Agricultural Impacts and
the Management of Water Resources:
A Case Study of Lake Apopka,
Florida,” Annual Conference on Legal
and Policy Issues in the Americas, Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil (May 2008)
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Miami Herald, June 3, 2008
Quoted in an article discussing The Miami-Dade Public
Defender’s Office plans to begin turning away thousands of cases
in the coming weeks, arguing it is so short-staffed and under
funded that attorneys can’t effectively cover their assigned cases.
Legal experts disagreed on whether public defenders can refuse
cases simply because they are overworked. Dekle said, “The first
showdown you’re looking at is between the public defenders and
the judge and how quick they can get out of jail after the judge
puts them in jail for not accepting cases. Refusing to accept
appointments in that situation is basically refusing to perform his
constitutional duty.”
DEKLE
—George R. “Bob” Dekle, Legal Skills Professor
Fletcher N. Baldwin
Chesterfield Smith Professor Emeritus
■ Received an Emerald Literati
Network 2008 Award for Excellence
for publishing the “Outstanding
Paper” of 2007, “The Rule of Law:
An Essential Component of the
Financial War Against Organized
Crime and Terrorism in the Americas”
(with Theresa A. DiPerna), 14 J. of
Financial Crime 405 (2007)
Jonathan R. Cohen
Professor; Associate Director Institute
for Dispute Resolution
■ Presented “Coping with Lasting
Social Injustice,” Justice and Policing
in Diverse Societies, sponsored by the
John Jay College of Criminal Studies
and several other universities, Puerto
Rico (2008)
■ Presented “The Benefits and
Limitations of Apology” to a statewide web seminar for Florida judges
and mediators addressing workers’
compensation claims within the Office of
Judges of Compensation Claims (2008)
Stuart R. Cohn
John H. and Mary Lou Dasburg
Professor; Associate Dean for
International Studies
■ Published “Freeze-Outs and
Squeeze-Outs in American and Polish
Law: Comparison, Contrasts and
Reform Recommendation,” 8 Warsaw
University Law Review 38 (2008)
Elizabeth Dale
Affiliate Professor of Law; Associate
Professor of Constitutional and Legal
History, Dept. of History
■ Published “People v. Coughlin and
Criticism of the Criminal Jury in Late
Nineteenth-Century Chicago,” 28
N. Illinois U. L. Rev. 503 (2008)
(symposium)
■ Published “Death or Transformation?
Educational Autonomy in the Roberts
Court,” 43 Tulsa L. Rev. 725 (2008)
■ Published “People v. Coughlin and
the Criminal Jury in Late NineteenthCentury Chicago,” 28 Northern Illinois
Univ. L. Rev. 503 (2008)
■ Participated in panel discussion,
“Religion Clauses of the First
Amendment and Mark deWolfe Howe’s
The Garden and the Wilderness,
American Academy of Religion
National Conference (November 2008)
Jeff Davis
Gerald A. Sohn Term Professor
■ Presented “Ethical Challenges in the
Practice of Bankruptcy Law,” Annual
Seminar, Central Florida Bankruptcy
Law Association (September 2008)
Patricia E. Dilley
Professor
■ Won one of 12 Rockefeller
Foundation Innovation Awards
($30,000) to Strengthen Social
Security for Vulnerable Groups for her
proposal, “Restoring Old Age Income
For a complete, threeyear listing of UF Law
faculty scholarship,
view the UF Law
Faculty Report,
available online at
www.law.ufl.edu.
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Security for Low Wage Workers.” She
accepted the award at a luncheon in
New York, and a synthesis of the final
papers will be made available to policy
makers, congressional staff, executive
branch transition teams, and other
stakeholder communities (2008)
Nancy E. Dowd
Chesterfield Smith Professor of Law;
Co-director, Center on Children
and Families
■ Participated in panel discussion,
“Masculinities Theory and Legal
Interpretation,” Southeastern Association
of Law Schools Meeting (July 2008)
■ Moderated two panel sessions,
International Society of Family Law,
13th World Conference, Vienna,
Austria (September 2008)
Mark Fenster
UF Research Foundation Professor
■ Published Conspiracy Theories:
Secrecy and Power in American
Culture (rev. 2nd ed., University of
Minnesota 2008)
■ Presented “After Lingle,” 11th Annual
Georgetown Environmental Law &
Policy Institute Litigating Takings
Conference, Stanford Law School
(November 2008)
■ Presented “Democratic Property
Ownership and the Commodification
of Community,” Property Works in
Progress Conference, University of
Colorado Law School (June 2008)
■ Presented “The Dilemmas of Local
Transparency,” Annual Meeting, Law
& Society Association, Montreal (May
2008)
Book round-up: Jon Mills
Privacy: The Lost Right
T
echnology has intruded into every aspect of modern life,
from how people die to how they conduct their public and
private business. Although the benefits of technology are
obvious, the risks can be huge.
That’s because every cell phone call, credit card transaction,
discount card purchase, Internet site visited, or e-mail sent
or received is fair game for information poachers to
filch at will and without your knowledge. So states
a new book released this month, Privacy: The
Lost Right (Oxford University Press), authored by
Jon Mills, a University of Florida Levin College
of Law professor, dean emeritus, and founder
of the university’s Center for Governmental
Responsibility.
“Technology has moved too fast for the
law, which is not totally surprising,” said
Mills. “The combination of the Internet and
a broad range of scientific advances, like
genetic testing, has created information
and societal changes with which the law
has not been able to keep pace.”
Privacy: The Lost Right draws on Mills’
academic, courtroom and legislative experiences
and explores examples of privacy intrusions enabled
by technology ranging from disclosure of private
online video rentals, Internet purchasing habits,
spyware that tracks personal online viewing habits,
governmental and corporate intrusions, and
salacious or defamatory Web postings made by
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Joan D. Flocks
Director, Social Policy Division, Center
for Governmental Responsibility
■ Testified on “Agricultural Exposures:
Pesticide Policy and Farmworkers”
before the President’s Cancer Panel
(created in 1971 to annually advise
the president on cancer policy),
Indianapolis, Ind. (October 2008)
■ Presented “From the Public’s
Perspective: Land Use and SocioEnvironmental Justice in Florida,”
University of Florida / University of
Costa Rica Conference, San Jose,
Costa Rica (June 2008)
■ Presented “The Political Economy
of Pesticides,” Annual Conference
on Legal and Policy Issues in the
Americas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (May
2008)
anonymous bloggers. He outlines the legal protections people
have — or don’t have — to prevent these intrusions, and offers
options to bolster legal protections of privacy.
Mills also relates his personal experiences as an attorney
who has made successful arguments in several, high-profile
court cases that have defined the First Amendment boundaries
of the press’ right to know and an individual’s right to privacy.
These included blocking the release of grisly autopsy photos
of six young people murdered by serial killer Danny Rolling,
preventing the posting of Dale Earnhardt Sr.’s autopsy photos
to the Internet, and closing the homicide investigation file
containing detailed personal information on murdered fashion
mogul Gianni Versace.
