First a Gator now the leader of the president's Green TeamFlorida-born Carol Browner seems quite comfortable with her new title as Washington’s “climate and energy czar.” Her role as President Barack Obama’s director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change is newly created, but the 53-year-old Browner brings a lifetime of environmental concern to Obama’s “green team.”
Open government laws struggle to keep pace with changing technologyForget the suit, the smile or the traditional wave, the indispensable accessory of the modern public official is the CrackBerry… Uh, make that BlackBerry. Instant access to emails and the Internet is a must-have for many, but the technology that allows e-mails and text messages to be sent from laptops and PDAs with the blink of an eye may also be closing the door on open government laws — and posing new challenges for public access to the meetings and records of public officials.
The story of seven springs, two law students, and one family’s quest to conserve its landReal estate is not gold, but it may as well be for many Florida land owners and their families faced with either sell or save. Large parcels of Florida land can be worth millions when sold for development. Despite occasional economic downturns, the state’s history of boom-time growth has placed every acre of undeveloped land in the cross hairs, and, with Florida’s population predicted to swell from 19 million to 36 million people by the year 2060, the pressure is on to sell.
Navigating the shifting terrain of the legal job marketThe ABA estimates nearly 11,000 attorneys across the country have been laid-off over the past 18 months and firms and individual lawyers alike are struggling to weather the worst economic crisis the country has faced since the Great Depression.
Stephen Zack is ABA president-electSpring 2009: Read UF Law for articles exploring important legal questions, catch up with classmates, in Class Notes, and learn more about UF Law.
