April 15, 2013 | Volume XIX, Issue 28
Published: Apr 15th, 2013
On April 9, the John Marshall Bar Association hosted UF Law’s latest Town Hall Meeting with four UF Law deans. Historically these meetings have led to updates like the study lounge and more swipe card entries. “It’s been really encouraging to see the administration is really taking [...]
Published: Apr 15th, 2013
Ian (JD 07) and Lauren Alperstein (JD 08) are full-time attorneys with Laufer & Laufer, PA and Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, respectively. Ian represents insurance carriers, while Lauren works in family and matrimonial law. They have also picked up another job as parents to a [...]
Published: Apr 15th, 2013
It was 1994 when a newly published author paced the floors of his local bookstore in South Florida. He grabbed a James Grippando novel from the shelf and walked toward the counter with the thriller, titled The Pardon. “That’s my book, you know,” he told the sales clerk as he laid [...]
Published: Apr 15th, 2013
After being introduced through a mutual friend on the moot court team in the fall of 1988 at the University of Florida Levin College of Law, Marc Chapman (JD 89) and Tracy Duda Chapman (JD 90), became friends right away. But it wasn’t until they worked at the same law firm in [...]
Published: Apr 15th, 2013
Professor Blair’s paper was accepted for publication; Professor Cohen spoke on two panels at an ABA meeting; Professor DiMatteo was a faculty achievement award winner; Dean Flournoy was selected by UNC-Chapel Hill as its scholar of the week; Professor Hernández-Truyol was appointed to the board of the Southern Legal Counsel; Dean Jerry published an essay; Professor Johnston presented a work-in-progress at Wake Forest; Professor Nagan’s published two articles; Professor Rawls participated in UF Law’s Law and Justice Conference; Professor Sokol was named chairman of the Hispanic National Bar Association’s new Law Professor Committee; and Professors Dekle, Hamilton, Lidsky, McMahon and Nunn were quoted as experts in various local and national media.
Published: Apr 8th, 2013
The CCF has been active in family law cases; Professor Roger Blair was cited for the fifth time by the Supreme Court; Professor Deborah Cupples and Margaret Temple-Smith published a book; and Professor Lyrissa Lidsky published an article.
Published: Apr 8th, 2013
Marathon runner, mother, wife, leader, writer and avid reader. Alexa Sherr Hartley (JD 02) is also the founder and president of Premier Leadership Coaching, LLC — a business that coaches legal professionals to be the best at what they do. [...]
Published: Apr 1st, 2013
“Electronic Discovery for the Small and Medium Case” kicks off Thursday, but registration is still open. The conference, co-sponsored by UF Law and the Electronic Discovery Reference Model, will be held Thursday and Friday at UF Law and will also be available as a live, online stream. [...]
Published: Apr 1st, 2013
A quiet hum of voices filled the Chesterfield Smith Ceremonial Classroom, HOL 180, at about noon March 26. Albie Sachs sat on a table at the front of the room, wearing a gold-patterned shirt and a calm expression. His right sleeve hung empty beside his body—a symbol of the lifelong [...]
Published: Apr 1st, 2013
The protection of false factual statements under the First Amendment in the case of United Sates v. Alvarez was the topic of a panel discussion at the Journal of Law and Public Policy’s Media Law Symposium on March 14 in the Martin H. Levin Advocacy Center. In 2012, the United States [...]