These cases were sensationalized in the media and riveted
public attention, but the privacy invasions of the information age
that don’t garner any attention can do equal harm, said Mills.
“People are unaware of how many intrusions they face
during everyday life because it is not in any intruders’ interest to
put the public on notice, and when they do it’s usually only in
the fine print,” said Mills. “We don’t know when somebody has
gathered and sold our private information, we don’t know that
somebody looked at our medical records and that it affected the
way we were treated in a job search.”
Mills said it is not just government or the press or the
anonymous bloggers or the data brokers that have the ability
to violate our privacy rights, it’s all of the above together.
Although Americans enjoy the conveniences of the Internet,
camera phones and online commerce, Mills contends few of us
surrendered all privacy for convenience — at least not knowingly.
“Americans cherish their privacy and the legal tools that
protect it. At no time in our history have the challenges to
personal privacy been so great,” said Janet Reno, former U.S.
attorney general. “Jon Mills is uniquely qualified through legal,
political and academic experience to address these challenges.”
UF LAW
NOTAS BENE
Alyson Flournoy
UF Research Foundation Professor;
Alumni Research Scholar; Director,
Environmental and Land Use Law
Program
■ Published “Harnessing the Power
of Information to Protect Our Public
Natural Resource Legacy” (with Heather
Halter and Christina Storz), 86 Tex. L.
Rev.1575 (2008)
■ Published “Supply, Demand,
and Consequences: The Impact
of Information Flow on Individual
Permitting Decisions under Section 404
of the Clean Water Act,” 83 Indiana L.
J. 537 (2008)
■ Presented “Protecting a Natural
Resource Legacy While Promoting
Resilience: Can It Be Done?” University
of Nebraska School of Law (September
2008)
Michael K. Friel
Professor; Associate Dean and Director,
Graduate Tax Program
■ Published Taxation of Individual
Income (with Martin Burke) (LexisNexis,
8th ed., 2007 & 2008 Supp.)
■ Published Understanding Federal
Income Taxation (with Martin Burke)
(3rd ed., 2008)
■ Published Treatise, Modern Estate
Planning (with Martin Burke and Elaine
Gagliardi) (2nd ed., 2004-2008)
Michael W. Gordon
John H. and Mary Lou Dasburg
Professor-Emeritus
■ Published International Civil Dispute
Resolution (with Baldwin, Brand and
Epstein) (West. 2nd ed. 2008)
■ Elected as a Fellow in the American
Bar Foundation
■ Provided expert testimony on foreign
law in a trial in the Supreme Court of
Bermuda (July 2008)
Richard Hamann
Associate In Law
■ Published “Where Did Our Water Go?
Give the Law a Chance” (op-ed, with
Mary Jane Angelo and Christine Klein),
Orlando Sentinel (Sept. 23, 2008)
and Ocala Star-Banner (Sept. 28,
2008)
■ Published “Reforming the Florida
Water Resources Act of 1972: Beyond
the First 35 Years” (monograph,
with Mary Jane Angelo and Christine
Klein), in connection with the Century
Commission for a Sustainable Florida,
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USA Today, July 3, 2008
Quoted in a front-page story in the USA Today. “In This War,
Troops Get a Rousing Welcome Home,” Mazur commented on the
relationship between increasingly elaborate celebrations for returning
troops and the absence of a military draft: “What motivates these
ostentatious displays is the unspoken, almost unconscious guilt over
the way military service works now. A narrow slice of Americans
serve again and again. It’s as if we’re saying, ‘We will engage in
these very public displays of worship, provided you don’t ask us to
serve.’ ”
MAZUR
—Diane Mazur, Professor of Law
2008 Water Congress, Orlando, Fla.
(September 2008)
■ Served as an invited delegate at the
Century Commission for a Sustainable
Florida, 2008 Water Congress, Orlando,
Fla. (Sept. 25-26)
■ Presented “When the Rivers Run Dry:
Water Challenges in Florida” (Mary Jane
Angelo and Christine Klein), Common
Reading Program, University of Florida
(October 2008)
Jeffrey L. Harrison
Stephen C. O’Connell Chair
■ Published “Wojciech J. Kocot,
Comparing Promises: A US and Polish
Perspective,” 8 Warsaw University Law
Review 72 (2008)
Edward Hart
Head of Technical Services, Legal
Information Center
■ Published “Hutchinson v. Valdosta:
A Supreme Court Battle Over Water
Closets,” 16 Southern J. of Legal
History (2008)
■ Presented “Technical Services and the
Three R’s: Reinventing, Restructuring,
and Renewing” (panelist), Technical
Services Special Interest Section,
American Association of Law Libraries,
Portland, Ore. (July 2008)
■ Presented “Law Librarianship,”
Valdosta State University Masters
in Library and Information Science
Program (September 2008)
Berta E. Hernandez-Truyol
Levin Mabie and Levin Professor;
Associate Director, Center on Children
and Families
■ Published “Sex and Globalization,”
11 Harv. Latino L. R. 173 (2008)
■ Presented “Sanctions and Human
Rights,” Conference on the Cuban
Embargo and Human Rights, St.
Thomas University School of Law,
Miami, Fla. (October 2008)
■ Participated in the roundtable,
“Gender, Cultural Identity, and
International Law,” 13th Annual LatCrit
Conference: Critical Interrogation of
Electoral Systems and the Exercise of
the Franchise, Seattle University School
of Law (October 2008)
■ Invited to serve as an advisory
committee member for the SSRN
journal Discrimination, Law & Justice
Thomas R. Hurst
Sam T. Dell Research Scholar and
Professor of Law
■ Presented “The Role of Credit Rating
Agencies in the Current Financial
Crisis,” Cambridge Symposium on
Economic Crime (September 2008)
Jerold H. Israel
Professor Emeritus
■ Published Modern Criminal
Procedure (with Kamisar et al.)
(Thomson/West,12th ed. 2008)
■ Published Advanced Criminal
Procedure (with Kamisar et al.)
(Thomson/West, 12th ed. 2008)
■ Published Criminal Procedure and
the Constitution (with Kamisar et al.)
(Thomson/West 2008 ed.)
Joseph Jackson
Legal Skills Professor
■ Published “Approaches to
Compromise: A Comparative Analysis
of the Constitutions of the United
States and the Republic of Poland,” 8
Warsaw University L. Rev. 83 (2008)
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Florida Bar News, Sept. 10, 2008
SEIGEL
Quoted in an article on how the Department of Justice revises how it
deals with corporate probes. Seigel, a member of the Attorney-Client
Privilege Task Force who dissented from its recommendations on the
DOJ guidelines, praised the new policies and said they would avoid
problems that could arise from legislation on the matter.
“I think the new guidelines are actually quite good. I think that the
department has listened to its critics . . . ,” he said. “It’s irrelevant
whether a company waives its attorney-client privilege, that’s not the
issue. The important thing is a corporation wants to claim cooperation,
the key is telling the prosecutor everything you know. Whether it’s
privileged or not is essentially irrelevant.”
