Tag: Florida Bar
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Conservative Florida Supreme Court targets Bar leaders for diversity ‘quotas’ in lawyers’ refresher courses
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
The Florida Supreme Court seems to be buffing its ultra-rightist image by picking a fight about diversity with Florida Bar leaders and the American Bar Association. -
Miami judge warns big banks to stop playing cruel foreclosure games with people’s homes
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Beatrice Butchko is warning national banking giants and their counsel they’ll pay a hefty price if they commit fraud or violate due process or ethics rules to drive mortgage debtors out of their homes. -
Judges sic ethics hounds on ‘Grim Reaper’ lawyer who trolled DeSantis’s open-beaches policy amid pandemic
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
A story that began with a lawyer dressed as the Grim Reaper roaming Florida beaches has developed into something really weird and threatening. -
Lawyers for non-smoking flight attendants who sued cash-rich foundation are punished for it
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Two Miami lawyers sued a multi-million-dollar foundation to help hundreds of non-smoking flight attendants who’d been exposed to toxic secondhand tobacco smoke. They didn’t imagine they’d be punished for it seven years later. -
Tobacco research institute for flight attendants operates in secrecy
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Money from a $300 million fund meant to help flight attendants sickened by secondhand smoke has gone to research clean air for pets, a hospital in Israel and allies of the fund’s managers, according to court documents. -
Cuban exile museum touts booster’s lawyerly credentials despite Bar suspension
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Amid the brouhaha over a controversial effort to place a $77-million museum honoring Cuban exiles on a swath of public waterfront land, some troubling details about one of the museum’s primary boosters has surfaced.
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