—Michael Seigel, Professor of Law
Michelle S. Jacobs
Professor
■ Published UN Shadow Report (U.S.
Human Rights Network Committee
for the Elimination of Racial
Discrimination, 2008) (contributing
author)
Robert H. Jerry III
Dean; Levin Mabie and Levin
Professor
■ Participated on panel “’Say
Something New’: New Insights Into
and Scholarship About the Goals and
Responsibilities of Legal Education,”
Annual Meeting, Southeastern
Association of Law Schools (July
2008)
■ Appointed to a term on the
Florida Board of Bar Examiners
Testing Commission, which makes
recommendations to the Florida
Board of Bar Examiners about what
should be tested on The Florida Bar
(2008)
■ Appointed to the “Responsibility
Centered Management Committee,” a
UF committee charged with exploring
the feasibility of introducing an RCM
budget model to UF (2008)
■ Reappointed to the Bar Admissions
Committee of the ABA Section of
Legal Education and Admissions to
the Bar (2008)
■ Reappointed to the Finance
Committee of the University of Florida
Foundation (2008)
Clifford Jones
Associate in Law Research/
Lecturer, Center for Governmental
Responsibility
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■ Published “Choices and Voices in
the 2008 Election: History is Upon
Us,” 19 Univ. Fla. J. Law and Pub.
Policy ix (2008)
■ Published “The Stephen Colbert
Problem: The Media Exemption for
Corporate Political Advocacy and
the ‘Hail to the Cheese’ Stephen
Colbert Nacho Cheese Doritos 2008
Presidential Campaign Coverage,” 19
Univ. Fla. J. L, & Pub. Policy 295
(2008)
Dawn Jourdan
Affiliate Professor of Law; Associate
Director, Center on Children and
Families; Assistant Professor of
Urban and Regional Planning
■ Published “Through the Looking
Glass: Analyzing the Potential Legal
Challenges to Form-Based Codes”
(with Elizabeth Garvin), J. Land Use
& Environmental L. (2008)
■ Published “Interdisciplinary
Tourism Education in Interdisciplinary
Teaching and Learning in Higher
Education: Theory and Practice” (with
Tazim Jamal), in Interdisciplinary
Learning and Teaching in Higher
Education: Theory and Practice (B.
Chandramohan & S. Fallows, eds.,
London: Routledge Falmer 2008)
■ Published “Grounding Theory:
Developing New Theory on
Intergenerational Participation in
Qualitative Methods for Housing
Research” in Qualitative Housing
Research Methods (P. Maquin, ed.,
London: Elsevier 2008)
■ Presented “The Legal Challenges
of Employing a Land Bank to
Support Rural Affordable Housing
Development” 2008 Joint Conference
of the Association of Collegiate
Schools of Planning (ACSP) and the
Association of European Schools of
Planning, Chicago, Ill. (July 2008)
Shani M. King
Assistant Professor; Associate
Director, Center on Children and
Families
■ Presented “Challenging
MonoHumanism: An Argument
for Changing the Way We Think
About Intercountry Adoption” at the
following conferences: New Scholars
Workshop, Southeastern Association
of American Law Schools, Palm
Beach, Florida (August 2008);
Association for Cultural Studies
Crossroads Conference, University of
the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica
(2008); Gender, Family Responsibility
and Legal Change Conference, Sussex
Law School, Brighton, UK (2008);
and Law and Society Annual Meeting,
Quebec, Canada (2008)
■ Moderated panel on “Shifting
Family Responsibilities and
Legal Change,”Gender, Family
Responsibility and Legal Change
Conference, Sussex Law School,
Brighton, UK (July 2008)
Christine A. Klein
Chesterfield Smith Professor of
Law; Associate Dean for Faculty
Development
■ Published “Water Transfers: The
Case Against Transbasin Diversions
in the Eastern States,” 25 UCLA J.
Envtl. Law & Policy 101 (2008)
■ Published “Where Did Our Water
Go? Give the Law a Chance” (op-ed,
with Mary Jane Angelo and Richard
Hamann), Orlando Sentinel (Sept.
23, 2008) and Ocala Star-Banner
(Sept. 28, 2008)
■ Published “Reforming the Florida
Water Resources Act of 1972: Beyond
the First 35 Years” (monograph,
with Mary Jane Angelo and Richard
Hamann), in connection with the
Century Commission for a Sustainable
Florida, 2008 Water Congress,
Orlando, (September 2008)
■ Presented “Water Wars or
Water Waste?” (plenary closing
session), Water Wars: Use, Conflict
and the Future, Jacksonville
University and Florida Coastal School
of Law, Jacksonville, FL (November
2008)
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Presented “When the Rivers Run
Dry: Water Challenges in Florida”
(with Mary Jane Angelo and Richard
Hamann), Common Reading
Program, University of Florida
(October 2008)
■
Lyrissa Lidsky
Stephen C. O’Connell Chair
■ Published “Where’s the Harm?: Free
Speech and the Regulation of Lies,”
65 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. (2008)
■ Published “U.S. Media Law Update,”
13 Media & Arts. L. Rev. (Andrew
Kenyon, ed. 2008)
■ Participated on a panel, “The Phases
and Faces of the Duke LaCrosse
Controversy,” Annual Meeting,
Southeastern Association of Law
Schools, Palm Beach, Fla. (July 2008)
■ Quoted in the Aug. 6 edition
of Time Magazine regarding the
First Amendment implications of a
new attorney referral website
Lawrence Lokken
Hugh F. Culverhouse Eminent Scholar
in Taxation; Professor
■ Published “Income Effectively
Connected with U.S. Trade or
Business: A Survey and Appraisal,” 86
Taxes 65 (March 2008)
Charlene Luke
Assistant Professor
■ Published “Risk, Return, and
Objective Economic Substance,” 27
Va. Tax Rev. 783 (2008)
Pedro A. Malavet
Professor
■ Published “The Story of Downes v.
Bidwell: ‘The Constitution Follows the
Flag ... But Doesn’t Quite Catch Up
With It,’ ” in Race and the Law Stories
(Rachel Moran and Devon Carbado,
eds., Foundation Press 2008)
■ Published “Breaking UF Barriers: 50
Years of Desegregation at UF” (op-ed),
Gainesville Sun (Sept. 13, 2008)
Amy R. Mashburn
Professor
■ Published “Can Xenophon Save
the Socratic Method?” 30 Thomas
Jefferson L. Rev. 597 (2008)
Paul R. McDaniel
James J. Freeland Eminent Scholar in
Taxation; Professor
■ Published Federal Income Taxation,
Cases and Materials (with McMahon,
FALL 2008
Simmons & Polsky) (6th ed.,
Foundation Press 2008)
■ Published Federal Income Taxation
of Business Organizations (with
McMahon & Simmons) (Foundation
Press, 4th ed. 2006 & 2008 Supp.)
■ Published Federal Income Taxation
of Corporations (with McMahon &
Simmons) (Foundation Press, 3d ed.
2006 & 2008 Supp.)
■ Published Federal Income Taxation
of Partnerships and S Corporations
(with McMahon & Simmons)
(Foundation Press, 4th ed. & 2008
Supp.)
Martin McMahon Jr.
Stephen C. O’Connell Chair
■ Published “Comparing the
Application of Judicial Interpretative
Doctrines to Revenue Statutes
on Opposite Sides of the Pond,”
L. Simmons), 8 Florida Tax Rev. 715
(2008)
■ Published Federal Income Taxation
of Individuals (with Bittker &
Zelenak) (Thomson, 3rd edition,
2008 Cumulative Supplement No. 2)
Robert C.L. Moffat
Professor; Affiliate Professor of
Philosophy
■ Published “Fairness and Self
Interest: Re Forming Immigration
Reform,” 13 Nexus 103 (2008)
Jon L. Mills
Professor; Director, Center for
Governmental Responsibility; Dean
Emeritus
■ Published Privacy: The Lost Right
(Oxford University Press, 2008)
■ Published “Two Contemporary
Privacy Issues in Poland: Liability
New York Times, July 30, 2008
Interviewed for a front-page New York Times article which
explored Barack Obama as a law professor at the University
of Chicago Law School, where Sokol was one of his students.
Sokol said in describing Obama’s class, “For people who
thought they were getting a doctrinal, rah-rah experience, it
wasn’t that kind of class.”
—D. Daniel Sokol, Assistant Professor of Law
in Comparative Perspectives on
Revenue Law (J.A. Jones, Harris &
Oliver, eds., Cambridge University
Press 2008)
■ Published Federal Income Taxation,
Cases and Materials (with McDaniel,
Simmons & Polsky) (6th ed.,
Foundation Press 2008)
■ Published Federal Income Taxation of
Business Organizations (with McDaniel
& Simmons) (Foundation Press, 4th ed.
2006 & 2008 Supp.)
■ Published Federal Income Taxation
of Corporations (with McDaniel &
Simmons) (Foundation Press, 3d ed.
2006 & 2008 Supp.)
■ Published Federal Income Taxation of
Partnerships and S Corporations (with
McDaniel & Simmons) (Foundation
Press, 4th ed. & 2008 Supp.)
■ Published “Recent Developments
in Federal Income Taxation: The Year
2007” (with Ira B. Shepard & Daniel
SOKOL
for Internet Publication and the
Registration of Communist Party
Affiliation,” 8 Warsaw University Law
Review 110 (2008)
■ Published “Law Schools as Agents
of Change and Justice Reform in the
Americas,” 20 Fla. J. of Int’l L. 5
(2008)
■ Presented “Current Legal Issues and
Legal Education in a Global Society”
(panelist), Center for American Law
Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland
(June 2008)
■ Presented “Legal Education,
Professional Responsibility and Ethics”
(panelist and moderator), Ninth
Annual Conference on Legal and Policy
Issues in the Americas, PUC-Rio,
Brazil (May 2008)
■ Served as Rapporteur, American
Bar Association, World Justice Project
Outreach Meeting, Miami, Fla. (May
2008)
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Time Magazine, Aug. 6, 2008
A new Internet site, WhoCanISue.com, plans to help consumers
determine whether they actually have a case and help them find an
attorney from a list of lawyers who advertise their expertise on the
Web site. The attorneys will pay an annual fee of $1,000 to appear
on the site. University of Florida Professor of Law Lyrissa Lidsky
believes the service “is likely to increase the number of lawsuits.”
But, adds Lidsky, who specializes in Internet law and the First
Amendment, “It’s a good thing to the extent people are vindicating
their legal rights to the extent they didn’t years ago.”
LIDSKY
—Lyrissa Lidsky, Professor of Law; UF Research Foundation Professor
Winston P. Nagan
Professor; Samuel T. Dell Research
Scholar; Director, Institute of Human
Rights and Peace Development;
Affiliate Professor of Anthropology
■ Published “Globalism from an
African Perspective: The Training of
Lawyers for a New and Challenging
Reality” (with Marcio Santos), 17
Transnational Law & Contemporary
Problems 414 (2008)
■ Published “The Rise of Outsourcing
in Modern Warfare: Sovereign
Power, Private Military Actors, and
the Constitutive Process” (with Craig
Hammer), 60 Maine L. Rev. 430
(2008)
IN MEMORIAM
■ Presented “Love, Hate and the
Human Rights Boundaries of the Law,”
The Anthropocene Crisis: Perils and
Possibilities of the 21st Century, World
Academy of Art and Science Assembly,
Hyderabad, India (October 2008)
■ Presented “Legal Culture Confronts
Science in Search of a New
Paradigm of Humane Governance,”
The Expanding and Constraining
Boundaries of Legal Space, Curvature
of Time, and the Challenge of
Globalization World Academy of
Art and Science, Hyderabad, India
(October 2008)
■ Presented “The Problems of
Biodiversity and Biopiracy and the
Protection of Indigenous Knowledge,”
Vivekananda School of Professional
Studies (Law School) and Delhi Law
School, Delhi, India (October 2008)
■ Discussed developments under
the UN Convention on Biodiversity,
Conference of the States Parties, Bonn,
Germany (2008)
■ Presented a paper dealing with the
human rights of indigenous people in
the Amazon (the case of the Shuar),
Conference on the Inclusive Museum
(2008)
Lars Noah
Alumni Research Scholar; Professor
■ Published “The Little Agency
That Could (Act with Indifference
to Constitutional and Statutory
Strictures),” 93 Cornell L. Rev. 901
(2008)
William H. Page
Senior Associate Dean for Academic
Affairs; Marshall M. Criser
Eminent Scholar in Electronic
Communications and Administrative
Law; Professor
■ Published “Bargaining in the
Shadow of the European Microsoft
Decision: The Microsoft-Samba
Protocol License” (with Seldon J.
Childers), 102 Northwestern U. L.
Rev. Colloquy 332 (2008)
Dexter Delony
P
rofessor Emeritus Dexter Delony, passed away Oct. 16 following long illness. He was 91.
Delony taught at UF Law for more than 30 years, educating thousands of Florida’s lawyers and leaders,
including former governors Lawton Chiles and Rueben Askew. As a professor, Delony was revered by his students
for teaching classes that successfully combined a generous helping of both theoretical law and its application. He
retired from UF Law in 1983 and stated he was very proud to have seen the dramatic increase in women law students
during his tenure at UF.
Delony specialized in labor law, commercial law and arbitration, and was a nationally recognized and published
authority in all three. Delony wrote Florida’s Uniform Commercial Code, and served for several years as chairman of
the Labor Law Council of the Association of American Law Schools.
Delony was recruited to the University of Florida in 1948 by then-President J. Hillis Miller from the University of
Denver law school, where he served as an assistant professor. Before entering legal academia, Delony worked with
Judge Beale at Beale & Delony in Tuscaloosa, Ala. He also worked as an attorney for the U.S. Department of Interior
and the National Labor Relations Board.
Delony earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Alabama and his Juris Doctor from Harvard
University. He was involved in numerous legal organizations and was a member of both the American Bar Association
and The Florida Bar.
He is survived by his wife of 66 years, Jean Campbell Delony, daughter, Christine Vigue, two sons, Charles and
John, three grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
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■ Participated in “Networks in
Communications” (an academic
roundtable), Northwestern Law
School, Searle Center for Regulation
■ Presented “Measuring Compliance
with Compulsory Licensing Remedies
in the American Microsoft Case,”
Conference on Remedies for Dominant
Firm Misconduct, ABA Antitrust
Section (June 2008)
■ Presented a paper (co-authored with
Jeff Childers) about the enforcement
of the American Microsoft judgments
at the Remedies for Dominant Firm
Misconduct Symposium at the
University of Virginia (June 2008)
Juan F. Perea
Cone Wagner Nugent Johnson,
Hazouri and Roth Professor
■ Published Latinos and the Law
(with Richard Delgado and Jean
Stefancic) (Thomson/West 2008)
■ Presented keynote address at
Commemoration of Hispanic Heritage
Month, Environmental Protection
Agency, Research Triangle, North
Carolina (September 2008)
■ Presented a faculty colloquium at
the University of Georgia Law School
(September 2008)
Don C. Peters
Director of Institute for Dispute
Resolution; Trustee Research Fellow;
Professor; Associate Director, Center
on Children and Families
■ Published “Yes We Can: Overcoming
Barriers to Mediating Private
Commercial Disputes” (with Eva
Gmurzynska), 8 Warsaw Univ. L. Rev.
122 (2008)
■ Published “Just Say No: Minimizing
Limited Authority Negotiating in
Court-Mandated Mediation,” 8
Pepperdine Dispute Resolution L.J.
273 (2008)
■ Presented “Overcoming Barriers to
Transborder Commercial Mediation,”
Rio de Janerio (May 2008) and
Warsaw, Poland (June 2008)
John Plummer
Assistant Dean, Administrative
Affairs
■ Participated on panel, “Dealing with
Difficult Economic Times,” Annual
Meeting, Southeastern Association
of Law Schools (July 2008) (also
supported SEALS executive director
and president in organizing and
running the conference)
FALL 2008
Stephen J. Powell
Lecturer in Law; Director, International
Trade Law Program; Affiliate Lecturer,
Department of Food and Resource
Economics; Affiliate Faculty, Center
for Latin American Studies; Faculty,
International Agricultural Trade &
Public Policy Center
■ Presented “Land Use Regulation,
Foreign Real Estate Investment, and
Trade Agreements,” University of
Florida / University of Costa Rica
Conference, San Jose, Costa Rica
(June 2008)
■ Presented “Andean Community,
MERCOSUR, and UNASUL: A
New Opportunity for Linkage of
Trade with Labor and Other Human
Rights,” MERCOSUL and Civil Society
Law Faculty Workshop, Federal
University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
(May 2008)
■ Presented “Humanizing Trade’s
Economic Benefits: An Analysis
of MERCOSUL’s Effects on the
Environment, Labor Standards,
Indigenous Populations, and
Health,” Ninth Annual University of
Florida Law / PUC-Rio Conference
on Legal & Policy Issues in the
Americas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (May
2008)
Leonard L. Riskin
Chesterfield Smith Professor of Law
■ Published “Is that All There Is?: ‘The
Problem’ in Court-Oriented Mediation”
(with Nancy A. Welsh), 15 George
Mason L. Rev. 863-932 (2008)
■ Prepared “Mindfulness and Law
Practice” (videotaped interview) for
video series of cutting edge law (2008)
■ Presented “Mediation and
Mindfulness,” University of Gothenberg
and the Lulea Technological University,
Sweden (2008)
■ Presented the keynote address and
workshop on mindfulness, New Jersey
ADR Day, New Jersey Institute for
Continuing Legal Education (2008)
■ Presented a workshop on
mindfulness for conflict resolvers (coled with Rachel Wohl), Pepperdine
University Institute for Dispute
Resolution (2008)
■ Presented (with Daniel Shapiro)
at the Negotiation Institute at
Northwestern University School of
Continuing Studies (2008)
Elizabeth A. Rowe
Associate Professor
■ Published “Proposing a Mechanism
for Removing Trade Secrets from the
Internet,” 12 J. of Internet Law 3
(2008)
■ Quoted in Andrew Abramson, “NCAA
Trying to Block Fantasy Leagues’ Move
Into College Football,” Palm Beach
Post (Aug. 27, 2008)
■ Presented “Who Are These People?
New Generation Employees and Trade
Secrets,” 2008 Intellectual Property
Scholars Conference, Stanford Law
School (August 2008)
Thomas Ruppert
Assistant In Environmental Law
■ Published “Eroding Long-Term
Prospects for Florida’s Beaches:
Florida’s Coastal Construction Control
Line,” 1 Sea Grant L. & Pol’y J. 65
(2008)
Sharon E. Rush
Irving Cypen Professor of Law
■ Volunteered at request of Lamba
Legal Defense to review and to
be named plaintiff, with Erwin
Chemerinky and Robert Schapiro,
on amicus brief in Embry v. Ryan,
an appeal seeking to overturn a
The National Law Journal, Aug. 28, 2008
Quoted in an article on Chief Justice of the United States
John Roberts visit to UF Law. “To have the chief justice of our
nation judge our Final Four Moot Court Competition is a great
privilege for our students and the University of Florida. It is a
tremendous understatement to say that it has elevated both the
significance of this annual event and the anxiety levels of our
student competitors.”
— Robert Jerry, Dean; Levin Mabie and Levin Professor of Law
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Florida trial court’s invalidation of a
Washington second-parent adoption
(2008)
■ Provided background information on
constitutional issues for Miami Herald
story discussing a Key West case in
which judge ruled that Florida’s ban
on gay adoptions is unconstitutional
(2008)
Michael Seigel
Alumni Research Scholar; Professor
■ Quoted in Gary Blankenship, “DOJ
Revises How It Deals With Corporate
Probes,” The Florida Bar News (Sept.
15, 2008)
■ Received “2008 Faculty
Professionalism Award,” awarded
by the Florida Supreme Court’s
Commission on Professionalism and
the Florida Bar’s Standing Committee
on Professionalism (2008)
■ Presented “U.S. Law and
Procedure for White Collar Criminal
Cases,” Summer Program in
American Law for Brazilian Judges,
Prosecutors and Attorneys, UF
Law, Center for Governmental
Responsibility, Tampa (2008)
Michael Siebecker
Associate Professor
■ Published “The Duty of Care and
Data Control Systems in the Wake of
Sarbanes-Oxley,” 83 Chicago-Kent L.
Rev. (2008)
■ Presented “Encapsulated Trust and
the Tragedy of Corporate Transparency,”
Washington University School of Law
(2008)
■ Participated on panel titled,
“Global Banks as Global Regulators:
The Equator Principles,” Corporate
Social Responsibility: Perspectives
from Law and Business Conference,
Georgetown University Law Center and
the McDonough School Of Business,
Georgetown University (2008)
■ Invited to join the Network for
Sustainable Financial Markets (an
international think tank addressing
regulation of capital markets) (2008)
■ Presented “Legal Ethics and
International Corporate Social
Responsibility,” University of Costa Rica
School of Law, San Jose, Costa Rica
(2008)
■ Presented “Trust and Disclosure,”
Monash University Centre, Italy (2008)
■ Presented “Trust, Efficiency, and
Corporate Transparency,” Cambridge
University, United Kingdom (2008)
D. Daniel Sokol
Assistant Professor
■ Published “Order Without
(Enforceable) Law: Why Countries
Enter into Non-Enforceable Competition
Policy Chapters in Free Trade
Agreements,” 83 Chicago Kent L. Rev.
231 (2008)
■ Presented “The Past and Future of
Law & Entrepreneurship Scholarship
– A Multidisciplinary Perspective”
(written with Mark Suchman and
Gordon Smith), Third Annual Law
& Entrepreneurship Retreat, Drexel
School of Law, Philadelphia (October
2008)
■ Participated in “Networks in
Communications,” an academic
Book round-up: Barbara Bennett Woodhouse
Hidden in Plain Sight: The Tragedy of Children’s Rights from Ben Franklin to Lionel Tate
H
idden in Plain Sight reveals why
fundamental human rights and principles
of dignity, equality, privacy, protection,
and voice are essential to a child’s journey
into adulthood. In her book, Barbara Bennett
Woodhouse explores how understanding
rights for children leads to a better
understanding of human rights for all. In
a moving account of children’s rights
throughout American history from
Benjamin Franklin to Lionel Tate,
Woodhouse asks why the United
States alone rejects the most
universally embraced human-rights
document in history, the United
Nations Convention on the Rights of
the Child. She calls on the United
States to again become a leader in
human rights and children’s rights.
Hidden in Plain Sight tells the
tragic untold story of children’s
rights in America. It asks why
the United States today, alone
among nations, rejects the most
universally embraced human-rights
document in history, the United
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Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. This
book is a call to arms for America to again be a leader in
human rights, and to join the rest of the civilized world
in recognizing that the thirst for justice is not for adults
alone.
Barbara Bennett Woodhouse explores the meaning of
children’s rights throughout American history, interweaving
the childhood stories of iconic figures such as Benjamin
Franklin with those of children less known but no less
courageous, like the heroic youngsters who marched for
civil rights. How did America become a place where twelveyear-old Lionel Tate could be sentenced to life in prison
without parole for the 1999 death of a young playmate? In
answering questions like this, Woodhouse challenges those
who misguidedly believe that America’s children already
have more rights than they need, or that children’s rights
pose a threat to parental autonomy or family values. She
reveals why fundamental human rights and principles of
dignity, equality, privacy, protection, and voice are essential
to a child’s journey into adulthood, and why understanding
rights for children leads to a better understanding of human
rights for all.
Compassionate, wise, and deeply moving, Hidden
in Plain Sight will force an examination of our national
resistance — and moral responsibility — to recognize
children’s rights. http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8613.html
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roundtable, Northwestern Law
School, Searle Center for Regulation
(2008)
■ Quoted in Competition Law 360
on the competitive effects of the US
government bailout of AIG (2008)
■ Quoted in the Antitrust Source
on “Required Reading for the New
Antitrust Administration” (2008)
■ Presented “Managing the Regulatory
Process: Regulating under Civil
vs. Common Law and Cooperating
Among Agencies,”24th PURC/World
Bank International Training Program
on Utility Regulation and Strategy,
University of Florida (2008)
Jeffry S. Wade
Associate in Law; Director of
Environmental Division, Center for
Governmental Responsibility; Affiliate
Faculty, Center for Latin American
Studies
■ Published “Privatization and the
Future of Water Services,” 20 Florida
J. of International L. 179 (2008)
■ Presented “Forest Management in
Brazil and the U.S: Comparison of
Issues,” Ninth Annual Conference
on Legal and Policy Issues in the
Americas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (May
26-28, 2008)
■ Presented “Green Building as Private
Environmental Lawmaking” (response),
Seventh Annual Richard E. Nelson
Symposium, Green Building: Prospects
and Pitfalls for Local Governments,
Gainesville, Florida (February 2008)
Henry T. Wihnyk
Legal Skills Professor; Director, Legal
Research & Writing and Appellate
Advocacy
■ Published “Legal Writing: A Skill
Polish Law Students Should Master in
Law School,” 8 Warsaw University L.
Rev. 148 (2008)
■ Served on the panel “Enhancing
the Pedagogy of Oral Argument and
First-Year Moot Court,” 13th Biennial
Conference of the Legal Writing
Institute, Indianapolis (July 14 -17,
2008)
Steven J. Willis
Professor; Associate Director, Center
on Children and Families
■ Published The Tax Law of Charities
and Other Exempt Organizations:
Statutory Supplement (with Brennen
& Moran) (Thomson West, 2nd ed.,
2008)
FALL 2008
Associated Press, Aug. 13, 2008
AP reported on conspiracy theories regarding government-involvement
in the 2001 anthrax attacks and the apparent suicide of Army
research scientist Bruce Ivins, whom the FBI was prepared to
prosecute for perpetrating the attacks. Mark Fenster, author of a book
on conspiracy theories, said the anthrax case is perfect for conspiracy
theorists because it is “as dangerous as it could possibly be, and also
deeply mysterious.” The Bush administration’s penchant for secrecy
doesn’t help, nor does its intelligence failures on Iraq, he said.
— Mark Fenster, Professor of Law, UF Research Foundation Professor
FENSTER
Jessica de Perio Wittman
Instructional Services Reference
Librarian, Lawton Chiles Legal
Information Center
■ Published “Beyond Print: A Second
Life for Continuing Education,” 27(3)
Legal Information Alert 1 (2008)
■ Presented “Legal Research Podcasts”
for Exploring Online Instructional
Tools: A Showcase at the American
Association of Law Libraries Annual
Conference, Portland, Ore. (July 2008)
Michael Allan Wolf
Richard E. Nelson Chair in Local
Government Law; Professor
■ Published The Zoning of America:
Euclid v. Ambler (University Press of
Kansas, 2008)
Barbara Bennett Woodhouse
David H. Levin Chair in Family
Law; Professor; Director, Center on
Children and Families and Family Law
Certificate Program
■ Published Hidden in Plain Sight:
The Tragedy of Children’s Rights from
Ben Franklin to Lionel Tate (Princeton
University Press, 2008)
■ Discussed Hidden in Plain Sight
at the NACC 31st National Juvenile
and Family Law Conference, National
Association of Counsel for Children,
Savannah, Ga. (August 2008) (plenary
session devoted to her book); on
The Afternoon Magazine, National
Public Radio (Aug. 26, 2008); and
on Connor Calling, WUFT 89.9 (Sept.
26, 2008)
■ Published “Children and the
Constitution” (dictionary entry),
Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court
(Gale 2008)
■ Presented “Children’s Civil and
Political Rights,” The David. C. Baum
Lecture on Civil Rights and Civil
Liberties, University of Illinois Law
School, (October 2008)
■ Presented “Financing the
Future: Early Childhood Policies in
Comparative Perspective,” 13th World
Conference, International Society
of Family Law, Vienna, Austria
(September 2008) (also served as
panel session moderator)
■ Elected to serve another three-year
term on the International Society of
Family Law, Executive Council
Monique Haughton Worrell
Legal Skills Professor
■ Presented “The Child Support
System: The Competing Interests
of the Custodial and Noncustodial
Parent—Is it Really in the Best Interest
of the Child?” 13th World Conference,
International Society of Family Law,
Vienna, Austria (September 2008)
Danaya C. Wright
Clarence TeSelle Endowed Professor;
UF Research Foundation Professor
■ Published “The Shifting Sands of
Property Rights, Federal Railroad
Grants, and Economic History: Hash v.
United States and the Threat to RailTrail Conversions,” 38 Environmental
L. 711 (2008)
Faculty Report Online
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2008 REPORT FROM THE FACULTY
http://www.law.ufl.edu/news/pdf/2008_faculty_report.pdf
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FACULTY NEWS
IN MEMORIAM
Walter Weyrauch
Five decades of scholarship
W
alter O. Weyrauch, distinguished professor
and Steven C. O’Connell Chair, died Oct. 17
at the age of 89.
“UF Law lost one of its intellectual giants with the
passing of Distinguished Professor Walter Weyrauch,”
said Robert Jerry, dean and Levin Mabie and Levin
professor of law. “Walter has been an active presence
at the law school. Many of our students and faculty
knew him and will mourn his passing.”
UF Law Professor Emeritus Walter Weyrauch
reached a remarkable, record-setting milestone this
year — 51 years of continuous teaching at a single
school. Despite being ill with cancer, Professor
Weyrauch took obvious pleasure on Sept. 29 in
the company of the nearly 150 people, including
current and former colleagues and students, who
gathered in his honor to attend the “Walter Weyrauch
Symposium: Reflecting on the Contributions to Legal
Thought of Walter Weyrauch.”
Weyrauch’s teaching and scholarship focused on
family law, business organizations, comparative law,
law and society, legal philosophy, and autonomous
informal lawmaking, and he has been widely
published in these areas.
His publications since 1999 include Gypsy Law:
Romani Legal Traditions and Culture, University of
California Press, Berkeley, (Los Angeles and London,
2001); Das Recht Der Roma Und Sinti: Ein Beispiel
Autonomer Rechtsschöpfung, Vittorio Klostermann
Publisher, (Frankfurt Main, Germany, 2002);
“Nonrational Sources of Scholarship: Remembering
David Daube (1909-1999),” 19 Rechtshistorisches
Journal 677 (2000); “A Theory of Legal Strategy,”
49 Duke Law Journal 1405 (with Lynn LoPucki,
2000); “Unwritten Constitutions, Unwritten Law,”
56 Washington and Lee Law Review 1211 (1999)
(also republished in Charles W. Collier, Basic Themes
in Law and Jurisprudence, Anderson Publishers,
2000); and “Unconscious Meanings of Crime and
Punishment,” 2 Buffalo Criminal Law Review 945
(1999).
Symposium speakers included Professors
Inga Markovits, Friends of Joe Jamail Regents
Chair, University of Texas School of Law; Lynn M.
LoPucki, Security Pacific Bank Professor, University
of California-Los Angeles School of Law; Alison
Barnes, Marquette University Law School; and W.
Michael Reisman, Myres S. McDougal Professor of
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International Law, Yale Law School. The four spoke
eloquently on the far-ranging influence of Weyrauch’s
scholarship and how it has swayed their own views
and studies.
“I don’t think I know anyone as curious as Walter
Weyrauch,” began Professor Markovits. “He has
the investigative curiosity of a three-year-old. He is
interested in not only what happened, but how and
why it happened. That is what law is all about.”
An internationally known expert in comparative
law, Markovits’ research has concentrated on
socialist legal regimes, and more recently, on law
reform in Eastern Europe. She commented that she,
like Walter, is an immigrant to America, and spoke
on the value of examining a culture through the lens
of another.
“Walter is fascinated by the law outside the
realm of the mighty and the decision-makers,”
she said, and praised his use of qualitative versus
quantitative research and analysis.
Walter Weyrauch joined the UF Law faculty in
1957 as associate professor. He became professor in
1960, was Clarence J. TeSelle Professor 1989-94,
and became Stephen C. O’Connell Chair in 1994
and Distinguished Professor in 1998. He was named
an Honorary Professor of Law at Johann Wolfgang
Goethe University, Germany, and has been visiting
faculty at the University of California, Berkeley,
Rutgers University School of Law and University of
Frankfurt.
“The law school has been a wonderful
environment, and was a fascinating environment for
empirical study,” said Weyrauch in his remarks at the
symposium. “There have been tremendous changes
in the 51 years I have been here, including dramatic
shifts in the diversity of the faculty and student body.”
To honor Professor Weyrauch, Frank G.
Finkbeiner (JD 72) and T.W. Ackert (JD 72) have
teamed with UF Law to create an endowment to fund
the Walter Weyrauch Distinguished Lecture Series
in Family Law. The UF Weyrauch Lecture will affirm
UF’s reputation as a leader in the area of family law
scholarship, and the endowed lecture will attract
speakers of the highest quality, creating a lasting
legacy for UF and for Professor Weyrauch.
For more information about the Walter
Weyrauch Distinguished Lecture Series in Family
Law, please contact Vince PremDas in the Office of
Alumni Affairs at (352) 273-0640 or via e-mail at
premdas@law.ufl.edu.
UF LAW
UP AND COMING
LETTERS TO LINDY
As a 1958 graduate of the U of F law
school I enjoy receiving UF LAW. It is a
fine publication. However, in an article on
page 10 of the spring edition, I think the
proof reader missed a beat. That article
twice mentions “Florida Bar Association.”
As a 50-year member of “The Florida
Bar,” I can tell you that “Association” has
not been a part of its name for that period
of time.
This is a minor blip. Keep up the
good work.
—CLARENCE JOHNSON (JD 58)
Congratulations on the FALL 2008
edition, your first as editor. ‘The ultimate
goal for UF LAW is to be a good read.’ It
is indeed.
However (you knew this was coming,
didn’t you?) on page 53, the editorial
comment re Ms. Lidsky’s quote in Time
Magazine, leads to the question: Do sharks
generally use cages in their killing?
—YOUNG J. SIMMONS (LLB 57)
Yours is the best statewide story on
water I’ve read in a very long time!
—CYNTHIA BARNETT,
Florida Trend senior reporter and
author of Mirage: Florida and the
Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S.
EDITOR’S UPDATE: Read the white
paper, “Reforming The Florida Water
Resources Act of 1972: Beyond the
first 35 years,” written by UF Law
professors and distributed to the Century
Commission’s 2008 Water Congress held
Sept. 24 & 25. Visit http://www.law.ufl.
edu/uflaw.
Got commentary? Whether exegetic
or approbatory, we want to know! Send
your letter to the editor — bearing in
mind submissions will be edited for
style, grammar and length — to Lindy
Brounley, UF LAW Editor, UF Law
Communications, P. O. Box 117633,
Gainesville, FL. 32611-7633, or e-mail it
to brounley@law.ufl.edu.
—LINDY BROUNLEY (JM 88)
UF LAW Editor
UF Law Student Wins Diversity Scholarship
BY DANIELLE D’OYLEY
W
ith a move from bustling Chicago to a sparsely populated Tennessee town in his early
teenage years, a stint as a 13-year-old college
student, and a Jewish Puerto Rican background, Jesse
Butler’s (2L) life has been anything but usual.
These experiences contributed to his selection as a
2008 Diversity Scholarship recipient by the Sarasota
County Bar Association, a scholarship awarded to minority students at Florida law schools with an interest in
practicing law in Sarasota County upon graduation. The
two recipients are given a $5,000 scholarship at the end
of a 10-week employment period in Sarasota County.
After writing an essay and undergoing an interview
process with both the Sarasota County Bar Association and his future summer employer, Syprett, Meshad,
Resnick, Lieb, Dumbaugh, Jones, Krotec & Westheimer, P.A., Butler was offered the scholarship and an internship with the firm.
The Chicago native moved at age 13 to a small Tennessee town with a population of about 400 people, a
stark contrast to his old home. Before he and his mother
arrived, Butler said he didn’t believe many of his new
neighbors had ever even seen new residents, let alone
Puerto Ricans or Jewish people.
In addition to this culture shock, Butler also took the
SAT when he was 13 and was accepted to University of
Tennessee at Martin as a part-time student, where he
enrolled during the eighth grade for computer science
and chemistry courses. He was the youngest person
ever accepted to the school.
“It’s almost surreal looking back and thinking about
how I was sitting there and everyone around me was
twice my size,” Butler said. “They actually had to put
phonebooks under me for my picture because I was a
foot shorter than everyone else.”
A year later he moved to Ft. Myers, Fla,. for high
school and went on to attend the University of Central
Florida for his undergraduate degree in legal studies.
He was honored to receive the scholarship and internship offer, especially as a first-year law student, and
credited his selection to luck and his UF Law education.
“Two out of the three interviewers I had were UF
graduates,’ Butler said. “It was a common ground we
had.”
Butler describes his time at Syprett, Meshad,
Resnick, Lieb, Dumbaugh, Jones, Krotec & Westheimer,
P.A. as an incredible experience that exceeded any expectations he held. He worked primarily for all the firm’s
partners and described the atmosphere as familial.
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“They didn’t treat me as a clerk,” he said. “They
treated me like an associate.”
The firm’s specialty areas spanned the gamut, but
his employers were perceptive to what Butler enjoyed
working on and accommodated his strengths. He quickly learned what he did and didn’t like to do and ended
up focusing primarily on civil and commercial litigation and insurance defense — areas he sees himself focusing on in the future.
In addition to the direction the internship gave him,
he also says he has a completely different understanding going into his second year of law school with more
practical knowledge. He’s realized how much of what
he studied was needed while working this summer.
“They didn’t treat me as a clerk,” he said.
“They treated me like an associate.”
“I never expected to have to think about adverse
possession after taking Property Law, but it came in
right away,” Butler said. “Everything I’ve studied came
into play somehow.”
Because of his impressive performance, the firm has
decided to keep Butler as a part-time employee during
the school year and asked him to return next summer. If
everything goes well, he’s been told a position will be
waiting for him upon graduation.
“They were very successful in luring me. Now I
have to say that the highest probability is that I will
be there, especially since they want me to come back
and everything went so well,” Butler said. “I don’t
think I’ll have another firm where I’ll enjoy what I do
as much as I did there.”
He encourages anyone with an interest in working
in Sarasota County to apply for the scholarship, as
he said this summer was an incredible opportunity. Everyone in the Sarasota County Bar
Association was professional, and he was afforded opportunities to attend events and
meet prominent judges and attorneys in
the area as a Diversity Scholarship
recipient.
Butler’s decision to apply for
the scholarship has been one of the
decisions he’s made that will have
the biggest impact on his life.
“I went in to the summer having no
idea what I wanted to do, not expecting the
internship to really change that,” he said.
“That was a life-changing experience.”
JESSE BUTLER
(2L)
FA L L
2 0 0 8
UF LAW
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FREDRIC G. LEVIN COLLEGE OF LAW • FALL 2008
FEBRUARY 13
Eighth Annual Richard E. Nelson Symposium
is on “The Squeeze on Local Governments.”
Presenters will include Professor James
Ely, Milton R. Underwood Chair in Free
Enterprise at Vanderbilt University Law
School; John Echeverria, currently executive
director of the Georgetown Environmental
Law and Policy Institute and, professor
of law at Vermont Law School; and Frank
Alexander, professor of law at Emory
University. The symposium will be held at
the UF Hilton Hotel on Friday, Feb. 13. For
more information, contact Barbara DeVoe at
352-273-0615.
FEBRUARY 20 & 21
The Seventh Annual Music Law Conference
is titled “From the Suits to the Stage.”
Conference includes music law symposium
and panel discussions, and will take place
Saturday, Feb. 21, in the Chesterfield Smith
Ceremonial Classroom at the UF
Levin College of Law from 9 a.m. to
6 p.m. The live music showcase will
be on the evening of Friday, Feb. 20 from
9 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. at a local music
venue. For more information contact
Conference Executive Director Sondra
Randon at sondra.randon@gmail.com.
FEBRUARY 26 – 28
The 15th Annual Public Interest
Environmental Conference is titled, “Beyond
Doom and Gloom: Illuminating a Sustainable
Future for Florida.” The conference will focus
on farsighted and innovative approaches to
our environmental problems, emphasizing
sustainability solutions from science and
technology, progressive regulation and
economics and behavioral change through
communication and social marketing.
For more info, contact Simone Harbas at
sharbas@ufl.edu.
MARCH 17
The Second Annual Wolf Family Lecture
in the American Law of Real Property is
scheduled for Tuesday, March 17, at the
law school. The lecture will be delivered
by Gregory S. Alexander, A. Robert Noll
Professor of Law, Cornell University Law
School. For more information, contact
Barbara DeVoe at 352-273-0615.
OF THE UNITED STATES
John G. Roberts Jr.
Judges UF Moot Court
UF LAW
CALENDAR
CHIEF JUSTICE
APRIL 24 & 25
100 Year Celebration/All Classes Reunion.
Join your classmates and professors for the
Levin College of Law Centennial Celebration
and All Class Reunion. Activities include The
Heritage of Leadership and Distinguished
Alumnus Ceremony, the Century Welcome
Reception, Reunion Dinners, Decade
Dinners, and a Family BBQ with Albert and
Alberta. For more information or to register,
contact Development & Alumni Affairs at
352-273-0640.
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DESEGREGATION AT UF
WEATHERING THE STORM